paternal aunt
/pəˈtɜː(ɹ)nəl ˈɑːnt/
paternal aunt noun: a sister of someone’s father.
Noun
paternal aunt (plural paternal aunts)
paternal aunt meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
paternal aunt in Hindi
- the sister or sister-in-law of someone's father
- बुआ buā, चाची cācī, ताई tāī
paternal aunt in Tamil
- the sister or sister-in-law of someone's father
- அத்தை attai, பெரியம்மா periyammā, சித்தி citti
paternal aunt in Urdu
- the sister or sister-in-law of someone's father
- پھپو phuppo
paternal aunt in Bengali
- the sister or sister-in-law of someone's father
- ফুফু phuphu, চাচী caci
More languagesFewer languages
- paternal aunt in Telugu
- అత్త atta
- paternal aunt in Malayalam
- അപ്പച്ചി appacci
- paternal aunt in Gujarati
- ફોઈ phoī, ચાચી cācī
- paternal aunt in Sanskrit
- पितृव्या pitṛvyā
- paternal aunt in Sinhala
- නැන්දා nændā
- paternal aunt in Pashto
- عمه amma
- paternal aunt in Arabic
- عَمَّة ʕamma
- paternal aunt in Persian
- عمه 'amme, کاکی kāki
- Kashmiri
- پۄپھ pọph, پیٚچھَنؠ pechan'
Forms of paternal aunt
| plural | paternal aunts |
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Questions about paternal aunt
- What does paternal aunt mean?
- Paternal aunt means a sister of someone’s father.
- What is paternal aunt in Hindi?
- Paternal aunt in Hindi is बुआ (buā), चाची (cācī), ताई (tāī). See Paternal aunt meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is paternal aunt?
- Paternal aunt is a noun.
- How do you pronounce paternal aunt?
- Paternal aunt is pronounced /pəˈtɜː(ɹ)nəl ˈɑːnt/.
- What is the plural of paternal aunt?
- The plural of paternal aunt is paternal aunts.
Words near paternal aunt in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: paternal aunt (page history and authors); അപ്പച്ചി (Malayalam) (page history and authors); ચાચી (Gujarati) (page history and authors); නැන්දා (Sinhala) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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