grandfather

Pronunciation




Etymology 1
The noun is derived from, , , , and other forms, from + , probably modelled after ,  (whence 🇨🇬); the English word is analysable as. Superseded earlier,.

The verb is derived from the noun.

Noun

 * 1) A father of someone's parent.
 * 2)  A male forefather.
 * 3)  The archived older version of a file that immediately preceded the father file.
 * 1)  A male forefather.
 * 2)  The archived older version of a file that immediately preceded the father file.
 * 1)  A male forefather.
 * 2)  The archived older version of a file that immediately preceded the father file.
 * 1)  A male forefather.
 * 2)  The archived older version of a file that immediately preceded the father file.
 * 1)  A male forefather.
 * 2)  The archived older version of a file that immediately preceded the father file.
 * 1)  The archived older version of a file that immediately preceded the father file.
 * 1)  The archived older version of a file that immediately preceded the father file.

Translations

 * Abkhaz: бду
 * Acehnese: syik, nek
 * Adyghe: пшъашъэ
 * Afrikaans:
 * Ainu: エカㇱヒ
 * Akkadian: 𒀀𒁉 𒀀𒁉
 * Albanian:, ,
 * Aleut: latux
 * Ambonese Malay: opa
 * Amharic:
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: جد
 * Hijazi Arabic: سِيد, جَدّ
 * Moroccan Arabic: جد, با سيد
 * South Levantine Arabic: جد, سيد
 * Aragonese: agüelo
 * Aramaic:
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܣܵܒ݂ܵܐ
 * Classical Syriac: ܣܒܐ, ܩܫܝܫܐ
 * Armenian:, ,
 * Aromanian: ghiush, tot, pap
 * Assamese: ককা
 * Asturian:
 * Avar: кӏудада, дахӏадада
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: олатай, ҡартатай
 * Basque: ,
 * Belarusian: дзед, дзяду́ля
 * Bengali:,  , নানা
 * Bikol Central:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Central Dusun: taki
 * Central Sierra Miwok: páˑpa-
 * Chamicuro: lokoko
 * Cherokee: ᎤᏚᏚ,  ᎤᏂᏏ
 * Chichewa: gogo
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 爺爺, 公公 , 祖父 , 外祖父 , 外公
 * Hakka: 阿公, 姐公 , 外阿公
 * Hokkien:, 俺公 , 外公 , 火烌公 , 內公
 * Mandarin:,  ,  ,
 * Chinook Jargon: chitsh
 * Chukchi: апайӈын
 * Chuvash: асатте, кукаҫи
 * Corsican: babbone
 * Crimean Tatar: qartbaba
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:, bedstefader
 * Dhivehi:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe: tɔgbui
 * Extremaduran: abuelu
 * Faroese:, avi
 * Finnish:, see also: Thesaurus:isoisä
 * Franco-Provençal:
 * French: ,
 * Friulian: nono, von
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: პაპა, ბაბუა
 * German:, , , ; Großvater väterlicherseits , Großvater mütterlicherseits
 * Alemannic German: Äni
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: πάππος
 * Greenlandic: aataq, aataa
 * Guaraní: taita guasu
 * Gujarati:
 * Hausa: kaka
 * Hawaiian: kupuna kāne
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Igbo:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Ingrian: äijä
 * Ingush: даь-да, наьн-да
 * Interlingua: avo, granpatre
 * Irish:, athair críonna
 * Old Irish: senathair
 * Istriot: nono
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Javanese: mbah,
 * Jeju: 하르방
 * Kashmiri: بُڈؠ بَب
 * Kazakh: ,
 * Khmer:, ,
 * Khoekhoe: ǁgaosab
 * Korean:, ,
 * Krio: grandpa
 * Krymchak: baba
