Standard Lemma guide

brother

intj · noun · verb · 18 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈbɹʌðə/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • US: /ˈbɹʌðɚ/
  • General-American: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈbɹɐðə/
  • Northern-England: /ˈbɹʊðə/
  • /bɹʊˈðɜː/ Bradford South Asian
  • Ireland: /ˈbɹʊðəɹ/
  • /ˈbɹʊdəɹ/ Dublin
  • /ˈbɹʊdɐ/ Dublin
  • Canada, Northern-Ireland, Scotland: /ˈbɹʌðəɹ/
  • /ˈbɹʌvə(ɹ)/ th-fronting
  • rhymes with -ʌðə(ɹ)
  • CMU ARPABET: B R AH1 DH ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

intj

Meaning 1

Expressing exasperation.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • We're being forced to work overtime? Oh, brother!

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

Son of the same parents as another person.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A male having at least one parent in common with another person (see half-brother, stepbrother).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

A male fellow member of a religious community, church, trades union etc.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • Thank you, brother.
  • I would like to thank the brother who just spoke.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

A form of address to a man.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: informal

Examples

  • Brother, can you spare a dime?
  • Listen, brother, I don't know what you want, but I’m not interested.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

A fellow black man.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Qualifier: African-American Vernacular

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

Somebody, usually male, connected by a common cause, situation, or affection.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

Someone who is a peer, whether male or female.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

noun

Meaning 9

Someone who is a kinsman or shares the same patriarch.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: poetic

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

noun

Meaning 10

Title of respect for an adult male member of a religious or fraternal order.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • At the monastery, Brother Stephen supervises the kitchen.
  • Please welcome Brother Smith as he moves from his former congregation to his new congregation.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

11

noun

Meaning 11

Title of respect for an adult male member of a fraternal/sororal organization, or comrade in a movement, or even a stranger using fictive kin.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

noun

Meaning 12

A title used to personify or respectfully refer to concepts or animals.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • The Native American had a kinship with nature, even referring to Mother Earth and Brother Bear.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

13

verb

Meaning 13

To treat as a brother.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

14

noun

Meaning 14

a male with the same parents as someone else

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • my brother still lives with our parents

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: blood brother

Antonyms: sister

Broader terms: male sibling

Narrower terms: big brother, little brother, stepbrother, half-brother, half brother

15

noun

Meaning 15

(Roman Catholic Church) a title given to a monk and used as form of address

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • a Benedictine Brother

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: monk, monastic

16

noun

Meaning 16

a male person who is a fellow member (of a fraternity or religion or other group)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • none of his brothers would betray him

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: member, fellow member

Narrower terms: Freemason, Mason

17

noun

Meaning 17

used as a term of address for those male persons engaged in the same movement

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • Greetings, comrade!

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: comrade

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: friend

18

noun

Meaning 18

a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: buddy, chum, crony, pal, sidekick

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: friend

Narrower terms: cobber

History

Etymology

PIE word *bhréh2tēr Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bhréh2tēr Proto-Germanic *brōþēr Proto-West Germanic *brōþer Old English brōþor Middle English brother English brother Inherited from Middle English broder, brodir, brother, brothir, broþer, broðer, from Old English brōþor, brōþur, brōðer, brōður, from Proto-West Germanic *brōþer, from Proto-Germanic *brōþēr (“brother”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhréh2tēr (“brother”). Doublet of bhai, bru, frater, friar, pal, and vai. Cognates Cognate with Scots breeder, bridder, brither, broder, brother, bruther (“brother”), Yola brover, brower (“brother”), North Frisian brouder, bruler, Bröđer (“brother”), Saterland Frisian Brour, Brúur (“brother”), West Frisian broer (“brother”), Alemannic German briöder, bruder, brueder, bröder, Brüeder, Brüädär (“brother”), Bavarian pruadar, prueder, pruider (“brother”), Central Franconian Broder (“brother”), Cimbrian pruadar, pruudar (“brother”), Dutch broeder, broer (“brother”), German Bruder (“brother”), German Low German Broor (“brother”), Limburgish broor, Broër (“brother”), Luxembourgish Brudder (“brother; monk”), Mòcheno pruader (“brother”), Vilamovian brüder (“brother”), Yiddish ברודער (bruder, “brother”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish broder, bror (“brother”), Elfdalian bruoðer (“brother”), Faroese and Icelandic bróðir (“brother”), Crimean Gothic bruder (“brother”), Gothic 𐌱𐍂𐍉𐌸𐌰𐍂 (brōþar, “brother”); also Breton breur (“brother”), Cornish broder (“brother”), Irish bráthair (“brother”), Manx braar (“brother; friar, monk”), Scottish Gaelic bràthair (“brother”), Welsh brawd (“brother”), Latin frāter (“brother; sibling”), Ancient Greek βρά (brá, “brother”), φρᾱ́τηρ (phrā́tēr, “brother, citizen, clansman, kinsman”), Phrygian βρατερε (bratere, “brother”), Lydian 𐤡𐤭𐤠𐤱𐤭𐤳𐤦𐤳 (prafršiš, “brother”), Latgalian bruoļs (“brother”), Latvian brālis (“brother”), Lithuanian brólis (“brother”), Old Prussian brāti, brote (“brother”), Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, and Ukrainian брат (brat, “brother”), Czech bratr (“brother”), Polish, Slovak, and Slovene brat (“brother”), Serbo-Croatian бра̏т, brȁt (“brother; buddy, mate”), Armenian ապեր (aper), ախպար (axpar), ախպեր (axper), եղբայր (eġbayr, “brother; buddy”), Baluchi برات (barát, “brother”), Central Kurdish and Southern Kurdish برا (bra, “brother”), Northern Kurdish bira (“as a brother”), Ossetian ӕрвад (ærvad), ӕрвадӕ (ærvadæ, “brother”), Pashto ورور (wror, “brother”), Persian برادر (barādar, birādar / barâdar), برار (birār / berâr), وردار (vardâr, “brother; comrade; dude”), Ashkun břa (“younger brother”), Kamkata-viri břo (“brother”), Tregami brā (“brother”), Waigali brā, břā (“brother”), Tocharian A pracar (“brother”), Tocharian B procer (“brother”), Sanskrit भ्रातृ (bhrātṛ, “brother; friend”).

