a blood brother

a man who has promised to treat another man as his brother, often in a ceremony in which they cut themselves and mix their blood together We were blood brothers - I was ready to die for him.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Cerdic	-	Anglo-Saxon
Dalya	-	Hebrew
Alexia	ə-LEK-see-ə (English)	French, English (Modern)
Julija	YOO-lee-yah (Slovene)	Slovene, Croatian, Lithuanian
Anika (2)	-	Indian, Hindi
Ihintza	-	Basque