great-grandmother

See also: great grandmother

English

Usage notes

Additional instances of "great-" can be prepended to the term, each indicating one further generation of ancestry. For large numbers of generations a number can be substituted, for example, "fourth great-grandmother", "four-greats grandmother" or "four-times-great-grandmother".

Synonyms

great-grandma

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Translations

mother of one's grandparent

Afrikaans: oumagrootjie, oorgrootmoeder
Asturian: bisgüela (ast) f
Basque: birramona (eu), birramama (eu)
Belarusian: прабабу́ля f (prababúlja)
Bengali: পরদাদী (pordadi) (paternal)
Bulgarian: праба́ба (bg) f (prabába)
Catalan: besàvia (ca) f, redepadrina f (Balearic Islands)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 太嫲 (taai³ maa⁴), 太婆 (taai³ po⁴, taai³ po^4-1, taai³ po^4-2)

Dungan: тэтэ (tete)

Mandarin: 曾祖母 (zh) (zēngzǔmǔ)
Czech: prababička (cs) f, prabába (cs) f
Danish: oldemor (da) c, oldemoder c
Dutch: overgrootmoeder (nl) f
Esperanto: praavino
Faroese: langomma f
Finnish: isoisoäiti (fi), isoäidin äiti, isomummi, isomummo, isomummu
French: arrière-grand-mère (fr) f, bisaïeule (fr) f
Friulian: basave f
Galician: bisavoa (gl) f
Georgian: დიდი ბებია (didi bebia)
German: Urgroßmutter (de) f, Urgrossmutter (de) f (Switzerland, Liechtenstein)
Greek: προγιαγιά (el) f (progiagiá)
Hebrew: סבתא רבתא \ סָבְתָא רַבְּתָא (he) m (sávta rábta)
Hindi: परदादी (pardādī) (paternal)
Hungarian: dédanya (hu), dédnagyanya (hu), dédnagymama (hu), dédi (hu)
Icelandic: langamma (is) f
Ido: preavino (io)
Indonesian: nenek buyut
Irish Gaelic: sin-seanmháthair f
Italian: bisnonna (it) f, bisavola f, bisava f, proavola f, proava f
Japanese: 曾祖母 (ja) (そうそぼ, sōsobo), 曾お祖母さん (ひいおばあさん, hii-obāsan)
Kashmiri: بَڈٕ نانؠ (baḍụ nān')
Korean: 증조모(曾祖母) (jeungjomo)
Ladino:
Roman: biznona f
Macedonian: пра́баба f (prábaba)
Malay: moyang perempuan, moyang (ms), ibu datuk nenek
Miyako: ガバむマ (gabamma)
Navajo: achó (maternal), naakidi nánálí (paternal)
Norman: grand-grand-méthe f (Jersey)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: oldemor (no) m or f

Nynorsk: oldemor f, langgodmor f (rare)
Polish: prababcia (pl), prababka (pl) f
Portuguese: bisavó (pt) f
Romanian: străbunică (ro) f
Russian: праба́бушка (ru) f (prabábuška), праба́бка (ru) f (prabábka) (can sound impolite)
Scottish Gaelic: sinn-seanmhair f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пра̀баба f, праба́ка f

Roman: pràbaba (sh) f, prabáka (sh) f
Slovak: prababička f
Slovene: prababica f
Spanish: bisabuela (es) f
Sundanese: nini uyut
Swedish: farfarsmor c (father's father's mother), farmorsmor c (father's mother's mother), morfarsmor c (mother's father's mother), mormorsmor c (mother's mother's mother), gammelfarmor (sv) c (parent's father's mother), gammelmormor (sv) c (parent's mother's mother)
Tagalog: lola sa tuhod
Udmurt: песяпесянай (peśapeśanaj)
Ukrainian: прабабу́ся (uk) f (prababúsja), праба́ба (uk) f (prabába)
Vietnamese: bà cố
Welsh: hen nain f, hen fam-gu f
Yiddish: אור־באָבע f (ur-bobe), עלטער־באָבע f (elter-bobe)

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great-grandmother

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Noun

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