great-grandmother

See also: great grandmother

English

Etymology

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".

Related terms

Translations

mother of one's grandparent

Asturian: bisgüela (ast) f
Basque: birramona (eu), birramama (eu)
Belarusian: прабабу́ля f (prababúlja)
Bulgarian: праба́ба (bg) f (prabába)
Catalan: besàvia (ca) f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 太嫲 (taai³ maa⁴), 太婆 (taai³ po⁴, taai³ po⁴^-¹, taai³ po⁴^-²)

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)
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 and Liechtenstein)
Greek: προγιαγιά (el) f (progiagiá)
Hebrew: סבתא רבא‎ (he) f (sávta rába)
Hungarian: dédanya (hu), dédnagyanya (hu), dédnagymama (hu)
Icelandic: langamma (is) f
Ido: preavino (io)
Indonesian: nenek buyut
Italian: bisnonna (it) 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)
Korean: 증조모 (jeungjomo) (曾祖母)

Ladino:
Roman: biznona f
Macedonian: пра́баба f (prábaba)
Malay: moyang perempuan, moyang, ibu datuk nenek
Miyako: ガバむマ (gabamma)
Navajo: (maternal) achó, naakidi nánálí (paternal)
Norman: grand-grand-méthe f (Jersey)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: oldemor (no) m or f

Nynorsk: oldemor f
Polish: prababcia (pl), prababka (pl) f
Portuguese: bisavó (pt) f
Romanian: străbunică (ro)
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: farfars mor c, farmors mor c, morfars mor c or mormors mor c
Udmurt: песяпесянай (pesjapesjanaj)
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)

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