suster

suster (plural susters)

1. (African-American Vernacular) Pronunciation spelling of sister.
   • 2014 March, Udine C Fontenot Powel, Is This Time Forever?‎, page 247:

     Tigger turns to me and says “Mommy, that was my brudder and suster!”

• sustah

• estrus, Tusser, russet, surest, Suters, tusser, struse

From Dutch zuster, from Middle Dutch suster, from Old Dutch swester, from Proto-Germanic *swestēr, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.

• IPA^(key): /sœstər/

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suster (plural susters)

1. sister

   Synonym: sus

• broer

• sus

From Dutch zuster (“sister, nun, nurse”), from Middle Dutch suster, from Old Dutch swester, from Proto-Germanic *swestēr, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈsustər/
• Rhymes: -ustər
• Syllabification: sus‧ter

sustêr (plural suster-suster or para suster)

1. nun

   Synonym: biarawati

2. (colloquial) nurse (female)

   Synonyms: juru rawat, ners, perawat

• “suster” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Old Dutch swester, from Proto-Germanic *swestēr, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.

suster f

1. sister
2. sister, nun

• Dutch: zuster
  • Afrikaans: suster
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: sosro, sosoro
  • Skepi Creole Dutch: soster
  • → Caribbean Hindustani: sester
  • → Caribbean Javanese: soster, sester
  • → Indonesian: suster
  • → Saramaccan: soosútu
• Limburgish: zöster

• “suster”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “suster (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

• cyster, cystyr, scyster, sister, sistir, soster, souster, sustir, syster, systir, systyr
• swuster (Early Middle English)
• sussterr (Ormulum)
• zoster (Kent)

From Old English sweostor, swustor, sweoster, in turn from Proto-West Germanic *swester, from Proto-Germanic *swestēr, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr. Some forms are influenced by Old Norse systir.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsustər/, /ˈsistər/
• (Early Middle English) IPA^(key): /ˈswustər/
• (Southern) IPA^(key): /ˈzustər/, /ˈzistər/

suster (plural sustren or sustres or (rare) suster, genitive sustres or suster)

1. A sister or step-sister; a female sibling.
2. A (Christian) woman (i.e. as a "sister in life/Christ")
3. A nun, anchoress; a woman living a religious lifestyle.
   • c. 1225, “Introduction”, in Ancrene Ƿiſſe (MS. Corpus Christi 402)‎, Herefordshire, published c. 1235, folio 1, verso; republished at Cambridge: Parker Library on the Web, 2018 January:

     Ant ȝe mine leoue ſuſtren habbeð moni dei icrauet on me efter riƿle

     And you, my beloved sisters, have asked me for a rule many times.

4. (nautical) A catch to secure cords at sea.

• susterhede
• suster-in-lawe

• English: sister
  • → Gulf Arabic: سِسْتَر (sistar, “female nurse”)
  • → Japanese: シスター (shisutā)
  • → Korean: 시스터 (siseuteo)
• Scots: sister, syster
• Yola: zister

• “suster, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 February 2019.

Altered from Old Galician-Portuguese sostẽer, from Latin sustinēre (“to sustain”).

• Hyphenation: sus‧ter

suster (first-person singular present sustenho, first-person singular preterite sustive, past participle sustido)

1. to support (to keep from falling)

   Synonyms: apoiar, suportar, sustentar

2. to sustain (to provide for or nourish something)

   Synonyms: alimentar, nutrir, tratar

3. to detain (to keep (someone) from proceeding)

   Synonyms: conter, deter, parar

4. to contain; to enclose

   Synonym: restringir

From Old Frisian swester, from Proto-Germanic *swestēr, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.

suster c (plural susters, diminutive susterke)

1. sister

   Coordinate term: broer

• “suster”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011