From Middle English brotherly, from Old English brōþorlīċ, from Proto-Germanic *brōþurlīkaz, equivalent to brother + -ly.

• (British) IPA: /ˈbɹʌð.ə.li/
• (America) IPA: /ˈbɹʌð.ɚ.li/

brotherly

1. Of or characteristic of brothers.

   brotherly love

• brother
• brotherhood

• French: fraternel
• German: brüderlich, geschwisterlich
• Portuguese: fraterno, fraternal
• Russian: бра́тский
• Spanish: fraternal, fraterno

1. In the manner of a brother, as a brother, as brothers.
   • 1908, Jack London, The Iron Heel‎, New York: The Macmillan Company:

     "What honest man, who is not insane, would take lost women and thieves into his house to dwell with him sisterly and brotherly?"