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名詞

milk sibling (複数形 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.

使用する際の注意点

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

引用

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

下位語

• milk brother
• milk sister

引用

• For more examples of usage of this term, see the citations page.