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
Ogechukwukama	-	Western African, Igbo
Matthei	-	Old Church Slavic
ZÉNaÏDe	ze-na-EED	French
EiŽEns	-	Latvian
Laurencia	-	English (Rare)
Antipater	an-TI-pə-tər (English)	Ancient Greek (Latinized)