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English
Alternative forms
Noun
older sister (plural older sisters)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see older, sister. (This entry is a translation hub.)
- Coordinate terms: older brother, younger brother, younger sister
Derived terms
Translations
single-word translations
- Ainu: サポ (sapo)
- Assamese: বা (ba), বাই (bai), বাইদেউ (baideu) (polite)
- Baba Malay: taci
- Bengali: বুবু (bn) (bubu), আপা (bn) (apa), দিদি (bn) (didi)
- Bikol Central: manay (bcl)
- Bulgarian: ка́ка (bg) (káka)
- Burmese: အမ (my) (a.ma.), အစ်မ (my) (acma.)
- Central Dusun: taka
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 家姐 (gaa1 ze2-1), 姐姐 (ze2-4 ze2-1)
- Dungan: җеҗе (ži͡əži͡ə)
- Eastern Min: 依姐 (ĭ-*ciā)
- Hokkien: 大姊 (tōa-chí), 阿姊 (zh-min-nan) (a-chí)
- Mandarin: 姐姐 (zh) (jiějie), 姊姊 (zh) (zǐzǐ)
- Wu: 姐姐 (5cia-cia), 阿姐
- Chuvash: йӑмӑк (jămăk)
- Danish: storesøster (da) c
- Ewe: daa
- Greenlandic: aleqaq, aleqa
- Guaraní: eindy (of a male); ykéra, yke (of a female)
- Hachijō: あねい (anei), いんね (inne)
- Hindi: दीदी (hi) f (dīdī)
- Hungarian: nővér (hu), (archaic) néne (hu)
- Ilocano: manang
- Indonesian: kakak (id)
- Italian: tata (it) f
- Japanese: 姉 (ja) (あね, ane), お姉さん (ja) (おねえさん, onēsan) (honorific), 姉ちゃん (ねえちゃん, nēchan) (familiar)
- Javanese: mbak f
- Kannada: ಅಕ್ಕ (kn) (akka)
- Kapampangan: atsi, achi
- Korean: 누나 (ko) (nuna) (of a male), 언니 (ko) (eonni) (of a female)
- Kunigami: しじゃー (shijā)
- Kyrgyz: эже (ky) (eje)
- Lao: ເອື້ອຍ (ʼư̄a nya)
- Malay: kakak (ms)
- Malayalam: ചേച്ചി (ml) (cēcci)
- Maori: tuahine (of a male), tuakana (of a female)
- Mari:
- Eastern Mari: ака (aka)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: эгч (mn) (egč)
- Northern Amami-Oshima: せざ (seza)
- Okinawan: しーじゃ (shīja), しーじゃをぅない (shīja wunai) (of a male), 女子しーじゃ (ゐなぐしーじゃ, winagu shīja), うふあばー (ufu abā) (oldest sister; used by commoners), うふんみー (ufunmī) (oldest sister of a shizoku)
- Ottoman Turkish: اجی (eci)
- Pangasinan: atsing
- Punjabi:
- Shahmukhi: باجی f (bājī)
- Sinhalese: අක්කා (akkā)
- Sotho: ausi
- Spanish: ñaña (es) f (Ecuador, Chile)
- Sundanese: tétéh, raka f
- Tagalog: ate (tl)
- Tamil: அக்கா (ta) (akkā)
- Taos: tùtúna
- Tatar: апа (tt) (apa)
- Tày: á
- Telugu: అక్క (te) (akka)
- Tibetan: ཨ་ལྕག (a lcag), ཨ་ལྕགས (a lcags), ཨ་ཅག (a cag), ཨ་ལྕག་ལགས (a lcag lags) (honorific)
- Turkish: abla (tr)
- Urdu: آپا (ur) f (āpā), آپی f (āpī) (endearing), باجی f (bājī) (polite)
- Uyghur: ئاچا (ug) (acha), ھەدە (hede)
- Vietnamese: chị (vi)
- Yaeyama: しじゃ (shija)
- Yonaguni: すだ (suda)
- Yucatec Maya: kiik
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