Dictionary
noun خاله / xâle
IPA: /xɒːle/
From our corpus
که جلوی خاله مهتاب هم شرمنده نشم.
ke jelu-ye-ye xâle mahtâb ham šarmande našam.
so that I wouldn’t have let aunt Mahtab down either,
خاله ورزشکار داری دیگه
xâle-ye varzeškâr dâri dige
Your aunt is an athlete!
Wiktionary- maternal aunt
- Aunt (title)
- When referring to older family members, both بزرگ (bozorg) and کلان (kalân) are correct, but the former is more common in Iran.
- When referring to older family members, both بزرگ (buzurg) and کلان (kalān) are correct, but the latter is more common in Afghanistan.
- In many dialects, cases of word final ـا (-ā) may be shortened to ـه (-a).
- In many dialects, all family names ending in ـه (-a) may have an epenthetic ـی (-y) added, e.g. عمه (amma) -> عمی (ammay) (unrelated to ezafe).