The word “sister” refers to a female sibling, someone with whom a person shares parents or one parent. Sisters often share a close bond, growing up together, experiencing life’s ups and downs side by side. People frequently search for the word sister in other languages and sister in different languages to express this special relationship across cultures, learn how to say it in another language, or to feel connected with people from diverse backgrounds.
How to Say Sister in 100 Other Languages:
Afrikaans: suster
Albanian: motër
Amharic: əhət
Arabic: ukht
Armenian: kuyr
Azerbaijani: bacı
Basque: ahizpa
Belarusian: siostry
Bengali: bōn
Bosnian: sestra
Bulgarian: sestra
Catalan: germana
Cebuano: igsoon nga babaye
Chichewa: mlongo
Chinese (Simplified): jiěmèi
Chinese (Traditional): jiěmèi
Corsican: surella
Croatian: sestra
Czech: sestra
Danish: søster
Dutch: zus
English: sister
Esperanto: fratino
Estonian: õde
Filipino: kapatid na babae
Finnish: sisko
French: sœur
Frisian: suster
Galician: irmá
Georgian: dzaĝli
German: Schwester
Greek: adelfí
Gujarati: બહેન (bahēna)
Haitian Creole: sè
Hausa: ’yar’uwa
Hawaiian: kaikaina
Hebrew: achot
Hindi: बहन (bahana)
Hmong: nus
Hungarian: nővér
Icelandic: systir
Igbo: nwanyi nwanne
Indonesian: saudara perempuan
Irish: deirfiúr
Italian: sorella
Japanese: shimai
Javanese: mbakyu
Kannada: ತಂಗಿ (tangi)
Kazakh: aça
Khmer: ph’æn
Korean: yeodongsaeng
Kurdish: xwişk
Kyrgyz: karyndas
Lao: nuoy
Latvian: māsa
Lithuanian: sesuo
Luxembourgish: Schwëster
Macedonian: sestra
Malagasy: rahalahy vavy
Malay: kakak
Malayalam: സഹോദരി (sahodari)
Maltese: oħt
Maori: tua’ine
Marathi: बहिण (bahiṇa)
Mongolian: egch
Myanmar (Burmese): nyo
Nepali: बहिनी (bahinī)
Norwegian: søster
Odia: ଭଉଣୀ (bhauni)
Pashto: خور (khwar)
Persian: خواهر (khāhar)
Polish: siostra
Portuguese: irmã
Punjabi: ਪੈਣ (paina)
Romanian: soră
Russian: сестра (sestra)
Samoan: uso
Serbian: сестра (sestra)
Shona: hanzvadzi
Sindhi: ڀيڻ (bhiyan)
Sinhala: දෙමල (demala)
Slovak: sestra
Slovenian: sestra
Somali: walaasha
Spanish: hermana
Sundanese: mba
Swahili: dada
Swedish: syster
Tajik: хоҳар (khohar)
Tamil: சகோதரி (cakōtari)
Telugu: అక్క (akka)
Thai: พี่สาว (phī̀ sāw)
Turkish: kız kardeş
Ukrainian: сестра (sestra)
Urdu: بہن (bahen)
Uzbek: opa
Vietnamese: chị em
Welsh: chwaer
Xhosa: udade
Yiddish: שוועסטער (shvester)
Yoruba: arabinrin
Zulu: udadewethu