family tree

English

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: fa‧mi‧ly tree

Noun

family tree (plural family trees)

1. A diagrammatic representation of a pedigree, illustrating the connections between a person's ancestors, offspring and other relatives
2. (collective) The totality of someone's ancestors and offspring
   • 1997, Doug Adams, The Prostitute in the Family Tree: Discovering Humor and Irony in the Bible, →ISBN, page 3:

     Heredity and environment are not the absolute arbiters of what will be, as Jesus' genealogy details in the first chapter of Matthew's Gospel. As Gardner Taylor, an African-American preacher in Brooklyn, noted, Rahab the prostitute is in the family tree of Jesus Christ.

   • 2010, Amelie von Zumbusch, Barack Obama's Family Tree: Roots of Achievement, →ISBN, page 22:

     As the years have passed, Barack Obama's family tree has grown.

   • 2011, Suzannah Knight, Black Magic, →ISBN, page 18:

     It's never been discussed whether or not there is mental illness in my family tree but I know a great aunt committed suicide years before using paracetamol.

Hypernyms

• tree

Translations

family tree

• Arabic: شَجَرَة النَّسَب f (šajara(t) an-nasab)
• Armenian: տոհմածառ (hy) (tohmacaṙ)
• Azerbaijani: şəcərə (az)
• Bashkir: шәжәрә (şəjərə)
• Bulgarian: родословно дърво n (rodoslovno dǎrvo)
• Catalan: arbre genealògic m
• Chagatai: شجره
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 家譜／家谱 (zh) (jiāpǔ), 譜系圖／谱系图 (pǔxìtú)

• Czech: rodokmen m
• Danish: stamtavle c, anetavle c, slægtstræ n
• Dutch: stamboom (nl) m
• Finnish: sukupuu (fi)
• French: arbre généalogique (fr) m
• Galician: árbore xenealóxica f
• German: Stammbaum (de) m
• Hebrew: אִילַן יוּחֲסִין (he) (ilán yuḥasín)
• Hungarian: családfa (hu)
• Icelandic: niðjatal n
• Irish: craobh ghinealaigh f
• Italian: albero genealogico m
• Japanese: 家系図 (ja) (かけいず, kakeizu)
• Kazakh: шежіре (şejıre)
• Latin: stemma n
• Lithuanian: giminės medis m
• Luxembourgish: Stammbam m
• Malay: pokok keluarga, pohon keluarga
• Norman: arbre dé fanmil'ye m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stamtre n

  Nynorsk: stamtre n

• Ottoman Turkish: شجره
• Persian: دودمانه (dudmâne), شجره (fa)
• Polish: drzewo genealogiczne (pl) n
• Portuguese: árvore genealógica (pt) f
• Romanian: arbore genealogic (ro) m
• Russian: генеалоги́ческое де́рево n (genealogíčeskoje dérevo)
• Scottish Gaelic: craobh-shloinntearachd f
• Spanish: árbol genealógico m
• Swedish: släktträd (sv) n, härstamning (sv) c
• Turkish: soyağacı (tr), şecere (tr)
• Urdu: شجرہ
• Uzbek: shajara (uz)
• Vietnamese: gia phổ
• Welsh: achres f, achresi f pl

See also

• genealogy

Further reading

• family tree on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Family trees on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons