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cousin brother

cousin brother noun: a male first cousin.

Noun

cousin brother (plural cousin brothers)

  1. (South-Asia) A male first cousin.
    • I got one cousin-brother. He dam rich. I speak him for the ten thousand rupees.1853, J. H. Stocqueler, The Old Field Officer or The Military and Sporting Adventures of Major Worthington, volume 2, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, page 3
    • In Punjabi joint families, first cousins are considered siblings (cousin-sisters and cousin-brothers).2006, Nicola Mooney, “Aspiration, reunification and gender transformation in Jat Sikh marriages from India to Canada”, in Global Networks, volume 6, number 4, page 392

Forms of cousin brother

pluralcousin brothers
alternative formcousin-brother

Origin of cousin brother

A semantic loan from respective Indo-Aryan languages' terms for cousin brothers. Compare Punjabi ਚਾਚੇਰਾ ਭਰਾ / چاچیرا بھرا (cācerā bhrā) and Hindi चाचेरा भाई / Urdu چاچیرا بھائی (cācerā bhāī).

Questions about cousin brother

What does cousin brother mean?
Cousin brother means a male first cousin.
What part of speech is cousin brother?
Cousin brother is a noun.
What is the plural of cousin brother?
The plural of cousin brother is cousin brothers.

Words near cousin brother in the dictionary

  1. Cousers
  2. couses
  3. Coushatta
  4. Coushattas
  5. cousin
  6. cousin brother
  7. cousin brothers
  8. cousin german
  9. cousin germans
  10. cousin humper
  11. cousin humpers

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