Father (honorific)

List of uses of "father" in various languages

By culture and/or language

• Ab
• * Bwana, from Swahili, meaning an important person or safari leader
• * Abu in Kunya, used as epithet for "father of X"
• Baba, mark of respect in:
• * Indian honorific Hindu and Sikh
• * Baba in Persian language
• * In Malaysia as an honorific of respect to address Chinese people born in the British Straits Settlements
• 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, title for head of household in Ancient Rome

  Personifications

• Father Time
• Father Christmas
• Ded Moroz

  By religion

• God the Father

  Buddhism

• Abbot a title for a monk who holds the position of administrator of a Buddhist monastery or Buddhist temple

  Christianity

• Patriarch as a title for the primate of a Christian denomination
• Pope
• Church Fathers
• Abbot, an ecclesiastical title given to the male head of a monastery
• Father, as a honorific for a priest
• * Aboona in Syriac language
• * Abuna in Amharic and Tigrinya