Niece

Noun

 * 1) A daughter of someone’s sibling, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law; either the daughter of one's brother ("fraternal niece"), or of one's sister ("sororal niece").

Thesaurus
aunt, auntie, blood brother, brethren, brother, bub, bubba, bud, buddy, country cousin, cousin, cousin once removed, cousin twice removed, daughter, father, first cousin, foster brother, frater, grandnephew, grandniece, granduncle, great-aunt, great-uncle, half brother, kid brother, mother, nephew, nuncle, nunks, nunky, second cousin, sis, sissy, sister, sister-german, sistern, son, stepbrother, stepsister, unc, uncle, uncs, uterine brother

Pronunciation

 * Homophones: Nice
 * Homophones: Nice
 * Homophones: Nice
 * Homophones: Nice

Etymology
nece "niece, granddaughter" from nece "niece, granddaughter" (Modern French nièce "niece") from  *undefined:, representing  neptis "granddaughter" from. Akin to nift "niece, granddaughter" ( Nichte "niece"). Displaced native nifte "niece, granddaughter" (from  nift "niece, granddaughter").

Translations

 * Albanian: mbesë
 * Arabic: بنت الأخ, بنت الأخت
 * Armenian: (fraternal),  (sororal)
 * Basque: iloba
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: neboda
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 侄女, 姪女,  甥女, 外甥女
 * Croatian: nećakinja
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: vennatütar (fraternal), õetütar (sororal)
 * Filipino: pamangking babae
 * Finnish: (fraternal),  (sororal)
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: भतीजी
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: (fraternal),  (sororal)
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: keponakan / kemenakan / (nephew or niece)


 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 姪
 * Korean: 조카딸
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: خوشکه‌زا (sister's son or daughter)
 * Latin: filia fratris (fraternal), filia sororis (sororal)
 * Old French:
 * Polish: bratanica (fraternal), siostrzenica  (sororal)
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: nighean-bràthar (fraternal), nighean-peathar  (sororal)
 * Serbian: bratanica (fraternal), sinovka (fraternal), sestričina (sororal), nećaka, nećakinja, bratičina
 * Seri: aac (of a male)
 * Slovak: neter
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Taos: kìłu’úna
 * Thai: หลานสาว
 * Turkish: kız
 * Urdu: بھتیجی
 * Volapük: nef,  jinef
 * West Frisian: nicht


 * : pamangkin

Antonyms

 * nephew
 * aunt, uncle

Derived terms

 * grandniece

Hypernyms

 * nibling

Noun

 * 1) niece

Etymology
From nièce:.

Antonyms

 * brorsøn ("fraternal nephew")
 * nevø ("nephew")
 * søstersøn("sororal nephew")

Synonyms

 * brordatter
 * søsterdatter

Etymology
*undefined:

Descendants

 * English:
 * French:

Noun

 * 1) niece

Hyponyms

 * brorsdotter
 * systerdotter