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English great-grandfather
From great- grandfather
great- grandfather plural great-grandfathers
The father of one's grandparent .
2007 Gentlemen of the Road , Sceptre, published 2008 , page 133 :The new bek's great-grandfather had passed every night of his life under the sky, on the back of a pony or in the felt walls of a ger, and Buljan retained the ancestral contempt for cities and city dwellers.
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-grandfather", "four-greats grandfather" or "four-times-great-grandfather".
father of one's grandparent
Afrikaans: oupagrootjie oorgrootvader
Albanian: tregjysh (sq) m
Arabic: (please verify ) اَلْجَدّ اَلْأَعْلَى m ( al-jadd al-ʔaʕlā )
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܣܵܒ݂ܵܐ ܪܲܒܵܐ m ( sāḇā rabbā )
Aromanian: strãush m
Asturian: bisgüelu (ast) m
Basque: birraitona (eu) , birraitita (eu)
Belarusian: пра́дзед m ( prádzjed )
Bengali: পরদাদা ( pordada ) ( paternal )
Bulgarian: прадядо (bg) m ( pradjado )
Burmese: အဘေး (my) ( a.bhe: ) , ဘေး (my) ( bhe: )
Catalan: besavi (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 曾祖父 (zh) ( zēngzǔfù )
Czech: pradědeček (cs) m praděd (cs) m
Danish: oldefar (da) c oldefader c
Dutch: overgrootvader (nl) m
Esperanto: praavo (eo)
Faroese: langabbi m langavi m
Finnish: isoisoisä (fi) , isoisän isä
French: arrière-grand-père (fr) m bisaïeul (fr) m
Friulian: basavon m
Galician: bisavó (gl) m
Georgian: დიდი ბაბუა ( didi babua )
German: Urgroßvater (de) m Urgrossvater (de) m ( Switzerland, Liechtenstein )
Greek: προπάππος (el) m ( propáppos )
Hebrew: סבא רבא \ סַבָּא רַבָּא (he) m ( sába rába )
Hindi: परदादा (hi) m ( pardādā ) ( paternal ) , परनाना (hi) m ( parnānā ) ( maternal )
Hlai: phau³ za¹
Hungarian: dédapa (hu) , dédnagyapa (hu)
Icelandic: langafi (is) m
Ido: preavulo (io)
Indonesian: kakek buyut
Irish: sin-seanathair m
Italian: bisnonno (it) m bisavolo m bisavo m proavolo m proavo m
Japanese: 曾祖父 (ja) ( そうそふ, sōsofu )
Kashmiri: بَڈٕ بُڈؠ بَب ( baḍụ buḍ' bab )
Khmer: ជីតាទួត ( cii taa tuət )
Korean: 증조부(曾祖父) (ko) ( jeungjobu )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: باپیرە گەورە ( bapîre gewre )
Latin: proavus m
Latvian: vecvectēvs m
Lingao: kuŋ² jai⁴
Lithuanian: prosenelis m
Macedonian: прадедо (mk) m ( pradedo )
Malay: moyang lelaki moyang (ms) , bapa datuk nenek
Mon: ဇ (mnw) ( cɛ̀ˀ )
Nahuatl:
Classical Nahuatl: achtontli
Navajo: naakidi nácheii ( maternal ) , naakidi nánálí ( paternal )
Norman: grand-grand-péthe m ( Jersey ) , grand-papa m ( Jersey )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: oldefar (no) m
Nynorsk: oldefar m
Old Norse: ái m
Persian: پدرِ مادربزرگ ( pedar-e mâdar-bozorg ) , پدرِ پدربزرگ ( pedar-e pedar-bozorg )
Polish: pradziadek (pl) m pers
Portuguese: bisavô (pt) m
Romanian: străbunic (ro)
Russian: пра́дед (ru) m ( práded ) , праде́душка (ru) m ( pradéduška )
Scottish Gaelic: sinn-seanair m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: прадеда m
Latin: pradeda (sh) m
Seri: aacaz ( of a female )
Slovak: pradedo m
Slovene: praded m
Spanish: bisabuelo (es) m
Sundanese: aki uyut
Swedish: farfarsfar (sv) c ( father's father's father ) , farmorsfar c ( father's mother's father ) , morfarsfar c ( mother's father's father ) , mormorsfar c ( mother's mother's father ) , gammelfarfar (sv) c ( parent's father's father ) , gammelmorfar (sv) c ( parent's mother's father )
Tagalog: lolo sa tuhod
Tamil: முப்பாட்டன் (ta) ( muppāṭṭaṉ ) , கொள்ளுப்பாட்டன் (ta) ( koḷḷuppāṭṭaṉ ) , கொள்ளுத்தாத்தா (ta) ( koḷḷuttāttā )
Telugu: ముత్తాత (te) ( muttāta )
Udmurt: песяпесятай ( peśapeśataj )
Ukrainian: пра́дід (uk) m ( prádid )
Vietnamese: ông cố cụ ông
Welsh: hen daid m hen dad-cu m
Yiddish: עלטער־זיידע m ( elter-zeyde )
