ate

Borrowed from Tagalog ate (“elder sister”), from Hokkien 阿姊 (á-ché, “eldest sister”).

bor+

A respectful title or form of address for an older woman.


sibling

1903, modern revival of Old English sibling (“relative, a relation, kinsman”), equivalent to sib + -ling. Compare Middle English siblynges pl, sib, sibbe (“relative; kinsman”), German Sippe. The term apparently meant merely kin or relative until the 20th century when it was applied in a way that aided the study of genetics, which led to its specialized use. For example, the OED has a 1903 citation in which "sibling" must be defined for those who don't know the intended meaning.

lbor

None of my siblings are married yet.

A person who shares a parent; one's brother or sister who one shares a parent with.

both often used loosely for non-relatives

(computing theory) A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.

D. simulans, D. mauritiana and D. sechellia (which we will call “the siblings” when we do not need to distinguish among them) have homosequential polytene chromosome banding patterns differing from those of D. melanogaster by one long inversion on chromosome arm 3R and a few much smaller inversions.

1990 April 1, P. Hutter et al., “A genetic basis for the inviability of hybrids between sibling species of Drosophila”, in Genetics, volume 124, number 4, pages 909–920:

Bush suggested that this difference might represent a case of chromosomal polymorphism or, more likely, sibling species.

2015 November 26, Lucie Vaníčková et al., “Current knowledge of the species complex Anastrepha fraterculus (Diptera, Tephritidae) in Brazil”, in ZooKeys, volume 540, →DOI, pages 211–237:

(taxonomy) The most closely related species, or one of several most closely related species when none can be determined to be more closely related.


sister-in-law

en-noun

sister-in-law (plural sisters-in-law or (colloquial, nonstandard) sister-in-laws)

sisters-in-law (plural)
sister-in-laws (colloquial nonstandard plural)

Inherited from Middle English suster-in-lawe; equivalent to sister + -in-law.

inh+

새언니 (saeeonni) (woman's older brother's wife, lit. "new older sister")

bilas nga babaye (sa igsoong lalaki sa asawa)

bilas nga babaye (sa igsoong lalaki sa bana)

Though they are not twins, my sister-in-law resembles my wife in almost every way.

A female relative of one's generation, separated by one degree of marriage:

My sister-in-law and my brother both met while they were on vacation in Jamaica.

(less common) Co-sister-in-law: The wife of one's sibling-in-law.

The wife of the sibling of one's spouse.

The sister of the spouse of one's sibling.


stepbrother

en-noun

stepbrother (plural stepbrothers or (obsolete) stepbrethren)

stepbrothers (plural)
stepbrethren (obsolete plural)

The stepson of one's parent who is not one's half-brother.


half-brother

half-brother (plural half-brothers or half-brethren)

half-brothers (plural)
half-brethren (plural)

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stepsister

The stepdaughter of one's parent which is not one's half-sister.


bro

head

bro (third-person singular, masculine, nominative or objective case)

en-pron

desc

→ Arabic: بْرُو (brō), بْرُوه (brō, brōh) (slang)

→ Italian: bro (slang)

→ Russian: бро (bro) (slang)

→ Spanish: bro (slang)

→ Ukrainian: бро (bro) (slang)

→ Vietnamese: bro (slang)

PIE word
 *bʰréh₂tēr
Clipping of brother, Cf. scro.

Bro said he finna go off today

You gotta go up to bro and say, "I know what you mean"

Bro doesn't pay rent; the rent pays bro.

(slang, originally African-American Vernacular) A person previously mentioned, usually male. Chiefly equivalent to he and him.

samideano

male comrade or friend; one who shares one’s ideals


big brother

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Due to the size of Big Brother and the fact that people who used it were mostly big brothers in the business world, this thing quickly became a status symbol.