Across languages

Translations

724 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Aari: isimanna — male sibling
  • Abkhaz: аиашьа (ajaša) — male sibling
  • Acehnese: aduen — male sibling
  • Afar: saqal — male sibling
  • Afrikaans: broer — male sibling
  • Afrikaans: boetie — male sibling
  • Aghwan: 𐕛𐔼𐕖𐔼 (viči) — male sibling
  • Ainu: ユポ (yupo) — male sibling
  • Akkadian: 𒋀 (aḫu) — male sibling
  • Albanian: vëlla — male sibling
  • Southern Altai: ини (ini) — male sibling
  • Southern Altai: ака (aka) — male sibling
  • Southern Altai: ага (aga) — male sibling
  • Southern Altai: карындаш (karïndaš) — male sibling
  • Amharic: ወንድም (wändəm) — male sibling
  • Andi: воцци (vocci) — male sibling
  • Angor: ranihı — male sibling
  • Western Apache: bikʼisn — male sibling
  • Arabic: أَخ (ʔaḵ) — male sibling
  • Arabic: شَقِيق (šaqīq) — male sibling
  • Arabic: إخوات (ʔixwāt) — male sibling
  • Arabic: أخ (ʔaḵḵ) — male sibling
  • Arabic: أخو (ʔuḵu) — male sibling
  • Arabic: أخ (ʔaḵḵ) — male sibling
  • Arabic: خي (ḵayy) — male sibling
  • Arabic: أخو (ʔaḵu) — male sibling
  • Arabic: أخ (ʔaḵḵ) — male sibling
  • Aragonese: chirmán — male sibling
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܲܚܵܐ (āḳa) — male sibling
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܲܚܘܿܢܵܐ (āḳona) — male sibling
  • Aramaic: ܐܚܐ (ʾăḥā) — male sibling
  • Aramaic: אַחָא (ʾaḥā) — male sibling
  • Turoyo: ܐܰܚܘܢܳܐ (aḥuno) — male sibling
  • Archi: у́шду (úšdu) — male sibling
  • Argobba: እህ (ǝh) — male sibling
  • Armenian: եղբայր (eġbayr) — male sibling
  • Armenian: ախպեր (axper) — male sibling
  • Old Armenian: եղբայր (ełbayr) — male sibling
  • Aromanian: frati (roa-rup) — male sibling
  • Aromanian: frate (roa-rup) — male sibling
  • Assamese: ভাই (bhai) — male sibling
  • Asturian: hermanu — male sibling
  • Avar: вац (wac) — male sibling
  • Aymara: jilata — male sibling
  • Aymara: jila — male sibling
  • Azerbaijani: qardaş — male sibling
  • Bactrian: βραδο (brado) — male sibling
  • Bakhtiari: گگه (gage) — male sibling
  • Balinese: nyama muani — male sibling
  • Baluchi: برات (barát) — male sibling
  • Bashkir: ағай (ağay) — male sibling
  • Bashkir: ҡусты (qustı) — male sibling
  • Bashkir: эне (ene) — male sibling
  • Bashkir: мырҙа (mırźa) — male sibling
  • Basque: anaia — male sibling
  • Basque: neba — male sibling
  • Belarusian: брат (brat) — male sibling
  • Bengali: ভাই (bhai) — male sibling
  • Bengali: ভ্রাতা (bhrata) — male sibling
  • Bengali: বেরাদর (berador) — male sibling
  • Bhojpuri: भाई (bhāī) — male sibling
  • Big Nambas: titiatah — male sibling
  • Big Nambas: titiamu — male sibling
  • Central Bikol: tugang na lalaki — male sibling
  • Bislama: brata — male sibling
  • Breton: breur — male sibling
  • Breton: breudeur — male sibling
  • Bulgarian: брат (brat) — male sibling
  • Burmese: အကို (a.kui) — male sibling
  • Burmese: ညီ (nyi) — male sibling
  • Burmese: မောင် (maung) — male sibling
  • Buryat: аха (axa) — male sibling
  • Buryat: дуу (duu) — male sibling
  • Carpathian Rusyn: брат (brat) — male sibling
  • Catalan: germà — male sibling
  • Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴳⵎⴰ (gma) — male sibling
  • Chechen: ваша (vaša) — male sibling
  • Cherokee: ᎤᏙ (udo) — male sibling
  • Cherokee: ᏗᎾᏓᏅᏟ (dinadanvtli) — male sibling
  • Chinese Cantonese: 哥哥 (elder) — male sibling
  • Chinese Cantonese: 弟弟 (younger) — male sibling
  • Chinese Cantonese: 兄弟 (hing1 dai6) — male sibling
  • Chinese Cantonese: 大佬 (daai6 lou2) — male sibling
  • Chinese Cantonese: 細佬 /细佬 (sai3 lou2) — male sibling
  • Chinese Cantonese: 阿哥 (aa3 go1) — male sibling
  • Chinese: гәгә (gəgə) — male sibling
  • Chinese: щүнди (xündi) — male sibling
  • Chinese: 阿兄 (a-hian) — male sibling
  • Chinese: 小弟 (sió-tī) — male sibling
  • Chinese: 兄弟 (hian-tī) — male sibling
  • Chinese: 哥哥 (ko--koh, ko-ko) — male sibling
  • Chinese: 兄哥 (hian-ko) — male sibling
  • Chinese: 大兄 (tōa-hian) — male sibling
  • Chinese: 大哥 (tōa-ko) — male sibling
  • Chinese Mandarin: 哥哥 (gēge) — male sibling
  • Chinese Mandarin: 弟弟 (dìdi) — male sibling
  • Chinese Mandarin: 兄弟 (xiōngdì) — male sibling
  • Teochew: 阿兄 (a1 hian1) — male sibling
  • Teochew: 阿弟 — male sibling
  • Chinook Jargon: ow — male sibling
  • Chinook Jargon: kahpo — male sibling
  • Chuvash: ар тӑван (ar t̬ăvan) — male sibling
  • West Circassian: шы (šə) — male sibling
