There are many different ways to address a father in different languages,

[Padmanabhan Janakiraman]

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There are many different ways to address a father in different languages, including:

People in India address their father in a variety of ways depending on the language they speak, including:

• Hindi: Pitaa or Pitaaji
• Bengali: Babaa, Baapi, or Babai
• Assamese: Deuta
• Odia: Bapa or Nana
• Gujarati: Pappa, Papa, Bawa, or Bapuji
• Marathi: Baba
• Tamil: Appa
• Malayalam: Achchan
• Telugu: Naanna Garu,Naina
• Manipur, Meghalaya: Pa
• Nagaland: Apo
• Punjabi: Bhapa ji
• Dogri: Baapu

IN OTHER COUNTRIES ;

• Papa: Used in many languages, including Russian, Swedish, Spanish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Persian, Latin, Japanese, Korean, Hungarian, Hindi, German, French, Icelandic, and Dutch
• Tata: Used in many languages, including Greek, Latin, Czech, Sanskrit, Spanish, Polish, Romanian, Welsh, Yiddish, and Filipino
• Baba: Used in many languages, including Turkish, Swahili, Nepali, Mandarin Chinese, Zulu, Malay, Italian, Indonesian, and Arabic
• Isa: Used in Finnish and Estonian
• Aita: Used in Basque
• Athair: Used in Irish and Scots Gaelic
• Aabe: Used in Somali
• Makuakāne: Used in Hawaiian
• Matua tāne: Used in Maori
• Tama: Used in Maori and Samoan
• Ataata: Used in Inuktitut
• Père: Used in French, this is an old-fashioned term
• Vater: Used in German, this is an old-fashioned term
• O-to-san: Used in Japanese when addressing your father directly
• Chi-chi: Used in Japanese when talking to someone else about your father

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[renuka]

In Malay, mostly Ayah or Abah is used to address a father.
Baba is not used to address a father in Malay language.