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blood is thicker than water

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blood is thicker than water

blood is thicker than water

(family, idiomatic) Family relations and loyalties are stronger than relationships with people who are not family members.
- 1865 May 15 – 1866 January 1, Anthony Trollope, “Mary Belton”, in The Belton Estate. […], volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published December 1865 (indicated as 1866), →OCLC, page 201:
  It seems as though you had come to be so very near to us; and blood is thicker than water, is it not? If cousins are not friends, who can be?
- c. 1915, Lucy Fitch Perkins, chapter 5, in The Scotch Twins:
  The old clans are scattered now, but blood is thicker than water still, and you're welcome to the fireside of your kinsman!
- 2019 March 6, “Binary Star”, in Benjamin and mpi (lyrics), SawanoHiroyuki[nZk] (music), R∃/MEMBER, performed by Uru, Sacra Music, →vgmdb:
  You know blood is thicker than water / But you just want everyone to get along

Translations

relationships are stronger within the family

Albanian: s'bëhet gjaku ujë
Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Egyptian Arabic: الدم عُمره ما يبقى مَيَّة
Armenian: արյունը ջուր չի դառնա (aryunə ǰur čʻi daṙna)
Bulgarian: кръвта вода не става (krǎvta voda ne stava)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 血濃於水／血浓于水 (zh) (xuènóngyúshuǐ)
Czech: krev není voda
Danish: blod er tykkere end vand
Dutch: bloed is dikker dan water
Finnish: veri on vettä sakeampaa (fi)
French: bon sang ne peut mentir (fr); bon sang ne saurait mentir (fr); la voix du sang est la plus forte
German: Blut ist dicker als Wasser (de)
Greek: το αίμα νερό δεν γίνεται (to aíma neró den gínetai)
Hungarian: a vér nem válik vízzé (hu)
Irish: gach díograis go deireadh, is fearr beagán den ghaol ná mórán den charthanas
Italian: il sangue non è acqua
Japanese: 血は水よりも濃い (chi wa mizu yori mo koi)
Korean: 피는 물보다 진하다 (ko) (pineun mulboda jinhada)
Macedonian: крв не е вода (krv ne e voda)
Malay: air dicincang tidak akan putus
Norwegian:
Bokmål: blod er tykkere enn vann (no)

Nynorsk: blod er tjukkare enn vatn
Polish: krew nie woda
Portuguese: o sangue é mais grosso que a água
Romanian: sângele apă nu se face (blood does not become water)
Russian: кровь — не води́ца (krovʹ — ne vodíca) (blood is not water), кровь людска́я — не води́ца (krovʹ ljudskája — ne vodíca) (people's blood is not water)
Scottish Gaelic: is tighe fuil na bùrn, is tiugha fuil na uisge, is fhaisge a' ghlùn na an uileann, 's e a leanabh fhèin as luaithe a bhaisteas an sagart (the priest baptises his own child first), thèid dùthchas an aghaidh nan creag (hereditary tendencies will go against the rocks)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: кр̑в није во̀да

Roman: kȓv nije vòda (blood is not water)
Slovene: kri ni voda (blood is not water)
Spanish: la sangre tira
Swedish: blod är tjockare än vatten (sv)
Tagalog: mas matimbang ang dugo kaysa tubig
Thai: เลือดข้นกว่าน้ำ (th) (lêuat kôn gwàa nám)
Vietnamese: một giọt máu đào hơn ao nước lã (vi)
Welsh: gwaed yn dewach na dŵr

References

Gregory Y. Titelman, Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings, 1996, →ISBN, p. 32.

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