  • Comanche: tami — male sibling
  • Comanche: pabi — male sibling
  • Coptic: ⲥⲟⲛ (son) — male sibling
  • Corsican: fratellu — male sibling
  • Corsican: frateddu — male sibling
  • Crimean Tatar: ağa — male sibling
  • Crimean Tatar: qardaş — male sibling
  • Crimean Tatar: kadâ — male sibling
  • Czech: bratr — male sibling
  • Czech: brácha — male sibling
  • Czech: brat — male sibling
  • Czech: brater — male sibling
  • Old Czech: brach — male sibling
  • Dalmatian: frutro — male sibling
  • Danish: broder — male sibling
  • Danish: bror — male sibling
  • Dhivehi: ކޮއްކޮ (kokko) — male sibling
  • Dhivehi: ބޭބެ (bēbe) — male sibling
  • Dolgan: убай — male sibling
  • Dolgan: бий — male sibling
  • Dutch: broer — male sibling
  • Dutch: broeder — male sibling
  • Dzongkha: བུ་སྤུན — male sibling
  • Dzongkha: ཕོ་རྒནམ (pho rganm) — male sibling
  • Dzongkha: ནུ་གཅུང (nu gcung) — male sibling
  • Egyptian: sn-n:A1 (sn) — male sibling
  • Elfdalian: bruor — male sibling
  • Erzya: леля (leľa) — male sibling
  • Erzya: ялакс (jalaks) — male sibling
  • Esperanto: frato — male sibling
  • Estonian: vend — male sibling
  • Estonian: veli — male sibling
  • Even: акан (akan) — male sibling
  • Even: нө (nö) — male sibling
  • Evenki: акин (akin) — male sibling
  • Evenki: нэкун (nəkun) — male sibling
  • Ewe: nɔviŋutsu — male sibling
  • Ewe: fo — male sibling
  • Ewe: tsɛ — male sibling
  • Faroese: bróðir — male sibling
  • Faroese: beiggi — male sibling
  • Fataluku: kaka — male sibling
  • Fataluku: noko — male sibling
  • Finnish: veli — male sibling
  • French: frère — male sibling
  • North Frisian: brouder — male sibling
  • North Frisian: bruler — male sibling
  • North Frisian: Bröđer — male sibling
  • West-Frisian: broer — male sibling
  • Friulian: fradi — male sibling
  • Gagauz: kardaş — male sibling
  • Gagauz: aga — male sibling
  • Galician: irmán — male sibling
  • Ge'ez: እኅው (ʾəḫw) — male sibling
  • Georgian: ძმა (ʒma) — male sibling
  • German: Bruder — male sibling
  • German: Brüeder — male sibling
  • Bavarian German: bruada — male sibling
  • Gooniyandi: marna — male sibling
  • Greek: αδελφός (adelfós) — male sibling
  • Greek: αδερφός (aderfós) — male sibling
  • Ancient Greek: ἀδελφός (adelphós) — male sibling
  • Ancient Greek: κάσις (kásis) — male sibling
  • Cypriot Greek: αρφός (arfós) — male sibling
  • Greenlandic: qatanngut angut — male sibling
  • Greenlandic: angaju — male sibling
  • Greenlandic: nuka — male sibling
  • Greenlandic: ani — male sibling
  • Greenlandic: aqqaluk — male sibling
  • Gujarati: ભાઈ (bhāī) — male sibling
  • Gujarati: માજાયો (mājāyo) — male sibling
  • Gujarati: બંધુ (bandhu) — male sibling
  • Gujarati: સહોદર (sahodar) — male sibling
  • Haitian Creole: frè — male sibling
  • Hausa: ɗanuwa — male sibling
  • Hawaiian: kaikuaʻana — male sibling
  • Hebrew: אָח (akh) — male sibling
  • Higaonon: sulud ma-ama — male sibling
  • Hindi: भाई (bhāī) — male sibling
  • Hindi: भ्राता (bhrātā) — male sibling
  • Hindi: सहोदर (sahodar) — male sibling
  • Hindi: दादा (dādā) — male sibling
  • Hindi: भाऊ (bhāū) — male sibling
  • Hindi: वीर (vīr) — male sibling
  • Hindi: बंधु (bandhu) — male sibling
  • Hindi: भैया (bhaiyā) — male sibling
  • Hindi: भ्रातृ (bhrātŕ) — male sibling
  • Hittite: 𒋀𒀸 (ŠEŠ-aš) — male sibling
  • White Hmong: kwv — male sibling
  • White Hmong: tij — male sibling
  • White Hmong: kwv tij — male sibling
  • White Hmong: tij laug — male sibling
  • White Hmong: nus — male sibling
  • Hungarian: fivér — male sibling
  • Hungarian: fiútestvér — male sibling
  • Hungarian: bátya — male sibling
  • Hungarian: öcs — male sibling
  • Icelandic: bróðir — male sibling
  • Icelandic: brói — male sibling
  • Ido: fratulo — male sibling
  • Igbo: nwanne nwoke — male sibling
  • Ilocano: kabsat a lalaki — male sibling
  • Ilocano: kabagis — male sibling
  • Ilocano: manong — male sibling
  • Ilocano: ading a lalaki — male sibling
  • Indonesian: saudara — male sibling
  • Indonesian: kakak laki-laki — male sibling
  • Indonesian: abang — male sibling
  • Indonesian: adik laki-laki — male sibling
  • Ingrian: veljä — male sibling
  • Ingrian: veli — male sibling
  • Ingrian: vello — male sibling
  • Ingrian: velvyt — male sibling
  • Ingrian: veikko — male sibling
  • Ingrian: velipoika — male sibling
  • Ingush: воша (voša) — male sibling
  • Interlingua: fratre — male sibling
  • Irish: deartháir — male sibling
