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English
Noun
maternal grandfather (plural maternal grandfathers)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see maternal, grandfather. (This entry is a translation hub.)
- Coordinate terms: maternal grandmother, paternal grandfather, paternal grandmother
Translations
one's mother's father
- Bengali: নানা (bn) (nana)
- Catalan: avi matern m
- Cherokee: (his/her mat. grandfather) ᎤᏚᏚ (ududu)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 公公 (gung1 gung1, gung1-4 gung1), 外公 (ngoi6 gung1), 外祖父 (ngoi6 zou2 fu6)
- Hakka: 姐公 (chiá-kûng), 外阿公 (ngoi-â-kûng)
- Hokkien: 外公 (guā-kong)
- Mandarin: 外公 (zh) (wàigōng), 外祖父 (zh) (wàizǔfù)
- Czech: dědeček z matčiny strany
- Danish: morfar (da) c
- Dutch: grootvader van moederszijde m
- Faroese: móðirfaðir m
- Finnish: äidinisä (fi)
- French: grand-père maternel m
- German: Großvater mütterlicherseits m
- Gooniyandi: jaminyi
- Hindi: नाना (hi) (nānā), नानू m (nānū), मातामह (hi) m (mātāmah)
- Hungarian: anyai nagyapa
- Icelandic: móðurfaðir m
- Italian: nonno materno
- Japanese: 母方の祖父 (ははかたのそふ, hahakata no sofu), 外祖父 (ja) (がいそふ, gaisofu), 母方のお爺さん (ははかたのおじいさん, haha kata no ojīsan) (honorific)
- Kalmyk: (please verify) наһц-аав (nağts-aav)
- Khmer: (please verify) មាតាមហៈ (km) (mietaamea’ha’) (royal usage)
- Korean: 할아버지 (ko) (harabeoji), 외할아버지 (ko) (oeharabeoji)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: باپیر (ckb) (bapîr)
- Lao: ຕາ (lo) (tā)
- Latin: avus maternus
- Lü: ᦎᦱ (ṫaa)
- Macedonian: дедо (mk) m (dedo), дедо по мајка m (dedo po majka)
- Malay: nenek lelaki
- Malayalam: മുത്തച്ഛന് (muttacchaṉ), അപ്പൂപ്പന് (appūppaṉ)
- Mapudungun: cheche
- Mokilese: jemen inah
- Navajo: acheii
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: morfar (no) m
- Nynorsk: morfar m
- O'odham: ba꞉b
- Portuguese: avô maternal
- Sanskrit: मातामह (sa) m (mātāmaha)
- Scots: gudesire
- Scottish Gaelic: seanair màithreil m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: дед m, дјед m, деда m, дједа m
- Roman: ded (sh) m, djed (sh) m, deda (sh) m, djeda (sh) m
- Shan: တႃ (shn) (tǎa)
- Slovene: stari oče (sl) m
- Spanish: abuelo materno
- Swedish: morfar (sv) c
- Telugu: మాతామహుడు (te) m (mātāmahuḍu)
- Thai: ตา (th) (dtaa)
- Turkmen: baba (tk)
- Vietnamese: ông ngoại (vi) (翁外)
- Volapük: motafat (vo)
- Zhuang: da, goengda
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