paternal uncle
Dad's male sibling
A paternal uncle is the brother of one's father, as distinguished from a maternal uncle (mother's brother).
In many cultures, the distinction matters for inheritance, naming customs, or social obligations: My paternal uncle taught me to fish, just as he'd taught my father.
- avuncularKindly like an elder
- relativeConnected by blood
- blood relativeFamily by biological descent
- familyRelated people together
- extended familyRelatives beyond parents, siblings
brother · nephew · kaka · elder · kinship · kinship ties · niece · advice · inheritance · ancestor · bloodline · lineage · family tree · guardian · progenitor · mentor · wise counsel · duty
- aunts and unclesmaternal aunt, great-aunt, step-aunt
- family membersmother, sister, brother, son, daughter
- extended familyaunt, grandparents, grandparent, great aunt, grandma
- paternal lineagepatrilineage, male line, forefather, progenitor, sire
- Islamic familyumm, ab, bint, household, birr
- Islamic Inheritanceheirs, estate division, legal heirs, half brother, female heir
father, uncle, paternal, patriarch, paternity, patriarchal, patriarchy, paternalism, paternally