big brother

See also Big Brother

English

Noun

big brother (plural big brothers)

1. A sibling's older brother used especially by children or by parents in speaking to their children.

   If you don't give me back my toys I'll tell my big brother!

2. Alternative form of Big Brother.

Translations

a sibling's older brother

• Afrikaans: ouboet (af)
• Arabic: الأخ الأكبر (ar) (al-ʾax al-ʾákbar) m
• Burmese: အကို (my) (ăko)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 哥哥 (cmn) (gēgē), 兄 (cmn) (xiōng) (dated)

• Danish: storebror (da) c, storebroder (da) c
• Finnish: isoveli (fi)
• French: frère aîné (fr) m, grand frère (fr) m
• German: großer Bruder (de) m
• Hungarian: bátya (hu)
• Japanese: 兄 (ja) (あに, ani), お兄さん (ja) (おにいさん, onīsan)
• Khmer: បងប្រុស (km) (borng bproh)

• Korean: 형님 (ko) (hyeongnim) (of a male), 오빠 (ko) (oppa) (of a female)
• Lao: ອ້າຍ (lo) (ȃːy)
• Norwegian: storebror (no) m
• Russian: старший брат (stáršij brat) m
• Sinhalese: අය්‍යා (si) (ayyā)
• Sotho: aubuti (st)
• Spanish: hermano mayor (es) m
• Swedish: storebror (sv) c
• Tagalog: kuya (tl)
• Thai: พี่ (th) (pêe), พี่ชาย (th) (pêe chaai)
• Turkish: ağabey (tr), abi (tr)
• Vietnamese: anh trai (vi)

See also

• big sister
• little brother
• little sister