similar in English:

What he felt was more akin to pity than love.

He said something akin to what you're saying.

Their music is more akin to that of the Beatles thn to the Spice Girls.

My parents were akin, probably half cousins.

We two are more akin than any others in this land.

... you grow up is akin to saying that you...

Pity is akin to love.

This problem is akin to the one we had last year.

Freedom is akin to the rarified air of a mountain top. Weak men cannot bear one or the other.

The singing of the local birds is akin to the sound of a drill.