Phrase guide

older brother

noun · 1 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

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

No pronunciation record was provided for this word.

1

noun

Meaning 1

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see older, brother. (This entry is a translation hub.)

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

No etymology was provided for this word.

Across languages

Translations

158 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Acehnese: adun — single-word translations
  • Acehnese: bang — single-word translations
  • Ahtna: -unghae — single-word translations
  • Ainu: ユポ (yupo) — single-word translations
  • Northern Amami Ōshima: せざ (seza) — single-word translations
  • Eastern Arrernte: kake — single-word translations
  • Bashkir: ағай (ağay) — single-word translations
  • Bengali: দাদা (dada) — single-word translations
  • Bengali: অগ্রজ (ogroj) — single-word translations
  • Central Bikol: manoy — single-word translations
  • Burmese: အကို (a.kui) — single-word translations
  • Burmese: နောင် (naung) — single-word translations
  • Burmese: အစ်ကို (ackui) — single-word translations
  • Buryat: аха (axa) — single-word translations
  • Cebuano: manoy — single-word translations
  • Chinese Cantonese: 阿哥 (aa3 go1) — single-word translations
  • Chinese: гәгә (gəgə) — single-word translations
  • Eastern Min Chinese: 依哥 — single-word translations
  • Eastern Min Chinese: 哥 (gŏ̤) — single-word translations
  • Eastern Min Chinese: 阿哥 — single-word translations
  • Hakka Chinese: 阿哥 (â-kô) — single-word translations
  • Chinese: 阿兄 (zh-min-nan) — single-word translations
  • Chinese: 阿哥 (zh-min-nan) — single-word translations
  • Chinese Mandarin: 哥哥 (gēge) — single-word translations
  • Wu Chinese: 哥哥 (1ku-ku) — single-word translations
  • Wu Chinese: 阿哥 (7aq-ku1) — single-word translations
  • Comanche: pabi — single-word translations
  • Dhivehi: ބޭބެ (bēbe) — single-word translations
  • Central Dusun: tabang — single-word translations
  • Ewe: fo — single-word translations
  • Fataluku: kaka — single-word translations
  • Greenlandic: ani — single-word translations
  • Greenlandic: angajoq — single-word translations
  • Hachijō: あせい (asei) — single-word translations
  • Hindi: अग्रज (agraj) — single-word translations
  • Hindi: भैया (bhaiyā) — single-word translations
  • Hungarian: báty — single-word translations
  • Hungarian: bátya — single-word translations
  • Ilocano: manong — single-word translations
  • Indonesian: abang — single-word translations
  • Japanese: 兄 (ani) — single-word translations
  • Javanese: kangmas — single-word translations
  • Kapampangan: koya — single-word translations
  • Kazakh: аға (ağa) — single-word translations
  • Khmer: បោង (baong) — single-word translations
  • Khmer: អគ្គជៈ (ʼakkĕəʼcĕəʼ) — single-word translations
  • Khmer: ជេដ្ឋា (ceitthaa) — single-word translations
  • Korean: 형 (hyeong) — single-word translations
  • Korean: 오빠 (oppa) — single-word translations
  • Kumyk: агъа (ağa) — single-word translations
  • Kunigami: しじゃー (shijā) — single-word translations
  • Northern Kurdish: kek — single-word translations
  • Kyrgyz: байке (bayke) — single-word translations
  • Kyrgyz: ага (aga) — single-word translations
  • Lao: ອ້າຍ (ʼāi) — single-word translations
  • Malay: abang — single-word translations
  • Malayalam: ചേട്ടൻ (cēṭṭaṉ) — single-word translations
  • Manchu: ᠠᡤᡝ (age) — single-word translations
  • Manchu: ᠠᡥᡡᠨ (ahūn) — single-word translations
  • Eastern Mari: иза (iza) — single-word translations
  • Western Mari: ӹзӓ (ÿzä) — single-word translations
  • Miyako: すざ (suza) — single-word translations
  • Mongolian: ах (ax) — single-word translations
  • Khiamniungan Naga: têi — single-word translations
  • Nanai: ага (aga) — single-word translations
  • Navajo: ánaaí — single-word translations
  • Nivkh: ыкын (əkən) — single-word translations
  • Nivkh: ыкына (əkəna) — single-word translations
  • Northern Ohlone: ták̄a — single-word translations
  • Okinawan: しーじゃ (shīja) — single-word translations
  • Pangasinan: kuyang — single-word translations
  • Polish: starszy brat — single-word translations
  • Sikkimese: ཇོ་ལགས — single-word translations
  • Sinhalese: අය්යා (ayyā) — single-word translations
  • Sotho: aubuti — single-word translations
  • Spanish: tato — single-word translations
  • Spanish: ñaño — single-word translations
  • Sundanese: raka — single-word translations
  • Sundanese: aa — single-word translations
  • Sundanese: akang — single-word translations
  • Tagalog: kuya — single-word translations
  • Tamil: அண்ணா (aṇṇā) — single-word translations
  • Tamil: அண்ணன் (aṇṇaṉ) — single-word translations
  • Lower Tanana: -ungha — single-word translations
  • Tatar: абый (abıy) — single-word translations
  • Tày: cá — single-word translations
  • Tày: lùng — single-word translations
  • Tày: có — single-word translations
  • Tày: pi̱ — single-word translations