2018 December, “Chinese Terminology: Big Brother”, in CGTN:

(figurative) early mobile phones (in China)


big sister

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(often childish) A sibling's older sister.


little brother

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little sister

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Hey little sister, what have you done? / Hey little sister, who’s the only one? / Hey little sister, who’s your superman? / Hey little sister, who’s the one you want? / Hey little sister, shotgun!

1981, “White Wedding - Pt. 1”, in Billy Idol, performed by Billy Idol:


sib

From Middle English sib, sibbe, from Old English sibb (“relationship; gossip; friendliness, kindness; love, friendship, peace, concord, unity, tranquility; peace of mind; a relative, kinsman, kinswoman”), from Proto-West Germanic *sibbju, from Proto-Germanic *sibjō (“kinship”), from Proto-Indo-European *sebʰ-, *swebʰ- (“one's own”).
Cognate with West Frisian sibbe (“relative, family member”), Dutch sibbe (“sib”), German Sippe (“tribe, clan”), Icelandic sifjar (“in-laws”), Latin suus (“one's own”).

cog

A sibling, brother or sister (irrespective of gender)


half brother-in-law

en-noun

half brother-in-law (plural half brothers-in-law)

From half brother + -in-law or half + brother-in-law.


achi

(Philippines, Chinese Filipino, colloquial) the eldest sister

(Philippines, Chinese Filipino, colloquial, informal) an elder sister

(Philippines, Chinese Filipino, colloquial, familiar) a young female senior (usually within the Chinese Filipino community)

(Philippines, Chinese Filipino, colloquial) respectful term of address for the eldest sister

(Philippines, Chinese Filipino, colloquial, informal) respectful term of address for an elder sister

(Philippines, Chinese Filipino, colloquial, familiar) respectful term of address for a young female senior (usually within the Chinese Filipino community)


sister-wife

Coordinate term: brother-husband

My Grecians shall victorious prove, By me led on to War, the Sister-Wife of Jove.

1743, trans. Philip Francis, “Odes”, in Horace, volume III, iii, page 64:

Ptolemy VII […] married Cleopatra, the sister-wife of his predecessor.

1853, Henry N. Humphreys, The coin collector's manual, page 118:

Anat as sister-wife of Baal, Isis as mother of Horos and sister-wife of Osiris, Hera as sister-wife of Zeus

1974, Joseph Fontenrose, Python: A Study of Delphic Myth and Its Origins, page 257:

A woman who is simultaneously sister and wife to her spouse.

zuster-vrouw

a woman who is simultaneously sister and wife to her spouse

Enmities between sister-wives will [be,] from their having known each other too intimately all their lives, more unmannerly than where they are strangers to each other

1853, quoted in Robert Cox, Sabbath Laws and Sabbath Duties, page 194:

In a polygamous marriage, a woman who is simultaneously the sister and co-wife of another.

Yüeh-niang and her sister-wives, all dressed in formal gowns, came out from inside to greet them and ushered them into the rear reception hall

2006, Xiaoxiaosheng, trans. David Tod Roy, The plum in the golden vase, or, Chin P'ing Mei, page 21:

The concept of 'sisterhood' was popularly applied to the official organizations for Mormon women, and Mormon co-wives were and are still known as 'sister-wives'

2008, Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen, Polygamy: A Cross-Cultural Analysis, page 97:


sis

head

sis (third-person singular, feminine, nominative case)

en-pron

sis is living my delusions, happy for her

2023 February 2, ㅊ (@jaja_girly), Twitter:

The internalized colorism that has inflicted Will is just… Referring to gorgeous Veronica as “Black bald dark-skin woman.” How she didn’t snatch him from his Mama’s highchair I do not know.. Sis dodged all the bullets.. #loveisblindbrazil

“Sue Me” sis snapped

2022 September 29, Kahlen Barry (@KahlenBarry), Twitter:

sis really said fuck the police go off

2023 January 3, sésé/gee☆♱ (@d0llydeathw1sh), Twitter:

Call me when ur 3 year old daughter knows SZA lyrics, girl said “you still playin the pick me, I’m still playin the victim” we don’t care if it’s backwards sis learned that all on her own 🥹

2023 January 3, amanda 🍒(@ amc0124), Twitter:

(chiefly African-American Vernacular, slang) she


Irish twin

Originally used (in the nineteenth century) to mock the fertility of Irish families, referencing the stereotype that they have children in quicker succession.

