Turkish/Big Vocabulary/Family
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Family is very important thing for every people. Turkish people, like every other people in the world, are very closed to each other in the family, especially in minor town. Here are the words which contains family members. Here it goes!
brother | kardeş or abi |
children | çocuklar |
cousin | kuzen |
daughter | kız (it also means girl) |
father | baba |
father-in-law (both for father's dad and mother's dad) | kayınbaba |
granddaughter | kız torun |
grandfather | dede or büyükbaba (it means literally big dad) |
grandmother | büyükanne - it is good to now that if you are referring father's mother you will say babaanne and when you are referring mother's mother then you will say anneanne |
grandson | torun |
husband | koca |
mother | anne or ana |
mother-in-law | kaynana |
nephew or niece | yeğen |
parents | ebeveyn |
relatives | akraba |
sister | kız kardeş or abla |
son | oğul - but when you referring my son you will say oğlum or his/her son oğlu or their son onların oğlusu |
wife | karı or eş |