  • Istriot: fra — male sibling
  • Istro-Romanian: fråte — male sibling
  • Italian: fratello — male sibling
  • Jamaican Creole: broda — male sibling
  • Jamaican Creole: breda — male sibling
  • Japanese: 兄弟 (kyōdai) — male sibling
  • Japanese: 兄 (ani) — male sibling
  • Japanese: お兄さん (oniisan) — male sibling
  • Japanese: 兄ちゃん (nīchan) — male sibling
  • Japanese: 弟 (otōto) — male sibling
  • Japanese: ブラザー (burazā) — male sibling
  • Javanese: kangmas — male sibling
  • Javanese: dimas — male sibling
  • Old Javanese: ari — male sibling
  • Kabuverdianu: irmon — male sibling
  • Kabuverdianu: armun — male sibling
  • Kaitag: уцци́ (uccí) — male sibling
  • Kalmyk: дү (dü) — male sibling
  • Kannada: ಅಣ್ಣ (aṇṇa) — male sibling
  • Kannada: ತಮ್ಮ (tamma) — male sibling
  • Kannada: ಸಹೋದರ (sahōdara) — male sibling
  • Karachay-Balkar: къарнаш (qarnaş) — male sibling
  • Karachay-Balkar: къарындаш (qarındaş) — male sibling
  • Karelian: velli — male sibling
  • Kashmiri: بوے (bōy) — male sibling
  • Kashubian: brat — male sibling
  • Kazakh: аға (ağa) — male sibling
  • Kazakh: іні (ını) — male sibling
  • Khmer: បងប្រុស (bɑɑng proh) — male sibling
  • Khmer: ប្អូនប្រុស (pʼoun proh) — male sibling
  • Khmer: ភាតរ (phéatrô) — male sibling
  • Khmer: ភាតា (phiətaa) — male sibling
  • Khoekhoe: ǃgâsab — male sibling
  • Komi-Permyak: вон (von) — male sibling
  • Korean: 형제 (hyeongje) — male sibling
  • Korean: 형 (hyeong) — male sibling
  • Korean: 형님 (hyeongnim) — male sibling
  • Korean: 오빠 (oppa) — male sibling
  • Korean: 남동생 (namdongsaeng) — male sibling
  • Korean: 동생 (dongsaeng) — male sibling
  • Korean: 아우 (au) — male sibling
  • Korean: 브라더 (beuradeo) — male sibling
  • Korean: 오라버님 (orabeonim) — male sibling
  • Kumyk: къардаш (qardaş) — male sibling
  • Kumyk: эр къардаш (er qardaş) — male sibling
  • Central Kurdish: بِرا (bira) — male sibling
  • Laki: بِرا (bira) — male sibling
  • Northern Kurdish: bira — male sibling
  • Southern Kurdish: بِرا (bira) — male sibling
  • Kyrgyz: байке (bayke) — male sibling
  • Kyrgyz: ага (aga) — male sibling
  • Kyrgyz: ини (ini) — male sibling
  • Ladino: ermano — male sibling
  • Lak: уссу (us:u) — male sibling
  • Lao: ອ້າຍ (ʼāi) — male sibling
  • Lao: ນ້ອງຊາຍ (nǭng sāi) — male sibling
  • Latgalian: bruoļs — male sibling
  • Latin: frāter — male sibling
  • Latin: germānus — male sibling
  • Latvian: brālis — male sibling
  • Ligurian: fræ — male sibling
  • Lingala: ndeko — male sibling
  • Lithuanian: brolis — male sibling
  • Livonian: veļ — male sibling
  • Lombard: fradell — male sibling
  • Low German: Broder — male sibling
  • Low German: Brauder — male sibling
  • Low German: Broer — male sibling
  • Low German: Bruer — male sibling
  • Luganda: ow'oluganda — male sibling
  • Luhya: wandaywe© — male sibling
  • Luxembourgish: Brudder — male sibling
  • Lycian: 𐊏𐊚𐊏𐊆 (nẽni) — male sibling
  • Macedonian: брат (brat) — male sibling
  • Maguindanao: pagali — male sibling
  • Maguindanao: lusud sa tian — male sibling
  • Makasae: kaka — male sibling
  • Makasae: noko — male sibling
  • Malagasy: anadahy — male sibling
  • Malay: ابڠ (elder) — male sibling
  • Malay: اديق للاکي (younger) — male sibling
  • Malay: abang — male sibling
  • Malay: adik lelaki — male sibling
  • Malayalam: സഹോദരന് (sahōdaraṉ) — male sibling
  • Malayalam: ചേട്ടൻ (cēṭṭaṉ) — male sibling
  • Malayalam: അനിയന് (aniyaṉ) — male sibling
  • Malayalam: ഇക്ക (ikka) — male sibling
  • Maltese: ħu — male sibling
  • Manchu: ᠠᡥᡡᠨ (ahūn) — male sibling
  • Manchu: ᡩᡝᠣ (deo) — male sibling
  • Manx: braar — male sibling
  • Māori: tuakana — male sibling
  • Māori: teina — male sibling
  • Māori: tungāne — male sibling
  • Māori: taina — male sibling
  • Māori: hāmua — male sibling
  • Maranao: pagari — male sibling
  • Marathi: भाऊ (bhāū) — male sibling
  • Eastern Mari: иза (iza) — male sibling
  • Eastern Mari: шольо (šoĺo) — male sibling
  • Western Mari: ӹзӓ (ÿzä) — male sibling
  • Western Mari: шоля (šoĺa) — male sibling
  • Mauritian Creole: frer — male sibling
  • Mazanderani: برار (berâr) — male sibling
  • Mi'kmaq: nidap — male sibling
  • Minangkabau: uda — male sibling
  • Minangkabau: udo — male sibling
  • Minangkabau: ajo — male sibling
  • Minangkabau: ombak — male sibling
  • Minangkabau: uwan — male sibling
  • Minangkabau: uwen — male sibling
  • Minangkabau: adiak — male sibling
  • Mirandese: armano — male sibling