  • Thai: พี่ (pîi) — single-word translations
  • Southern Thai: พี่บ่าว — single-word translations
  • Tibetan: ཕུ་བོ (phu bo) — single-word translations
  • Tibetan: ཇོ་ཇོ (jo jo) — single-word translations
  • Tibetan: ཅོ་ཅོག (co cog) — single-word translations
  • Tibetan: ཇོ་ལགས — single-word translations
  • Tibetan: གཅེན་པོ (gcen po) — single-word translations
  • Turkish: abi — single-word translations
  • Turkish: ağabey — single-word translations
  • Tuvan: акы (akı) — single-word translations
  • Uyghur: ئاكا (aka) — single-word translations
  • Uzbek: aka — single-word translations
  • Vietnamese: anh — single-word translations
  • Wiradjuri: gaagang — single-word translations
  • Wiradjuri: gágang — single-word translations
  • Woiwurrung: wondowlong — single-word translations
  • Woiwurrung: pangkayn — single-word translations
  • Yaeyama: しじゃ (shija) — single-word translations
  • Yonaguni: すだ (suda) — single-word translations
  • Yucatec Maya: sukuʼun — single-word translations
  • Zhuang: beix — single-word translations
  • Ahom: 𑜆𑜣 𑜋𑜩 (pi chai) — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • Arabic: اَلْأَخ اَلْأَكْبَر (al-ʔaḵ al-ʔakbar) — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • Azerbaijani: böyük qardaş — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • Belarusian: старэ́йшы брат (staréjšy brat) — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • Belarusian: ста́ршы брат (stáršy brat) — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • Bengali: বড় ভাই (boṛ bhai) — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • Catalan: germà gran — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • Czech: starší bratr — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • Danish: storebror — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • Danish: storebroder — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • Finnish: isoveli — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • French: frère aîné — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • French: grand frère — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • German: großer Bruder — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • Hindi: बड़ा भाई (baṛā bhāī) — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • Irish: deartháir mór — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • Italian: fratello maggiore — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • Japanese: お兄さん (onīsan) — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • Japanese: 兄ちゃん (niichan) — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • Japanese: 兄 (ani) — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • Khmer: បងប្រុស (bɑɑng proh) — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • Korean: 형님 (hyeongnim) — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • Kumyk: уллу эр къардаш (ullu er qardaş) — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • Lithuanian: vyresnis brolis — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • Macedonian: постар брат (postar brat) — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • Norwegian: storebror — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • Okinawan: やっちー (yatchī) — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • Okinawan: 男しーじゃ (wikiga shīja) — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • Okinawan: うふあふぃー (ufu afī) — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • Okinawan: うふっちー (ufutchī) — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • Okinawan: やっちーぐゎー (yatchīgwā) — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • Okinawan: しーじゃゐきー (shīja wikī) — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • Okinawan: うみしーじゃ (umi shīja) — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • Polish: starszy brat — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • Portuguese: irmão mais velho — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • Romani: phureder phral — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • Russian: ста́рший брат (stáršij brat) — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • Slovak: starší brat — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • Spanish: hermano mayor — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • Swedish: storebror — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • Tamil: மூத்த சகோதரன் (mūtta cakōtaraṉ) — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • Telugu: అగ్రజుడు (agrajuḍu) — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • Thai: พี่ชาย (pîi-chaai) — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • Ukrainian: ста́рший брат (stáršyj brat) — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • Ukrainian: старі́ший брат (staríšyj brat) — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • Vietnamese: anh trai — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • Welsh: brawd mawr — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations
  • Yonaguni: すなてぃ (sunati) — multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations