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 term: older sister

   Antonyms: younger brother, younger sister

Translations

single-word translations

• Ainu: ユポ (yupo)
• Bashkir: ағай (ağay)
• Bikol Central: manoy
• Burmese: အကို (a.kui), နောင် (my) (naung) (of a male), အစ်ကို (my) (ackui) (of a female)
• Central Dusun: tabang
• Chinese: 哥 (zh) (gē), 兄 (zh) (xiōng)
• Greenlandic: ani (of a female), angajoq
• Hungarian: báty (hu), (archaic) bátya (hu)
• Japanese: 兄 (ja) (あに, ani)
• Kapampangan: koya
• Khmer: បោង (km) (baong), អគ្គជៈ (ʼɑkkĕəʼcĕəʼ), ជេដ្ឋា (km) (ceitthaa) (of a royal)
• Korean: 형 (ko) (hyeong), 오빠 (ko) (oppa) (of a female)
• Kumyk: агъа (ağa)
• Kunigami: しじゃー (shijā)
• Lao: ອ້າຍ (ʼāi)
• Malay: abang (ms)

• Manchu: ᠠᡤᡝ (age), ᠠᡥᡡᠨ (ahūn)
• Miyako: すざ (suza)
• Mongolian: ах (mn) (ah)
• Nivkh: ыкын (əkən), ыкына (əkəna)
• Northern Amami-Oshima: せざ (seza)
• Okinawan: しーじゃ (shīja)
• Sinhalese: අය්‍යා (ayyā)
• Sotho: aubuti
• Southern Thai: พี่บ่าว
• Spanish: tato m (colloquial)
• Tagalog: kuya (tl)
• Thai: พี่ (th) (pîi)
• Turkish: abi (tr), ağabey (tr)
• Uyghur: ئاكا‎ (ug) (aka)
• Vietnamese: anh (vi) (偀)
• Wiradhuri: gaagang, gágang
• Yaeyama: しじゃ (shija)
• Yonaguni: すだ (suda)

multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations

• Arabic: اَلْأَخ اَلْأَكْبَر‎ m (al-ʾaḵ al-ʾakbar)
• Azerbaijani: böyük qardaş
• Belarusian: старэ́йшы брат m (staréjšy brat), ста́ршы брат m (stáršy brat)
• Catalan: germà gran m
• Chinese: 哥哥 (zh) (gēge), 兄長 (zh) (xiōngzhǎng)

  Cantonese: 阿哥 (aa³ go¹)

  Dungan: гәгә (gəgə)

  Hakka: 阿哥 (â-kô)

  Mandarin: 哥哥 (zh) (gēge)

  Min Nan: 阿兄 (zh-min-nan) (a-hiaⁿ), 阿哥 (zh-min-nan) (a-ko)

  Wu: 哥哥 (ku ku), 阿哥 (aq ku)

• 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
• 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 (pîi-chaai)
• Ukrainian: ста́рший брат m (stáršyj brat), старі́ший брат m (staríšyj brat)
• Welsh: brawd mawr m
• Yonaguni: すなてぃ (sunati)
• Vietnamese: anh trai (vi) (偀𤳇)