English
Etymology
From great- + grandfather .
Pronunciation
Noun
great -grandfather (plural great-grandfathers )
The father of a 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-grandfather", "four-greats grandfather" or "four-times-great-grandfather".
Translations
father of grandparent
Arabic: (please verify ) اَلْجَدّ اَلْأَعْلَى m ( al-jadd al-ʔaʕlā )
Aromanian: strãush m
Asturian: bisgüelu (ast) m
Basque: birraitona (eu) , birraitita (eu)
Belarusian: пра́дзед m ( prádzjed )
Bulgarian: прадядо (bg) m ( pradjado )
Burmese: အဘေး (my) ( a.bhe: )
Catalan: besavi (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 曾祖父 (zh) ( zēngzǔfù )
Classical Nahuatl: achtontli
Czech: pradědeček (cs) m , praděd (cs) m
Danish: oldefar (da) 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 and Liechtenstein )
Greek: προπάππος (el) m ( propáppos )
Hebrew: סבא רבא (he) m ( sɑbɑ rɑbɑ )
Hungarian: dédapa (hu) , dédnagyapa (hu)
Icelandic: langafi (is) m
Ido: preavulo (io)
Indonesian: kakek buyut
Irish: garathair m
Italian: bisnonno (it) m
Japanese: 曾祖父 (ja) ( そうそふ, sōsofu )
Khmer: ជីតាទួត ( cii taa tuət )
Korean: 증조부 (ko) ( jeungjobu ) (曾祖父 )
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Kurdish:
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Latin: proavus m
Latvian: vecvectēvs
Lithuanian: prosenelis
Macedonian: прадедо m ( pradedo )
Malay: moyang lelaki , moyang , bapa datuk nenek
Mon: ဇ ( cɛ̀ˀ )
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 mādar-bozorg ) , پدرِ پدربزرگ ( pedar-e pedar-bozorg )
Polish: pradziadek (pl)
Portuguese: bisavô (pt) m
Romanian: străbunic (ro)
Russian: пра́дед (ru) m ( práded ) , праде́душка (ru) m ( pradéduška )
Scottish Gaelic: sinn-seanair m
Serbo-Croatian: прадеда m
Roman: pradeda (sh)
Seri: aacaz ( of a female )
Slovak: pradedo m
Slovene: praded m
Spanish: bisabuelo (es) m
Sundanese: aki uyut
Swedish: farfars far c , farmors far c , morfars far c or mormors far c
Telugu: ముత్తాత (te) ( muttāta )
Udmurt: песяпесятай ( peśapeśataj )
Ukrainian: пра́дід (uk) m ( prádid )
Vietnamese: ông cố
Welsh: hen daid m , hen dad-cu m