I'm the oldest, my brother, Dylan, is the next oldest—my Irish twin.” “Irish twin?” “He's ten months younger, what is referred to sarcastically as an Irish twin. My parents still live in the same flat in Dublin I grew up in. I haven't been home much the last twelve years or so. How about you, darlin'?”

2014, Karyn Gerrard, His Wicked Celtic Kiss, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

(rare, slang, offensive) Either of a pair of siblings born less than 12 months apart, especially if born within the same calendar year or school year or born one year apart.


blood brother

en-noun

blood brother (plural blood brothers or (obsolete) blood brethren)

blood brothers (plural)
blood brethren (obsolete plural)

пабраці́м

unrelated male friend confirmed by a ceremonial mingling of blood

把兄弟

unrelated male friend considered to share such strong relationship

A brother by blood: a brother-german or half-brother, as distinguished from step-brothers.

täysveli

full brother or half-brother — see also brother-german, half brother


cousin sister

Late in 1997 the entire family returned to India to arrange the marriages of Nimrat's brothers and cousin-sister.

2006, Nicola Mooney, “Aspiration, reunification and gender transformation in Jat Sikh marriages from India to Canada”, in Global Networks, volume 6, number 4, page 394:

Welfare Ministry Secretary Upali Dahanayake, his elderly father, daughter, and a cousin sister died on the spot in a tragic accident in Mahiyangana yesterday.

2007 July 2, Kurulu Kariyakarawana, Yohan Perera, “Ministry secretary, three others killed in road accident”, in Daily Mirror e-edition, Sri Lanka, page 1:


half sister-in-law

half sister-in-law (plural half sisters-in-law)

From half sister + -in-law or half + sister-in-law.


identical twin

identical (“indistinguishable”) + twin (“sibling with whom one has shared the uterus of the mother”)

One of exactly two siblings produced from the splitting of a single zygote.


bubba

Possibly an alteration of brother or bub, said by a young child not yet able to pronounce brother properly, but note similar terms in other Germanic languages derived from Proto-Germanic *bō-, *bō-, such as West Frisian bobbe, German Bube (“boy”), dialectal Swedish babbe (“little boy”), English babe, Dutch boef (“mischievous lad, rascal”), Middle Low German bōve, and Icelandic bófi. Also compare sissy.

Will Ferrell and his creative partner, the writer and director Adam McKay, are, let’s face it, our national poets on the subject of dimwitted, bubba arrogance and the redemptive powers of failure, their poems seemingly conceived in a midnight frenzy of brilliance on the back of a bag of Doritos.

2009 February 13, Ginia Bellafante, “A Pitcher’s Life After the Third Strike”, in New York Times:

Their subjects were not bubbas from the bayous but affluent students at the University of Michigan who had lived in the South for at least six years.

2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 120:

A working-class white male from the southern US, stereotyped as loutish.


stepsibling

With multiple stepparents, stepsiblings, half siblings and pseudosiblings, it’s a whole new type of family[…].

2007 April 19, Kate Murphy, “Stepfamilies Try to Stretch Their Space”, in New York Times:

The child of one's stepparent by a previous relationship.


co-sister

From co- + sister. The second meaning was influenced by a Dravidian substrate.

During this time I came to know about tubectomy from my co-sister and also from the female health worker. This time both my husband and father-in-law refused [me the surgery] on the ground that I was the eldest daughter-in-law and a responsible person for the whole family.

