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English
Noun
maternal grandmother (plural maternal grandmothers)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see maternal, grandmother. (This entry is a translation hub.)
- Coordinate terms: maternal grandfather, paternal grandfather, paternal grandmother
Hypernyms
Translations
The mother of one's mother
- Albanian: joshë (sq) f
- Bengali: নানী (bn) (nani)
- Catalan: àvia materna f
- Cherokee: ᎠᎵᏏ (alisi)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 婆婆 (po4 po4-2)
- Hakka: 姐婆 (chiá-phò), 外阿婆 (ngoi-â-phò)
- Hokkien: 外媽/外妈 (guā-má)
- Mandarin: 外婆 (zh) (wàipó), 外祖母 (zh) (wàizǔmǔ)
- Czech: babička z matčiny strany
- Danish: mormor c
- Dutch: grootmoeder van moederszijde f
- Finnish: äidinäiti (fi)
- French: grand-mère maternelle f
- German: Großmutter mütterlicherseits f
- Gooniyandi: jaja
- Hindi: नानी (hi) f (nānī)
- Hungarian: anyai nagyanya, anyai nagymama
- Icelandic: móðurmóðir f
- Italian: nonna materna f
- Japanese: 母方の祖母 (ははかたのそぼ, hahakata no sobo), 外祖母 (ja) (がいそぼ, gaisobo), 母方のお婆さん (ははかたのおばあさん, hahakata no obāsan) (honorific)
- Kalmyk: (please verify) наһц-ээҗ (nağts-eej)
- Korean: 외할머니 (ko) (oehalmeoni)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: (please verify) داپیر (dapîr), (please verify) داپیرە f (dapîre)
- Lao: (please verify) ຍາຍ (nyāi)
- Latin: avia maternis f
- Macedonian: баба (mk) f (baba), баба по мајка f (baba po majka)
- Mokilese: inen inah
- Ngarrindjeri: pakanu
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: mormor (no) m or f
- Nynorsk: mormor f
- O'odham: hu'ul
- Portuguese: avó materna (pt) f
- Scottish Gaelic: seanmhair mhàithreil f
- Seri: (please verify) aact
- Spanish: abuela materna f
- Swedish: mormor (sv) c
- Tai Nüa: ᥘᥣᥭᥰ (läay)
- Tamil: (please verify) அம்மாய் (ta) (ammāy)
- Taos: łìtúna
- Telugu: అమ్మమ్మ (te) (ammamma), మాతామహి (te) (mātāmahi)
- Thai: ยาย (th) (yaai)
- Turkish: anneanne (tr)
- Turkmen: (please verify) mama
- Vietnamese: bà ngoại (vi)
- Volapük: motamot (vo)
- Wik-Mungkan: kemwayyow
- Zhuang: daiq
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