maternal grandfather

English

Noun

maternal grandfather (plural maternal grandfathers)

1. The father of one's mother.

Related terms

• maternal grandmother
• paternal grandfather
• paternal grandmother

Translations

Note: These are terms specific to the maternal grandfather. There may be other terms for a given language at grandfather and paternal grandfather.

one's mother's father

• Albanian: gjysh (sq), babagjysh (sq)
• Aleut: latux
• Azeri: baba (az)
• Breton: tad-kozh (br) m
• Bulgarian: прадядо (bg) m (pradjado)
• Catalan: avi matern m
• Cherokee: ᎡᏚᏓ (eduda)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 公公 (gung¹ gung¹, gung^1-4 gung¹), 外公 (ngoi⁶ gung¹), 外祖父 (ngoi⁶ zou² fu⁶)

  Hakka: 姐公 (chiá-kûng), 外阿公 (ngoi-â-kûng)

  Mandarin: 外公 (zh) (wàigōng), 外祖父 (zh) (wàizǔfù)

  Min Nan: 外公 (guā-kong)

• Czech: děda (cs) m, děd (cs) m
• Danish: morfar (da) c
• Dutch: grootvader (nl) van moederszijde m
• Esperanto: avo
• Ewe: tɔgbui
• Faroese: abbi (fo), móðirfaðir m
• Finnish: isoisä (fi), vaari (fi), ukki (fi), pappa (fi), äidinisä (fi)
• French: grand-père maternel m
• German: Großvater mütterlicherseits m
• Gooniyandi: jaminyi
• Greek: παππούς (el) (pappoús), (από τη μητέρα)
• Hebrew: סָב‏‎ (he) m (sav), סַבָּא‏‎ (he) m (sába)
• Hindi: Nana ji
• Hungarian: nagyapa (hu)
• Italian: nonno materno
• Japanese: 母方のお爺さん (ははかたのおじいさん, haha kata no ojīsan), 外祖父 (ja) (がいそふ, gaisofu)
• Kalmyk: наһц-аав (nahts-aav)
• Korean: 할아버지 (ko) (harabeoji), 외할아버지 (ko) (oeharabeoji)

• Kurdish:

  Sorani: باپیر‏‎

• Lao: ຕາ (lo) (tā)
• Latin: avus maternus
• Lü: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: nenek lelaki
• Malayalam: മുത്തച്ഛന്‍ (muttacchan‍), അപ്പൂപ്പന്‍ (appūppan‍)
• Mapudungun: cheche
• Navajo: acheii
• Norwegian: bestefar (no), morfar (no)
• O'odham: ba꞉b
• Old English: ealdfæder m
• Polish: dziadek (pl) m
• Portuguese: avô maternal
• Russian: дед (ru) m (ded), де́душка (ru) m (déduška) (по матери́нской ли́нии)
• Scots: gudesire
• Scottish Gaelic: seanair màithreil m
• Serbo-Croatian: дед m, ded (sh) m, дјед m, djed (sh) m, деда m, deda (sh) m, дједа m, djeda (sh) m
• Shan: please add this translation if you can
• Slovak: dedo m, dedko m, starý otec m
• Slovene: ded m, stari oče (sl) m
• Spanish: abuelo materno
• Swedish: morfar (sv) c
• Telugu: మాతామహుడు (te) m (mātāmahuḍu)
• Thai: ตา (th) (dtaa)
• Turkish: dede (tr)
• Turkmen: baba (tk)
• Vietnamese: ông ngoại (vi)
• Volapük: motafat (vo)
• Zhuang: da, goengda