uncle

Etymology
From, borrowed from and , from , from , from , a dialectal diminutive of  (whence also ). Displaced native Middle English from Old English, containing the same Proto-Indo-European root, and Old English. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. More at and.

Noun

 * 1) The brother or brother-in-law of one’s parent.
 * 2) The male cousin of one’s parent.
 * 3)  Used as a fictive kinship title for a close male friend of one's parent or parents.
 * 4)  Used as a title for the male companion to one's (usually unmarried) parent.
 * 5)  A source of advice, encouragement, or help.
 * 6)  A pawnbroker.
 * 7) * December 1843,, "Grant in Paris" (review), in Fraser's Magazine
 * A chain hangs out of the pocket of his velvet waistcoat, by which we may conclude that he has a watch , though we have known many gents whose watches were at their uncle's (as the fashionable term for the pawnbroker goes)
 * 1)   a man of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin.
 * 2)  An older African-American male.
 * 3)  Any  or   older than the speaker and/or listener.
 * 1)  Any  or   older than the speaker and/or listener.
 * 1)  Any  or   older than the speaker and/or listener.

Translations

 * Albanian: ungji, ,
 * Amharic: ኣጎት
 * Arabic:,  ,  زَوْجُ العَمّة,  زَوْجُ الخالة
 * Armenian: ,
 * Assamese: খুৰা, বৰদেউতা , মোমাই
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܥܲܡܵܐ,  ܚܵܠܵܐ,  ܓܲܒ݂ܪ ܥܲܡܬܵܐ,  ܓܲܒ݂ܪ ܚܵܠܬܵܐ
 * Asturian:
 * Aukan: omu, tiyu
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Bakhtiari: کاکا
 * Baluchi: ناکو, ماما, کاکہ
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: дзя́дзька, дзя́дзя
 * Bengali:,  ,  ,
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:, стри́ко ,  ,  ,
 * Burmese: ,
 * Carpathian Rusyn: у́йко
 * Catalan:, ,
 * Central Dusun: mamai
 * Chechen: ваша
 * Cherokee: ᎡᏚᏥ
 * Chichewa: tsibweni
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 伯伯, 叔叔 , , 舅父 , 姨丈
 * Eastern Min:
 * Hakka: 阿伯, 阿叔 , 阿舅 , 母舅 , 姑丈 , 姨丈
 * Hokkien:,  ,  , 母舅 ,  ,  , 姨丈
 * Mandarin:,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,  ,
 * Teochew: 阿伯, 阿叔 , 阿舅 , 阿丈
 * Chinook Jargon: tot
 * Crimean Tatar: dayı
 * Czech:
 * Dalmatian: naul
 * Danish:, ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe: tɔgã, tɔɖe , wɔfa
 * Finnish:, setäpuoli ,  , enopuoli
 * French: ,
 * Friulian: barbe
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:, ძია, ბიძია
 * German: ,
 * Gooniyandi: ngaboo
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: θεῖος, πάτρως , μήτρως
 * Gunwinggu: ngabba, ngadjadj
 * Haitian Creole: tonton, monnonk
 * Hawaiian: makua kāne, ʻanakala
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:,  ,  ,  ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Ingrian: däädä, eno, setä
 * Interlingua: oncle
 * Irish: uncail
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ; 伯父貴 ;, 叔父貴
 * Kabyle: zizi
 * Kapampangan: bapa
 * Kashmiri:,  ,  ,
 * Kazakh: немере аға, ağa, nağaşı
 * Khoekhoe: ǁnaosab
 * Korean: ,
 * Krisa: tani baʼ,  tani pung,  wini
 * Kumyk: атасыны агъасы, анасыны агъасы, атасыны иниси, анасыны инеси
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: ,
 * Northern Kurdish: (paternal), , (maternal)
 * Lao: ລຸງ
 * Latgalian: dzedzeits
 * Latin:,  , thius
 * Latvian:, tēva brālis,  mātes brālis
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: те́тин,, ву́јко, стри́ко
 * Malay: pakcik, bapa saudara
 * Malayalam: അമ്മാവന്‍, മാമന്‍, വല്യച്ചന്‍,  ചെറിയച്ചന്‍
 * Maltese:
