My sister-in-law had four children in five years.
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Sister-in-law
//ˈsɪs.tɚ.ɪn.lɔ//
Synonyms for "sister-in-law" (3 found)
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Related words (1)
Noun(1 words)
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445 translations across 108 languages.
Aklanon
1 entries- hipag noun (wife's sister)
Albanian
2 entries- kunatë noun (wife's sister)
- kunatë noun (husband's sister)
Ancient Greek
3 entries- γάλως noun (husband's sister)
- γάλως noun (brother's wife)
- ἐνάτηρ noun (husband's brother's wife)
Arabic
3 entries- أُخْت زَوْج noun (husband's sister)
- أُخْت زَوْجَة noun (wife's sister)
- سِلْفَة noun (wife's sister)
Armenian
4 entries- հարս noun (brother's wife)
- հարս noun (wife's brother's wife)
- տագերակին noun (husband's brother's wife)
- տալ noun (husband's sister)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
4 entries- ܐܝܼܕ݂ܲܡܬܵܐ noun (husband's brother's wife)
- ܒܲܟ݂ܬ ܐܲܚܵܐ noun (brother's wife)
- ܒܲܟ݂ܬ ܒܲܪܚܡܵܝܵܐ noun (wife's brother's wife)
- ܒܲܪܚܡܵܝܬܵܐ noun (wife's sister)
Asturian
1 entries- cuñada noun (wife's sister)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- baldız noun (wife's sister)
Bashkir
2 entries- еңгә noun (brother's wife)
- килен noun (brother's wife)
Bengali
2 entries- ভাউজ noun (brother's wife)
- ভাবী noun (brother's wife)
Bhojpuri
1 entries- साली noun (wife's sister)
Bikol Central
4 entries- bilas noun (wife's brother's wife)
- bilas noun (husband's brother's wife)
- hipag noun (wife's sister)
- hipag noun (husband's sister)
Bulgarian
3 entries- балдъза noun (wife's sister)
- зълва noun (husband's sister)
- снаха noun (brother's wife)
Burmese
4 entries- ခယ်မ noun (wife's sister)
- ခယ်မ noun (brother's wife)
- မရီး noun (wife's sister)
- မရီး noun (brother's wife)
Catalan
4 entries- cunyada noun (wife's sister)
- cunyada noun (husband's sister)
- cunyada noun (brother's wife)
- cunyada noun (wife's brother's wife)
Cebuano
4 entries- bayaw noun (wife's sister)
- bayaw noun (husband's sister)
- bayaw noun (brother's wife)
- bayaw nga babaye (sa asawa) noun (wife's sister)
Central Kurdish
4 entries- بِراژِن noun (brother's wife)
- دِش noun (husband's sister)
- ژنخوشک noun (wife's sister)
- ھێوەرژِن noun (husband's brother's wife)
Chamicuro
2 entries- pus̈hana noun (wife's sister)
- pus̈hana noun (husband's sister)
Chinese
4 entries- 兄嫂 noun (brother's wife)
- 大姑 noun (husband's sister)
- 大姨 noun (wife's sister)
- 姨仔 noun (wife's sister)
Chinese Cantonese
3 entries- 弟婦 /弟妇 noun (brother's wife)
- 阿妗 noun (brother's wife)
- 阿嫂 noun (brother's wife)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 大姑 noun (husband's sister)
- 大姨子 noun (wife's sister)
- 姨姐 noun (wife's sister)
- 嫂子 noun (brother's wife)
Czech
4 entries- švagrová noun (wife's sister)
- švagrová noun (husband's sister)
- švagrová noun (brother's wife)
- švagrová noun (wife's brother's wife)
Danish
3 entries- svigerinde noun (wife's sister)
- svigerinde noun (husband's sister)
- svigerinde noun (brother's wife)
Dutch
4 entries- schoonzus noun (wife's sister)
- schoonzus noun (husband's sister)
- schoonzus noun (brother's wife)
- schoonzus noun (wife's brother's wife)
Erzya
1 entries- кияло noun (husband's sister)
Esperanto
4 entries- bofratino noun (wife's sister)
- bofratino noun (husband's sister)
- bofratino noun (brother's wife)
- bofratino noun (wife's brother's wife)
