fatherhood

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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 (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) 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: 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

See also

• (the state of being a father or a father figure): abbacy, papacy