Father (honorific)

Father has been used as both title and honorific in various languages, synonyms and historical contexts. It may sometimes denote a title of authority or of honour.

By culture and/or language

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

Personifications

 * Father Time
 * Father Christmas
 * Ded Moroz ("Father Frost")

By religion

 * God the Father

Buddhism

 * Abbot (Buddhism) a title for a monk who holds the position of administrator of a Buddhist monastery or Buddhist temple

Christianity

 * Patriarch (Greek, literally "father ruler") 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 ("our father") in Syriac language
 * Abuna ("our father") in Amharic and Tigrinya