brethren

Etymology
From Early Modern English, plural of , from , from , +. Ultimately from, , influenced by 🇨🇬, dative singular of. Equivalent to. Compare 🇨🇬. More at. The vowel change (from o to e) is called umlaut.

Noun

 * 1)  kinsmen
 * 1)  kinsmen

Usage notes
The plural is generally used for members of an organization, especially a religious body, whereas the plural  is used in the familial sense as well as for larger groups.

Noun

 * 1)  The body of members, especially of a fraternal, religious or military order.

Translations

 * Atayal: mtsswe
 * Bengali: ভ্রাতৃবর্গ
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish: veljet, veljekset
 * French:, ,
 * German:, Brüdergemeinschaft
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian: confratelli
 * Japanese:
 * Occitan: confraires,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, confrades,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian:, ,


 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * Galician: irmáns
 * Hebrew: אחים לדת
 * Interlingua:
 * Portuguese:

Adjective

 * 1) Of or akin to; related; like