aunt

Etymology
From, from , from , from. Displaced native 🇨🇬 (from 🇨🇬; compare 🇨🇬).

Noun

 * 1) The sister or sister-in-law of one’s parent.
 * 2) The female cousin or cousin-in-law of one’s parent.
 * 3)  A woman of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin.
 * 4)  Any elderly woman.
 * 5)  A procuress or bawd.
 * 1)  A procuress or bawd.

Translations
Several languages distinguish between blood aunts (one's parent's sister) and in-law aunts (one's parent's sister-in-law), some distinguish between paternal and maternal aunts, and some distinguish between one's parent's older siblings and younger siblings.


 * Abinomn: nyebak
 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:, ,
 * Aleut: tuutkax̂, quliigix̂
 * Alutor: ыссэ
 * Amharic: ኣከስት
 * Arabic:,  ,  زَوْجةُ العَمّ;  زَوْجةُ الخال
 * Armenian: paternal,  maternal,  in law
 * Assamese: পেহী, জেঠাই, মাহী, খুৰী, বৰমা
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܥܲܡܬܵܐ,  ܚܵܠܬܵܐ,  ܒܲܟ݂ܬ ܥܲܡܵܐ;  ܒܲܟ݂ܬ ܚܵܠܵܐ
 * Asturian:
 * Aukan: tanto, tiya
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Bakhtiari: paternal کچی
 * Basque:, ,ttantta
 * Belarusian: цётка, цёця
 * Bengali: /,  ফুফী/,  চাচী,  মামী, মাসী, মাসীমা, কাকিমা, কাকি,
 * Breton:
 * Brunei Malay: babu
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:,  ,  ,  ,  , ,
 * Carpathian Rusyn: тю́̈тка
 * Catalan:
 * Central Dusun: inai
 * Chichewa: bambo wamkazi, mayi , mayi wamkulu , mayi wamng'ono
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:,  , 伯娘 , 阿嬸 ,  , 阿姨 ,
 * Mandarin:
 * Chinook Jargon: kwalh
 * Cornish: modrep
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe: paternal tasi, te, mother's elder sister dagã, nɔgã, mother's younger sister daɖia, nɔɖi
 * Faroese: fastir, mostir
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Friulian: agne
 * Galician: tía
 * Georgian: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: θεία, τηθίς
 * Greenlandic: aja, atsa
 * Gunwinggu: berluh, karrang , morlah
 * Hawaiian: makuahine, ʻanakē
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:,  ,  ,  ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: paternal,  maternal
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Ingrian: täti
 * Irish: aintín
 * Istriot: gnagna
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Jeju:
 * 고모
 * 이모
 * 큰어멍, ᄆᆞᆮ삼촌어머니 , 족은어멍 , 셋어멍 , 말젯어멍
 * 웨숙모
 * Kambaata: lankaama
 * Kapampangan: dara
 * Kashmiri:,  ,  ,
 * Kazakh: апа,
 * Khoekhoe: antis
 * Kis: omoigwa
 * Korean:
 * , 이모님(姨母)
 * , 백모님(伯母), 둘째어머니 , 중모(仲母) , , 큰어머님 , 큰엄마 , 큰어미
 * , 숙모님(叔母), , 작은어머님 , , 작은어미 ,
 * 외숙모(外叔母), 외숙모님(外叔母), 외삼촌댁(外三寸宅), 구모(舅母)
 * Krisa: wini paternal, moni baʼ mother's elder sister, moni pung mother's younger sister
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Southern Kurdish: میمِگ
 * Latgalian: cjoceite
 * Latin: paternal,  maternal, thia
 * Latvian: tante, paternal tēva māsa, maternal mātes māsa
 * Lithuanian: teta
 * Luhya: senge
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Jawi: امق ساودارا, مق چيق, تنتى
 * Rumi: emak saudara, mak cik,
 * Malayalam:, മേമ, , father's elder sister വല്യമ്മ, father's younger sister
 * Maltese:
 * Maori: whaea kēkē, whaene
 * Marathi: mother's sister माउशी, mother's sister-in-law, father's sister आत्या, father's sister-in-law काकी
 * Mazanderani: پرخا
 * Meriam: apu
 * Middle English: aunte
 * Miyako: younger than one's parent ブバ, older or younger than one's parent ブバマ
 * Mòcheno: moa'm
 * Ngarrindjeri: barno
 * Norman: tànte, tante
 * Northern Ohlone: 'ansik
 * Northern Sami: goaski,  muoŧŧá,  siessá,  ipmi
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, , moster , morsøster
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: mōdriġe, faþu
 * Old French: ante, aunte
 * Oromo: adaadaa
 * Pashto:
 * Pennsylvania German: Aent, Aendi
 * Persian: paternal, maternal , ,
 * Plautdietsch: Mumm, Taunte
 * Polish:, , wife of mother's brother,  wife of father's brother
 * Portuguese:
 * Romani: bibi
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sanskrit: पितृव्या
 * Sardinian: tzia, tia
 * Saterland Frisian: Möie
 * Scottish Gaelic: piuthar-athar paternal, piuthar-màthar maternal, antaidh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: тетка, maternal in-law ујна, paternal in-law стрина
 * Roman:, maternal in-law , daidžinca, paternal in-law ,  amidžinca
 * Seri: aac
 * Sicilian:
 * Sidamo: la'lama
 * Sinhalese: නැන්දා
 * Skolt Sami: sieˊss
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Somali: eddo
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: śota
 * Southern Altai: эје
 * Spanish:
 * Sudovian: mosa
 * Sundanese: ébé
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: paternal,  maternal,  in-law
 * Tagalog:, tiya, tiyahin
 * Telugu: paternal, maternal , , maternal, in-law
 * Thai:,  ,
 * Tibetan: སྲུ་མོ, ཨ་ནེ
 * Turkish:, , paternal,  maternal,  in-law
 * Turkmen: daýza
 * Ukrainian:, тьо́тя, цьоця, ву́йна, ву́йчина, тета, цьо́тка, вуянка, стри́йна
 * Venetian:, àmeđa, àmeda, àmia
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük: ,
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * Yámana: tanowa-kipa
 * Yiddish: מומע
 * Yoruba: ẹ̀gbọ́n màmá mi obìnrin, ẹ̀gbọ́n bàbá mi obìnrin , àbúrò màmá mi obìnrin , àbúrò bàbá mi obìnrin
 * Zazaki: ām, xale
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * Yámana: tanowa-kipa
 * Yiddish: מומע
 * Yoruba: ẹ̀gbọ́n màmá mi obìnrin, ẹ̀gbọ́n bàbá mi obìnrin , àbúrò màmá mi obìnrin , àbúrò bàbá mi obìnrin
 * Zazaki: ām, xale


 * Armenian: ,
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܚܵܠܬܘܿ, ܐܲܢ݇ܬܬܘܿ
 * Bengali: মাসী
 * Burmese: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ingrian: minni
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Jeju: 아지망, 아주망
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: خاتۆ,
 * Latvian: tante
 * Malay:
 * Marathi: काकू, माउशी
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, filletante
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: тета
 * Roman:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Yoruba: àǹtí


 * Breton: ,
 * Guaraní: ,
 * Indonesian:, ,
 * Interlingua:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:
 * Tamil: periamma, paternal, in-law Periy'yamma elder,  'thi younger,  'yamma elder,  'thi younger,  'mi in-law
 * Telugu:, ,
 * Tibetan: ,
 * Tupinambá: ,
 * Upper Sorbian:
 * Vietnamese: ,