grandchild

See also: grand-child

English

Alternative forms

• grand-child (obsolete)

Etymology

From grand- +‎ child.

Noun

grandchild (plural grandchildren)

1. A child of someone's child.
   • 1912, Willa Cather, The Bohemian Girl::

     ...he fell into amazement when he thought of the Herculean labours those fifteen pairs of hands had performed: of the cows they had milked, the butter they had made, the gardens they had planted, the children and grandchildren they had tended, the brooms they had worn out, the mountains of food they had cooked. It made him dizzy.

Synonyms

• grandbairn (Tyneside)
• grandkid (informal)
• grandoffspring
• grandwean (Scotland)
• oe

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “with regard to ancestry”): grandparent

Hyponyms

• granddaughter
• grandson
• maternal grandchild
• paternal grandchild

Derived terms

• grandchildhood
• grandchildless
• great-grandchild
• great-great-grandchild
• maternal grandchild
• paternal grandchild
• stepgrandchild

Translations

child of one’s child

• Abkhaz: амоҭа (amota)
• Afrikaans: kleinkind (af) n
• Ainu: ミッポ (mitpo)
• Arabic: حَفِيد m (ḥafīd) (grandson), حَفِيدَة f (ḥafīda) (granddaughter)
• Armenian: թոռ (hy) (tʻoṙ), թոռնիկ (hy) (tʻoṙnik)
• Assamese: নাতি m (nati), নাতিনী f (natini)
• Asturian: nietu (ast) m, ñetu (ast) m, nieta (ast) f, ñeta (ast) f
• Avar: васасул вас (wasasul was), ясальул яс (jasalʲul jas)
• Azerbaijani: nəvə (az)
• Basque: biloba (eu)
• Belarusian: уну́к m (unúk), ўнук m (ŭnuk), уну́чка f (unúčka), ўну́чка f (ŭnúčka)
• Bengali: নাতি (bn) (nati) (grandson), নাতনি (bn) (natoni) (granddaughter)
• Bikol Central: makuapo (bcl)
• Breton: bugel-bihan (br) f
• Bulgarian: внук (bg) m (vnuk), вну́чка (bg) f (vnúčka)
• Burmese: မြေး (my) (mre:)
• Catalan: nét (ca) m, néta (ca) f
• Chechen: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 孫 / 孙 (syun¹)

  Mandarin: 孫子 / 孙子 (zh) (sūnzi), 孫兒 / 孙儿 (zh) (sūn'ér) (grandson), 孫女 / 孙女 (zh) (sūnnǚ) (granddaughter)

• Cornish: flogh gwynn m, flogh gwydn m
• Czech: vnouče (cs) n
• Danish: barnebarn (da) n
• Dutch: kleinkind (nl) n, kindskind (nl) n
• Esperanto: genepo
• Ewe: tɔgbuiyɔvi n, mamayɔvi n
• Finnish: lapsenlapsi (fi)
• French: petit-enfant (fr) m
• Galician: neto (gl) m
• Georgian: შვილიშვილი (ka) (švilišvili)
• German: Enkel (de) m, Enkelkind (de) n
• Greek: εγγόνι (el) n (engóni)

  Ancient: ἔγγονος m (éngonos)

• Hawaiian: moʻopuna
• Hebrew: נֶכֶד (he) m (nékhed), נֶכְדָּה f (nekhdá)
• Hindi: पोता (hi) m (potā) (son's son), नाती (hi) m (nātī) (daughter's son), पोती (hi) f (potī) (son's daughter), नातिन (hi) f (nātin) (daughter's daughter)
• Hungarian: unoka (hu)
• Icelandic: barnabarn (is) n
• Ido: nepoto (io)
• Indonesian: cucu (id)
• Ingrian: vunukka
• Irish: garpháiste m, ó m (archaic), duine garchlainne m, clann clainne f pl
• Italian: nipote (it) m or f
• Japanese: 孫 (ja) (まご, mago)
• Kalenjin: mjokoret
• Kazakh: немере (kk) (nemere)
• Khmer: ចៅ (km) (caw), នត្តា (km) (nŏəttaa)
• Korean: 손주(孫胄) (ko) (sonju), 외손주(外孫胄) (oesonju)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: nevî (ku), torin (ku)

• Kyrgyz: мемире (memire), небире (nebire)
• Ladino: inyeto, inyeta
• Lao: ຫລານ (lān)
• Latgalian: bārnubārns, unuks
• Latin: nepos (la) m, neptis (la) f, nepote, nipote, neptos
• Latvian: mazbērns
• Lithuanian: vaikaitis, anūkas
• Lushootseed: ʔibac
• Macedonian: внук (mk) m (vnuk), вну́ка f (vnúka)
• Malay: cucu (ms)

  Jawi: چوچو (ms)

• Malayalam: പേരക്കുട്ടി (pērakkuṭṭi), പേരക്കിടാവ് (ml) (pērakkiṭāvŭ)
• Maltese: neputi m, neputija f
• Manx: cloan ny clienney f, oe f
• Maori: mokopuna
• Mbyá Guaraní: amymino
• Meru: kajuju
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: ач (mn) (ač), зээ (mn) (zee)

• Mwali Comorian: mdjuhu class 1/2
• Mwani: njukulu
• Navajo: bitsóóké
• Ngazidja Comorian: mdjuhu
• Northern Ohlone: tsót̄so
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: barnebarn (no) n

  Nynorsk: barnebarn n

• Ossetian: фыртыфырт (fyrtyfyrt), чызджыфырт (ḱyzǵyfyrt)
• Pennsylvania German: Kinnskind n
• Persian:

  Dari: نَوَاسَه (nawāsa), نَبَسَه (nabasa)

  Iranian Persian: نَوِه (nave), نَبَسِه (nabase) (archaic)

• Polish: wnuczę (pl) n
• Portuguese: neto (pt) m, neta (pt) f
• Quechua: willka
• Russian: внук (ru) m (vnuk) (grandson), вну́чка (ru) f (vnúčka) (granddaughter), вну́ки (ru) m pl (vnúki) (grandchildren)
• Sanskrit: नपात् (sa) m or f (napāt)
• Scots: oe
• Scottish Gaelic: ogha (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: у̀нуче n

  Roman: ùnuče (sh) n

• Slovak: vnúča n
• Spanish: nieto (es) m
• Swahili: mjukuu (sw)
• Swedish: barnbarn (sv) n
• Tagalog: apo (tl)
• Tajik: набера (nabera), навоса (navosa)
• Talysh:

  Asalemi: نوه (nava)

• Taos: mą́kuna
• Tarifit: ayyaw m, tayyawt f
• Tatar: онык (tt) (onıq)
• Thai: หลาน (th) (lǎan)
• Turkish: torun (tr)
• Turkmen: agtyk (tk)
• Tuvan: уруунуң уруу (uruunuñ uruu), уруунуң оглу (uruunuñ oglu), оглунуң уруу (oglunuñ uruu), оглунуң оглу (oglunuñ oglu)
• Ukrainian: внуча́ n (vnučá), онуча́ n (onučá), унуча́ n (unučá)
• Urdu: پوتا m (potā) (son's son), ناتی m (nātī) (daughter's son), پوتی f (potī) (son's daughter), ناتِن f (nātin) (daughter's daughter)
• Uyghur: نەۋرە (newre)
• Uzbek: nabira (uz), nevara (uz)
• Vietnamese: cháu (vi)
• Volapük: poscil (vo)
• Welsh: ŵyr (cy) m
• Yiddish: אייניקל n (eynikl)