half sibling

See also: halfsibling and half-sibling

English

Alternative forms

• half-sibling, halfsibling

Noun

half sibling (plural half siblings)

1. A sibling sharing a single parent, as distinguished from a full-sibling or sibling-german, from a stepsibling, or from a sibling-like figure such as a blood sibling.

   Hyponyms: half brother, half sister, uterine sibling

Derived terms

• half sibling-in-law

Translations

a half sibling

• Dutch: halfbrus (nl)
• Finnish: sisaruspuoli, puolisisarus
• Hungarian: féltestvér (hu)
• Ido: mifrato (io)
• Latin: semigermane, semifratrem, semifrater m, semisoror f
• Nupe: tsógi
• Polish: rodzeństwo przyrodnie n
• Swedish: halvsyskon (sv) n

child of the same mother but a different father

• Catalan: germà uterí m
• Japanese: 胤違い (たねちがい, tanechigai)
• Russian: единоутробный (ru) m (jedinoutrobnyj)
• Yoruba: ọmọ-ìyá, iyèkan

  Ekiti: omiye

child of the same father but a different mother

• Japanese: 腹違い (はらちがい, harachigai)
• Russian: единокровный (ru) m (jedinokrovnyj)
• Yoruba: ọmọ-bàbá, ọbàkan

  Ekiti: ọmiba

See also

• stepsibling