younger sister (plural younger sisters )
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see younger , sister . (This entry is a translation hub .)
Synonyms: little sister , kid sister
Coordinate terms: younger brother , older brother , older sister
Translations
Ainu: トゥレㇱ ( tures ) ( of a male ) , マタキ ( mataki ) ( of a female )
Assamese: ভনী ( bhoni )
Bashkir: һеңле ( heñle ) , һылыу ( hılıw )
Bengali: বোন (bn) ( bōn )
Burmese: ညီမ (my) ( nyima. )
Catalan: germana petita f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 細妹 / 细妹 ( sai3 mui6-2 ) , 妹 ( mui6-2 )
Dungan: мыймый ( mɨymɨy )
Hokkien: 小妹 (zh-min-nan) ( sió-mōe )
Mandarin: 妹妹 (zh) ( mèimèi )
Wu: 妹妹 ( 6 me-me6 ) , 阿妹 ( 7 aq-me)
Finnish: pikkusisko
French: petite sœur f , sœur cadette f
German: kleine Schwester f
Greenlandic: najak ( of a male ) , nuka ( of a female )
Hungarian: húg (hu)
Inuktitut: ᓇᔭᒃ ( nayak ) ( of a male )
Japanese: 妹 (ja) ( いもうと, imōto ) ( for younger sisters in general or one's own ) , 妹さん ( いもうとさん, imōto san ) ( polite, used when referring to someone else's younger sister )
Javanese: nduk
Kapampangan: wali , nang
Khmer: ប្អូនស្រី ( pʼoun srəy )
Korean: 여동생(女同生) (ko) ( yeodongsaeng ) , 누이동생(同生) ( nu'idongsaeng ) , 동생(同生) (ko) ( dongsaeng ) ( younger sibling, male or female )
Kurdish:
Lao: ນ້ອງສາວ ( nǭng sāo )
Macedonian: помала сестра f ( pomala sestra ) , помлада сестра f ( pomlada sestra )
Malayalam: അനുജത്തി (ml) ( anujatti ) , അനിയത്തി (ml) ( aniyatti )
Manchu: ᠨᠣᠨ ( non )
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: дүү (mn) ( düü ) ( younger sibling, male or female )
Nanai: нэку ( neku )
Portuguese: irmã mais nova
Russian: мла́дшая сестра́ f ( mládšaja sestrá ) , сестрёнка (ru) f ( sestrjónka )
Salar: siñil , siñni
Southern Altai: сыйын ( sïyïn )
Spanish: hermana menor f , hermana pequeña f , hermanita f ( affectionate )
Swedish: lillasyster (sv)
Tagalog: nenè (tl)
Thai: น้องสาว (th) ( nɔ́ɔng-sǎao )
Tibetan: ནུ་མོ ( nu mo ) , འོག་མ ( 'og ma ) , ཨོ་ལགས ( o lags ) ( honorific )
Turkish: kız kardeş (tr) , bacı (tr)
Turkmen: bajy (tk)
Urdu: بَھینا f ( bhainā ) ( endearing ) , بَہْنا f ( bahnā ) ( diminutive )
Uyghur: سىڭىل (ug) ( si'ngil )
Uzbek: singil (uz)
Vietnamese: em (vi) (㛪 (vi) ), em gái (vi) (㛪𡛔 )
Yup'ik: nayagaq ( of a male )