older sister

English

Noun

older sister (plural older sisters)

A sibling's older sister. (This entry is a translation hub.)

Translations

single-word translations

Baba Malay: taci
Burmese: အမ (my) (a.ma.)
Central Dusun: taka
Chinese:
Cantonese: 家姐 (gaa¹ ze²^-¹), 姐姐 (ze²^-⁴ ze²^-¹)

Dungan: җеҗе (žiəžiə)

Mandarin: 姐姐 (zh) (jiějie), 姊姊 (zh) (zǐzǐ)

Min Nan: 大姊 (tōa-chí), 阿姊 (zh-min-nan) (a-chí)

Wu: 姐姐 (jia jia), 阿姐 (aq jia; aq ji)
Hindi: दीदी (hi) f (dīdī)
Hungarian: nővér (hu)
Italian: tata (it) f

Japanese: 姉 (ja) (あね, ane), お姉さん (おねえさん, onēsan) (honorific), 姉ちゃん (ねえちゃん, nēchan) (colloquial)
Kapampangan: atsi, achi
Korean: 누나 (ko) (nuna) (of a male), 언니 (ko) (eonni) (of a female)
Lao: ເອື້ອຍ (’ư̄ay)
Malay: kakak (ms)
Sinhalese: අක්‍කා (ak‍kā)
Sotho: ausi
Tagalog: ate (tl)
Telugu: అక్క (te) (akka)
Uyghur: ئاچا‎‎ (ug) (acha), ھەدە‎‎ (hede)
Vietnamese: chị (vi)

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

Afrikaans: ousus (af)
Arabic: الْأُخْت الْكُبْرَى‎‎ (al-ʾuḵt al-kubrā), الشَّقِيقَة الْكُبْرَى‎‎ (aš-šaqīqa al-kubrā)
Danish: storesøster 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)
Marathi: ताई (tāī), मोठी बहिण (moṭhī bahiṇ)

Norwegian:
Bokmål: storesøster m, 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)
Wiradhuri: mingaan

See also

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