brother-in-law - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

• Afrikaans: swaer
• Albanian: kunat (sq) m
• Arabic: شَقِيق زَوْج m (šaqīq zawj) (husband), شَقِيق زَوْجَة m (šaqīq zawja) (wife), سِلْف m (silf)
• Aramaic:
  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܝܼܕ݂ܡܵܐ m (īḏmā), ܐܲܚܘܼ ܓܲܒ݂ܪܵܐ m (aḥū gaḇrā)
  Classical Syriac: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: տագր (hy) (tagr)
• Aromanian: cumnat m
• Asturian: cuñáu (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: qayın (az)
• Bengali: দেবর (bn) (debor)
• Bikol:
  Central Bikol: bayaw (bcl)
• Bulgarian: девер (bg) m (dever)
• Burmese: ခဲအို (my) (hkai:ui), မတ် (my) (mat)
• Catalan: cunyat (ca) m
• Cebuano: bayaw, bayaw nga lalaki (sa bana)
• Chinese:
  Cantonese: 大伯 (daai6 baak3) (older brother), 叔仔 (suk1 zai2) (younger brother)
  Hokkien: 大伯 (zh-min-nan) (tōa-peh) (older brother), 阿叔仔 (zh-min-nan) (a-chek-á) (younger brother), 小叔 (sió-chek) (younger brother), 細叔 / 细叔 (sè-chek, sòe-chek) (younger brother), 細叔仔 / 细叔仔 (sè-chek-á, sòe-chek-á) (younger brother), 細漢叔仔 / 细汉叔仔 (sè-hàn-chek-á, sòe-hàn-chek-á) (younger brother)
  Mandarin: 大伯子 (zh) (dàbǎizi) (elder brother), 小叔子 (zh) (xiǎoshūzi) (younger brother)
• Chuvash: хунчӑкам (hunč̬ăk̬am)
• Czech: švagr (cs) m
• Dalmatian: comnut m
• Danish: svoger (da) c
• Dutch: zwager (nl) m (Netherlands), schoonbroer (nl) m (Flanders)
• Erzya: парайде (parajde) (younger), альне (alne), какжаля (kakžaľa) (older)
• Esperanto: bofrato (eo)
• Estonian: küdi (et)
• Ewe: nyo
• Finnish: lanko (fi), kyty (fi) (archaic)
• French: beau-frère (fr) m
• Friulian: cugnât m
• Gagauz: kayınçu, kayın, dever
• Galician: cuñado m
• Georgian: მაზლი (mazli)
• German: Schwager (de) m, Schwäher (de) m (obsolete)
• Greek: κουνιάδος (el) m (kouniádos)
  Ancient Greek: δαήρ m (daḗr)
• Greenlandic: ningaaq
• Hebrew: גִּיס (he) m (gís), יָבָם (he) m (yavám) (esp. if husband died childless)
• Hindi: देवर (hi) (devar) (younger brother), जेठ (hi) (jeṭh) (older brother)
• Hungarian: sógor (hu)
• Icelandic: mágur (is) m
• Ido: bofratulo (io)
• Ilocano: bayaw, kayong
• Ingrian: kyty
• Irish: deartháir céile m
• Italian: cognato (it) m
• Japanese: 義理の兄 (ぎりのあに, giri no ani), 義兄 (ぎけい, gikei) (elder brother); 義理の弟 (ぎりのおとうと, giri no otōto), 義弟 (ぎてい, gitei) (younger brother); 義兄弟 (ぎきょうだい, gikyōdai) (elder and younger brothers); (お)義兄さん ((お)にいさん, (o-)niisan) (elder brother) (colloquial); 小舅 (こじゅうと, kojūto) (elder or younger brother)
• Kashmiri: درُٛے
• Korean: (elder) 시숙(媤叔) (ko) (sisuk), 시(媤)아주버니 (ko) (siajubeoni), (younger) 시동생(媤同生) (ko) (sidongsaeng)
• Kurdish:
  Central Kurdish: ھێوەر (hêwer)
  Northern Kurdish: tî (ku) m
• Latgalian: dīvers
• Latin: lēvir m
• Latvian: dieveris (lv) m
• Lithuanian: dieveris m
• Macedonian: девер m (dever)
• Malay: abang ipar (ms) (elder), adik ipar lelaki (younger), ipar lelaki, adik ipar (ms) (younger), ipar
• Maltese: silf
• Māori: taokete (of a male), autāne (of a female)
• Maranao: ipag
• Middle English: brother-in-lawe
• Mwani: nlamu
• Nanai: кэли (keli)
• Norman: bieau-fréthe m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:
  Bokmål: svoger (no) m
  Nynorsk: svoger m, verbror m
• Occitan: conhat (oc), cunhat (oc) m
• Old English: tācor m
• Pashto: لېور (ps) m
• Pennsylvania German: Schwoger m
• Persian: هیور (hivar) (dialectal)
• Polish: szwagier (pl) m pers, dziewierz (pl) m pers (obsolete)
• Portuguese: cunhado (pt) m
• Romani: salo m
• Romanian: cumnat (ro) m, șogor (ro) m
• Russian: де́верь (ru) m (déverʹ)
• Sami:
  Northern Sami: máhka
• Sanskrit: देवृ (sa) m (devṛ), देवर (sa) m (devara)
• Sardinian: connadu m, connatu m, connau m
• Scots: guid-brither
• Scottish Gaelic: bràthair-cèile m
• Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: де̏вер m
  Latin: dȅver (sh) m
• Sicilian: cugnatu m
• Slovene: svák (sl) m
• Sorbian:
  Lower Sorbian: bratš cłowjeka m, swak m (literary), šwogor m (colloquial)
• Spanish: cuñado (es) m, mashita m (Peru)
• Swedish: svåger (sv) c, svärbror
• Tagalog: (literally) bayaw (tl) m
• Taos: pʼǫ́yna (younger), pòpóna (older)
• Tarifit: arwes m
• Turkish: kayın (tr), kayınbirader (tr)
• Ukrainian: ді́вер (uk) m (díver)
• Urdu: دیوَر m (devar) (younger), جیٹھ m (jeṭh) (older)
• Venetan: cugnà m, cugnado m, cognà (vec) m, cognado m
• Vietnamese: anh chồng (older than husband), em chồng (younger than husband)
• Vilamovian: śwöger m
• Welsh: brawd yng nghyfraith (cy) m
• Zazaki: vıstewre (diq)