1989, Abusaleh Shariff, Fertility transition in rural South India, page 263:


co-sibling-in-law

(rare) One's spouse's sibling's spouse; either of two (or more) people who marry siblings, from the perspective of the other.

__IGNORE__ (with siblings of the same sex

a man's wife's sister's husband, or a woman's husband's brother's wife, but not cheonambu a man's wife's brother's wife)

(rare) One's sibling's spouse's sibling; either of two (or more) people whose siblings marry each other, from the perspective of the other.


Siamese twin

Chang and Eng Bunker, conjoined twins from Siam (modern Thailand), were known as the "Siamese twins".

the two stood together; the old miser leaning against the herb-doctor with something of that air of trustful fraternity with which, when standing, the less strong of the Siamese twins habitually leans against the other.

1857, Herman Melville, chapter XXI, in The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade:

The village sign on the green depicts the Biddenden Maids, the Siamese twins Elizabeth and Mary Chulkhurst, who were born about 1135, joined at the hip and shoulder. They lived until the age of 34 when they died within a few hours of each other.

1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 58:

A conjoined twin; one of two people physically joined together.


conjoined twin

One of the two identical twins who are born attached together in utero.


godsister

From Middle English godsuster, equivalent to god- + sister.

Let's go back to the thirteen-year-old girl introduced in Chapter 8 who found out her godsister was her half sister.

2005, Diane Ehrensaft, Mommies, daddies, donors, surrogates:

Before she met the man who became and remains her pimp, she was selling drugs with her godsister; he was one of their clients.

2007, Cynthia Cole Robinson, From the classroom to the corner:

What seemed a promising turn in their relationship was dashed when he began introducing her to his friends as his godsister.

2009 August 23, Katie Zezima, “Leah Squires and Eric Traub”, in New York Times:

"Mother, are you going to take her in as your goddaughter? I'm going to have a godsister? "

2020, Ruan Bao, Deep Affection of You and Me: Volume 1, Funstory, →ISBN:

The daughter or goddaughter of one's godparent, or the goddaughter of one's parent.


godsib

Learned borrowing from Middle English godsib; doublet of gossip; see those entries for more.

lbor

The fireplace also heated water for the godsibs to wash their hands with as they were instructed by the rubric to do before leaving the church.

1920, Courtenay Frederic William Dunn, The Natural History of the Child: A Book for All Sorts and Conditions of Men, Women, and Children, page 233:

[…] the Bumgardners' maid, with Preston and Penelope in tow, was exchanging defamatory gossip with her godsib Ofelia Gomez, Luke Regan's scullion.

1965, Willard Marsh, Week with No Friday:

The Vicosino then went to his godsib and then to the Cornell Peru Project field director for confirmation of […]

1966, Henry F. Dobyns, Paul L. Doughty, Allan R. Holmberg, Cornell Peru Project, Peace Corps Program Impact in the Peruvian Andes: Final Report:

After a man's kin and godsibs, the next allegiance is to his paisanos (fellow countrymen) or […]

1968, Paul L. Doughty, Mary F. Doughty, Huaylas: An Andean District in Search of Progress, page 37:

[…] to members of their own family, intimates (especially their godsibs), and ideally the priest, who usually is too busy to accept all invitations.

1968, Earl W. Morris, Coming Down the Mountain: The Social Worlds of Mayobamba:

[…] where 34 % of testators who mentioned godchildren were homonymous with those godsibs.

2006, David Postles, Joel Thomas Rosenthal, Studies on the Personal Name in Later Medieval England and Wales (Western Michigan Univ.)

The most important people in the baptismal party that processed from Newbold Revel to the church porch were the three people who had undertaken to support the baby's introduction into the Christian faith. […] Godsibs, as godparents were called, were chosen with care and took their responsibilities seriously. […] since a baby was almost always given the Christian name of the most important godsib, his name must provide a clue.

