This is not an exhaustive list but these seem to be the most commonly heard kin terms. The first word before the slash (/) is Urdu and the second is either an Urdu alternative or Punjabi. Children of parent's siblings are referred to by using the term for their parent plus -zad. So the children of your chacha are your chachazad. Children of your poupi are your poupizad and so on. There is some conflation for cousins with the result that cousins are often referred to as bhai (brother) or bhein (sister). Similarly the terms baba, chacha / mama, lala (father, father's brother and elder brother) are used for more distant kin as well as unrelated men who are of the right age in relation to the speaker. People refer to older women often as massee-ji (mother's sister) and women who are much younger than them as beti (daughter) but seem to avoid addressing women they don't know unless it is unavoidable.
I don't use this diagram or these terms for anything analytical
at the moment. I compiled this list only to help me learn the language and help me
collect family pedigrees. As I fill in more blanks I may try to compare the Punjabi
versus Urdu terms and then compare them to Pushto terms. At present I don't know
enough of the purely Punjabi terms to do much with them and I hardly know any Pushto
terms. Chances are there will be too many blanks
for me to do much comparing since my time here is growing very short.
| 1.EGO (Number 2's khawand=husband) 2. bivi=wife 3. bhein=sister 4. bhai / bra=brother 5. bhai-jan / bra-veel / lala=elder brother 6. appi / ba-ji / burri bhein=elder sister 7. abba / abbu / bap / waled / baba=father 8. ammi / waleda / mã=mother 9. chacha / mama=father's brother 10. poupi=father's sister 11. taya=father's elder brother 12. chachi=father's brother's wife 13. poupa / poupra=father's sister's husband 14. tay=father's elder brother's wife 15. khala / massee=mother's sister 16. mamou=mother's brother |
17. khalu / massera=mother's sister's husband 18. mamani / mami=mother's brother's wife 19. dada=father's father 20. dadi=father's mother 21. nana=mother's father 22. nani=mother's mother 23. beta / bacha / putr=son 24. bhaho / naõ=daughter-in-law 25. beti / bachi / tihi=daughter 26. damad / jawantra=son-in-law 27. potra=son's son 28. potri=son's daughter 29. dotra=daughter's son 30. dotri=daughter's daughter 31. bheinouie=sister's husband 32. bobbi=brother's wife 33. sala=wife's brother |
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