آجه

Persian

Etymology

From a Turkic language. Compare Kazakh әже (äje, “grandmother”), Chagatai اچه (äçä, “mother, old woman”), Turkmen eje (“mother, aunt, elder sister”).

Pronunciation

• (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): /ɑːd͡ʒa(j)/

Noun

آجه • (âja)

1. (chiefly Hazaragi) grandmother, grandma

   Synonyms: بی‌بی (bîbî (Dari)), مادربزرگ (mâdar bozorg (Iran))

See also

Dari Persian dialectal family names
Family member	Standard Dari	Kabuli dialect	Hazaragi dialect
mother	مادر (mādar)	ننه (nana)	آبه (āba)
grandmother	مادر کلان (mādar-i kalān)	بی‌بی (bī-bī)	آجه (āja), بی‌بی (bī-bī)
father	پدر (padar)	بابا (bābā)	آته (āta)
grandfather	پدر کلان (padar-i kalān)	آغا (āğā)	بابا (bābā)
sister	خواهر (xāhar)	خوار (xwār, xār)
mother's sister (maternal aunt)	خاله (xāla)
father's sister (paternal aunt)	عمه (amma)
brother	برادر (barādar)	بیادر (biyādar)	برار (birār)
older brother	برادر کلان (barādar-i kalān)	لالا (lālā)
mother's brother (maternal uncle)	ماما (māmā)		ماما (māmā), تغایی (tağāyī)
father's brother (paternal uncle)	کاکا (kākā)
All family names ending in a vowel may have an epenthetic ـی (-y) added, e.g. عمه (amma) -> عمی (ammay) (unrelated to ezafe), this is not included. When referring to older family members, both بزرگ (buzurg) and کلان (kalān) are correct, but the latter is more common in Afghanistan.