maternal uncle

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maternal uncle (plural maternal uncles)

The brother or brother-in-law of one’s mother. (This entry is a translation hub.)
- 1963, Claude Lévy-Strauss, Structural Anthropology, New York: Basic Books, page 42:
  The social organization of the Trobriand Islanders of Melane-
  sia is characterized by matrilineal descent, free and familiar rela-
  tions between father and son, and a marked antagonism between
  maternal uncle and nephew.³¹ On the other hand, the patrilineal
  Cherkess of the Caucasus place the hostility between father and
  son, while the maternal uncle assists his nephew and gives him a
  horse when he marries.³²

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brother of one's mother

Albanian: dajë (sq); xhaxha (mother's brother-in-law)
Arabic: خَال (ar) m (ḵāl)
Armenian: քեռի (hy) (kʿeṙi), (rare) մորեղբայր (hy) (moreġbayr)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܚܵܠܵܐ m (ḥālā)
Bengali: মামা (bn) m (mama), খালু (bn) m (khalu) (mother's brother-in-law)
Bulgarian: вуйчо (bg) m (vujčo)
Chichewa: malume
Chinese:
Mandarin: 舅父 (zh) (jiùfù), 舅舅 (zh) (jiùjiu), 舅父 (zh) (jiùfù), 舅舅 (zh) (jiùjiu), 姨父 (zh) (yífù), 姨丈 (zh) (yízhàng) (mother's brother-in-law)

Teochew: 阿舅 (a¹ gu⁶), 舅 (gu⁶), 阿丈 (a¹ dion⁶), 丈 (dion⁶) (mother's brother-in-law)
Crimean Tatar: dayı
Czech: ujec (cs) m
Danish: morbror (da) c (blood maternal uncle), onkel (da) c (in-law maternal uncle / informal)
Dutch: oom (nl) m, (Flemish) nonkel (nl) m
Ewe: wɔfa
Faroese: morbróðir m, móðurbróðir m, mammubeiggi m
Finnish: eno (fi); enopuoli (mother's brother-in-law)
French: oncle maternel m
Georgian: ბიძა დედის მხრიდან (biʒa dedis mxridan)
German: Oheim (de) m, (rare) Onkel (de) m
Greek: θείος (el) m (theíos)
Greenlandic: angak
Hausa: rafani, kawu
Hebrew: דּוֹד (dod) m
Hindi: मामा (hi) m (māmā)
Hungarian: anyai (ágról való) nagybácsi
Icelandic: móðurbróðir (is) m
Interlingua: oncle
Italian: zio (it) m, zio materno m
Kabyle: zizi m
Kashmiri: مام (ks) (mām) (mother's brother), ماسُو (ks) (māsuv) (mother's brother-in-law)
Korean: 외삼촌 (ko) (oesamchon)
Krisa: wini
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: خاڵ (ckb) (xall)

Northern Kurdish: xal (ku)
Latin: avunculus (la) m
Macedonian: вујко m (vujko)
Malayalam: അമ്മാവന് (ammāvaṉ)
Manx: braar mayrey m
Maore Comorian: zama
Marathi: मामा (mr) m (māmā)
Nupe: mmà
Old English: ēam m
Old Irish: amnair m
Ottoman Turkish: دایی (dayı)
Pashto: ماما (ps) m
Persian: دایی (fa) (dâ'i)
Pitjantjatjara: please add this translation if you can
Polish: wuj (pl) m, wujek (pl) m
Portuguese: tio (pt), tio materno (pt)
Quechua: kaka, kaku
Romanian: unchi (ro) m, unchi după mamă m
Russian: дя́дя (ru) m (djádja), дя́дя по ма́тери m (djádja po máteri), дя́дя по матери́нской ли́нии m (djádja po materínskoj línii)
Sanskrit: मातुल (sa) m (mātula)
Scots: mither-brither, eme
Scottish Gaelic: bràthair-màthar m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: у̏ја̄к m, да̀иџа m (regional, non-standard); (mother's brother-in-law) те́так m, течо m (regional, non-standard)

Roman: ȕjāk (sh) m, dàidža (sh) m (regional, non-standard); (mother's brother-in-law) tétak (sh) m, tečo m (regional, non-standard)
Sinhalese: මාමා (māmā)
Slovene: stric (sl) m, dundo m
Somali: abti
Spanish: tío (es) m, tío materno m
Swahili: mjomba (sw)
Swedish: morbror (sv) c, onkel (sv) c; mor (sv)s svåger (sv) c, ingift (sv) morbror (sv) c
Tamil: மாமா (ta) (māmā), பெரியப்ப (periyappa) (mother’s elder brother-in-law), சிதப்ப (citappa) (mother’s younger brother-in-law)
Taos: mį̏mína
Telugu: మామ (te) (māma)
Thai: ลุง (th) (lung) (mother’s elder brother), น้า (th) (náa) (mother’s younger brother)
Tibetan: ཨ་ཞང (a zhang)
Turkish: dayı (tr), enişte (tr) (mother's brother-in-law)
Vietnamese: cậu (vi) (for both elder and younger than mother, mostly for southerners; for northerners bác (vi) is for the elder one, chú (vi) for the younger one)
West Frisian: omke m

maternal uncle

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