Padmanabhan Janakiraman
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There are many different ways to address a father in different languages, including:
People in India address their father in a variety of ways depending on the language they speak, including:
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People in India address their father in a variety of ways depending on the language they speak, including:
- Hindi: Pitaa or Pitaaji
- Bengali: Babaa, Baapi, or Babai
- Assamese: Deuta
- Odia: Bapa or Nana
- Gujarati: Pappa, Papa, Bawa, or Bapuji
- Marathi: Baba
- Tamil: Appa
- Malayalam: Achchan
- Telugu: Naanna Garu,Naina
- Manipur, Meghalaya: Pa
- Nagaland: Apo
- Punjabi: Bhapa ji
- Dogri: Baapu
- Papa: Used in many languages, including Russian, Swedish, Spanish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Persian, Latin, Japanese, Korean, Hungarian, Hindi, German, French, Icelandic, and Dutch
- Tata: Used in many languages, including Greek, Latin, Czech, Sanskrit, Spanish, Polish, Romanian, Welsh, Yiddish, and Filipino
- Baba: Used in many languages, including Turkish, Swahili, Nepali, Mandarin Chinese, Zulu, Malay, Italian, Indonesian, and Arabic
- Isa: Used in Finnish and Estonian
- Aita: Used in Basque
- Athair: Used in Irish and Scots Gaelic
- Aabe: Used in Somali
- Makuakāne: Used in Hawaiian
- Matua tāne: Used in Maori
- Tama: Used in Maori and Samoan
- Ataata: Used in Inuktitut
- Père: Used in French, this is an old-fashioned term
- Vater: Used in German, this is an old-fashioned term
- O-to-san: Used in Japanese when addressing your father directly
- Chi-chi: Used in Japanese when talking to someone else about your father
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