sisterly

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪstəli/

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• Homophone: systole (non-rhotic)

Etymology 1

From sister +‎ -ly (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

sisterly (comparative more sisterly, superlative most sisterly)

1. Of or characteristic of sisters.
   • 2011 May 4, Jane Martinson, The Guardian:

     Burton designed both Middleton sisters' dresses in white, so that when Pippa picked up Kate's train in the abbey, the two of them were united, visually, in a display of sisterly togetherness.

Derived terms

• sisterly love

Translations

of or characteristic of a sister or sisters

• Arabic: أُخْتِيّ (ʔuḵtiyy)
• Armenian: քույրական (hy) (kʻuyrakan)
• Belarusian: сястры́нскі (sjastrýnski)
• Bulgarian: се́стрински (séstrinski)
• Czech: sesterský
• French: de sœur (fr), sororal (fr), sororel (fr)
• Georgian: დური (duri)
• German: schwesterlich (de), geschwisterlich (de)
• Latin: sororius
• Macedonian: сестрински (sestrinski)
• Polish: siostrzany (pl)
• Romanian: ca de soră, de soră
• Russian: се́стринский (ru) (séstrinskij)
• Slovak: sesterský
• Spanish: sororal
• Ukrainian: сестри́нський (sestrýnsʹkyj)
• Volapük: sörik (vo), (♂♀) gemik (vo), (♀) jigemik

Etymology 2

From sister +‎ -ly (adverbial suffix).

Adverb

sisterly (comparative more sisterly, superlative most sisterly)

1. In the manner of a sister, behaving as one would expect of a sister; as a sister, as sisters.
   • 1908 February 19, Jack London, The Iron Heel, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC:

     "What honest man, who is not insane, would take lost women and thieves into his house to dwell with him sisterly and brotherly?"

Translations

like a sister

• Georgian: დურად (durad)
• German: schwesterlich (de), geschwisterlich (de)
• Romanian: ca o soră
• Russian: по-се́стрински (ru) (po-séstrinski)
• Serbo-Croatian: sèstrīnski (sh)
• Volapük: söriko, (♂♀) gemiko, (♀) jigemiko

Related terms

• big-sisterly

Anagrams

• styliser