English
Etymology
From Middle English faderhode, fadirhode, fadirhede, equivalent to father + -hood.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈfɑ.ðɚˌhʊd/
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfɑːðəˌhʊd/
Noun
fatherhood (countable and uncountable, plural fatherhoods)
- The state of being a father (biological father, stepfather, adoptive father, foster father; sometimes the biological father specifically).
- Synonyms: (state) paternity (sometimes hyponymous); fatherness (rare); dadhood (informal; sometimes hyponymous)
- Hypernym: parenthood
- Hyponym: stepfatherhood
- Coordinate terms: motherhood; siblinghood, cousinhood
Translations
being a father
- Albanian: atësi (sq)
- Amharic: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: أُبُوَّة f (ʔubuwwa)
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- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: ба́щинство n (báštinstvo)
- Catalan: paternitat f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 父性 (zh) (fùxìng)
- Czech: otcovství n
- Danish: faderskab n
- Dutch: vaderschap (nl) n
- Esperanto: patreco
- Estonian: isadus
- Finnish: isyys (fi)
- French: paternité (fr) f
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Vaterschaft (de) f, Vatersein n, Vatertum n
- Greek: please add this translation if you can
- Hungarian: apaság (hu)
- Icelandic: faðerni (is) n
- Italian: paternità (it) f
- Japanese: please add this translation if you can
- Khmer: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: 아버지임 (abeojiim)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: bavîtî (ku) f, babînî (ku) f
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: paternitās f
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: татковство n (tatkovstvo)
- Malay: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: farskap (no) n
- Nynorsk: farskap m or n
- Occitan: please add this translation if you can
- Ottoman Turkish: پدری (pederî)
- Persian: please add this translation if you can
- Phoenician: 𐤀𐤁𐤕 (ʾbt)
- Plautdietsch: Vodaschoft
- Polish: ojcostwo (pl) n
- Portuguese: paternidade (pt) f
- Romanian: paternitate (ro) f
- Russian: отцо́вство (ru) n (otcóvstvo)
- Serbo-Croatian: očinstvo (sh) n
- Spanish: paternidad (es) f
- Swahili: ubaba
- Swedish: faderskap (sv) n
- Tagalog: pagkaama
- Telugu: పితృత్వము (pitr̥tvamu)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: babalık (tr)
- Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
- Welsh: tadolaeth f
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