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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From great- + grandmother.
Noun
great-grandmother (plural great-grandmothers)
- The mother of one's grandparent.
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".
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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 po4-1, taai3 po4-2)
- 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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