How to Say Daddy in Other Languages

Afrikaans: pappa (pah-pah)

Albanian: babi (bah-bee)

Amharic: አባት (a-baht)

Arabic: بابا (ba-ba)

Armenian: պապա (pa-pa)

Azerbaijani: ata (ah-tah)

Basque: aita (ah-ee-tah)

Belarusian: тата (ta-ta)

Bengali: বাবা (ba-ba)

Bosnian: tata (ta-ta)

Bulgarian: тате (ta-teh)

Catalan: papa (pah-pah)

Cebuano: papa (pah-pah)

Chichewa: bambo (bahm-boh)

Chinese (Mandarin): 爸爸 (bà-bà)

Croatian: tata (ta-ta)

Czech: táta (tah-tah)

Danish: far (fahr)

Dutch: papa (pah-pah)

Esperanto: paĉjo (pa-chyo)

Estonian: issi (ee-see)

Finnish: isä (ee-sah)

French: papa (pah-pah)

Galician: papá (pah-pah)

Georgian: მამა (ma-ma)

German: Papa (pah-pah)

Greek: μπαμπάς (ba-bas)

Gujarati: પપ્પા (pah-pah)

Haitian Creole: papa (pah-pah)

Hausa: baba (bah-bah)

Hebrew: אַבָּא (ah-bah)

Hindi: पापा (pah-pah)

Hmong: txiv (tseev)

Hungarian: apa (ah-pah)

Icelandic: pabbi (pah-bee)

Igbo: papa (pah-pah)

Indonesian: ayah (ah-yah)

Irish: daidí (dah-dee)

Italian: papà (pah-pah)

Japanese: 父さん (tō-san)

Javanese: bapak (bah-pahk)

Kannada: ಅಪ್ಪ (ah-pah)

Kazakh: әке (ah-keh)

Khmer: ប៉ា (ba)

Korean: 아빠 (ah-ppa)

Kurdish: bav (bahv)

Kyrgyz: ата (ah-tah)

Lao: ພໍ່ (phaw)

Latvian: tētis (teh-tees)

Lithuanian: tėtis (teh-tees)

Luxembourgish: Papp (pahp)

Macedonian: тато (ta-to)

Malagasy: dada (dah-dah)

Malay: ayah (ah-yah)

Malayalam: അപ്പ (ah-pah)

Maltese: papà (pah-pah)

Maori: pāpā (pah-pah)

Marathi: बाबा (bah-bah)

Mongolian: аав (aav)

Myanmar (Burmese): ဖေ (p’hay)

Nepali: बाबा (bah-bah)

Norwegian: pappa (pah-pah)

Odia: ପାପା (pah-pah)

Pashto: پلار (plaar)

Persian: بابا (ba-ba)

Polish: tata (ta-ta)

Portuguese: papai (pah-pahy)

Punjabi: ਪਾਪਾ (pah-pah)

Romanian: tata (ta-ta)

Russian: папа (pa-pah)

Samoan: tamā (tah-mah)

Serbian: тата (ta-ta)

Sesotho: ntate (n-tah-teh)

Shona: baba (bah-bah)

Sindhi: بابا (ba-ba)

Sinhala: තාත්තා (thah-thah)

Slovak: tata (tah-tah)

Slovenian: oče (oh-cheh)

Somali: aabo (ah-boh)

Spanish: papá (pah-pah)

Sundanese: bapa (bah-pah)

Swahili: baba (bah-bah)

Swedish: pappa (pah-pah)

Tagalog: tatay (tah-tahy)

Tajik: падар (pa-dar)

Tamil: அப்பா (ah-pah)

Telugu: నాన్న (nah-nah)

Thai: พ่อ (p’haw)

Tigrinya: ኣቦ (ah-boh)

Turkish: baba (bah-bah)

Turkmen: kaka (kah-kah)

Ukrainian: тато (ta-to)

Urdu: پاپا (pah-pah)

Uyghur: ئاتا (ah-tah)

Uzbek: dada (dah-dah)

Vietnamese: ba (bah)

Welsh: tad (tahd)

Xhosa: tata (tah-tah)

Yoruba: baba (bah-bah)

Zulu: ubaba (oo-bah-bah)

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