English
Noun
great-grandmother (plural great-grandmothers)
- The mother of one's 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-grandmother", "four-greats grandmother" or "four-times-great-grandmother".
Translations
mother of one's grandparent
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- Macedonian: прабаба f (prábaba)
- Malay: moyang perempuan, moyang, ibu datuk nenek
- Miyako: ガバむマ (gabamma)
- Navajo: (maternal) achó, naakidi nánálí (paternal)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: oldemor (no) m, f
- Nynorsk: oldemor f
- Polish: prababcia (pl), prababka (pl) f
- Portuguese: bisavó (pt) f
- Romanian: străbunică (ro)
- Russian: праба́бушка (ru) f (prabábuška), праба́бка (ru) f (prabábka) (can sound impolite)
- Scottish Gaelic: sinn-seanmhair f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: прабаба, прабака
- Roman: prababa (sh), prabaka (sh)
- Slovak: prababička f
- Slovene: prababica f
- Spanish: bisabuela (es) f
- Sundanese: nini uyut
- Swedish: farfars mor c, farmors mor c, morfars mor c or mormors mor c
- Udmurt: песяпесянай (pesjapesjanaj)
- Ukrainian: прабабуся (uk) f (prababúsja), прабаба (uk) f (prabába)
- Vietnamese: cụ bà
- Welsh: hen nain f, hen fam-gu f
- Yiddish: אור־באָבע f (ur-bobe)
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