great-grandmother

See also: great grandmother

English

Alternative forms

• great grandmother

Etymology

From great- + grandmother.

Pronunciation

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Noun

great-grandmother (plural great-grandmothers)

1. The mother of one's grandparent.
   • 2017 February 10, Maureen O'Hare, “Great-grandmother cycles 10,000 miles – and she’s not stopping”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     She’s now a great-grandmother with three sons, a grandson and two great-grandchildren.

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".

Synonyms

• great-grandma

Related terms

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

Translations

mother of one's grandparent

• Afrikaans: oumagrootjie, oorgrootmoeder
• Albanian: stërgjyshe (sq) f
• Asturian: bisgüela (ast) f
• Basque: birramona (eu), birramama (eu)
• Belarusian: прабабу́ля f (prababúlja)
• Bengali: পরদাদী (pordadi) (paternal)
• Bulgarian: праба́ба (bg) f (prabába)
• Catalan: besàvia (ca) f, redepadrina f (Balearic Islands)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 太嫲 (taai³ maa⁴), 太婆 (taai³ po⁴, taai³ po^4-1, taai³ po^4-2)

  Dungan: тэтэ (tete)

  Mandarin: 曾祖母 (zh) (zēngzǔmǔ)

• Cornish: mamm guv f
• 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), isoäidin äiti, isomummi, isomummo, isomummu
• 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, Liechtenstein)
• Greek: προγιαγιά (el) f (progiagiá)
• Hebrew: סבתא רבתא \ סָבְתָא רַבְּתָא (he) m (sávta rábta)
• Hindi: परदादी f (pardādī) (paternal), परनानी (hi) f (parnānī) (maternal)
• Hungarian: dédanya (hu)
• Icelandic: langamma (is) f
• Ido: preavino (io)
• Indonesian: nenek buyut
• Irish: sin-seanmháthair f
• Italian: bisnonna (it) f, bisavola f, bisava f, proavola f, proava 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)
• Kashmiri: بَڈٕ نانؠ (baḍụ nān')
• Korean: 증조모(曾祖母) (jeungjomo)
• Ladino:

  Latin: biznona f

• Macedonian: пра́баба (mk) f (prábaba)
• Malay: moyang perempuan, moyang (ms), ibu datuk nenek
• Miyako: ガバむマ (gabamma)
• Navajo: achó (maternal), 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) f
• Russian: праба́бушка (ru) f (prabábuška), праба́бка (ru) f (prabábka) (can sound impolite)
• Scottish Gaelic: sinn-seanmhair f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пра̀баба f, праба́ка f

  Latin: pràbaba (sh) f, prabáka (sh) f

• Sicilian: mamma-granni f, sbinnanna f
• Slovak: prababička f
• Slovene: prababica f
• Spanish: bisabuela (es) f
• Sundanese: nini uyut
• Swedish: farfarsmor (sv) c (father's father's mother), farmorsmor (sv) c (father's mother's mother), morfarsmor c (mother's father's mother), mormorsmor c (mother's mother's mother), gammelfarmor (sv) c (parent's father's mother), gammelmormor (sv) c (parent's mother's mother)
• Tagalog: lola sa tuhod
• Tamil: கொள்ளுப்பாட்டி (koḷḷuppāṭṭi)
• Udmurt: песяпесянай (peśapeśanaj)
• 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), עלטער־באָבע f (elter-bobe)