older sister

English

Alternative forms

• elder sister

Noun

older sister (plural older sisters)

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

   Coordinate terms: older brother, younger brother, younger sister

Derived terms

• elder sisterly
• older sisterly

Translations

single-word translations

• Ainu: サポ (sapo)
• Assamese: বা (ba), বাই (bai), বাইদেউ (baideu) (polite)
• Baba Malay: taci
• Bengali: বুবু (bn) (bubu), আপা (bn) (apa), দিদি (bn) (didi)
• Bikol Central: manay (bcl)
• Bulgarian: ка́ка (bg) (káka)
• Burmese: အမ (my) (a.ma.), အစ်မ (my) (acma.)
• Central Dusun: taka
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 家姐 (gaa¹ ze^2-1), 姐姐 (ze^2-4 ze^2-1)

  Dungan: җеҗе (ži͡əži͡ə)

  Eastern Min: 依姐 (ĭ-*ciā)

  Hokkien: 大姊 (tōa-chí), 阿姊 (zh-min-nan) (a-chí)

  Mandarin: 姐姐 (zh) (jiějie), 姊姊 (zh) (zǐzǐ)

  Wu: 姐姐, 阿姐

• Chuvash: йӑмӑк (jămăk)
• Danish: storesøster (da) c
• Ewe: daa
• Greenlandic: aleqaq, aleqa
• Guaraní: eindy (of a male); ykéra, yke (of a female)
• Hachijō: あねい (anei), いんね (inne)
• Hindi: अग्रजा (hi) f (agrajā), दीदी (hi) f (dīdī), दी f (dī), जीजी (hi) f (jījī)
• Hungarian: nővér (hu), (archaic) néne (hu)
• Ilocano: manang
• Indonesian: kakak (id)
• Italian: tata (it) f
• Japanese: 姉 (ja) (あね, ane), お姉さん (ja) (おねえさん, onēsan) (honorific), 姉ちゃん (ねえちゃん, nēchan) (familiar)
• Javanese: mbak f
• Kalmyk: эгч (egç)
• Kannada: ಅಕ್ಕ (kn) (akka)
• Kapampangan: atsi, achi
• Khiamniungan Naga: nòu
• Korean: 누나 (ko) (nuna) (of a male), 언니 (ko) (eonni) (of a female)
• Kunigami: しじゃー (shijā)
• Kurdish:
  • Northern Kurdish: xûç (ku)
• Kyrgyz: эже (ky) (eje)
• Lao: ເອື້ອຍ (ē ʼư̄ ʼa nya)
• Malay: kakak (ms)
• Malayalam: ചേച്ചി (ml) (cēcci)
• Maori: tuahine (of a male), tuakana (of a female)
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: ака (aka)

• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: эгч (mn) (egč)

• Northern Amami Ōshima: せざ (seza)
• Okinawan: しーじゃ (shīja), しーじゃをぅない (shīja wunai) (of a male), 女子しーじゃ (ゐなぐしーじゃ, winagu shīja), うふあばー (ufu abā) (oldest sister; used by commoners), うふんみー (ufunmī) (oldest sister of a shizoku)
• Ottoman Turkish: اجی (eci)
• Pangasinan: atsing
• Punjabi:

  Shahmukhi: باجی f (bājī)

• Sinhalese: අක්‍කා (akkā)
• Sotho: ausi
• Spanish: ñaña (es) f (Ecuador, Chile)
• Sundanese: tétéh, raka f
• Tagalog: ate (tl)
• Tamil: அக்கா (ta) (akkā), அக்கை (ta) (akkai), அக்கைச்சி (ta) (akkaicci), அக்காள் (ta) (akkāḷ), அக்காமார் (ta) (akkāmār), அக்கச்சி (ta) (akkacci), தமக்கை (ta) (tamakkai)
• Taos: tùtúna
• Tatar: апа (tt) (apa)
• Tày: á
• Telugu: అక్క (te) (akka)
• Tibetan: ཨ་ལྕག (a lcag), ཨ་ལྕགས (a lcags), ཨ་ཅག (a cag), ཨ་ལྕག་ལགས (a lcag lags) (honorific)
• Turkish: abla (tr)
• Urdu: آپا (ur) f (āpā), آپی f (āpī) (endearing), باجی f (bājī) (polite), دیدی f (dīdī)
• Uyghur: ئاچا (ug) (acha), ھەدە (hede)
• Vietnamese: chị (vi)
• Yaeyama: しじゃ (shija)
• Yonaguni: すだ (suda)
• Yucatec Maya: kiik

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

• Afrikaans: ousus (af)
• Ahom: 𑜆𑜣 𑜏𑜰𑜫 (pī s0)
• Arabic: الْأُخْت الْكُبْرَى (al-ʔuḵt al-kubrā), الشَّقِيقَة الْكُبْرَى (aš-šaqīqa al-kubrā)
• Bengali: দিদি ভাই (didi bhai)
• Catalan: germana gran f
• Danish: storesøster (da) c
• Dutch: oudere zus
• Finnish: isosisko (fi)
• French: sœur aînée f, grande sœur f
• German: große Schwester f
• Greek: μεγάλη αδερφή f (megáli aderfí)
• Gujarati: મોટી બહેન f (moṭī bahen)
• Hindi: बड़ी बहन f (baṛī bahan)
• Khmer: បងស្រី (bɑɑng srəy)
• Macedonian: постара сестра f (postara sestra)
• Malayalam: മൂത്ത സഹോദരി (mūtta sahōdari)
• Marathi: ताई (tāī), मोठी बहिण (moṭhī bahiṇ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: storesøster m or f

• Portuguese: irmã mais velha f
• Russian: ста́ршая сестра́ f (stáršaja sestrá)
• Spanish: hermana mayor f
• Swedish: storasyster (sv) c
• Thai: พี่สาว (pîi-sǎao)
• Urdu: بڑی بہن f (baṛī bahan)
• Vietnamese: chị gái (vi)
• Wiradjuri: mingaan