For a fatherless Kabyle child, to show that he accepts his affliction, a saying makes him say: "It does not matter who will marry my mother, I will be his stepson."
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Fatherless
Synonyms for "fatherless" (37 found)
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Closest matches (8)
Strong matches (11)
Related words (18)
Related word relations
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3 entriessimilar
6 entriesTranslations
19 translations across 17 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἀπάτωρ adj (without a living father)
Danish
1 entries- faderløs adj (without a living father)
Dutch
1 entries- vaderloos adj (without a living father)
Finnish
1 entries- isätön adj (without a living father)
Georgian
1 entries- უმამო adj (without a living father)
German
1 entries- vaterlos adj (without a living father)
Gujarati
1 entries- નબાપું adj (without a living father)
Hungarian
1 entries- apátlan adj (without a living father)
Ingrian
1 entries- ätitöin adj (without a living father)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- bêbav adj (without a living father)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- farlaus adj (without a living father)
- farløs adj (without a living father)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- farlaus adj (without a living father)
Sanskrit
1 entries- अनाथ adj (without a living father)
Swedish
1 entries- faderlös adj (without a living father)
Telugu
1 entries- తండ్రిలేని adj (without a living father)
Turkish
2 entries- babasız adj (without a living father)
- yetim adj (without a living father)
Woiwurrung
1 entries- moorré adj (without a living father)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
They were two fatherless boys.
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“Homer’s Triple Bypass” has the potential to be the most depressing episode in the history of The Simpsons, if not television as whole. It is, after all, about a 36-year-old husband and father staring down death and the prospect of leaving his wife a young widow and his small children fatherless.
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