blood brother

English

blood brother (plural blood brothers or (obsolete) blood brethren)

An unrelated male considered to share a brother-like relationship established by a ceremonial sharing of blood in some cultures.
- 2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 241:
  "He is a blood brother and an oath brother of Odin, highest of the gods."
(by extension) An unrelated male considered to share such a strong relationship generally.
A brother by blood: a brother-german or half-brother, as distinguished from step-brothers.

unrelated male friend confirmed by a ceremonial mingling of blood

Belarusian: пабраці́м m (pabracím)
Bulgarian: побратим (bg) m (pobratim)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 盟兄弟 (mang⁴ hing¹ dai⁶)

Mandarin: 把兄弟 (zh) (bǎxiōngdì), 盟兄弟 (zh) (méngxiōngdì)
Dutch: bloedbroeder (nl) m
Finnish: veriveli
French: frère de sang (fr) m
German: Blutsbruder (de) m
Greek: αδελφοποιτός (el) m (adelfopoitós)
Japanese: 義兄弟 (ja) (ぎきょうだい, gikyōdai, ぎけいてい, gikeitei)
Macedonian: по́братим m (póbratim)
Portuguese: irmão de sangue m
Romanian: fârtat (ro) m, frate de sânge (ro) m
Russian: побрати́м (ru) m (pobratím), на́званый брат m (názvanyj brat)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: побратим m

Roman: pobratim (sh) m
Turkish: kan kardeşi (tr)
Ukrainian: побрати́м (uk) m (pobratým)

unrelated male friend considered to share such strong relationship

full brother or half-brother — see also brother-german,‎ half brother

Finnish: täysveli (full brother), velipuoli (fi) (half brother)
Latin: germanus (la)
Portuguese: irmão bilateral (pt) m (full brother), irmão germano m (full brother), meio-irmão (pt) m (half brother)

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