older brother

English

Alternative forms

elder brother

Noun

older brother (plural older brothers)

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

Translations

single-word translations

Acehnese: adun, bang
Ainu: ユポ (yupo)
Bashkir: ағай (ağay)
Bikol Central: manoy (bcl)
Burmese: အကို (a.kui), နောင် (my) (naung) (of a male), အစ်ကို (my) (ackui) (of a female)
Cebuano: manoy
Central Dusun: tabang
Chinese:
Cantonese: 阿哥 (aa³ go¹)

Dungan: гәгә (gəgə)

Eastern Min: 依哥 (ĭ-*gŏ̤), 哥 (gŏ̤), 阿哥 (ă-*gŏ̤)

Hakka: 阿哥 (â-kô)

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

Mandarin: 哥哥 (zh) (gēge)

Wu: 哥哥 (¹ku-ku), 阿哥 (⁷aq-ku)
Comanche: pabi
Eastern Arrernte: kake
Ewe: fo
Fataluku: kaka
Greenlandic: ani (of a female), angajoq
Hachijō: あせい (asei)
Hungarian: báty (hu), (archaic) bátya (hu)
Ilocano: manong
Indonesian: abang (id)
Japanese: 兄 (ja) (あに, ani)
Javanese: kangmas
Kapampangan: koya
Kazakh: аға (kk) (ağa)
Khmer: បោង (km) (baong), អគ្គជៈ (ʼakkĕəʼcĕəʼ), ជេដ្ឋា (km) (ceitthaa) (of a royal)
Korean: 형(兄) (ko) (hyeong) (of a male), 오빠 (ko) (oppa) (of a female)
Kumyk: агъа (ağa)
Kunigami: しじゃー (shijā)
Kyrgyz: байке (ky) (bayke)
Lao: ອ້າຍ (ʼāi)
Malay: abang (ms)
Malayalam: ചേട്ടൻ (ml) (cēṭṭaṉ)
Manchu: ᠠᡤᡝ (age), ᠠᡥᡡᠨ (ahūn)
Mari:
Eastern Mari: иза (iza)

Western Mari: ӹзӓ (ÿzä)
Miyako: すざ (suza)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: ах (mn) (ax)
Navajo: ánaaí
Nivkh: ыкын (əkən), ыкына (əkəna)
Northern Amami-Oshima: せざ (seza)
Ohlone:
Northern Ohlone: ták̄a
Okinawan: しーじゃ (shīja)
Pangasinan: kuyang
Sinhalese: අය්‍යා (ayyā)
Sotho: aubuti
Southern Thai: พี่บ่าว
Spanish: tato m (colloquial), ñaño (es) m (Ecuador, Chile)
Sundanese: raka, aa (su), akang (su)
Tagalog: kuya (tl)
Tamil: அண்ணா (ta) (aṇṇā)
Tatar: абый (tt) (abıy)
Thai: พี่ (th) (pîi)
Tibetan: ཕུ་བོ (phu bo), ཇོ་ཇོ (jo jo), ཅོ་ཅོག (co cog), ཇོ་ལགས (jo lags) (honorific), གཅེན་པོ (gcen po) (literary)
Turkish: abi (tr), ağabey (tr)
Uyghur: ئاكا (ug) (aka)
Uzbek: aka (uz)
Vietnamese: anh (vi) (偀)
Wiradjuri: gaagang, gágang
Yaeyama: しじゃ (shija)
Yonaguni: すだ (suda)
Yucatec Maya: sukuʼun
Zhuang: beix

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

Ahom: 𑜆𑜣 𑜋𑜩 (pi chai)
Arabic: اَلْأَخ اَلْأَكْبَر m (al-ʔaḵ al-ʔakbar)
Azerbaijani: böyük qardaş
Belarusian: старэ́йшы брат m (staréjšy brat), ста́ршы брат m (stáršy brat)
Catalan: germà gran m
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
Macedonian: постар брат m (postar brat)
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 (th) (pîi-chaai)
Ukrainian: ста́рший брат m (stáršyj brat), старі́ший брат m (staríšyj brat)
Vietnamese: anh trai (vi) (偀𤳇)
Welsh: brawd mawr m
Yonaguni: すなてぃ (sunati)

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