great-grandmother

great-grandmother

See also: great grandmother

English

Etymology

From great- +‎ grandmother.

Noun

great-grandmother (plural great-grandmothers)

1. 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

• great-grandchild
• great-granddaughter
• great-grandfather
• great-grandparent
• great-grandson

 

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)