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Alternative forms
Noun
older brother (plural older brothers)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see older, brother. (This entry is a translation hub.)
- Coordinate terms: older sister, younger brother, younger sister
Translations
single-word translations
- Acehnese: adun, bang
- Ainu: ユポ (yupo)
- Bashkir: ағай (ağay)
- Bikol Central: manoy (bcl)
- Burmese: အကို (a.kui), နောင် (my) (naung) (of a male), အစ်ကို (my) (ackui) (of a female)
- Cebuano: manoy
- Central Dusun: tabang
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 阿哥 (aa3 go1)
- Dungan: гәгә (gəgə)
- Eastern Min: 依哥 (ĭ-*gŏ̤), 哥 (gŏ̤), 阿哥 (ă-*gŏ̤)
- Hakka: 阿哥 (â-kô)
- Hokkien: 阿兄 (zh-min-nan) (a-hiaⁿ), 阿哥 (zh-min-nan) (a-ko)
- Mandarin: 哥哥 (zh) (gēge)
- Wu: 哥哥 (1ku-ku), 阿哥 (7aq-ku)
- Comanche: pabi
- Eastern Arrernte: kake
- Ewe: fo
- Fataluku: kaka
- Greenlandic: ani (of a female), angajoq
- Hachijō: あせい (asei)
- Hungarian: báty (hu), (archaic) bátya (hu)
- Ilocano: manong
- Indonesian: abang (id)
- Japanese: 兄 (ja) (あに, ani)
- Javanese: kangmas
- Kapampangan: koya
- Kazakh: аға (kk) (ağa)
- Khmer: បោង (km) (baong), អគ្គជៈ (ʼakkĕəʼcĕəʼ), ជេដ្ឋា (km) (ceitthaa) (of a royal)
- Korean: 형(兄) (ko) (hyeong) (of a male), 오빠 (ko) (oppa) (of a female)
- Kumyk: агъа (ağa)
- Kunigami: しじゃー (shijā)
- Kyrgyz: байке (ky) (bayke)
- Lao: ອ້າຍ (ʼāi)
- Malay: abang (ms)
- Malayalam: ചേട്ടൻ (ml) (cēṭṭaṉ)
- Manchu: ᠠᡤᡝ (age), ᠠᡥᡡᠨ (ahūn)
- Mari:
- Eastern Mari: иза (iza)
- Western Mari: ӹзӓ (ÿzä)
- Miyako: すざ (suza)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: ах (mn) (ax)
- Navajo: ánaaí
- Nivkh: ыкын (əkən), ыкына (əkəna)
- Northern Amami-Oshima: せざ (seza)
- Ohlone:
- Northern Ohlone: ták̄a
- Okinawan: しーじゃ (shīja)
- Pangasinan: kuyang
- Sinhalese: අය්යා (ayyā)
- Sotho: aubuti
- Southern Thai: พี่บ่าว
- Spanish: tato m (colloquial), ñaño (es) m (Ecuador, Chile)
- Sundanese: raka, aa (su), akang (su)
- Tagalog: kuya (tl)
- Tamil: அண்ணா (ta) (aṇṇā)
- Tatar: абый (tt) (abıy)
- Thai: พี่ (th) (pîi)
- Tibetan: ཕུ་བོ (phu bo), ཇོ་ཇོ (jo jo), ཅོ་ཅོག (co cog), ཇོ་ལགས (jo lags) (honorific), གཅེན་པོ (gcen po) (literary)
- Turkish: abi (tr), ağabey (tr)
- Uyghur: ئاكا (ug) (aka)
- Uzbek: aka (uz)
- Vietnamese: anh (vi) (偀)
- Wiradjuri: gaagang, gágang
- Yaeyama: しじゃ (shija)
- Yonaguni: すだ (suda)
- Yucatec Maya: sukuʼun
- Zhuang: beix
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multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
- Ahom: 𑜆𑜣 𑜋𑜩 (pi chai)
- Arabic: اَلْأَخ اَلْأَكْبَر m (al-ʔaḵ al-ʔakbar)
- Azerbaijani: böyük qardaş
- Belarusian: старэ́йшы брат m (staréjšy brat), ста́ршы брат m (stáršy brat)
- Catalan: germà gran m
- Czech: starší bratr m
- Danish: storebror (da) c, storebroder (da) c
- Finnish: isoveli (fi)
- French: frère aîné m, grand frère m
- German: großer Bruder m
- Irish: deartháir mór m
- Italian: fratello maggiore
- Japanese: お兄さん (ja) (おにいさん, onīsan) (honorific), 兄ちゃん (にいちゃん, niichan) (familiar), 兄 (ja) (ani)
- Khmer: បងប្រុស (bɑɑng proh)
- Korean: 형님 (ko) (hyeongnim) (of a male)
- Kumyk: уллу эр къардаш (ullu er qardaş)
- Lithuanian: vyresnis broils m
- Macedonian: постар брат m (postar brat)
- Norwegian: storebror m
- Okinawan: やっちー (yatchī) (of a shizoku), 男しーじゃ (ゐきがしーじゃ, wikiga shīja), うふあふぃー (ufu afī) (oldest brother of a commoner), うふっちー (ufutchī) (oldest brother of a shizoku), やっちーぐゎー (yatchīgwā) (youngest older brother of a shizoku), しーじゃゐきー (shīja wikī), うみしーじゃ (umi shīja) (used by nobles to address their older brother)
- Polish: starszy brat m
- Portuguese: irmão mais velho m
- Romani: phureder phral m
- Russian: ста́рший брат m (stáršij brat)
- Slovak: starší brat m
- Spanish: hermano mayor m
- Swedish: storebror (sv) c
- Telugu: అగ్రజుడు (te) (agrajuḍu)
- Thai: พี่ชาย (th) (pîi-chaai)
- Ukrainian: ста́рший брат m (stáršyj brat), старі́ший брат m (staríšyj brat)
- Vietnamese: anh trai (vi) (偀𤳇)
- Welsh: brawd mawr m
- Yonaguni: すなてぃ (sunati)
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