брат по батюшке

English translation: brother on Dad's side

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Russian term or phrase:брат по батюшке
English translation:brother on Dad's side
Entered by: Jack Doughty

06:13 Feb 16, 2016
Russian to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Idioms / Maxims / Sayings / литература 19.в.
Russian term or phrase: брат по батюшке
Зачем ты так, он же брат нам, по батюшке!
Albena Christoforova
Local time: 10:37
brother on Dad's side
Explanation:
...he's our brother, on our Dad's side!
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Jack Doughty
United Kingdom
Local time: 08:37
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Summary of answers provided
4 +3brother on Dad's side
Jack Doughty
4Half-brother
Larisa Horback
3brother on (pronoun)'s father's side
JW Narins


  

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brother on Dad's side


Explanation:
...he's our brother, on our Dad's side!

Jack Doughty
United Kingdom
Local time: 08:37
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Native speaker of: English
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Anzhelika Kuznetsova
2 hrs
  -> Thank you.

agree  Natalia Olshanskaya Robinson
22 hrs
  -> Thank you.

agree  Arkadi Burkov
1 day 2 hrs
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agree  Natalie
1 day 14 hrs
  -> Тhank you.

disagree  Larisa Horback: There is no such expression. Please provide a link if I am wrong
7 days
  -> This is not elegant literary Russian. Correct English would be half-brother on father's side, but colloquially this is what would be said.
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brother on (pronoun)'s father's side


Explanation:
that

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Note added at 3 мин (2016-02-16 06:17:31 GMT)
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our father's side, surely


JW Narins
United States
Local time: 04:37
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Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian, Native in EnglishEnglish
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1 day 14 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Half-brother


Explanation:
well, in case of Jews it will be full siblings, (only with Jews)

otherwise if siblings share the same parents they are full siblings if they share only the same mother or father they are half-siblings.


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Note added at 1 day14 hrs (2016-02-17 20:23:32 GMT)
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Also
Those that share the same mother (but different fathers) are known as uterine siblings or maternal half-brothers/half-sisters.
Those that share the same father (but different mothers) are known as agnate siblings or paternal half-brothers/half-sisters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibling


    Reference: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/half%20brother
    Reference: http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/full-sibling...
Larisa Horback
United States
Local time: 04:37
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Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian, Native in UkrainianUkrainian
PRO pts in category: 4
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