fatherhood

English

Etymology

From Middle English faderhode, fadirhode, fadirhede, equivalent to father +‎ -hood.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfɑ.ðɚˌhʊd/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfɑːðəˌhʊd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

fatherhood (countable and uncountable, plural fatherhoods)

1. The state of being a father.

Coordinate terms

• motherhood
• parenthood
• siblinghood

Translations

being a father

• Albanian: atësi (sq)
• Amharic: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: أُبُوَّة f (ʔubuwwa)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: ба́щинство n (báštinstvo)
• Catalan: paternitat f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• 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
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• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• 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: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: отцо́вство (ru) n (otcóvstvo)
• Serbo-Croatian: očinstvo (sh) n
• Spanish: paternidad 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