English
Etymology
From step- + brother.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: step‧broth‧er
Noun
stepbrother (plural stepbrothers or (obsolete) stepbrethren)
- The son of one's stepparent by a previous relationship.
- The stepson of one's parent who is not one's half-brother.
Synonyms
Hypernyms
Translations
son of one's stepfather or stepmother
- Asturian: hermanastru (ast) m, hermanascu (ast) m
- Bengali: সৎভাই m (śôtbhai)
- Bulgarian: дове́ден брат m (dovéden brat)
- Catalan: germanastre (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 繼兄弟 / 继兄弟 (jìxiōngdì)
- Czech: nevlastní bratr m
- Danish: stedbror (da) c
- Dutch: stiefbroer (nl) m
- Esperanto: vicfrato
- Finnish: velipuoli (fi)
- French: quasi-frère (fr) m, frarâtre (fr), frèrâtre (fr)
- Georgian: დედინაცვლის შვილი (dedinacvlis švili), მამინაცვლის შვილი (maminacvlis švili), დედინაცვლის ვაჟი (dedinacvlis važi), მამინაცვლის ვაჟი (maminacvlis važi), არაღვიძლი ძმა (araɣviʒli ʒma)
- German: Stiefbruder (de) m
- Greek: ετεροθαλής αδελφός m (eterothalís adelfós)
- Hindi: सौतेला भाई m (sautelā bhāī)
- Hungarian: mostohatestvér (hu), mostohafivér (hu)
- Icelandic: stjúpbróðir m
- Ido: stif-fratulo (io)
- Indonesian: saudara tiri (id), kakak tiri (older), adik tiri (younger)
- Irish: leasdeartháir m
- Italian: fratellastro (it) m
- Japanese: 義兄弟 (ja) (ぎきょうだい, gikyōdai)
- Kashmiri: وورٕ بوے (vōrụ bōy)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: زِڕبِرا (ckb) (zirrbira)
- Latin: vitrici filius m (1), novercae filius m (2), comprivignus
- Macedonian: полубрат m (polubrat)
- Maori: tungāne kē (of a female)
- Norman: d'mié-fréthe m, fréthe emprunté m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: stebror m
- Nynorsk: stebror m
- Persian: برادندر (barâdandar), نابرادری (fa) (nâbarâdari)
- Polish: przybrany brat m
- Portuguese: irmão de criação m
- Russian: сво́дный брат m (svódnyj brat)
- Scottish Gaelic: leas-bhràthair m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: полубрат m
- Roman: polubrat (sh) m
- Sicilian: fratastru
- Slovak: nevlastný brat m
- Slovene: polbrat m
- Spanish: hermanastro (es) m
- Swahili: kaka wa kambo
- Swedish: styvbror (sv) c, plastbror c, bonusbror, låtsasbror
- Taos: pʼǫ́yna (younger), pòpóna (older)
- Volapük: lublod (vo), hilugem
- Yiddish: שטיפֿברודער m (shtifbruder)
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- Woiwurrung: (please verify) tati
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