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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From grand- + parent. Compare French grand-parent.
Pronunciation
Noun
grandparent (plural grandparents)
- the parent of someone's parent
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Translations
parent of one's parent
- Arabic: جَدّ (ar) m (jadd) (grandfather), جَدَّة (ar) f (jadda) (grandmother)
- Egyptian Arabic: جد m (ged), جدة f (geda)
- Asturian: güelu (ast) m, güela (ast) f
- Brunei Malay: nini
- Chichewa: gogo
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 祖父母 (zou2 fu6 mou5), 公公婆婆 (gung1 gung1 po4 po4-2) (maternal), 爺爺嫲嫲／爷爷嫲嫲 (je4 je4 maa4 maa4) (paternal)
- Mandarin: 祖父母 (zh) (zǔfùmǔ)
- Czech: prarodič (cs)
- Dutch: grootouder (nl) m
- Finnish: isovanhempi (fi)
- French: grand-parent (fr) m, aïeul (fr) m, aïeule (fr) f
- Galician: avós m pl (plural only)
- German: Großeltern (de) pl (plural only), Großelternteil (de) m
- Guaraní: (grandfather) taita guasu, (grandmother) jarýi (gn)
- Hawaiian: kupuna
- Hungarian: nagyszülő (hu)
- Ido: avo (io)
- Indonesian: kakek (id) (grandfather), nenek (id) (grandmother)
- Interlingua: (grandfather) granpatre, (grandmother) granmatre (ia)
- Irish: seantuismitheoir m
- Italian: (grandfather) nonno (it), (grandmother) nonna (it)
- Japanese: 祖父母 (ja) (そふぼ, sofubo)
- Khmer: យាយតា (yeay tar)
- Laboya: wede
- Low German:
- Westphalian: Chrautellern pl (plural only)
- German Low German: Grootöllern (nds) pl (plural only)
- Macedonian: де́до (mk) m (dédo) (grandfather), ба́ба (mk) f (bába) (grandmother)
- Malay: datuk nenek
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: besteforelder (no) m (mostly used in pl)
- Nynorsk: besteforelder m (mostly used in pl)
- Pennsylvania German: Groosseldre pl
- Polish: dziadkowie (pl) m pl
- Portuguese: avós (pt) m pl (plural only), (grandfather) avô (pt) m, (grandmother) avó (pt) f
- Quechua: awki
- Russian: де́душка (ru) m (déduška)， дед (ru) m (ded) (grandfather), ба́бушка (ru) f (bábuška), ба́ба (ru) f (bába) (grandmother)
- Scottish Gaelic: seann-phàrant m
- Spanish: abuelo (es) m, abuela (es) f
- Swedish: far- och morföräldrar c pl
- Tok Pisin: tumbuna
- Tupinambá: amỹîa (grandfather; t-, t-)
- Volapük: lepal (vo)
- Yiddish: זיידע־באָבע pl (zeyde-bobe), באָבע־זיידע pl (bobe-zeyde)
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See also
Verb
grandparent (third-person singular simple present grandparents, present participle grandparenting, simple past and past participle grandparented)
- Synonym of grandfather
