brother (male sibling) · sibling (person having the same parents as another) · brother (member of a brotherhood)
çekim: çoğul irmãos
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese irmão (“brother”), from Latin germānus (“brother”), from the adjective germānus (“of true siblings”), from germen (“sprout, bud”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁mn̥ (“offspring, seed”), from *ǵenh₁- (“to beget, to give birth”). Cognates include Galician irmán, Mirandese armano, Asturian hermanu, and Spanish hermano. Doublet of germano, a learned borrowing,…
aile: irmãozão, irmãozinho
O meu irmão mais velho vai casar-se.
Eu tenho quatro irmãos: dois irmãos e duas irmãs.
Irmão Maynard, leia o primeiro versículo do Livro dos Armamentos.
bosom friend, bosom buddy, very close friend or comrade · blood brother (someone bound to another person in commitment and friendship by a ceremonial mingling of blood)
çekim: çoğul fârtați · tamlayan fârtatului
köken: Possibly from the past participle of a Latin verb fratrāre (which did not survive in Romanian; however compare Aromanian nfãrtedz, nfãrtari and fãrtat), ultimately from frāter.