Great-grandfather

Synonyms for "great-grandfather" (4 found)

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Noun(1 words)
besaiel

Strong matches (1)

Related words (2)

Noun(1 words)
great-grandpa

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Translations

101 translations across 70 languages.

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Afrikaans

2 entries
  • oorgrootvader noun (father of one's grandparent)
  • oupagrootjie noun (father of one's grandparent)

Albanian

1 entries
  • tregjysh noun (father of one's grandparent)

Aromanian

1 entries
  • strãush noun (father of one's grandparent)

Assyrian Neo-Aramaic

1 entries
  • ܣܵܒ݂ܵܐ ܪܲܒܵܐ noun (father of one's grandparent)

Asturian

1 entries
  • bisgüelu noun (father of one's grandparent)

Basque

2 entries
  • birraitita noun (father of one's grandparent)
  • birraitona noun (father of one's grandparent)

Belarusian

1 entries
  • пра́дзед noun (father of one's grandparent)

Bengali

1 entries
  • পরদাদা noun (father of one's grandparent)

Bulgarian

1 entries
  • прадядо noun (father of one's grandparent)

Burmese

2 entries
  • ဘေး noun (father of one's grandparent)
  • အဘေး noun (father of one's grandparent)

Catalan

1 entries
  • besavi noun (father of one's grandparent)

Central Kurdish

1 entries
  • باپیرە گەورە noun (father of one's grandparent)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries
  • 曾祖父 noun (father of one's grandparent)

Classical Nahuatl

1 entries
  • achtontli noun (father of one's grandparent)

Czech

2 entries
  • praděd noun (father of one's grandparent)
  • pradědeček noun (father of one's grandparent)

Danish

2 entries
  • oldefader noun (father of one's grandparent)
  • oldefar noun (father of one's grandparent)

Dutch

1 entries
  • overgrootvader noun (father of one's grandparent)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • praavo noun (father of one's grandparent)

Faroese

2 entries
  • langabbi noun (father of one's grandparent)
  • langavi noun (father of one's grandparent)

Finnish

2 entries
  • isoisoisä noun (father of one's grandparent)
  • isoisän isä noun (father of one's grandparent)

French

2 entries
  • arrière-grand-père noun (father of one's grandparent)
  • bisaïeul noun (father of one's grandparent)

Friulian

1 entries
  • basavon noun (father of one's grandparent)

Galician

1 entries
  • bisavó noun (father of one's grandparent)

Georgian

1 entries
  • დიდი ბაბუა noun (father of one's grandparent)

German

2 entries
  • Urgrossvater noun (father of one's grandparent)
  • Urgroßvater noun (father of one's grandparent)

Greek

1 entries
  • προπάππος noun (father of one's grandparent)

Hebrew

1 entries
  • סבא רבא \ סַבָּא רַבָּא noun (father of one's grandparent)

Hindi

2 entries
  • परदादा noun (father of one's grandparent)
  • परनाना noun (father of one's grandparent)

Hungarian

2 entries
  • dédapa noun (father of one's grandparent)
  • dédnagyapa noun (father of one's grandparent)

Icelandic

1 entries
  • langafi noun (father of one's grandparent)

Ido

1 entries
  • preavulo noun (father of one's grandparent)

Indonesian

1 entries
  • kakek buyut noun (father of one's grandparent)

Irish

1 entries
  • sin-seanathair noun (father of one's grandparent)

Italian

4 entries
  • bisavo noun (father of one's grandparent)
  • bisavolo noun (father of one's grandparent)
  • bisnonno noun (father of one's grandparent)
  • proavo noun (father of one's grandparent)

Japanese

1 entries
  • 曾祖父 noun (father of one's grandparent)

Kashmiri

1 entries
  • بَڈٕ بُڈؠ بَب noun (father of one's grandparent)

Khmer

1 entries
  • ជីតាទួត noun (father of one's grandparent)

Korean

1 entries
  • 증조부 noun (father of one's grandparent)

Latin

1 entries
  • proavus noun (father of one's grandparent)

Latvian

1 entries
  • vecvectēvs noun (father of one's grandparent)

Lithuanian

1 entries
  • prosenelis noun (father of one's grandparent)

Macedonian

1 entries
  • прадедо noun (father of one's grandparent)

Malay

3 entries
  • bapa datuk nenek noun (father of one's grandparent)
  • moyang noun (father of one's grandparent)
  • moyang lelaki noun (father of one's grandparent)

Mon

1 entries
  • ဇ noun (father of one's grandparent)

Navajo

2 entries
  • naakidi nácheii noun (father of one's grandparent)
  • naakidi nánálí noun (father of one's grandparent)

Norman

2 entries
  • grand-grand-péthe noun (father of one's grandparent)
  • grand-papa noun (father of one's grandparent)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries
  • oldefar noun (father of one's grandparent)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries
  • oldefar noun (father of one's grandparent)

Old Norse

1 entries
  • ái noun (father of one's grandparent)

Persian

2 entries
  • پدرِ مادربزرگ noun (father of one's grandparent)
  • پدرِ پدربزرگ noun (father of one's grandparent)

Polish

1 entries
  • pradziadek noun (father of one's grandparent)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • bisavô noun (father of one's grandparent)

Romanian

1 entries
  • străbunic noun (father of one's grandparent)

Russian

2 entries
  • пра́дед noun (father of one's grandparent)
  • праде́душка noun (father of one's grandparent)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries
  • sinn-seanair noun (father of one's grandparent)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries
  • pradeda noun (father of one's grandparent)
  • прадеда noun (father of one's grandparent)

Seri

1 entries
  • aacaz noun (father of one's grandparent)

Slovak

1 entries
  • pradedo noun (father of one's grandparent)

Slovene

1 entries
  • praded noun (father of one's grandparent)

Spanish

1 entries
  • bisabuelo noun (father of one's grandparent)

Sundanese

1 entries
  • aki uyut noun (father of one's grandparent)

Swedish

4 entries
  • farfarsfar noun (father of one's grandparent)
  • farmorsfar noun (father of one's grandparent)
  • gammelfarfar noun (father of one's grandparent)
  • gammelmorfar noun (father of one's grandparent)

Tagalog

1 entries
  • lolo sa tuhod noun (father of one's grandparent)

Tamil

3 entries
  • கொள்ளுத்தாத்தா noun (father of one's grandparent)
  • கொள்ளுப்பாட்டன் noun (father of one's grandparent)
  • முப்பாட்டன் noun (father of one's grandparent)

Telugu

1 entries
  • ముత్తాత noun (father of one's grandparent)

Udmurt

1 entries
  • песяпесятай noun (father of one's grandparent)

Ukrainian

1 entries
  • пра́дід noun (father of one's grandparent)

Vietnamese

2 entries
  • cụ ông noun (father of one's grandparent)
  • ông cố noun (father of one's grandparent)

Welsh

2 entries
  • hen dad-cu noun (father of one's grandparent)
  • hen daid noun (father of one's grandparent)

Yiddish

1 entries
  • עלטער־זיידע noun (father of one's grandparent)

Sample sentences

11 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The father of a father is a grandfather, a grandfather's father is a great-grandfather, a great-grandfather's father is a great-great-grandfather, but no word has been decided upon for the generations before great-great-grandfather.

Source: tatoeba (504785)

Tom's great-grandfather was born blind.

Source: tatoeba (1092152)

He is my great-grandfather.

Source: tatoeba (2029174)

My father, grandfather, great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather all had the same name as I have.

Source: tatoeba (2150564)

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