 * Maori: matua kēkē
 * Marathi:,  काका
 * Maricopa: nkwii
 * Melpa: apa
 * Meriam: bab
 * Middle English: uncle, em
 * Minangkabau:
 * Mòcheno: barba
 * Mongolian: авга ах, нагац ах , авга эрэгтэй дүү , нагац эрэгтэй дүү
 * Montana Salish: smamáʔ
 * Nanai: эчэкэ, гусин
 * Navajo: adáʼí, ayáázh , abízhí , azhéʼéyázhí
 * Norman: aonclle, oncl'ye
 * North Frisian: Oom
 * Northern Ohlone: 'et̄e
 * Northern Sami: čeahci, eahki , eanu , máhka
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, farbror , morbror
 * Nynorsk:
 * Occitan:, quenque
 * Old English: fædera, ēam
 * Old French: oncle
 * Oromo: eessuma, wasiila
 * Ottoman Turkish: عموجه, دایی , عمی
 * Papiamentu: tio
 * Pashto: ,
 * Pennsylvania German: Onkel
 * Persian:
 * Dari Persian:,  ,
 * Iranian Persian:,  ,  , ,
 * Pitjantjatjara: mama maḻatja, mama puḻka
 * Plautdietsch:
 * Polish:, , ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: qaka, kaka, kaku , yaya
 * Romani: kak
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: aug, barba
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sanskrit: ,
 * Sardinian: tiu, ciu, tziu
 * Saterland Frisian: Oom
 * Scots: uncle, eme, mither-brither
 * Scottish Gaelic: bràthair-athar, bràthair-màthar , uncail
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: стриц, чичa, амиџа,  тетак, течa, течо,  ујак, даиџа
 * Roman:, ,  ,  , , tečo,  ,
 * Seri: aaitz
 * Shan:
 * Sicilian: ,
 * Sidamo: wosiila
 * Sinhalese: මාමා
 * Slovak: strýko
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: wujk
 * Southern Altai: ака, тай, таай
 * Southern Sierra Miwok: ka·ka·
 * Spanish:
 * Sundanese:, mamang
 * Swedish:, ,  s ,  ,  ,  s ,
 * Tagalog:, tiyo, tiyuhin
 * Talysh:
 * Tamil: (mama), பெரியப்ப, சிதப்ப
 * Thai:,  ,
 * Tibetan: ཨ་ཞང, ཨ་ཁུ
 * Torres Strait Creole: ankel
 * Tumbuka: sibweni
 * Turkish:,  ,
 * Turkmen:, daýy
 * Tuvan: аккызы, даайы
 * Ukrainian: дя́дько
 * Urdu: چچا
 * Venetian: sio, zhio,
 * Vietnamese:,  ,
 * Volapük: ,
 * Welsh: ,
 * West Frisian: omme, omke
 * Yámana: tanowa
 * Yiddish: פֿעטער

See also: related paternal uncle and maternal uncle for more translations.


 * Armenian:
 * Breton: eontr da-heul
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:


 * Albanian:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: pandjesbaas
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, pantelåner
 * Russian:


 * Albanian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: filleonkel
 * Portuguese:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: чико, чика
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: strýko, ujo
 * Sundanese: mang
 * Thai:, ,


 * Belarusian: дзя́дзька
 * Burmese: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 叔叔
 * Mandarin:
 * Georgian: ძია
 * Greek:
 * Hawaiian: ʻanakala
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Marathi: काका
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: farbror
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: ujo
 * Sundanese: mang
 * Thai:, ,
 * Ukrainian: дя́дько


 * Breton:,   ,
 * Guaraní:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Korean: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Swahili:, ,
 * Telugu:, ,
 * Tupinambá:  (1),

Interjection

 * 1) A cry used to indicate surrender.

Verb

 * 1)  To address somebody by the term uncle.
 * 2)  To act like, or as, an uncle.

Etymology
, from, from.

Noun

 * 1)  (brother of one's parents)

Etymology
From, borrowed from and , from , from , from , a dialectal diminutive of  (whence also ).