great-grandfather

See also: great grandfather

English

Alternative forms

• great grandfather

Etymology

From great- +‎ grandfather.

Pronunciation

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Noun

great-grandfather (plural great-grandfathers)

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

Synonyms

• besaiel (obsolete)
• great-grandpa

Related terms

• grandfather
• grandmother
• grandparent
• great-grandchild
• great-granddaughter
• great-grandmother
• great-grandparent
• great-grandson

 

Translations

father of one's grandparent

• 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, oldefader 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)
• Hebrew: סבא רבא \ סַבָּא רַבָּא (he) m (sába rába)
• Hindi: परदादा (hi) (pardādā) (paternal)
• Hungarian: dédapa (hu), dédnagyapa (hu)
• Icelandic: langafi (is) m
• Ido: preavulo (io)
• Indonesian: kakek buyut
• Irish: garathair m
• Italian: bisnonno (it) m, bisavolo m, bisavo m, proavolo m, proavo 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 m
• Lithuanian: prosenelis m
• Macedonian: прадедо m (pradedo)
• Malay: moyang lelaki, moyang (ms), 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, langgodfar m (rare)

• Old Norse: ái m
• Persian: پدرِ مادربزرگ (pedar-e mâdar-bozorg), پدرِ پدربزرگ (pedar-e pedar-bozorg)
• Polish: pradziadek (pl) m pers
• Portuguese: bisavô (pt) m
• Romanian: străbunic (ro)
• Russian: пра́дед (ru) m (práded), праде́душка (ru) m (pradéduška)
• Scottish Gaelic: sinn-seanair m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: прадеда m

  Roman: pradeda (sh) m

• 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), gammelmorfar (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)