older brother

English

Alternative forms

• elder brother

Noun

older brother (plural older brothers)

1. 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 (1ku-ku), 阿哥 (7aq-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) 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: Northern Kurdish: kek (ku) 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)