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English
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 )
Bengali: দাদা (bn) ( dada ) , অগ্রজ (bn) ( ogroj )
Bikol Central: manoy (bcl)
Burmese: အကို ( a.kui ) , နောင် (my) ( naung ) ( of a male ) , အစ်ကို (my) ( ackui ) ( of a female )
Buryat: аха ( axa )
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 ( 1 ku-ku) , 阿哥 ( 7 aq-ku)
Comanche: pabi
Dhivehi: ބޭބެ ( bēbe )
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 )
Khiamniungan Naga: têi
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 )
Kurdish:
Kyrgyz: байке (ky) ( bayke ) , ага (ky) ( aga )
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 )
Nanai: ага ( aga )
Navajo: ánaaí
Nivkh: ыкын ( əkən ) , ыкына ( əkəna )
Northern Amami Ōshima: 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)
Tuvan: акы ( akı )
Tày: cá , lùng , có , pi̱
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
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 )
Bengali: বড় ভাই ( boṛ bhai )
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 )