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family in Persian

خَانَوَادَه xānawāda

/ˈfaməlɪj//ˈfæm(ɪ)li/

family in Persian: خَانَوَادَه (xānawāda), خَانْدَان (xāndān), عَائِلَه (ā'ila), خانِوادِه (xânevâde). In English, family means a group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.

Persian words for family

immediate family [as a group], e.g. parents and their children
خَانَوَادَه xānawāda, خَانْدَان xāndān, عَائِلَه ā'ila, خانِوادِه xânevâde, خانْدان xândân, فامیل fâmil
group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom
خانْدان xândân, خویشان xišân, نَزْدیکان nazdikân
rank in a taxonomic classification, above both genus and species
خانِوادِه xânevâde, تیرِه tire
music: a group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production
هَمْنَوا hamnavâ
linguistics: a group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language
خانِوادِه xânevâde

English meaning of family

  1. noun A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.
  2. noun A group of related animals, usually a mother and offspring, a mating pair or larger lineages in some species.
  3. noun An extended family: a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.
  4. noun A nuclear family: a mother and father who are married and cohabiting and their child or children.

Full definition of family

family in a sentence

  • Our family lives in town.
  • The cultural struggle is for the survival of family values against all manner of atheistic amorality.
  • We must preserve the family unit if we want to save civilisation!

Synonyms of family

All synonyms of family

family in other languages

Questions about family in Persian

What is the meaning of family in Persian?
Family in Persian is خَانَوَادَه (xānawāda), خَانْدَان (xāndān), عَائِلَه (ā'ila), خانِوادِه (xânevâde).
معنی family چیست؟
Family: خَانَوَادَه (xānawāda), خَانْدَان (xāndān), عَائِلَه (ā'ila), خانِوادِه (xânevâde).
What does family mean in English?
Family means a group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: family (page history and authors), its translation table and English meanings. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Persian words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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