avunculate

Arabic translation: الخؤولة

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English term or phrase:avunculate
Arabic translation:الخؤولة
Entered by: Ammar Mahmood

08:58 Jan 17, 2008
English to Arabic translations [PRO]
Anthropology
English term or phrase: avunculate
the social institution called 'the avunculate', whereby men invest in their sisters' sons and make them their heirs, indeed occurs in societies with weak constraints on female sexuality and resultant uncertainty about who fathered whom.
vanilla_sky
Local time: 20:43
الخؤولة
Explanation:
من "مختار الصحاح"، على وزن "العمومه" و "الامومه"
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Ammar Mahmood
Iraq
Local time: 21:43
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4 +2الخؤولة
Ammar Mahmood
4النسب للخال
Shazly


  

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15 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
الخؤولة


Explanation:
من "مختار الصحاح"، على وزن "العمومه" و "الامومه"

Ammar Mahmood
Iraq
Local time: 21:43
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Mohamed Ghazal: وفي المنجد
41 mins
  -> Thank you Mohamed

agree  Mohsin Alabdali
1 day 23 hrs
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36 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
النسب للخال


Explanation:
منسوب إلى الخال
avunculate
close relationship between an uncle and his sister's son, special relationship in certain patrilineal societies between a man and his nephew (his sister's son)


Shazly
Egypt
Local time: 20:43
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Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
PRO pts in category: 4
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