How to Say Father in Other Languages

Afrikaans: vader (faa-der)

Albanian: baba (bah-bah)

Amharic: abbat (ah-baht)

Arabic: أب (ab)

Armenian: hayr (high-r)

Azerbaijani: ata (ah-tah)

Basque: aita (eye-tah)

Belarusian: бацька (batz-ka)

Bengali: বাবা (bah-bah)

Bosnian: otac (oh-tats)

Bulgarian: баща (bah-shtah)

Catalan: pare (pah-re)

Cebuano: amahan (ah-mah-han)

Chichewa: bambo (bam-boh)

Chinese (Mandarin): 父亲 (fùqīn)

Croatian: otac (oh-tats)

Czech: otec (oh-tets)

Danish: far (far)

Dutch: vader (faa-der)

Estonian: isa (ee-sah)

Fijian: tama (tah-mah)

Filipino: ama (ah-mah)

Finnish: isä (ee-sah)

French: père (pehr)

Galician: pai (pie)

Georgian: მამა (mah-mah)

German: Vater (fah-ter)

Greek: πατέρας (pah-teh-rahs)

Gujarati: પિતા (pee-tah)

Haitian Creole: papa (pah-pah)

Hausa: uba (oo-bah)

Hebrew: אבא (ah-bah)

Hindi: पिता (pee-tah)

Hungarian: apa (ah-pah)

Icelandic: faðir (fah-thir)

Igbo: nna (nah)

Indonesian: ayah (ah-yah)

Irish: athair (ah-her)

Italian: padre (pah-dreh)

Japanese: 父 (chichi)

Javanese: bapak (bah-pahk)

Kannada: ತಂದೆ (than-de)

Kazakh: әке (ah-keh)

Khmer: ឪពុក (ou-pook)

Korean: 아버지 (ah-buh-jee)

Kurdish: bav (bahv)

Kyrgyz: ата (ah-tah)

Lao: ພໍ່ (phor)

Latvian: tēvs (tehvs)

Lithuanian: tėvas (teh-vahs)

Luxembourgish: Papp (pahp)

Macedonian: татко (tat-koh)

Malagasy: ray (rai)

Malay: bapa (bah-pah)

Malayalam: അച്ഛന്‍ (ah-chahn)

Maltese: missier (mee-syer)

Maori: matua (mah-too-ah)

Marathi: वडील (vah-deel)

Mongolian: аав (aav)

Myanmar (Burmese): အဖေ (ah-pay)

Nepali: बुबा (boo-bah)

Norwegian: far (far)

Odia: ପିତା (pee-tah)

Pashto: پلار (plar)

Persian: پدر (pe-dar)

Polish: ojciec (oy-chets)

Portuguese: pai (pie)

Punjabi: ਪਿਤਾ (pee-tah)

Quechua: tayta (tie-tah)

Romanian: tată (tah-tuh)

Russian: отец (ah-tyets)

Samoan: tama (tah-mah)

Sanskrit: पितर् (pee-tar)

Serbian: отац (oh-tats)

Sesotho: ntate (nn-tah-teh)

Shona: baba (bah-bah)

Sindhi: پيء (pee-eh)

Sinhala: තාත්තා (tah-tah)

Slovak: otec (oh-tets)

Slovenian: oče (oh-che)

Somali: aabbe (ah-beh)

Spanish: padre (pah-dreh)

Sundanese: bapak (bah-pahk)

Swahili: baba (bah-bah)

Swedish: far (far)

Tagalog: ama (ah-mah)

Tajik: падар (pah-dar)

Tamil: அப்பா (ah-pah)

Tatar: әти (ah-tee)

Telugu: తండ్రి (than-dri)

Thai: พ่อ (paw)

Turkish: baba (bah-bah)

Ukrainian: батько (bat-koh)

Urdu: والد (wah-lid)

Uzbek: ota (oh-tah)

Vietnamese: cha (chah)

Welsh: tad (tad)

Xhosa: utata (oo-tah-tah)

Yiddish: טאַטע (tah-teh)

Yoruba: baba (bah-bah)

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