Estonian
4 entries- käli noun (wife's sister)
- käli noun (brother's wife)
- käli noun (wife's brother's wife)
- käli noun (husband's brother's wife)
Finnish
4 entries- käly noun (wife's sister)
- käly noun (husband's sister)
- käly noun (brother's wife)
- käly noun (wife's brother's wife)
French
4 entries- belle-sœur noun (wife's sister)
- belle-sœur noun (husband's sister)
- belle-sœur noun (brother's wife)
- belle-sœur noun (wife's brother's wife)
Friulian
1 entries- cugnade noun (wife's sister)
Galician
1 entries- cuñada noun (wife's sister)
Georgian
3 entries- მული noun (husband's sister)
- ცოლიდა noun (wife's sister)
- ძმისცოლი noun (brother's wife)
German
4 entries- Geschwiie noun (wife's sister)
- Schwippschwägerin noun (wife's brother's wife)
- Schwippschwägerin noun (husband's brother's wife)
- Schwägerin noun (wife's sister)
Gooniyandi
1 entries- garingi noun (wife's sister)
Greek
4 entries- κουνιάδα noun (wife's sister)
- κουνιάδα noun (husband's sister)
- νύφη noun (brother's wife)
- συννυφάδα noun (husband's brother's wife)
Gujarati
4 entries- જેઠાણી noun (husband's brother's wife)
- દેરાણી noun (husband's brother's wife)
- નણંદ noun (husband's sister)
- ભાભી noun (brother's wife)
Guugu Yimidhirr
3 entries- dyiiral noun (wife's sister)
- guman.ga noun (brother's wife)
- munamuna noun (wife's sister)
Hebrew
4 entries- גִּיסָה noun (wife's sister)
- גִּיסָה noun (husband's sister)
- גִּיסָה noun (brother's wife)
- גִּיסָה noun (wife's brother's wife)
Hindi
4 entries- जेठानी noun (husband's brother's wife)
- देवरानी noun (brother's wife)
- देवरानी noun (husband's brother's wife)
- ननद noun (husband's sister)
Hungarian
4 entries- sógornő noun (wife's sister)
- sógornő noun (husband's sister)
- sógornő noun (brother's wife)
- sógornő noun (wife's brother's wife)
Icelandic
4 entries- mágkona noun (wife's sister)
- mágkona noun (husband's sister)
- mágkona noun (brother's wife)
- svilkona noun (wife's brother's wife)
Ido
1 entries- bofratino noun (wife's sister)
Ilocano
4 entries- abirat a babai noun (wife's brother's wife)
- abirat a babai noun (husband's brother's wife)
- ipag noun (wife's sister)
- ipag noun (husband's sister)
Ingrian
4 entries- käly noun (brother's wife)
- minni noun (brother's wife)
- nato noun (wife's sister)
- nato noun (husband's sister)
Italian
4 entries- cognata noun (wife's sister)
- cognata noun (husband's sister)
- cognata noun (brother's wife)
- cognata noun (wife's brother's wife)
Japanese
4 entries- 兄嫁 noun (brother's wife)
- 弟嫁 noun (brother's wife)
- 義妹 noun (wife's sister)
- 義姉 noun (wife's sister)
Javanese
1 entries- ipé noun (husband's sister)
Kashmiri
4 entries- بٔے کاکَنؠ noun (brother's wife)
- بٲے کاکَنؠ noun (brother's wife)
- درٕٛے کاکَنؠ noun (husband's brother's wife)
- زام noun (husband's sister)
Konkani
1 entries- जाव noun (husband's brother's wife)
Korean
4 entries- 계수 noun (brother's wife)
- 동서 noun (husband's brother's wife)
- 시누이 noun (husband's sister)
- 아가씨 noun (husband's sister)
Latgalian
4 entries- muoseica noun (husband's sister)
- mārša noun (brother's wife)
- svaiņe noun (wife's sister)
- veiramuosa noun (husband's sister)
Latin
3 entries- frātria f uxor frātris noun (brother's wife)
- glōs noun (wife's sister)
- glōs noun (husband's sister)
Latvian
4 entries- ietaļa noun (husband's brother's wife)
- mārša noun (brother's wife)
- māsīca noun (husband's sister)
- svaine noun (wife's sister)
