half sister

See also: halfsister and half-sister

English

Alternative forms

• half-sister

Etymology

From Middle English halfesister, half-suster, half sister, equivalent to half- +‎ sister. Compare Dutch halfzus, halfzuster (“half-sister”), German Halbschwester (“half-sister”), Swedish halvsyster (“half-sister”), Icelandic hálfsystir (“half-sister”).

Noun

half sister (plural half sisters)

1. A female sibling sharing a single parent.

   Hypernym: half sibling

   Hyponym: uterine sister

Translations

a female half sibling

• Asturian: hermanastra (ast) f, mediohermana (ast) f
• Breton: hanterc'hoar (br) f
• Catalan: germanastra (ca) f
• Cebuano: hablos
• Cornish: hanter-hwor f
• Danish: halvsøster (da) c
• Dutch: halfzus (nl) f, halfzuster (nl) f
• Finnish: siskopuoli, sisarpuoli
• French: demi-sœur (fr) f
• Galician: media irmá f
• Georgian: ნახევარდა (naxevarda)
• German: Halbschwester (de) f
• Greek: ετεροθαλής αδελφή f (eterothalís adelfí)
• Hindi: सौतेली बहन f (sautelī bahan)
• Hungarian: féltestvér (hu)
• Icelandic: hálfsystir f
• Irish: leathdheirfiúr f, leasdeirfiúr f
• Italian: sorellastra (it) f, mezza sorella f
• Latin: semisoror
• Lithuanian: įseserė f
• Macedonian: полусестра f (polusestra)
• Manx: lhiass-huyr f, lieh-huyr f
• Norman: d'mié-soeu f (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: halvsøster m or f

  Nynorsk: halvsøster f

• Polish: siostra przyrodnia f
• Portuguese: meia-irmã (pt) f
• Romanian: soră vitregă f
• Scottish Gaelic: leth-phiuthar f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: по̏лусестра f

  Roman: pȍlusestra (sh) f

• Spanish: media hermana f, hermanastra f
• Swedish: halvsyster (sv) c, halvsyrra
• Urdu: سوتیلی بہن f (souteli behan)
• Welsh: hanner chwaer (cy) f

daughter of the same father but a different mother

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 同父異母／同父异母 (tung⁴ fu⁶ ji⁶ mou⁵), 同父异母 (tung⁴ fu⁶ ji⁶ mou⁵) (+ words for elder/younger sister)

  Hokkien: 同父異母／同父异母, 同父异母 (tông-hū-ī-bió), 仝爸各母 (zh-min-nan) (kāng-pē-koh-bú / kāng-pē-koh-bó / kāng-pēe-koh-bó) (+ words for elder/younger sister)

  Mandarin: 同父異母／同父异母 (tóngfù yìmǔ), 同父异母 (tóngfùyìmǔ) (+ words for elder/younger sister)

  Xiang: 共爺隔娘／共爷隔娘 (gong⁴ ia² ge⁶ nyian²), 共爷隔娘 (gong⁴ ia² ge⁶ nyian²) (+ words for elder/younger sister)

• Japanese: 腹違い (はらちがい, harachigai), 畑違い (ja) (はたけちがい, hatakechigai), 異腹 (ことはら, koto hara, いふく, ifuku), 異母 (ja) (いぼ, ibo) (+ words for elder/younger sister)
• Latin: soror consanguineus, soror agnata, agnata
• Russian: единокровная сестра (ru) f (jedinokrovnaja sestra)
• Vietnamese: (+ words for elder/younger sister) cùng cha khác mẹ

daughter of the same mother but a different father

• Latin: uterina, uterina soror

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• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} సవతి సోదరి (savati sōdari)