From great- + grandmother .
great- grandmother (plural great-grandmothers )
The mother of one's grandparent .
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".
mother of one's grandparent
Afrikaans: oumagrootjie , oorgrootmoeder
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 po4-1 , taai3 po4-2 )
Dungan: тэтэ ( tete )
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) , 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 ( pardādī ) ( paternal )
Hungarian: dédanya (hu) , dédnagyanya (hu) , dédnagymama (hu) , dédi (hu)
Icelandic: langamma (is) f
Ido: preavino (io)
Indonesian: nenek buyut
Irish Gaelic: 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:
Roman: biznona f
Macedonian: пра́баба 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 , langgodmor f ( rare )
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
Roman: 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 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
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 )