stepsister

See also: step-sister

English

Alternative forms

• step-sister

Etymology

step- +‎ sister

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: step‧sis‧ter

Noun

stepsister (plural stepsisters)

1. The daughter of one's stepparent who is not the daughter of either of one's parents.
2. The stepdaughter of one's parent which is not one's half-sister.

Synonyms

• stepsis

Hypernyms

• stepfamily
  • stepdaughter
  • stepsibling

Translations

daughter from the previous marriage of a stepparent

• Asturian: hermanastra (ast) f, hermanasca (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: bacılıq, ögey bacı
• Bengali: সৎবোন f (śôtbon)
• Bulgarian: дове́дена сестра́ f (dovédena sestrá), зава́рена сестра́ f (zavárena sestrá)
• Catalan: germanastra (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 繼姊妹, 继姊妹 (jìzǐmèi)

• Danish: stedsøster (da) c
• Esperanto: vicfratino
• Finnish: siskopuoli, sisarpuoli
• German: Stiefschwester (de) f
• Greek: ετεροθαλής αδελφή f (eterothalís adelfí)
• Hindi: सौतेली बहन f (sautelī bahan)
• Hungarian: mostohatestvér (hu), mostohanővér
• Icelandic: stjúpsystir f
• Ido: stif-fratino
• Indonesian: kakak tiri (older), adik tiri (younger)
• Irish: leasdeirfiúr f
• Italian: sorellastra (it) f
• Japanese: まゝ姉妹 (まましまい, mamashimai)
• Kashmiri: وورٕ بیٚنہِ‎ (vōrụ beni)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: زڕخوشک‎ (zirrxuşk)

• Latin: vitrici filia f (1), novercae filia f (2)
• Macedonian: по́лусестра f (pólusestra)
• Malay: kakak tiri (older), adik tiri perempuan (younger)
• Maori: tuahine kē (of a male)
• Norman: d'mié-soeu f (Jersey), soeu empruntée f (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stesøster m or f

  Nynorsk: stesøster f, stesyster f

• Persian: خواهندر‎ (xâhandar), ناخواهری‎ (fa) (naxwahari)
• Plautdietsch: Steefsesta f
• Polish: przybrana siostra f
• Portuguese: irmã de criação f
• Russian: сво́дная сестра́ (ru) f (svódnaja sestrá)
• Scottish Gaelic: leas-phiuthar f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: по̏лусестра f

  Roman: pȍlusestra (sh) f

• Slovak: nevlastná sestra f
• Slovene: polsestra f
• Spanish: hermanastra f
• Swedish: plastsyster c, styvsyster (sv) c, bonussyster
• Volapük: jlublod, jilugem, lusör (vo)
• Yiddish: שטיפֿשוועסטער‎ f (shtifshvester)

See also

• Category:English words prefixed with step-