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great-grandmother

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

The mother of one's grandparent.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From great- + grandmother.

Across languages

Translations

97 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: oumagrootjie — mother of one's grandparent
  • Afrikaans: oorgrootmoeder — mother of one's grandparent
  • Albanian: stërgjyshe — mother of one's grandparent
  • Asturian: bisgüela — mother of one's grandparent
  • Basque: birramona — mother of one's grandparent
  • Basque: birramama — mother of one's grandparent
  • Belarusian: прабабу́ля (prababúlja) — mother of one's grandparent
  • Bengali: পরদাদী (pordadi) — mother of one's grandparent
  • Bulgarian: праба́ба (prabába) — mother of one's grandparent
  • Catalan: besàvia — mother of one's grandparent
  • Catalan: redepadrina — mother of one's grandparent
  • Chinese Cantonese: 太嫲 (taai3 maa4) — mother of one's grandparent
  • Chinese Cantonese: 太婆 — mother of one's grandparent
  • Chinese: тэтэ (tete) — mother of one's grandparent
  • Chinese Mandarin: 曾祖母 (zēngzǔmǔ) — mother of one's grandparent
  • Cornish: mamm guv — mother of one's grandparent
  • Czech: prababička — mother of one's grandparent
  • Czech: prabába — mother of one's grandparent
  • Danish: oldemor — mother of one's grandparent
  • Danish: oldemoder — mother of one's grandparent
  • Dutch: overgrootmoeder — mother of one's grandparent
  • Esperanto: praavino — mother of one's grandparent
  • Faroese: langomma — mother of one's grandparent
  • Finnish: isoisoäiti — mother of one's grandparent
  • Finnish: isoäidin äiti — mother of one's grandparent
  • Finnish: isomummi — mother of one's grandparent
  • Finnish: isomummo — mother of one's grandparent
  • Finnish: isomummu — mother of one's grandparent
  • French: arrière-grand-mère — mother of one's grandparent
  • French: bisaïeule — mother of one's grandparent
  • Friulian: basave — mother of one's grandparent
  • Galician: bisavoa — mother of one's grandparent
  • Georgian: დიდი ბებია (didi bebia) — mother of one's grandparent
  • German: Urgroßmutter — mother of one's grandparent
  • German: Urgrossmutter — mother of one's grandparent
  • Greek: προγιαγιά (progiagiá) — mother of one's grandparent
  • Hebrew: סבתא רבתא \ סָבְתָא רַבְּתָא (sávta rábta) — mother of one's grandparent
  • Hindi: परदादी (pardādī) — mother of one's grandparent
  • Hindi: परनानी (parnānī) — mother of one's grandparent
  • Hungarian: dédanya — mother of one's grandparent
  • Icelandic: langamma — mother of one's grandparent
  • Ido: preavino — mother of one's grandparent
  • Indonesian: nenek buyut — mother of one's grandparent
  • Irish: sin-seanmháthair — mother of one's grandparent
  • Italian: bisnonna — mother of one's grandparent
  • Italian: bisavola — mother of one's grandparent
  • Italian: bisava — mother of one's grandparent
  • Italian: proavola — mother of one's grandparent
  • Italian: proava — mother of one's grandparent
  • Japanese: 曾祖母 (sōsobo) — mother of one's grandparent
  • Japanese: 曾お祖母さん (hii-obāsan) — mother of one's grandparent
  • Kashmiri: بَڈٕ نانؠ (baḍụ nān') — mother of one's grandparent
  • Korean: 증조모 (jeungjomo) — mother of one's grandparent
  • Ladino: biznona — mother of one's grandparent
  • Macedonian: пра́баба (prábaba) — mother of one's grandparent
  • Malay: moyang perempuan — mother of one's grandparent
  • Malay: moyang — mother of one's grandparent
  • Malay: ibu datuk nenek — mother of one's grandparent
  • Miyako: ガバむマ (gabamma) — mother of one's grandparent
  • Navajo: achó — mother of one's grandparent
  • Navajo: naakidi nánálí — mother of one's grandparent
  • Norman: grand-grand-méthe — mother of one's grandparent
  • Norwegian Bokmål: oldemor — mother of one's grandparent
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: oldemor — mother of one's grandparent
  • Polish: prababcia — mother of one's grandparent
  • Polish: prababka — mother of one's grandparent
  • Portuguese: bisavó — mother of one's grandparent
  • Romanian: străbunică — mother of one's grandparent
  • Russian: праба́бушка (prabábuška) — mother of one's grandparent
  • Russian: праба́бка (prabábka) — mother of one's grandparent
  • Scottish Gaelic: sinn-seanmhair — mother of one's grandparent
  • Serbo-Croatian: пра̀баба — mother of one's grandparent
  • Serbo-Croatian: праба́ка — mother of one's grandparent
  • Serbo-Croatian: pràbaba — mother of one's grandparent
  • Serbo-Croatian: prabáka — mother of one's grandparent
  • Sicilian: mamma-granni — mother of one's grandparent
  • Sicilian: sbinnanna — mother of one's grandparent
  • Slovak: prababička — mother of one's grandparent
  • Slovene: prababica — mother of one's grandparent
  • Spanish: bisabuela — mother of one's grandparent
  • Sundanese: nini uyut — mother of one's grandparent
  • Swedish: farfarsmor — mother of one's grandparent
  • Swedish: farmorsmor — mother of one's grandparent
  • Swedish: morfarsmor — mother of one's grandparent
  • Swedish: mormorsmor — mother of one's grandparent
  • Swedish: gammelfarmor — mother of one's grandparent
  • Swedish: gammelmormor — mother of one's grandparent
  • Tagalog: lola sa tuhod — mother of one's grandparent
  • Tamil: கொள்ளுப்பாட்டி (koḷḷuppāṭṭi) — mother of one's grandparent
  • Udmurt: песяпесянай (peśapeśanaj) — mother of one's grandparent
  • Ukrainian: прабабу́ся (prababúsja) — mother of one's grandparent
  • Ukrainian: праба́ба (prabába) — mother of one's grandparent
  • Vietnamese: bà cố — mother of one's grandparent
  • Welsh: hen nain — mother of one's grandparent
  • Welsh: hen fam-gu — mother of one's grandparent
  • Yiddish: אור־באָבע (ur-bobe) — mother of one's grandparent
  • Yiddish: עלטער־באָבע (elter-bobe) — mother of one's grandparent
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