Family
عمو
/ amu /
noun · paternal uncle
Meaning
معنی۱
The four uncle/aunt distinction (عمو, دایی, عمه, خاله) reflects how Persian kinship vocabulary tracks both gender and bloodline. This precision matters: a marriage between paternal cousins (پسر عمو and دختر عمو) is socially distinct from a marriage between maternal cousins (پسر دایی and دختر دایی).
In a sentence
مثالعموی من معلم است
amu-ye man mo'allem ast
My uncle is a teacher
The company it keeps
همنشینهاYou rarely meet a word alone — here it is, at work beside others.
عمو زاده
amu-zâde
paternal cousin
پسر عمو
pesar-amu
male paternal cousin
دختر عمو
dokhtar-amu
female paternal cousin
In its constellation
در پیوندNo word stands alone. Follow a thread to the words it lives beside — hover to read one, click to open it.
عموamu
keeps company with ۶ words