Father (honorific)

Title and honorific across languages

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Father has been used as both title and honorific in various languages, synonyms and historical contexts. It may sometimes denote a title of authority or of honour.

## List of uses of "father" in various languages

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### By culture and/or language

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* Ab (Semitic)
* Bwana ("our father"), from Swahili, meaning an important person or safari leader
* Abu in Kunya (Arabic), used as epithet for "father of X"
* Baba, mark of respect in:
* Indian honorific Hindu and Sikh
* Baba (honorific) in Persian language
* In Malaysia as an honorific of respect to address Chinese people born in the British Straits Settlements
* Batko, a Ukrainian honorific meaning "father"
* List of people considered father or mother of a field
* Founding father
* Father of the Nation/Father of the Country
* Pater Patriae
* Fathers of Confederation
* Founding fathers of the European Union
* Founding Fathers of the United States
* Pater familias (Latin), title for head of household in Ancient Rome

### Personifications

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* Father Time
* Father Christmas
* Ded Moroz ("Father Frost")

### By religion

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* God the Father

#### Buddhism

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* Abbot (Buddhism) a title for a monk who holds the position of administrator of a Buddhist monastery or Buddhist temple

#### Christianity

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* Patriarch (Greek, literally "father ruler") as a title for the primate of a Christian church
* Pope
* Church Fathers
* Abbot, an ecclesiastical title given to the male head of a monastery
* Father, as a honorific for a priest
* Aboona ("our father") in Syriac language
* Abuna ("our father") in Amharic and Tigrinya

## See also

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* List of people considered father or mother of a field

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