Many languages have more kin terms than English, which is especially poor in this sense. In Turkish, as you comment, we have: * Aunt (father’s side) - hala *

Many languages have more kin terms than English, which is especially poor in this sense. In Turkish, as you comment, we have: * Aunt (father’s side) - hala * Aunt (mother’s side) - teyze * Uncle (father’s side) - amca * Uncle (mother’s side) - dayi You use teyze to refer to an unknown older woman and amca to an unknown older men (similar to how “uncle” is used in Mandarin). With this more explicit vocabulary, interesting things can be expressed succinctly that would be cumbersome in English (see Sapir-Whorf :-), eg boys take after their dayi and girls after their hala or that as a general consensus you like your teyze better than your hala. We also have terms for older sister (abla) and older brother (abi).