How to Say Uncle in Other Languages

Afrikaans: oom (oom)

Albanian: xhaxha (jah-jah)

Amharic: አጎ (ah-go)

Arabic: عم (aam)

Armenian: հորեղբայր (ho-regh-bayr)

Azerbaijani: əmi (eh-mee)

Basque: osaba (oh-sah-bah)

Belarusian: дзядзька (dzyadʹ-ka)

Bengali: কাকা (ka-ka)

Bosnian: amidža (ah-mee-jah)

Bulgarian: чичо (chee-cho)

Burmese: ဦးလေး (oo-lay)

Catalan: oncle (on-kleh)

Cebuano: tiyo (tee-yoh)

Chinese (Mandarin): 叔叔 (shoo-shoo)

Croatian: ujak (oo-yak)

Czech: strýc (stree-ts)

Danish: onkel (ohn-kel)

Dutch: oom (ohm)

Esperanto: onklo (on-kloh)

Estonian: onu (oh-noo)

Finnish: setä (seh-tah)

French: oncle (ohn-kluh)

Galician: tío (tee-oh)

Georgian: ბიძა (bee-dza)

German: Onkel (ohn-kel)

Greek: θείος (thee-os)

Gujarati: કાકા (ka-ka)

Haitian Creole: tonton (ton-ton)

Hausa: kaka (ka-ka)

Hebrew: דוד (dod)

Hindi: चाचा (cha-cha)

Hungarian: nagybácsi (nahj-bah-chee)

Icelandic: frændi (frahyn-di)

Igbo: nna ochie (n-na o-chee-eh)

Indonesian: paman (pah-mahn)

Irish: uncail (un-kil)

Italian: zio (tzee-oh)

Japanese: 叔父 (oji)

Javanese: paklik (pahk-leek)

Kannada: ಚಿಕ್ಕಪ್ಪ (chik-kah-pa)

Kazakh: көке (ko-keh)

Khmer: ពូ (poo)

Korean: 삼촌 (sam-chon)

Kurdish: mamo (mah-moh)

Kyrgyz: таякеси (ta-ya-keh-see)

Lao: ອາ (ah)

Latvian: onkulis (on-kool-is)

Lithuanian: dėdė (deh-deh)

Luxembourgish: Monni (mo-nee)

Macedonian: чичко (cheech-koh)

Malagasy: dadatoa (dah-dah-toh-ah)

Malay: pakcik (pahk-cheek)

Malayalam: ചേച്ചൻ (chey-chehn)

Maltese: ziju (zee-joo)

Maori: matua keke (mah-too-ah keh-keh)

Marathi: काका (ka-ka)

Mongolian: авга ах (av-ga ah)

Nepali: काका (ka-ka)

Norwegian: onkel (on-kel)

Odia: ଜେଠା (je-tha)

Pashto: تره (tur-reh)

Persian: عمو (a-moo)

Polish: wujek (voo-yek)

Portuguese: tio (chee-oh)

Punjabi: ਚਾਚਾ (cha-cha)

Romanian: unchi (oon-kee)

Russian: дядя (dya-dya)

Samoan: tuagane (too-ah-gah-neh)

Serbian: стриц (streets)

Shona: sekuru (seh-koo-roo)

Sinhala: මමේ (mam-meh)

Slovak: ujo (oo-yoh)

Slovenian: stric (stree-ts)

Somali: adeer (ah-deer)

Spanish: tío (tee-oh)

Sundanese: uwa (oo-wah)

Swahili: mjomba (m-jom-bah)

Swedish: farbror (fahr-bror)

Tagalog: tiyo (tee-yoh)

Tajik: тағо (ta-go)

Tamil: சித்தப்பா (sit-tha-pa)

Telugu: మామయ్య (ma-ma-yya)

Thai: ลุง (lung)

Tigrinya: ኣጎ (ah-go)

Turkish: amca (am-ja)

Turkmen: daýy (dah-ee)

Ukrainian: дядько (dyad-ko)

Urdu: چچا (cha-cha)

Uzbek: amaki (ah-mah-kee)

Vietnamese: chú (choo)

Welsh: ewythr (eh-wi-thr)

Wolof: ndeyjoor (nde-yu-joor)

Xhosa: malume (ma-loo-meh)

Yiddish: פעטער (feh-ter)

Yoruba: baba kekere (bah-bah keh-keh-reh)

Zulu: malume (mah-loo-meh)

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