2007, Christina Hardyment, Malory: The Knight Who Became King Arthur's Chronicler, Harper Collins, →ISBN, page 50:

Holinshed's Chronicle says: 'James Earl of Desmond being suffered and not controlled, during the government of Richard Duke of York his godsib and of Thomas Earl of Kildare his kinsman, did put upon the King's subjects […]'

2013, Edmund Curtis, A History of Medieval Ireland (Routledge Revivals): From 1086 to 1513, Routledge, →ISBN, page 306:

(chiefly historical or anthropology) One's sibling or kin via a godfamily tie: one's or one's child's godparent, or one's godchild's parent, or one's godparent's child.


three-quarter sibling

en-noun

three-quarter sibling (plural three-quarter siblings)

A sibling with whom one shares about 37.5% of one's genes, as opposed to 25% for half-siblings and 50% for full siblings.

(horse breeding) The offspring of a horse's sire/dam that is by/out of a sibling of its other parent.

(horse breeding) The offspring of a horse's dam and a son of its sire.

(horse breeding) The offspring of a horse's sire and a daughter of its dam.


milk sibling

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But knowingly to marry someone who is a milk sibling is, as Sidi told me gravely, to go against Islam.

2004, Rebecca Popenoe, Feeding Desire: Fatness, Beauty, and Sexuality Among a Saharan People, Routledge, published 2004, →ISBN, page 94:

A person who is not one's biological sibling but was nursed by the same woman as oneself.


brother-german

A full brother: a brother born to the same mother and father, as distinguished from half brothers (uterine brothers), step-brothers, or 'brothers' established through relationships such as wardship.


brother-husband

Coordinate term: sister-wife

Dala Kumara was seized by a deep passion; he carried his sister away to the forest and lived with her there, subsisting on wild foods. One day, when her brother-husband was away, Giri Devi ran away and hanged herself from some forest vines.

1996, Allen W. Johnson, Douglass Richard Price-Williams, Oedipus Ubiquitous: The Family Complex in World Folk Literature, →ISBN, page 188:

According to the Pyramid Texts — a collection of prayers, hymns, and spells for the dead — Isis foresaw the murder of her brother-husband and mourned for him before the event.

2005, Gods, Goddesses, and Mythology - Volume 6, →ISBN, page 764:

King Purukutsa could never forget that his queen was his younger sister, on of his own blood. They didn't beget any children. Purukutsani who was also an equally rightful claimant to the royal household ruled the kingdom like a real queen, all the reins of the state, which were formally with her elder brother-husband, securely in her hands.

2006, Shankar Mokashi-Punekar, Awadheswari, →ISBN, page 1:

Rufous Rudra Silvercloud, Bodiless Byron's firstborn son, his Beast Master, also his Storm Lord; - brother-husband to sister-wife Umashakti; - joint devic over-ruler of the former Weirdom of Kanin City when the ever-expanding Empire of Lathakra reached its walls; rather than either surrendering or fighting the Thanatoids and their allies, including the Unity of Chaos, he joined them.

2011, Jim McPherson, The Death's Head Hellion: Sedonplay, 4824/25 Year of the Dome, →ISBN:

A man who is simultaneously brother and husband to his wife.


full-sibling

A person who shares the same set of biological parents


sibling-in-law

A relative of one's generation, separated by one degree of marriage:

(uncommon) Co-sibling-in-law: A relative of one's generation, separated by two degrees of marriage:

The spouse of the sibling of one's spouse.

The sibling of the spouse of one's sibling.


half sibling

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.

germà uterí

child of the same mother but a different father

腹違い

child of the same father but a different mother


godbrother

From Middle English godbrother, equivalent to god- + brother.

I got excited at the prospect of even more fun in this wonderful house with my godbrothers.

2008, Sharon Cheston, Faded Rainbows: Psychospiritual Therapeutic Journeys, iUniverse, published 2008, →ISBN, page 29:

Wes and his godbrother, Red, moved toward the cheese bus as it slowly rolled to a stop in Dundee Village.

