brother-in-arms

English

Noun

brother-in-arms (plural brothers-in-arms or (rare) brethren-in-arms)

1. comrade in arms (fellow combatant or soldier)

   Synonyms: fellow soldier, battle buddy

   Coordinate term: sister-in-arms

   • 2010 February 18, Evan Narcisse, “Wrex in Effect, or, Deep Space and the Negro/Injun/Krogan Problem”, in The Atlantic‎^[1], archived from the original on 02 September 2013, Culture‎^[2]:

     But the vengeance I told myself I was getting for Wrex felt like a lie. I could win the game but he wasn't coming back. Being forced to lose my in-game comrade-who I thought of as a virtual person of color and as a brother-in-arms-affected me in a forceful way that I never expected. Mass Effect made me look at myself and think about the way races, classes and individuals bring their histories to bear.

Translations

fellow combatant or soldier

• Belarusian: брат па збро́і m (brat pa zbrói), тава́рыш па збро́і m (taváryš pa zbrói) (comrade-in-arms)
• Catalan: company d'armes
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 戰友／战友 (zh) (zhànyǒu)

• Dutch: strijdmakker (nl) m, wapenbroeder (nl) m
• Esperanto: samsoldato
• Estonian: relvavend
• Finnish: aseveli (fi)
• French: frère d’armes (fr) m
• Georgian: თანამებრძოლი (tanamebrʒoli)
• German: Waffenbruder m
• Greek: συμπολεμιστής (el) m (sympolemistís)
• Italian: commilitone (it) m
• Japanese: 戦友 (ja) (せんゆう, sen'yū)
• Korean: 전우(戰友) (ko) (jeonu)
• Latin: commiles
• Macedonian: со́борец m (sóborec)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: våpenbror m

• Old English: campġefēra m
• Polish: towarzysz broni (pl) m
• Russian: брат по ору́жию m (brat po orúžiju), това́рищ по ору́жию m (továrišč po orúžiju) (comrade-in-arms), сора́тник (ru) m (sorátnik), сора́тница (ru) f (sorátnica), собра́т по ору́жию m (sobrát po orúžiju)
• Spanish: compañero de fatigas m (colloquial, figurative), conmilitón m
• Swedish: vapenbroder (sv) c, bundsförvant (sv) c, stridskamrat (sv) c, medsoldat (sv) c
• Ukrainian: брат по збро́ї m (brat po zbróji), това́риш по збро́ї m (továryš po zbróji) (comrade-in-arms)
• Vietnamese: chiến hữu (vi) (戰友)