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co-sister-in-law en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

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

Meanings

1. One's spouse's sister-in-law, especially one's husband's brother's wife, one's brother's wife in relation to the spouses of his siblings; either of two (or more) women who are married to brothers, in relation to the other.
   • At first the wench's second co-sister-in-law and the middle sister-in-law got into it. 2006, Kalipatnam Rama Rao, translated by C.L.L. Jayaprada, Yagnam and Other Stories, page 61:
   • [The Russian word] Yátrov', for the husband's brother's wife or co-sister-in-law, so diagnostic a status within the patrilocal household, has passed entirely out of the language. 1979, Paul Friedrich, editor, Language, Context, and the Imagination, page 193:
2. One's brother-in-law or sister-in-law's sister; one's sibling's spouse's sister; either of two (or more) women whose siblings are married, in relation to the other.

Forms

Coordinates

co-sibling-in-law · co-brother-in-law

Relateds

co-wife · co-in-law · co-mother-in-law

Synonyms

co-sister · co-aunt (secondary sense)

Translations (40)

ceb bilas (one's husband's brother's wife) · az elti (one's husband's brother's wife) · be ятро́ўка (one's husband's brother's wife) · sh šogorica (one's wife's brother's wife) · sh јетрва (one's husband's brother's wife) · pt concunhada (one's brother-in-law or sister-in-law's sister) · sh šurjakinja (one's wife's brother's wife) · ru своя́ченица (one's husband's brother's wife) · uk ятрі́вка (one's husband's brother's wife) · el συννυφάδα (one's husband's brother's wife) · is svilkona (one's husband's brother's wife) · pl żona brata męża (one's husband's brother's wife) · grc ἐνάτηρ (one's husband's brother's wife) · sh шогорица (one's husband's brother's wife) · pl żona brata żony (one's wife's brother's wife) · tr elti (one's husband's brother's wife) · pt concunhada (one's husband's brother's wife) · ru неве́стка (one's husband's brother's wife) · pl siostra szwagierki (one's brother-in-law or sister-in-law's sister) · la ianitrīx (one's husband's brother's wife) · mvi やㇲ゙ (one's husband's brother's wife) · war bilas (one's husband's brother's wife) · es concuñada (one's brother-in-law or sister-in-law's sister) · hil bilas (one's husband's brother's wife) · sa यातृ (one's husband's brother's wife) · hy տագերակին (one's husband's brother's wife) · sh шурјакиња (one's wife's brother's wife) · zza cêriye (one's husband's brother's wife) · is svilkona (one's wife's brother's wife) · pl siostra szwagra (one's brother-in-law or sister-in-law's sister) · sh jetrva (one's husband's brother's wife) · es concuñada (one's husband's brother's wife) · tl bilas (one's husband's brother's wife) · sh шогорица (one's wife's brother's wife) · bcl bilas (one's husband's brother's wife) · sh šogorica (one's husband's brother's wife) · ar سِلْفَة (one's husband's brother's wife) · fa جاری (one's husband's brother's wife) · cmn 妯娌 (one's husband's brother's wife) · ja 相嫁 (one's husband's brother's wife)