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elder_brother

elder brother

English

Noun

elder brother ‎(plural elder brothers)

Used other than as an idiom: see elder,‎ brother. (This entry is here for translation purposes only.)

Translations

a sibling's older brother

Arabic: اَلْأَخ اَلْأَكْبَر m ‎(al-ʾaḵ al-ʾakbar)
Bashkir: ағай ‎(ağay)
Burmese: အကို ‎(a.kui)
Chinese:

Cantonese: 阿哥 ‎(aa³ go¹)

Mandarin: 哥哥 (zh) ‎(gēge)

Min Nan: 阿兄 (zh-min-nan) ‎(a-hiaⁿ)

Wu: 哥哥 ‎(ku ku), 阿哥 ‎(aq ku)
Danish: storebror (da) c, storebroder (da) c
Finnish: isoveli (fi)
French: frère aîné m, grand frère m
German: großer Bruder m
Hungarian: bátya, báty (hu)
Italian: fratello maggiore
Japanese: 兄 (ja) ‎(あに, ani), お兄さん ‎(おにいさん, onīsan) (honorific)
Khmer: បងប្រុស ‎(borng bproh)
Korean: 형 (ko) ‎(hyeong), 형님 (ko) ‎(hyeongnim) (of a male), 오빠 (ko) ‎(oppa) (of a female)

Lao: ອ້າຍ ‎('āi)
Lithuanian: vyresnis broils m
Mongolian: ах (mn) ‎(ah)
Nivkh: ыкын ‎(ykyn), ыкына ‎(ykyna)
Norwegian: storebror m
Polish: starszy brat m
Portuguese: irmão mais velho m
Russian: ста́рший брат m ‎(stáršij brat)
Sinhalese: අය්‍යා ‎(ay‍yā)
Sotho: aubuti
Spanish: hermano mayor m
Swedish: storebror (sv) c
Tagalog: kuya (tl)
Telugu: అగ్రజుడు (te) ‎(agrajuḍu)
Thai: พี่ (th) ‎(pêe), พี่ชาย ‎(pêe chaai)
Turkish: ağabey (tr), abi (tr)
Vietnamese: anh (vi), anh trai (vi)
Wiradhuri: gaagang, gágang

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