older sister

English

Alternative forms

elder sister

Noun

older sister (plural older sisters)

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 (⁵cia-cia), 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: दीदी (hi) f (dīdī)
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
Kannada: ಅಕ್ಕ (kn) (akka)
Kapampangan: atsi, achi
Korean: 누나 (ko) (nuna) (of a male), 언니 (ko) (eonni) (of a female)
Kunigami: しじゃー (shijā)
Kyrgyz: эже (ky) (eje)
Lao: ເອື້ອຍ (ʼư̄a 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-Oshima: 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)
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)
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)
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)
Vietnamese: chị gái (vi)
Wiradjuri: mingaan

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