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Urdu even has words to describe your exact relationship to different cousins: - "cousin brother from my father's sister's kids" - "cousin sister from my mother'
by ZainRiz 4y ago
Urdu even has words to describe your exact relationship to different cousins:
- "cousin brother from my father's sister's kids"
- "cousin sister from my mother's brother's kids"
- and even "cousin brother from my father's oldest brother's kids"
There's also a word for "wife's sister's husband", which is "hum zulf". But I spent almost a decade thinking the word was "hum zulm", which literally translates to "co-victim"
- hunglee2 4y agohow interesting. the same case in most chinese languages
- el-salvador 4y agoSpanish distinguishes between cousins from your parent's siblings (primos hermanos), and cousins from your parent's cousins (primos).
- samatman 4y agoAs does English, the former are first cousins, the latter second cousins.
- k_sze 4y agoGiven that spoken Urdu is supposedly very similar to spoken Hindi except some vocabulary stemming from religious differences, does what you describe apply in Hindi? If not, I wonder what cultural insight a difference might reveal.
- canistel 4y agoHindi has sufficiently diverse and fine-grained kinship terms, far more than English, and enough to baffle Dravidian speakers like us. The terms in Hindi though, seem to be entirely different from that in Urdu.