kuya
noun
kuya is a noun meaning “An elder brother” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-U-Y-A, and it appears about once in every 10 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of kuya is kuyas.
What does kuya mean?
noun
- 1
An elder brother.
- 2
A respectful title or form of address for an older man.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of kuya
- kuyas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is kuya?
Kuya appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 93,703rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does kuya come from?
From Tagalog kuya, from Hokkien 哥仔 (*ko-iá).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).