2010, Wes Moore, The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates, Spiegel & Grau, published 2010, →ISBN, page 97:

Her worldview may also be favorably tweaked by her having a godbrother with cerebral palsy.

2013, J. W. Wiley, The Nigger in You: Challenging Dysfunctional Language, Engaging Leadership Moments, Stylus, published 2013, →ISBN, page 35:

"My mom took him in as her godson, so of course he's my godbrother!" Jia Li said with a hint of pride in her voice. Old Shen, you are awesome!

2019, Hou ShenDaShu, The Happiness, Funstory, →ISBN:

The son or godson of one's godparent, or the godson of one's parent.


younger sister

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see younger, sister. (This entry is a translation hub.)

妹

for younger sisters in general or one's own

妹さん

used when referring to someone else's younger sister


younger brother

younger brother (plural younger brothers)

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see younger, brother. (This entry is a translation hub.)

أَخ الْأَصْغَر

multi-word, compound-word or otherwise sum-of-parts translations

أَخ الصَّغِير

ʔaḵ aṣ-ṣaḡīr


half-sib

The offspring of only one of one's parents.


womb-brother

womb-brother (plural womb-brothers or womb-brethren)

womb-brothers (plural)
womb-brethren (plural)

Only womb-brothers could look so much alike, and Thamalon had been present at Tamlin's birth.

2012, David Gross, Lord of Stormweather: Sembia: Gateway to the Realms - Book 7:

Father to son inheritance is a key feature of patrilineal succession but is often absent from matrilineal systems where a man is normally succeeded by the son of his sister or by his own womb-brother.

2012, Tim Clarkson, The Picts: A History:

An Anglican bishop and a Chief Imam could be womb-brothers in Africa.

2015, Robert J. Schreiter, Mission in the Third Millennium:


older sister

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see older, sister. (This entry is a translation hub.)


older brother

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see older, brother. (This entry is a translation hub.)

うみしーじゃ

used by nobles to address their older brother


vanishing twin

A fetus in a multigestation pregnancy that dies in utero and is then partially or completely reabsorbed by its twin.


fetus papyraceus

A vanishing twin that, rather than being completely reabsorbed, is compressed by its growing twin to a flattened, parchment-like condition.


mirror-image twin

mirror-image twin (plural mirror-image twins)

A kind of monozygotic twin exhibiting reversed asymmetry with the other twin in certain physical characteristics.


ahiya

tlb

(Philippines, Chinese Filipino, colloquial)

(familiar) respectful term of address for a young male senior (usually within the Chinese Filipino community)


godsibling

Ines described her first godfather as so controlling that he didn't permit his godchildren to talk with each other. She believed that he had coercive sexual relationships wth many of her godsiblings.

2016, C. Lynn Carr, A Year in White: Cultural Newcomers to Lukumi and Santería in the United States, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN:

To Eloghosa Osunde and Ann Daramola for reading and loving this book so early—thank you, godsiblings.

2020, Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji, Faber & Faber Ltd, pages 247-248:

"I've got a dad! And a mom! And a sister! And a Susan, too! I've got a great family! I've even got a god-sibling now, and she's cool, too!"

2021 February 1, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Monday, Feb 1, 2021:

A child, or fellow godchild, of one's godparent, or a godchild of one's parent: a person with whom one has a sibling relationship that is mediated or created by a godfamily tie rather than blood relation.


sister-out-law

From sister + -out-law, by analogy to sister-in-law.


half-sibling-in-law

From half-sibling + -in-law or half- + sibling-in-law.

The spouse of the half sibling of one's spouse.


monozygotic twin

en-noun

monozygotic twin (plural monozygotic twins)


Ahiya

Looked up to this guy since I was a kid! Thanks for being an inspiration to me and to others as well, Ahiya @chris_tiu17! And congratulations for a successful basketball career!...

