great-grandfather

See also: great grandfather

great-grandfather - English

Alternative forms

great grandfather

Noun

great-grandfather (plural great-grandfathers)

The father of a 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-grandfather", "four-greats grandfather" or "four-times-great-grandfather".

Synonyms

besaiel (obsolete)
great-grandpa

Related terms

Translations

Afrikaans: oupagrootjie, oorgrootvader
Arabic: ^{(please verify)} اَلْجَدّ اَلْأَعْلَى‎ m (al-jadd al-ʔaʕlā)
Aromanian: strãush m
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܣܵܒ݂ܵܐ ܪܲܒܵܐ‎ m (sāḇā rabbā)
Asturian: bisgüelu (ast) m
Basque: birraitona (eu), birraitita (eu)
Belarusian: пра́дзед m (prádzjed)
Bengali: পরদাদা (pordada) (paternal)
Bulgarian: прадядо (bg) m (pradjado)
Burmese: အဘေး (my) (a.bhe:), ဘေး (my) (bhe:)
Catalan: besavi (ca) m
Chinese:
- Mandarin: 曾祖父 (zh) (zēngzǔfù)
Classical Nahuatl: achtontli
Czech: pradědeček (cs) m, praděd (cs) m
Danish: oldefar (da) c
Dutch: overgrootvader (nl) m
Esperanto: praavo (eo)
Faroese: langabbi m, langavi m
Finnish: isoisoisä (fi), isoisän isä
French: arrière-grand-père (fr) m, bisaïeul (fr) m
Friulian: basavon m
Galician: bisavó (gl) m
Georgian: დიდი ბაბუა (didi babua)
German: Urgroßvater (de) m, Urgrossvater (de) m (Switzerland, Liechtenstein)
Greek: προπάππος (el) m (propáppos)
Hindi: परदादा (hi) (pardādā) (paternal)
Hebrew: סבא רבא‎ (he) m (sɑbɑ rɑbɑ)
Hungarian: dédapa (hu), dédnagyapa (hu)
Icelandic: langafi (is) m
Ido: preavulo (io)
Indonesian: kakek buyut
Irish: garathair m
Italian: bisnonno (it) m
Japanese: 曾祖父 (ja) (そうそふ, sōsofu)
Kashmiri: بَڈٕ بُڈؠ بَب‎ (baḍụ buḍ' bab)
Khmer: ជីតាទួត (cii taa tuət)
Korean: 증조부(曾祖父) (ko) (jeungjobu)
Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: باپیرە گەورە‎ (bapîre gewre)
Latin: proavus m
Latvian: vecvectēvs
Lithuanian: prosenelis
Macedonian: прадедо m (pradedo)
Malay: moyang lelaki, moyang, bapa datuk nenek
Mon: ဇ (mnw) (cɛ̀ˀ)
Navajo: naakidi nácheii (maternal), naakidi nánálí (paternal)
Norman: grand-grand-péthe m (Jersey), grand-papa m (Jersey)
Norwegian:
- Bokmål: oldefar (no) m
- Nynorsk: oldefar m
Old Norse: ái m
Persian: پدرِ مادربزرگ‎ (pedar-e mâdar-bozorg), پدرِ پدربزرگ‎ (pedar-e pedar-bozorg)
Polish: pradziadek (pl)
Portuguese: bisavô (pt) m
Romanian: străbunic (ro)
Russian: пра́дед (ru) m (práded), праде́душка (ru) m (pradéduška)
Scottish Gaelic: sinn-seanair m
Serbo-Croatian: прадеда m
- Roman: pradeda (sh)
Seri: aacaz (of a female)
Slovak: pradedo m
Slovene: praded m
Spanish: bisabuelo (es) m
Sundanese: aki uyut
Swedish: farfarsfar (sv) c (father's father's father), farmorsfar c (father's mother's father), morfarsfar c (mother's father's father), mormorsfar c (mother's mother's father), gammelfarfar (sv) c (parent's father's father), gammelfarmor (sv) c (parent's mother's father)
Tagalog: lolo sa tuhod
Telugu: ముత్తాత (te) (muttāta)
Udmurt: песяпесятай (peśapeśataj)
Ukrainian: пра́дід (uk) m (prádid)
Vietnamese: ông cố
Welsh: hen daid m, hen dad-cu m
Yiddish: עלטער־זיידע‎ m (elter-zeyde)

Meaning and Definition of great-grandfather