  • Mòcheno: pruader — male sibling
  • Moksha: альняка (alnäka) — male sibling
  • Moksha: пяльне (pälne) — male sibling
  • Mongolian: ах — male sibling
  • Mongolian: дүү (düü) — male sibling
  • Mongolian: ах дүү (ax düü) — male sibling
  • Nanai: ага (aga) — male sibling
  • Nanai: нэил (neil) — male sibling
  • Navajo: atsilí — male sibling
  • Navajo: ánaaí — male sibling
  • Neapolitan: frate — male sibling
  • Tundra Nenets: ня (nya) — male sibling
  • Nepali: दाजु (dāju) — male sibling
  • Nheengatu: mú — male sibling
  • Nheengatu: kiwira — male sibling
  • Nivkh: асӄ (asq) — male sibling
  • Nivkh: асӄа (asqa) — male sibling
  • Nivkh: ыкын (əkən) — male sibling
  • Nivkh: ыкына (əkəna) — male sibling
  • Nivkh: атик (ațik) — male sibling
  • Norwegian Bokmål: bror — male sibling
  • Norwegian Bokmål: broder — male sibling
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: bror — male sibling
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: broder — male sibling
  • Nuer: däman — male sibling
  • Nupe: yégi bagi — male sibling
  • Occitan: fraire — male sibling
  • Old Occitan: frayre — male sibling
  • Odia: ଭାଇ (bhāi) — male sibling
  • Northern Ohlone: ták̄a — male sibling
  • Northern Ohlone: táusíkís — male sibling
  • Northern Ohlone: ká̄nak tausík̄is — male sibling
  • Ojibwe: nishiime — male sibling
  • Ojibwe: nisayenh — male sibling
  • Ojibwe: niijikiwenh — male sibling
  • Okinawan: ゐきー (wikī) — male sibling
  • Church Slavic: братръ (bratrŭ) — male sibling
  • Church Slavic: ⰱⱃⰰⱅⱃⱏ (bratrŭ) — male sibling
  • Old East Slavic: братъ (bratŭ) — male sibling
  • Old English: brōþor — male sibling
  • Old Norse: bróðir — male sibling
  • Old Norse: barmi — male sibling
  • Old Prussian: brāti — male sibling
  • Old Saxon: brōthar — male sibling
  • Oromo: obboleessa — male sibling
  • Ossetian: ӕнсувӕр (ænsuvær) — male sibling
  • Ossetian: ӕрвадӕ (ærvadæ) — male sibling
  • Ossetian: ӕфсымӕр (æfsymær) — male sibling
  • Ossetian: ӕрвад (ærvad) — male sibling
  • Pali: bhātar — male sibling
  • Pannonian Rusyn: брат (brat) — male sibling
  • Pashto: ورور (wror) — male sibling
  • Pennsylvania German: Bruder — male sibling
  • Dari: بَرَادَر (barādar) — male sibling
  • Dari: لَالَا (lālā) — male sibling
  • Dari: اَخ (ax) — male sibling
  • Iranian Persian: بَرادَر (barâdar) — male sibling
  • Iranian Persian: داداش (dâdâš) — male sibling
  • Iranian Persian: اَخ (ax) — male sibling
  • Phoenician: 𐤀𐤇 (ʾḥ) — male sibling
  • Piedmontese: frèl — male sibling
  • Piedmontese: fradel — male sibling
  • Plautdietsch: Brooda (nds) — male sibling
  • Polabian: brot — male sibling
  • Polish: brat — male sibling
  • Polish: brachol — male sibling
  • Polish: braciszek — male sibling
  • Portuguese: irmão — male sibling
  • Punjabi: ਵੀਰ (vīr) — male sibling
  • Q'eqchi: as — male sibling
  • Quechua: turi — male sibling
  • Quechua: wawqi — male sibling
  • Rohingya: bai — male sibling
  • Romagnol: fradël — male sibling
  • Romani: phral — male sibling
  • Kalo Finnish Romani: phaal — male sibling
  • Romanian: frate — male sibling
  • Romansh: frar — male sibling
  • Russian: брат (brat) — male sibling
  • Russian: бра́тец (brátec) — male sibling
  • Russian: брати́шка (bratíška) — male sibling
  • Russian: брата́н (bratán) — male sibling
  • Saho: sacal — male sibling
  • Northern Sami: viellja — male sibling
  • Samoan: uso — male sibling
  • Sanskrit: भ्रातृ (bhrātṛ) — male sibling
  • Sardinian: fràde — male sibling
  • Scots: brither — male sibling
  • Scots: brar — male sibling
  • Scottish Gaelic: bràthair — male sibling
  • Serbo-Croatian: бра̏т — male sibling
  • Serbo-Croatian: brȁt — male sibling
  • Seri: aacaz — male sibling
  • Seychellois Creole: frer — male sibling
  • Sicilian: frati — male sibling
  • Sidamo: rodo — male sibling
  • Silesian: brat — male sibling
  • Sindhi: ڀاءُ (bhāu) — male sibling
  • Sinhalese: අය්යා (ayyā) — male sibling
  • Sinhalese: මල්ලි (malli) — male sibling
  • Slovak: brat — male sibling
  • Slovene: brat — male sibling
  • Slovincian: brat — male sibling
  • Somali: walaal — male sibling
  • Lower Sorbian: bratš — male sibling
  • Upper Sorbian: bratr — male sibling
  • Spanish: hermano — male sibling
  • Sranan Tongo: brada — male sibling
  • Sumerian: 𒋀 (ŠEŠ) — male sibling
  • Sundanese: akang — male sibling
  • Sundanese: aa — male sibling
  • Sundanese: raka — male sibling