Lithuanian
4 entries- brolienė noun (brother's wife)
- brolienė noun (husband's brother's wife)
- moša noun (husband's sister)
- sváinė noun (wife's sister)
Luxembourgish
3 entries- Schwéiesch noun (wife's sister)
- Schwéiesch noun (husband's sister)
- Schwéiesch noun (brother's wife)
Malay
4 entries- adik ipar noun (wife's sister)
- adik ipar noun (husband's sister)
- adik ipar noun (brother's wife)
- biras noun (wife's brother's wife)
Manchu
2 entries- ᠪᠠᡧᠠ noun (wife's sister)
- ᡴᡝᡴᡝ noun (wife's sister)
Mansaka
1 entries- ipag noun (wife's sister)
Maranao
1 entries- ipag noun (wife's sister)
Mongolian
2 entries- бэр noun (brother's wife)
- бэргэн noun (brother's wife)
Murrinh-Patha
1 entries- kartu purrima noun (wife's sister)
Mwani
2 entries- wifi noun (wife's sister)
- wifi noun (husband's sister)
Māori
2 entries- auwahine noun (wife's sister)
- taokete noun (husband's sister)
Navajo
1 entries- hayé noun (brother's wife)
Nivkh
1 entries- эмр noun (brother's wife)
Norman
4 entries- belle-soeu noun (wife's sister)
- belle-soeu noun (husband's sister)
- belle-soeu noun (brother's wife)
- belle-soeu noun (wife's brother's wife)
Northern Kurdish
4 entries- diş noun (wife's sister)
- diş noun (husband's sister)
- jinbira noun (brother's wife)
- jintî noun (husband's brother's wife)
Northern Sami
4 entries- gálojeatni noun (husband's brother's wife)
- mannji noun (husband's sister)
- sivjjot noun (wife's sister)
- spile noun (wife's brother's wife)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- svigerinne noun (wife's sister)
- svigerinne noun (husband's sister)
- svigerinne noun (brother's wife)
- svigerinne noun (wife's brother's wife)
Norwegian Nynorsk
4 entries- svigerinne noun (wife's sister)
- svigerinne noun (husband's sister)
- svigerinne noun (brother's wife)
- svigerinne noun (wife's brother's wife)
Occitan
1 entries- conhada noun (wife's sister)
Old Church Slavonic
1 entries- ѩтрꙑ noun (brother's wife)
Old English
1 entries- brōþorwīf noun (brother's wife)
Old Javanese
1 entries- ipe noun (husband's sister)
Oromo
1 entries- sayyuu noun (husband's sister)
Pannonian Rusyn
2 entries- андя noun (brother's wife)
- андя noun (wife's brother's wife)
Pashto
4 entries- اندرور noun (husband's sister)
- بابۍ noun (brother's wife)
- خوښینه noun (wife's sister)
- ندرور noun (husband's sister)
Paumarí
1 entries- ʼananini noun (brother's wife)
Pennsylvania German
2 entries- Gschwei noun (wife's sister)
- Gschwei noun (brother's wife)
Persian
2 entries- خیازنه noun (wife's sister)
- خیاشنه noun (wife's sister)
Polish
3 entries- bratowa noun (brother's wife)
- szwagierka noun (wife's sister)
- szwagierka noun (husband's sister)
Portuguese
4 entries- concunhada noun (wife's brother's wife)
- concunhada noun (husband's brother's wife)
- cunhada noun (wife's sister)
- cunhada noun (husband's sister)
Punjabi
4 entries- بَھرْجائی noun (brother's wife)
- بھابی noun (brother's wife)
- ਭਰਜਾਈ noun (brother's wife)
- ਭਾਬੀ noun (brother's wife)
Romanian
4 entries- cumnată noun (wife's sister)
- cumnată noun (husband's sister)
- cumnată noun (brother's wife)
- cumnată noun (wife's brother's wife)
Russian
4 entries- золо́вка noun (husband's sister)
- неве́стка noun (wife's sister)
- неве́стка noun (husband's sister)
- неве́стка noun (brother's wife)
Sanskrit
2 entries- ननान्दृ noun (husband's sister)
- यातृ noun (husband's brother's wife)
Sardinian
