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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)