stepbrother

See also: step-brother

English

Alternative forms

• step-brother

Etymology

step- +‎ brother

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: step‧broth‧er

Noun

stepbrother (plural stepbrothers or (obsolete) stepbrethren)

1. The son of one's stepparent who is not the son of either of one's biological parents.
2. The stepson of one's parent who is not one's half-brother.

Synonyms

• stepbro

Hypernyms

• stepfamily
  • stepsibling
  • stepson

Related terms

• stepdaughter
• stepparent
• stepsister
• half brother

Translations

son of one's stepfather or stepmother

• Asturian: hermanastru (ast) m, hermanascu (ast) m
• Bengali: সৎভাই m (śôtbhai)
• Bulgarian: доведен брат m (doveden brat)
• Catalan: germanastre (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 繼兄弟／继兄弟 (jìxiōngdì)

• Czech: nevlastní bratr m
• Danish: stedbror (da) c
• Dutch: stiefbroer (nl) m
• Esperanto: vicfrato
• Finnish: velipuoli (fi)
• French: quasi-frère (fr) m, frarâtre (fr), frèrâtre (fr)
• Georgian: დედინაცვლის შვილი (dedinacvlis švili), მამინაცვლის შვილი (maminacvlis švili), დედინაცვლის ვაჟი (dedinacvlis važi), მამინაცვლის ვაჟი (maminacvlis važi)
• German: Stiefbruder (de) m
• Greek: ετεροθαλής αδελφός m (eterothalís adelfós)
• Hindi: सौतेला भाई m (sautelā bhāī)
• Hungarian: mostohatestvér (hu), mostohafivér (hu)
• Icelandic: stjúpbróðir m
• Ido: stif-fratulo (io)
• Indonesian: saudara tiri (id), kakak tiri (older), adik tiri (younger)
• Irish: leasdeartháir m
• Italian: fratellastro (it) m
• Japanese: 義兄弟 (ja) (ぎきょうだい, gikyōdai)
• Kashmiri: وورٕ بوے (vōrụ bōy)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: زِڕبِرا (ckb) (zirrbira)

• Latin: vitrici filius m (1), novercae filius m (2), comprivignus
• Macedonian: полубрат m (polubrat)
• Maori: tungāne kē (of a female)
• Norman: d'mié-fréthe m, fréthe emprunté m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stebror m

  Nynorsk: stebror m

• Persian: برادندر (barâdandar), نابرادری (fa) (nâbarâdari)
• Polish: przybrany brat m
• Portuguese: irmão de criação m
• Russian: сво́дный брат m (svódnyj brat)
• Scottish Gaelic: leas-bhràthair m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: полубрат m

  Roman: polubrat (sh) m

• Sicilian: fratastru
• Slovak: nevlastný brat m
• Slovene: polbrat m
• Spanish: hermanastro m
• Swahili: kaka wa kambo
• Swedish: styvbror (sv) c, plastbror c, bonusbror, låtsasbror
• Taos: pʼǫ́yna (younger), pòpóna (older)
• Volapük: lublod (vo), hilugem
• Yiddish: שטיפֿברודער m (shtifbruder)

stepson of one's parent

• Bulgarian: заварен брат m (zavaren brat)
• Finnish: velipuoli (fi)

stepson of one's mother

• Latin: vitrici filius

stepson of one's father

• Latin: novercae filius

Further reading

• Sibling on Wikipedia.Wikipedia