brother-in-arms (plural brothers-in-arms or (rare) brethren-in-arms)
- comrade in arms (fellow combatant or soldier)
- Coordinate term: sister-in-arms
2010 February 18, Evan Narcisse, “Wrex in Effect, or, Deep Space and the Negro/Injun/Krogan Problem”, in The Atlantic[1], archived from the original on 02 September 2013, Culture[2]:But the vengeance I told myself I was getting for Wrex felt like a lie. I could win the game but he wasn't coming back. Being forced to lose my in-game comrade-who I thought of as a virtual person of color and as a brother-in-arms-affected me in a forceful way that I never expected. Mass Effect made me look at myself and think about the way races, classes and individuals bring their histories to bear.
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fellow combatant or soldier
- Belarusian: брат па збро́і m (brat pa zbrói), тава́рыш па збро́і m (taváryš pa zbrói) (comrade-in-arms)
- Catalan: company d'armes
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 戰友/战友 (zh) (zhànyǒu)
- Dutch: strijdmakker (nl) m, wapenbroeder (nl) m
- Esperanto: samsoldato
- Estonian: relvavend
- Finnish: aseveli (fi)
- French: frère d’armes (fr) m
- Georgian: თანამებრძოლი (tanamebrʒoli)
- German: Waffenbruder m
- Greek: συμπολεμιστής (el) m (sympolemistís)
- Italian: commilitone (it) m
- Japanese: 戦友 (ja) (せんゆう, sen'yū)
- Korean: 전우(戰友) (ko) (jeonu)
- Latin: commiles
- Macedonian: со́борец m (sóborec)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: våpenbror m
- Old English: campġefēra m
- Polish: towarzysz broni (pl) m
- Russian: брат по ору́жию m (brat po orúžiju), това́рищ по ору́жию m (továrišč po orúžiju) (comrade-in-arms), сора́тник (ru) m (sorátnik), сора́тница (ru) f (sorátnica), собра́т по ору́жию m (sobrát po orúžiju)
- Spanish: compañero de fatigas m (colloquial, figurative), conmilitón m
- Swedish: vapenbroder (sv) c, bundsförvant (sv) c, stridskamrat (sv) c, medsoldat (sv) c
- Ukrainian: брат по збро́ї m (brat po zbróji), това́риш по збро́ї m (továryš po zbróji) (comrade-in-arms)
- Vietnamese: chiến hữu (vi) (戰友)
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