2 entries- connada noun (wife's sister)
- connata noun (wife's sister)
Scots
4 entries- guid-sister noun (wife's sister)
- guid-sister noun (husband's sister)
- guid-sister noun (brother's wife)
- guid-sister noun (wife's brother's wife)
Scottish Gaelic
4 entries- bean-bhràthair noun (brother's wife)
- piuthar-bhean noun (wife's sister)
- piuthar-chèile noun (wife's sister)
- piuthar-chèile noun (husband's sister)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- jetrva noun (husband's brother's wife)
- snaha noun (brother's wife)
- svakinja noun (wife's sister)
- svast noun (wife's sister)
Seri
4 entries- hicatazáta noun (brother's wife)
- hicmajéete noun (wife's sister)
- hicmajéete noun (brother's wife)
- hicóaac noun (brother's wife)
Sicilian
1 entries- cugnata noun (wife's sister)
Slovak
4 entries- zolvica noun (husband's sister)
- švagriná noun (wife's sister)
- švagriná noun (husband's sister)
- švagriná noun (brother's wife)
Slovene
3 entries- svakinja noun (wife's sister)
- svakinja noun (husband's sister)
- svakinja noun (brother's wife)
Spanish
4 entries- cuñada noun (wife's sister)
- cuñada noun (husband's sister)
- cuñada noun (brother's wife)
- cuñada noun (wife's brother's wife)
Swedish
4 entries- svägerska noun (wife's sister)
- svägerska noun (husband's sister)
- svägerska noun (brother's wife)
- svägerska noun (sister's wife)
Tagalog
4 entries- bilas na babae noun (wife's brother's wife)
- bilas na babae noun (husband's brother's wife)
- hipag noun (wife's sister)
- hipag noun (husband's sister)
Tamil
4 entries- அக்கா noun (husband's brother's wife)
- அண்ணி noun (brother's wife)
- கொழுந்தி noun (wife's sister)
- தங்கை noun (husband's brother's wife)
Tarifit
1 entries- tarwest noun (wife's sister)
Torres Strait Creole
1 entries- neitawet noun (husband's brother's wife)
Turkish
4 entries- baldız noun (wife's sister)
- elti noun (wife's brother's wife)
- elti noun (husband's brother's wife)
- görümce noun (husband's sister)
Udi
2 entries- вичечубух noun (brother's wife)
- севичейчугьух noun (wife's brother's wife)
Urdu
4 entries- بھابی noun (brother's wife)
- بھاوَج noun (brother's wife)
- بھوجائی noun (brother's wife)
- جِٹھانی noun (husband's brother's wife)
Vietnamese
4 entries- chị chồng noun (husband's sister)
- chị dâu noun (brother's wife)
- chị dâu noun (wife's brother's wife)
- chị dâu noun (husband's brother's wife)
Volapük
2 entries- lüsör noun (wife's sister)
- lüsör noun (husband's sister)
Walloon
3 entries- bele-sour noun (wife's sister)
- bele-sour noun (husband's sister)
- bele-sour noun (brother's wife)
Yindjibarndi
4 entries- binthi noun (husband's sister)
- binthi noun (brother's wife)
- yarungu noun (wife's sister)
- yarungu noun (brother's wife)
Zazaki
4 entries- bıraceni noun (brother's wife)
- cêri noun (wife's brother's wife)
- gorım noun (husband's sister)
- wayceni noun (wife's sister)
Sample sentences
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You can depend on my older sister-in-law to help you with your homework.
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Since my brother died suddenly two years ago, my sister-in-law has valiantly kept going the small jewellery store he left her.
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My brother died suddenly two years ago. Since then, my sister-in-law has valiantly kept the small jewellery store he left her going.
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