Greeting speech in Batak culture
NO Greeting Speech Definition
1. Amang, Among, or Bapa. Addressing the biological father, colloquially using
the word Among or Bapa.
2. Inang, Inong, Omak. Refer to biological mother.
3. Amang Tua, Bapa Tua, Paktua. Our nickname for someone (man) who is older
than our father
Our nickname for a man of the same surname as us
who is in the same order of descent our father but
our father is younger than him
Our nickname for the husband of our mother's
older sister
Our nickname for our father's father or our father's
father's father (amang tua mangulahi)
4. Inang Tua, Nangtua, Omak Tua, What we call the wife of a brother who is older
or Maktua. than our father
Our nickname for the wife of a person of the same
surname as us who is descended from our father
but our father is younger than him
Our call to our mother's elder sister
What we call the wife of our amang tua
Our call to the mother of our ompung or ompung
borunya our father (inang tua mangulahi)
5. Amang Uda or Bapa Uda. Our nickname for our father's younger brother
Our nickname for a man of the same surname as us
who is in the same order of descent as our father
but our father is older than him
Our call to the husband of our mother's younger
sister
Our nickname for the husband of our inang uda
6. Inang Uda or Nanguda. What we call the wife of our father's younger
brother
Our call to the wife of a person of the same
surname as us who is of the same order of, descent
as our father but whose father is older than him,
Our call to our mother's younger sister
Our call to the wife of our amang uda
7. Haha, Hahang, Angkang. Our call to our biological brother and cousin
brother (anak dari amang tua) and other people
who are of the same family and level as our
brothers
Our call to our brother's wife (angkang boru) or
just called angkang (pronounced: akkang)
Our call to our pariban who is older than us (can
also be called kakak)
Our call (women) to our husband's grandmother
(angkang mangulahi)
8. Agi, Anggi, Anggia. Our call to our younger siblings, cousins (anak
amang uda) and other people who are of the same
family and rank as our younger siblings
Our call to our younger brother's wife (anggi boru)
or commonly called inang
Our call to our pariban who is younger than us
(can also be called adik)
We call the wives of our grandchildren (anggi
mangulahi)
9. Tulang. Our call to our mother's biological brothers (either
our mother's younger either older brother)
Our call to men who share our mother's surname
and are descended from her in the same order as
our mother
Our call to the son of our grandmother's brother
Our call to our wife's uncle (tulang mangihut)
Our call to a man who is the brother-in-law of our
father's or mother's brother
Our call (male) to the grandson of our uncle or son
of our tunggane (tulang naposo)
8. Nantulang. What we call the wife of our tulang/uncle
Our call to an older person (women) who shares
the same surname as our aunt
What we (men) call the wife of our tunggane's son
(wife of our tulang na poso) or the wife of our
tulang's grandson (nantulang na poso)
9. Bere. What we (men) call the children of our siblings
(iboto)
What we (women) call the children of our
husband's siblings (eda)
Calling everyone who is related to us by uncle/in-
law
What we (women) call the children of our
husband's sisters
We call our brother and sister of our son-in-law
(brother and sister of our hela)
10. Maen or Parumaen. Our (male) call to the daughter of our tunggane
Our (female) call to the daughter of our ito
Our call to our daughter-in-law (wife of our son)
11. Hela. What we call our son-in-law (the husband of our
boru)
When calling our hela, it is usually referred to as
"amang" or "amang hela"
A hela (son-in-law) when he is still dating our boru
(not yet officially the husband of our boru), then
we call him our "bere"
12. Boru. What parents call their daughters.
Call to bere’s wife.
13. Simatua. What we call our in-laws
For male in-laws it is called "amang" or simatua
doli or simatua baoa
For female in-laws it is called "inang" or simatua
boru
14. Lae. Special call men to men
What we (men) call the son of a namboru
Our (men) call to the husband of a sister
Also used as a nickname for tunggane
15. Tunggane. Specifically, men to men
What we (men) call the brother of our wife
What we (men) call the sons of our uncle
16. Eda. Especially women to women
What we (women) call the daughters of our uncle
We (women) call the wives of our male relatives
Calling fellow women who are the same age but
different clans/boru (clan is a term for men, boru is
a term for women)
17. Amangboru. We call the husband of our father's sister
Our call to the husband of a woman who is a
descendant of our surname in the same order as
our father
We call the husband of our namboru
18. Namboru (bou). What we call our father's sister
Our call to women who are descendants of our
surname in the same order as our father
What we call the wife of our amangboru
19. Amang (Na)poso, Bapa What we (women) call our brother's nephew or our
(Na)poso, Apa (Na)poso. ito's son
We (women) call men who call us "namboru"
We (women) call all men whose clan is the same
as ours but whose order of descent is below us (at
the level of our children)
This nickname in some regions is also called
Paraman.
20. Inang (Na)poso. What we (women) call the wife of our amang na
poso
What we (women) call our brother's daughter-in-
law
21. Iboto or Ito (Only for calls Our call as men to our sisters (women),
between members of the What we as women call our male siblings
opposite sex) Common nicknames for people to the opposite sex
in Batak toba culture
What we (men) call women who are of the same
family and age as us
What we (women) call men who are of the same
family and age as us
Our call (men) to the sister or ito of our father's
ompung/father (ito mangulahi-ito repeats upwards)
What we (old people or grandmothers) call the
grandchildren of our brothers or ito (ito
mangulahi-ito repeats downwards)
22. Pariban. Male to male, if both marry women from the same
clan
Male to female, if the woman is from the same
clan as the mother's clan
Female to male, if the male was born to a woman
of the same clan as him (namboru)
Female to female, who belongs to the same clan
23. Inang. Our call to women who are older than us or to
those (women) who are reaped
A general call to honor all women
Common call to daughters-in-law (inang-
parumaen)
24. Amang. Our call to men who are older than us or to those
(men) who are reaped
A common call to honor men
Common call to sons-in-law (amang-hela)
25. Inangbao. What we (men) call the wife of our wife's brother
Our (men) call the wife of our tunggane
What we (men) call the wife of our in-laws
26. Amangbao. What we (women) call the husband of our
husband's sister
What we (women) call the husband of our eda
What we (women) call the husband of our brother-
in-law
27. Ompu or Ompung (pronounced: In particular, it refers to the parents of the father
Oppu or Oppung). and mother. In general, it refers to any parent
whose age is equal to that of the father/mother
There are two gendered ompung, ompung doli and
ompung boru. Doli refers to the male gender and
boru refers to the female gender
28. Pahompu or hompu. In practice, no one calls pahompu, usually using
the nickname Amang, Inang, Anaha, or the
person's name
Pahompu is any descendant of a son or daughter
