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English
Etymology
From step- + sister.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: step‧sis‧ter
Noun
stepsister (plural stepsisters)
- The daughter of one's stepparent by a previous relationship.
- The stepdaughter of one's parent which is not one's half-sister.
Synonyms
Hypernyms
Translations
daughter from the previous marriage of a stepparent
- Asturian: hermanastra (ast) f, hermanasca (ast) f
- Azerbaijani: bacılıq, ögey bacı
- Bengali: সৎবোন f (śôtbon)
- Bulgarian: дове́дена сестра́ f (dovédena sestrá), зава́рена сестра́ f (zavárena sestrá)
- Catalan: germanastra (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 繼姊妹 / 继姊妹 (jì zǐmèi)
- Danish: stedsøster (da) c
- Esperanto: vicfratino
- Finnish: siskopuoli, sisarpuoli
- French: quasi-sœur (fr), sorâtre (fr), sœurâtre (fr)
- German: Stiefschwester (de) f
- Greek: ετεροθαλής αδελφή f (eterothalís adelfí)
- Hindi: सौतेली बहन f (sautelī bahan)
- Hungarian: mostohatestvér (hu), mostohanővér
- Icelandic: stjúpsystir f
- Ido: stif-fratino
- Indonesian: kakak tiri (older), adik tiri (younger)
- Ingrian: sisarlentämä
- Irish: leasdeirfiúr f
- Italian: sorellastra (it) f
- Japanese: 義理の姉妹 (ぎりのしまい, giri no shimai), (please verify) まゝ姉妹 (まましまい, mamashimai)
- Kashmiri: وورٕ بیٚنہِ (vōrụ beni)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: زڕخوشک (ckb) (zirrxuşk)
- Latin: vitrici filia f (1), novercae filia f (2), comprivigna
- Macedonian: по́лусестра f (pólusestra)
- Malay: kakak tiri (older), adik tiri perempuan (younger)
- Maori: tuahine kē (of a male)
- Norman: d'mié-soeu f (Jersey), soeu empruntée f (Jersey)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: stesøster m or f
- Nynorsk: stesøster f, stesyster f
- Persian: خواهندر (xâhandar), ناخواهری (fa) (nâxâhari)
- Plautdietsch: Steefsesta f
- Polish: przybrana siostra f
- Portuguese: irmã de criação f
- Russian: сво́дная сестра́ (ru) f (svódnaja sestrá)
- Scottish Gaelic: leas-phiuthar f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: по̏лусестра f
- Roman: pȍlusestra (sh) f
- Slovak: nevlastná sestra f
- Slovene: polsestra f
- Spanish: hermanastra f
- Swahili: dada wa kambo
- Swedish: plastsyster c, styvsyster (sv) c, bonussyster, låtasassyster, extrasyster, bonussyrra, styvsyrra, plastsyrra, låtsassyrra, extrasyrra
- Volapük: jlublod, jilugem, lusör (vo)
- Yiddish: שטיפֿשוועסטער f (shtifshvester)
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stepdaughter of one's mother
stepdaughter of one's father
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