  • Sundanese: rayi — male sibling
  • Sundanese: dédé — male sibling
  • Svan: მუხვბე (muxvbe) — male sibling
  • Svan: ჯჷმილ (ǯəmil) — male sibling
  • Swahili: ndugu — male sibling
  • Swahili: kaka — male sibling
  • Swedish: bror — male sibling
  • Swedish: broder — male sibling
  • Swedish: brorsa — male sibling
  • Tagalog: kapatid na lalaki — male sibling
  • Tagalog: kuya — male sibling
  • Tagalog: totoy — male sibling
  • Tagalog: diko — male sibling
  • Tagalog: sangko — male sibling
  • Tagalog: siko — male sibling
  • Tajik: бародар (barodar) — male sibling
  • Tajik: ах (ax) — male sibling
  • Talysh: بوه (bəva) — male sibling
  • Talysh: برا (bərâ) — male sibling
  • Tamil: சகோதரன் (cakōtaraṉ) — male sibling
  • Tamil: அண்ணன் (aṇṇaṉ) — male sibling
  • Tamil: தம்பி (tampi) — male sibling
  • Taos: pʼǫ́yna — male sibling
  • Taos: pòpóna — male sibling
  • Tarifit: uma — male sibling
  • Tat: birar — male sibling
  • Tatar: абый (abıy) — male sibling
  • Tatar: абзый (abzıy) — male sibling
  • Tatar: эне (ene) — male sibling
  • Tausug: magolang — male sibling
  • Tausug: manghūd — male sibling
  • Telugu: అన్న (anna) — male sibling
  • Telugu: తమ్ముడు (tammuḍu) — male sibling
  • Telugu: సోదరుడు (sōdaruḍu) — male sibling
  • Tetum: maun — male sibling
  • Thai: พี่ (pîi) — male sibling
  • Thai: พี่ชาย (pîi-chaai) — male sibling
  • Thai: น้อง (nɔ́ɔng) — male sibling
  • Thai: น้องชาย (nɔ́ɔng-chaai) — male sibling
  • Thai: ภราดร (pá-raa-dɔɔn) — male sibling
  • Thai: ภราดา (pá-raa-daa) — male sibling
  • Tibetan: ཇོ་ཇོ (jo jo) — male sibling
  • Tibetan: ཅོ་ཅོག (co cog) — male sibling
  • Tibetan: ཇོ་ལགས — male sibling
  • Tibetan: འོག་མ ('og ma) — male sibling
  • Tibetan: ནུ་བོ (nu bo) — male sibling
  • Tibetan: ཨོ་ལགས — male sibling
  • Tigrinya: ሓወ (ḥawä) — male sibling
  • Tocharian A: pracar — male sibling
  • Tocharian B: procer — male sibling
  • Tongan: tokoua — male sibling
  • Tongan: tuonga'ane — male sibling
  • Turkish: erkek kardeş — male sibling
  • Turkish: kardeş — male sibling
  • Turkish: birader — male sibling
  • Turkish: ağabey — male sibling
  • Turkish: abi — male sibling
  • Turkish: aga — male sibling
  • Old Anatolian Turkish: قردآش (qardaş) — male sibling
  • Old Anatolian Turkish: آغا (aġa) — male sibling
  • Ottoman Turkish: آغا (ağa) — male sibling
  • Ottoman Turkish: قارداش (kardaş) — male sibling
  • Turkmen: dogan — male sibling
  • Tuvan: акы (akı) — male sibling
  • Tuvan: дуңма (duñma) — male sibling
  • Udi: вичи (viči) — male sibling
  • Udmurt: брат (brat) — male sibling
  • Udmurt: агай (agaj) — male sibling
  • Udmurt: нюня (ńuńa) — male sibling
  • Udmurt: вын (vyn) — male sibling
  • Ugaritic: 𐎀𐎃 (ảḫ) — male sibling
  • Ukrainian: брат (brat) — male sibling
  • Urdu: بھائی (bhāī) — male sibling
  • Urdu: بْھراتا (bhrātā) — male sibling
  • Uyghur: ئاكا (aka) — male sibling
  • Uyghur: ئىنى (ini) — male sibling
  • Uzbek: aka — male sibling
  • Uzbek: uka — male sibling
  • Venetan: fradèlo — male sibling
  • Venetan: fradelo — male sibling
  • Venetan: fradel — male sibling
  • Venetan: german — male sibling
  • Veps: veik — male sibling
  • Vietnamese: anh or anh trai — male sibling
  • Vietnamese: em trai — male sibling
  • Vietnamese: em — male sibling
  • Vietnamese: anh em — male sibling
  • Volapük: blod — male sibling
  • Volapük: higem — male sibling
  • Võro: veli — male sibling
  • Votic: velli — male sibling
  • Walloon: fré — male sibling
  • Welsh: brawd — male sibling
  • Welsh: brodyr — male sibling
  • Wolaytta: ishaa — male sibling
  • Wolof: mag ju góor — male sibling
  • Wolof: ràkk ju góor — male sibling
  • Wolof: càmmiñ — male sibling
  • Xârâcùù: bé — male sibling
  • Xhosa: ubhuti — male sibling
  • Xhosa: umntase — male sibling
  • Xhosa: umnakwe — male sibling
  • Yaghnobi: буродар (burodar) — male sibling
  • Yaghnobi: ако (ako) — male sibling
  • Yaghnobi: вирот (virot) — male sibling
  • Yakut: убай (ubay) — male sibling
  • Yakut: бий (biy) — male sibling
  • Yakut: быраат (bïraat) — male sibling
  • Yakut: ини (ini) — male sibling
  • Yámana: waym — male sibling
  • Yiddish: ברודער (bruder) — male sibling
  • Yucatec Maya: íitsʼin — male sibling
  • Yucatec Maya: sukuʼun — male sibling
  • Yup'ik: anngaq — male sibling
  • Záparo: kwiñu — male sibling
  • Zazaki: bra (diq) — male sibling
  • Zhuang: beix — male sibling
  • Zhuang: nuengx — male sibling