2019, Aedrianne Acar, “READ: Jeron Teng pays tribute to his 'idol' Chris Tiu”, in GMA Entertainment, GMA Network, archived from the original on 2021-12-28:

(Philippines, Chinese Filipino, colloquial, informal) respectful honorific used before a name for a young male senior (usually within the Chinese Filipino community): Mister; Brother


onee-san

(Japanese, often as a form of address) An older sister


biosibling

The child may also experience divided loyalties between his natural siblings and stepsiblings, particularly where a stepsibling is close in age and becomes a buddy to the child, thereby usurping the exclusive role his biosibling may formerly have had.

1981, Helen Crohn, Holly Brown, Libby Walker, Joan Beir, “Understanding and Treating the Child in the Remarried Family”, in Irving R. Stuart, Lawrence Edwin Abt, editors, Children of Separation and Divorce: Management and Treatment, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, →ISBN, part IV (Treatment Within the Family Unit), page 302:

A typical minor or grown stepchild may[…]have biosiblings, stepsiblings, and/or half-siblings in the same home, in their other bioparent’s home, in both homes, or neither.

2001, Peter K. Gerlach, “Stepfamily Realities”, in Build a High-nurturance Stepfamily: A Guidebook for Co-parents (Stepfamily inFormation Series; Divorce-Prevention Series; volume 4), Xlibris, →ISBN, part 1 (Foundations), page 86:

The winning bidders were so thrilled with the outcome that they hired Shoko to bump with Raimundo again (they were broken up at this point, which made it waaaay awkward but business is business and pleasure is pleasure), so the second pregg she’s carrying now is biosiblings with the first.

2011, Megan McCafferty, Bumped, Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, →ISBN, page 49:

Indeed, biosiblings are more correlated for weight than they are for obesity.

2012, Michael Beenstock, “Correlation within the Family”, in Heredity, Family, and Inequality: A Critique of Social Sciences, Cambridge, Mass., London: The MIT Press, →ISBN, page 72:

germane

sibling sharing at least one biological parent


biosib

Adjust their _ identity, _ power, _ loyalties, and _ “rank” in their _ home/s and _ stepfamily each time _ their co-parents have a new child (i.e. a half-sib); or _ a biosib or stepsib moves in or out of their home; or _ a key person dies, moves away, re/marries, or re/divorces.

2002, Peter K. Gerlach, Build a Co-parenting Team: After Divorce or Re/marriage (volume 6 of the Stepfamily inFormation Series), Xlibris, →ISBN:

She has to deal with sharing her mom with kids who aren’t even her biosibs.

2011, Liane Shaw, Fostergirls, Second Story Press, →ISBN, page 149:

The logic behind this argument is the same as the logic of behavioral genetics, in which comparisons are made between MZ and DZ twins and biosibs and adopted siblings.[…]For example, the equal-environments assumption (EEA) is unlikely to apply to orphans and non-orphans, just as it is unlikely to apply to MZ and DZ twins or to biosibs and adopted siblings.

2012, Michael Beenstock, “Empirical Knowledge on the Causes of Correlations within the Family”, in Heredity, Family, and Inequality: A Critique of Social Sciences, Cambridge, Mass., London: The MIT Press, →ISBN, page 248:


shobe

From Hokkien 小妹 (sió-bē, “younger sister; youngest sister”).

bor

(informal) a younger sister; little sister


shoti

From Hokkien 小弟 (sió-tǐ, “younger brother; youngest brother”).

‘SAY HI TO SEVI’ ❤ LOOK: A week after Kryz and Slater Young's second child was born, the couple finally has a name for their shoti. Say hi to Sevi, skyfam! ❤

2022 May 29, Immae Lachica, “Say hello to Skyfam’s second child, Sevi!”, in Cebu Daily News (CDN Digital) by INQUIRER.net, Cebu City:

(Philippines, Chinese Filipino, colloquial, informal) a younger brother; little brother