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Scholar-attested kinship terms across Indian languages. Filter by language, community, or register. Free-text matches both native script and transliteration.

फूफी जी
pan · Deva
phūphī jī
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Father's sister. Variant: buā. NOT a prescriptive MIL — FZD sapinda-forbidden.
मासी जी
pan · Deva
māsī jī
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Mother's sister. Same root as Bengali māsi.
छोटा भाई
pan · Deva
chhoṭā bhāī
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Younger brother. Lit. small-brother. Plain bhāī also acceptable.
ममेरा भाई
pan · Deva
mamerā bhāī
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Mother's brother's son (MBS). Cross-cousin structurally but SIBLING-CLASS — marriage FORBIDDEN.
चचेरा भाई
pan · Deva
chacherā bhāī
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Father's brother's son (FBS). Parallel-paternal sibling-class. Marriage FORBIDDEN.
दादी जी
pan · Deva
dādī jī
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Paternal grandmother. Maternal GM = nānī jī. Indo-Aryan side-distinction.
चाचा जी
pan · Deva
chāchā jī
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Father's younger brother. Shared with broader North Indian Hindi belt.
माँ
pan · Deva
māṃ
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Mother (direct, gen+1, F). Diminutive: ammā.
चचेरी बहिन
pan · Deva
chacherī bahin
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Father's brother's daughter (FBD). Parallel-paternal sibling-class. Marriage FORBIDDEN.
मामा जी
pan · Deva
māmā jī
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Mother's brother. NOT a prescriptive FIL — sapinda-forbidden MB-side marriage.
दादा जी
pan · Deva
dādā jī
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Paternal grandfather. Maternal GF = nānā jī. KEY Indo-Aryan side-distinction.
भाई जी
pan · Deva
bhāī jī
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Elder brother (deferential). Modern Punjabi flattens elder/younger; distinguished by baṛā/chhoṭā prefix.
पिता जी
pan · Deva
pitā jī
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Father (direct, gen+1, M). Casual: bābā, pāpā.
ताया जी
pan · Deva
tāyā jī
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Father's elder brother. KEY Punjabi term (also tāū). No Bengali/Dravidian surface cognate.
बेटा
pan · Deva
beṭā
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Son (direct descent, gen-1, M). Sanskritic putra in ritual register.
ममेरी बहिन
pan · Deva
mamerī bahin
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Mother's brother's daughter (MBD). Four-gotra exogamy excludes MB-line. Marriage FORBIDDEN.
पत्नी
pan · Deva
patnī
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Wife (formal/Sanskritic). Casual: bīvī. Spousal affinal, gen 0.
दीदी
pan · Deva
dīdī
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Elder sister. Also: baṛī bahin.
छोटी बहिन
pan · Deva
chhoṭī bahin
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Younger sister. Lit. small-sister.
बेटी
pan · Deva
beṭī
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Daughter (direct descent, gen-1, F). Sanskritic kanyā in ritual register.