  • Zhuang: beixneungx — male sibling
  • Zulu: ubhuti — male sibling
  • Afrikaans: broer — male having parents in common
  • Armenian: եղբայր (ełbayr) — male having parents in common
  • Armenian: ախպեր (axper) — male having parents in common
  • Asturian: hermanu — male having parents in common
  • Basque: anai — male having parents in common
  • Basque: neba — male having parents in common
  • Breton: breur — male having parents in common
  • Breton: breudeur — male having parents in common
  • Bulgarian: брат (brat) — male having parents in common
  • Catalan: germà — male having parents in common
  • Czech: bratr — male having parents in common
  • Danish: broder — male having parents in common
  • Danish: bror — male having parents in common
  • Dutch: broer — male having parents in common
  • Dutch: broeder — male having parents in common
  • Eastern Pomeranian: braurer (nds) — male having parents in common
  • Eshtehardi: برار (barār) — male having parents in common
  • Estonian: vend — male having parents in common
  • Ewe: nɔviŋutsu — male having parents in common
  • Ewe: fo — male having parents in common
  • Ewe: tsɛ — male having parents in common
  • Finnish: veli — male having parents in common
  • French: frère — male having parents in common
  • North Frisian: brouder — male having parents in common
  • Georgian: ძმა (ʒma) — male having parents in common
  • German: Bruder — male having parents in common
  • Greek: αδελφός (adelfós) — male having parents in common
  • Ancient Greek: ἀδελφός (adelphós) — male having parents in common
  • Hebrew: אח (akh) — male having parents in common
  • Hindi: सहोदर (sahodar) — male having parents in common
  • Hindi: बंधु (bandhu) — male having parents in common
  • Hindi: भाई (bhāī) — male having parents in common
  • Hindi: भ्राता (bhrātā) — male having parents in common
  • White Hmong: kwv — male having parents in common
  • White Hmong: tij — male having parents in common
  • White Hmong: kwv tij — male having parents in common
  • White Hmong: tij laug — male having parents in common
  • White Hmong: nus — male having parents in common
  • Hungarian: féltestvér — male having parents in common
  • Indonesian: saudara — male having parents in common
  • Interlingua: fratre — male having parents in common
  • Irish: deartháir — male having parents in common
  • Italian: fratello — male having parents in common
  • Japanese: 兄弟 (kyōdai) — male having parents in common
  • Kabuverdianu: irmon — male having parents in common
  • Ladino: ermano — male having parents in common
  • Latin: frater — male having parents in common
  • Latvian: brālis — male having parents in common
  • Lithuanian: brolis — male having parents in common
  • Luxembourgish: Brudder — male having parents in common
  • Macedonian: брат (brat) — male having parents in common
  • Malayalam: സഹോദരന് (sahōdaraṉ) — male having parents in common
  • Manx: braar — male having parents in common
  • Mirandese: armano — male having parents in common
  • Old English: brōþor — male having parents in common
  • Old Prussian: brāti — male having parents in common
  • Persian: برادر (barâdar) — male having parents in common
  • Polish: brat — male having parents in common
  • Portuguese: irmão — male having parents in common
  • Romanian: frate — male having parents in common
  • Russian: брат (brat) — male having parents in common
  • Scottish Gaelic: bràthair — male having parents in common
  • Serbo-Croatian: бра̏т — male having parents in common
  • Serbo-Croatian: brȁt — male having parents in common
  • Slovak: brat — male having parents in common
  • Slovene: brat — male having parents in common
  • Spanish: hermano — male having parents in common
  • Swedish: bror — male having parents in common
  • Swedish: broder — male having parents in common
  • Talysh: برا (bərâ) — male having parents in common
  • Tarifit: uma — male having parents in common
  • Tocharian A: pracar — male having parents in common
  • Tocharian B: procer — male having parents in common
  • Tongan: tuonga'ane — male having parents in common
  • Turkish: kardeş — male having parents in common
  • Turkish: birader — male having parents in common
  • Turkmen: gardaş — male having parents in common
  • Vietnamese: anh em — male having parents in common
  • Vietnamese: huynh đệ — male having parents in common
  • Welsh: brawd — male having parents in common
  • Yiddish: ברודער (bruder) — male having parents in common
