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Father...in different languages.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-16 18:54

Okay /lang/, heres the thing.I need to find out how to write dad in as many languages as possible so I thought this would be a good place to start.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-16 19:09

It's "papa" in almost all langages, even japanese has a "papa".

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/papa

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-16 19:44

athair in gaelic

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-16 23:17

tata in Croatian but as >>2 said, "papa" is more common

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-17 1:11

in Polish, Father - Ojciec, Dad is Tato, Daddy - Tatuś

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-17 12:03

Dutch: vader, papa, pa

Name: الأنونيموس 2008-08-17 16:18

Baba (بابا) in Arabic, and thus also in a lot of languages heavily influenced by it, like Persian, Pashto and fuck knows what.

Papa (папа) in Russian. Also otjets (отец), meaning "father".

Pappa in the Scandinavian languages.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-17 17:33

Isä in "proper" Finnish, isi in colloquial speech.

お父さん (otōsan) in polite Japanese (can be shortened to just 父さん tōsan, the お is an honorary prefix); お父様 (otōsama) in formal speech; 父 (chichi) in humble/colloquial speech. There's also 父親 (chichioya).

Far is the word for father in Swedish, while pappa is more like dad, and then there's the slang version of the word, farsan.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-17 18:28

>>8

papa is understood in japanese as well due to foreign influence

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-18 7:34

>>9
Yeah, it was mentioned earlier in this thread. And it's written as パパ.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-19 2:52

父亲 - fù qīn = father in Chinese
爸爸 - bà ba = papa/daddy
爸 - bà = dad

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-20 17:57

Portuguese (Brazil/Portugal)

"Papai" or just "Pai"

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-21 9:48

Interesting thread
Shows how the linguists are wrong

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-21 16:06

>>13
Care to elaborate?

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-22 10:56

>>14
No.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-22 13:32

Père - father in french
or Papa - daddy

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-22 14:03

>>15
Not an answer. Do it, bitch. Or I'll come and make you.

Name: Anonymous 2008-08-22 15:01

Отец in russian. Or папа (батя, папаша, папочка etc) for daddy.

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