English
- bosomfriend, bosom-friend
Etymology
Compound of bosom + friend. Compare typologically Russian напе́рсник (napérsnik), akin to Proto-Slavic *pьrsь, Russian закады́чный друг (zakadýčnyj drug), akin to кады́к (kadýk)).
Noun
bosom friend (plural bosom friends)
- A very close friend.
1982, Witter Bynner, The Chinese Translations[1], Macmillan, →ISBN, page 225:I pour you the farewell wine as you set out from the capital—
Soon I shall be left behind here by my bosom-friend.
In your sail-boat of sweet cinnamon-wood
You will float again toward your own thatch door
Synonyms
Translations
very close friend
- Afrikaans: boesemvriend (af), boesemvriendin
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Azerbaijani: sirdaş (az), ürəkbir dost, həmdəm
- Belarusian: блізкі сябар m (blizki sjabar), блізкі сябра m (blizki sjabra), блізкая сяброўка f (blizkaja sjabrówka), таечка f (taječka)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 知己 (zh) (zhījǐ), 知音 (zh) (zhīyīn), 摯友 / 挚友 (zh) (zhìyǒu)
- Dutch: getrouwe (nl) m or f, boezemvriend (nl) m, boezemvriendin (nl) f
- Estonian: südamesõber
- Finnish: sydänystävä (fi)
- French: ami intime m, amie intime f
- Galician: amigo da alma m, amiga da alma f
- German: Busenfreund (de) m, Busenfreundin (de) f
- Greek: επιστήθιος φίλος m (epistíthios fílos), κολλητός (el) m (kollitós), αδελφικός φίλος m (adelfikós fílos)
- Hungarian: kebelbarát (hu)
- Irish: cara cnis m
- Italian: amico per la pelle m, amica per la pelle f; amico del cuore m, amica del cuore f
- Japanese: 親友 (ja) (しんゆう, shin'yū), 親しい友達 (したしいともだち, shitashii tomodachi), 心安い友人 (こころやすいゆうじん, kokoroyasui yūjin)
- Kannada: ಆಪ್ತಮಿತ್ರ (kn) (āptamitra), ಪ್ರಾಣಸ್ನೇಹಿತ (kn) (prāṇasnēhita)
- Malayalam: ഉറ്റസുഹൃത്ത് (ml) (uṟṟasuhr̥ttŭ), ആത്മമിത്രം (ml) (ātmamitraṁ)
- Polish: przyjaciel od serca m, przyjaciółka od serca f
- Portuguese: amigo do peito m, amiga do peito f
- Romanian: fârtat (ro) m
- Russian: закады́чный друг (ru) m (zakadýčnyj drug), бли́зкий друг m (blízkij drug)
- Scottish Gaelic: goistidh m (male), bana-ghoistidh m (female)
- Serbo-Croatian: naprsnik m
- Sikkimese: སྙིང་གྲོགས (snying grogs)
- Spanish: amigo del alma m, amiga del alma f
- Swedish: hjärtevän c, såta vänner (sv) (plural)
- Vietnamese: tri kỷ (vi), bạn thân (vi)
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