  • Armenian: եղբայր (ełbayr) — male fellow member of a religious community
  • Belarusian: брацішак (bracišak) — male fellow member of a religious community
  • Bengali: বেরাদর (berador) — male fellow member of a religious community
  • Bulgarian: брат (brat) — male fellow member of a religious community
  • Catalan: germà — male fellow member of a religious community
  • Chinese Cantonese: 弟兄 (dai6 hing1) — male fellow member of a religious community
  • Hakka Chinese: 兄弟 (hiûng-thi) — male fellow member of a religious community
  • Chinese: 兄弟 (hian-tī) — male fellow member of a religious community
  • Chinese Mandarin: 弟兄 (dìxiōng) — male fellow member of a religious community
  • Czech: bratr — male fellow member of a religious community
  • Danish: broder — male fellow member of a religious community
  • Dutch: broeder — male fellow member of a religious community
  • Esperanto: frato — male fellow member of a religious community
  • Estonian: vend — male fellow member of a religious community
  • Finnish: veli — male fellow member of a religious community
  • French: frère — male fellow member of a religious community
  • German: Bruder — male fellow member of a religious community
  • Greek: αδελφός (adelfós) — male fellow member of a religious community
  • Hindi: सहधर्मी (sahdharmī) — male fellow member of a religious community
  • Hungarian: hittestvér — male fellow member of a religious community
  • Hungarian: testvér — male fellow member of a religious community
  • Indonesian: bruder (christian) — male fellow member of a religious community
  • Interlingua: fratre — male fellow member of a religious community
  • Irish: bráthair — male fellow member of a religious community
  • Italian: fratello — male fellow member of a religious community
  • Italian: confratello — male fellow member of a religious community
  • Japanese: 修道士 (shūdōshi) — male fellow member of a religious community
  • Japanese: ブラザー (burazā) — male fellow member of a religious community
  • Macedonian: брат (brat) — male fellow member of a religious community
  • Malay: saudara — male fellow member of a religious community
  • Manx: braar — male fellow member of a religious community
  • Māori: parata — male fellow member of a religious community
  • Minangkabau: sudaro — male fellow member of a religious community
  • Mirandese: fraile — male fellow member of a religious community
  • Mirandese: fraire — male fellow member of a religious community
  • Mirandese: frade — male fellow member of a religious community
  • Persian: برادر (barâdar) — male fellow member of a religious community
  • Polish: brat — male fellow member of a religious community
  • Portuguese: frade — male fellow member of a religious community
  • Portuguese: irmão — male fellow member of a religious community
  • Romanian: frate — male fellow member of a religious community
  • Spanish: hermano — male fellow member of a religious community
  • Swedish: broder — male fellow member of a religious community
  • Turkish: kardeş — male fellow member of a religious community
  • Turkmen: gardaş — male fellow member of a religious community
  • Volapük: hirodan — male fellow member of a religious community
  • Xhosa: úbhutí — male fellow member of a religious community
  • Dutch: broeder — peer
  • Esperanto: frato — peer
  • Estonian: oma — peer
  • Finnish: veli — peer
  • French: pair — peer
  • French: semblable — peer
  • Greek: αδελφός (adelfós) — peer
  • Haitian Creole: frè — peer
  • Indonesian: saudara — peer
  • Italian: fratello — peer
  • Italian: pari — peer
  • Javanese: mas — peer
  • Kabuverdianu: irmon — peer
  • Portuguese: irmão — peer
  • Romanian: frate — peer
  • Spanish: hermano — peer
  • Sundanese: kang — peer
  • Turkish: kardeş — peer
  • Turkish: birader — peer
  • Finnish: veljeillä — to treat as a brother
  • French: fraterniser — to treat as a brother
  • German: verbrüdern — to treat as a brother
  • Greek: συναδελφώνομαι (synadelfónomai) — to treat as a brother
  • Norwegian: brors — to treat as a brother
  • Romanian: înfrăți — to treat as a brother
  • Romanian: fraterniza — to treat as a brother
  • Turkish: kardeş saymak — to treat as a brother
  • Turkish: kardeş bellemek — to treat as a brother
  • Turkish: kardeş bilmek — to treat as a brother
  • Zazaki: bra kerden — to treat as a brother
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