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单词 milk sibling
释义

milk sibling

See also: milk-sibling

English

Alternative forms

  • milk-sibling

Noun

milk sibling (plural milk siblings)

  1. A person who is not one's biological sibling but was nursed by the same woman as oneself.
    • 2004, Rebecca Popenoe, Feeding Desire: Fatness, Beauty, and Sexuality Among a Saharan People, Routledge (2004), →ISBN, page 94:
      But knowingly to marry someone who is a milk sibling is, as Sidi told me gravely, to go against Islam.

Usage notes

The concept of milk kinship is notably present in Islamic law (shari'a), under which milk siblings are forbidden to marry.

Quotations

  • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:milk sibling.

Hyponyms

  • milk brother
  • milk sister
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