 * Kumyk: баба
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: чоң ата, тай ата
 * Ladino: nono, avuelo, papú, granpapa
 * Lao: ປູ່, ,  , ໄອຍະກາ , ພໍ່ໃຫຍ່, ມາຕາມະຫະ
 * Latgalian: vaciks, vacjuks, vacuļs
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: vectēvs
 * Lithuanian:
 * Low German:
 * German Low German: Grautvader, Grotvader , Grotvader & Großvader ; Grootvader, Grootvoder, Grootvadder
 * Luganda: jjajja omusajja, jajja omusajja
 * Lutshootseed: scapaʔ
 * Luxembourgish: Grousspapp
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: മുത്തച്ഛന്‍, അപ്പൂപ്പന്‍
 * Maltese: ġidd, nannu
 * Manchu: ᠮᠠᡶᠠ, ᡤᠣᡵᠣ ᠮᠠᡶᠠ
 * Manx: shaner, shennayr
 * Maori: koroua, tipuna tāne, tupuna,poua
 * Marathi: आजोबा, आबा
 * Mirandese: abó, abó pai, abó de las calças, pai-abó, bó
 * Mòcheno: nono
 * Mongolian:
 * Navajo: acheii,  análí
 * Nivkh: атак
 * Norman: grand-péthe
 * North Frisian: åte ; Gooki
 * Northern Ohlone: ká̄na 'ek pá̄pa
 * Northern Sami: áddjá
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: bestefar
 * O'odham: ba꞉b,  wosk
 * Occitan: grand paire
 * Odia: ଜେଜେବାପା
 * Ojibwe: nimishoomis
 * Old Church Slavonic: дѣдъ
 * Old English: eald fæder
 * Old Norse: afi
 * Oromo: akaakayyuu
 * Ossetian: дада, баба
 * Papiamentu: welo
 * Pashto: نیکه
 * Pennsylvania German: Groossvadder, Groossdaadi
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Grootfoda
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਦਾਦਾ, ਦਾਦੇ
 * Quechua: awki, jatun tata
 * Rajasthani:
 * Romani: pàpos
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Romansch: tat, non
 * Russian:, ,
 * Salar: paba
 * Sanskrit:
 * Santali: ᱚᱡᱚ
 * Sardinian: donnumannu
 * Scots: guidsire, grandfaither
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: дјед, дед, деда, дека, декица, дедица
 * Roman:, , , , ,
 * Siberian Tatar: пабай
 * Sicilian:, tata granni, papa granni
 * Sindhi:
 * Sinhalese: පිතාමහ, මිති
 * Skolt Sami: äʹjj
 * Slovak: dedo,, , ded
 * Slovene: ded,
 * Somali: awow
 * Sotho:
 * Southern Altai: таада
 * Spanish:
 * Sundanese:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: (paternal),  (maternal)
 * Tagalog:, ingkong, lelong, , abwelo
 * Tajik: падарбузург,
 * Tamil:
 * Taos: tàłułiʼína
 * Tatar:, , зур әти
 * Telugu: ,
 * Thai:, ,
 * Tibetan: སྤོ་བོ
 * Tocharian B: āwe
 * Tok Pisin: tumbuna
 * Tupinambá: amỹîa
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: ,
 * Tuvan: кырган-ача
 * Ukrainian:, діду́сь
 * Urdu: دادا, نانا
 * Urum: baba
 * Uyghur: بۇۋا, بوۋا
 * Uzbek:
 * Venetian:
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon: ,
 * Welsh:, ,
 * West Frisian: pake
 * Wolof: marm
 * Xhosa: -khulu
 * Yagnobi: бобо
 * Yakut: эһэ
 * Yámana: ušwam
 * Yiddish: זיידע
 * Yoruba: baba agba
 * Zulu: -khulu


 * Bengali: পরদাদা
 * Danish: forfader
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * Galician: devanceiro
 * Greek: ,
 * Khmer: ,
 * Old Church Slavonic: дѣдъ
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tok Pisin: tumbuna

Verb

 * 1)  To be, or act as, a grandfather to.

Etymology 2
From : see grandfather (etymology 1) and.

Verb

 * 1)   To retain discontinued laws or rules for (an object, individual or organization previously affected by them).