grandmother

Etymology
From, , ; equivalent to. Compare. Superseded earlier,.

Noun

 * 1) A mother of someone's parent.
 * 2) A female ancestor or progenitor.

Synonyms

 * See Thesaurus:grandmother

Translations
Many languages use different terms for the mother of someone's father and the mother of someone's mother. When such a distinction is required in English, the phrases and  can be used. Specific translations can be added at those entries.


 * Abkhaz: анду
 * Afrikaans:
 * Ainu: フチ
 * Albanian:
 * Alemannic German: Grosi
 * Aleut: kukax
 * Ambonese Malay: oma, nene
 * Amharic: ሴት አያት
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: تيتة, جدة
 * Hijazi Arabic: أنّة, ستّو
 * South Levantine Arabic: جدة, ست, تيتة
 * Aragonese: agüela
 * Aramaic:
 * Classical Syriac: ܣܒܬܐ, ܩܫܝܫܬܐ
 * Armenian:, ,
 * Aromanian: omã, babã
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Cyrillic: нәнә
 * Balinese: dadong
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: бабу́ля
 * Bengali: নানী, নানু, ,
 * Bhojpuri: दादी के बा
 * Bikol Central:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Central Dusun: todu
 * Central Sierra Miwok: ʔamáˑ-
 * Chamicuro: payako
 * Cherokee: ᎡᏂᏏ, ᎠᎵᏏ
 * Chichewa: gogo
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 嫲嫲, 婆婆 , 祖母 , 外祖母 , 外婆
 * Hakka: 阿婆, 姐婆 , 外阿婆
 * Hokkien:, 外媽 , 內媽
 * Mandarin:,  ,  ,  ,
 * Chinook Jargon: chope
 * Chuvash: кукамай, асанне
 * Corsican: mammone
 * Crimean Tatar: qartana
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, bedste
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe: mama
 * Extremaduran: ávila
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:, , , ,
 * French: ,
 * Friulian: none, ave
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ბებია, დიდედა, ბებო,
 * German:, , , Großmütterchen , Großmütterlein
 * Silesian: Grußmutter, Gruußmutter
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: μάμμη, τήθη
 * Greenlandic: aanaq, aanaa
 * Guaraní:
 * Halkomelem: sísele
 * Hausa: kaka
 * Hawaiian: kupunawahine
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Igbo: nnenna
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: ämmä, ämmö
 * Ingush: даь-нана, наьн-нана
 * Interlingua: ,
 * Irish: máthair mhór,, mamó, máthair chríonna
 * Old Irish: senmáthair
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, お婆ちゃん , ,  ,
 * Javanese: Eyang Putri
 * Jeju: 할망
 * Kashmiri: نانؠ
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer:, ,
 * Khoekhoe: ǁgaosas
 * Korean: ,
 * Krio: granny
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: داپیر, داپیرە
 * Northern Kurdish:, ,
 * Kyrgyz: ky,
 * Ladino: nona, avuela, granmama, vava
 * Lakota: uŋčí
 * Lao: ຍ່າ, ແມ່ເຖົ້າ
 * Latgalian: vace, vaceite, babeņa
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: vecāmāte, vecmamma, vecmāmiņa
 * Lithuanian: bobutė, ,
 * Low German:
 * German Low German: Grootmoder, Grotmoder, Grootmodder, Grootmudder, Grotmudder
 * Luganda: jjajja omukazi, jajja mukyaala
 * Lutshootseed: kiaʔ, kayə
 * Luxembourgish: Groussmamm
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: മുത്തശ്ശി, ,
 * Maltese: nanna
 * Manchu: ᠮᠠᠮᠠ, ᡤᠣᡵᠣ ᠮᠠᠮᠠ
 * Maori: kuia, tipuna, tupuna, tāua
 * Marathi: आजी
 * Maricopa: nkyew
 * Mirandese: abó, abó mai, abó de las saias, bó
 * Mòcheno: nu'na
 * Mongolian:
 * Navajo: amá sání, análí
 * Neapolitan: nonna
 * Nepali: हजुरआमा
 * Ngazidja Comorian: koko
 * Nivkh: ытик
 * Norman: grand'-mère, manman , grand-méthe
 * North Frisian:
 * Föhr: ualmam
 * Hallig: aol
 * Mooring: ååle
 * Northern Ohlone: ká̄na 'ek mél̄e
 * Northern Sami: áhkku
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, ,
 * Nynorsk: bestemor, mormor, farmor
 * O'odham: hu'ul, ka꞉k
 * Odia: ଜେଜେମାଆ, ଆଈ
 * Ojibwe: nookomis
 * Old English: eald mōdor
 * Oromo: akkayyaa
 * Papiamentu: wela
 * Pashto: ,
 * Pennsylvania German: Groossmudder, Groossmammi
 * Persian:
 * Dari Persian: بی‌بی, مادرکلان,
 * Iranian Persian: ,
 * Polish:, , ,
 * Pontic Greek: καλομάνα
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਨਾਨਿਮਾ
 * Quechua: jatun mama
 * Romani: mami
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Romansch: tatta, tata, nona
 * Russian:, ,  ,  ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Santali: ᱟᱡᱤ
 * Scots: grandmither, guiddame
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: баба, нена, старамајка
 * Roman:, ,
 * Shan:
 * Sicilian:, mamma granni
 * Skolt Sami: äkk
 * Slovak: ,
 * Slovene:, stara mama
 * Somali:
 * Sotho: nkgono
 * Southern Altai: таай эне
 * Spanish:
 * Sundanese:
 * Swabian: Ahna
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog:, impo, lelang, abwela
 * Tajik:, онакалон
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar:, , зур әни, картинәй, нәнә, нәнәй
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan:
 * Tok Pisin: tumbuna
 * Tupinambá: aryîa
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: ene, mama
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Urdu: دادی, نانی
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese:, ,
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon: ,
 * Welsh: ,
 * West Frisian:
 * White Hmong: pog, niam tais
 * Wiradjuri: baadhin
 * Wolof: marm
 * Xhosa: umakhulu
 * Yagara: barbang
 * Yakut: эбэ
 * Yámana: kuluna
 * Yiddish: באָבע
 * Yoruba: iya agba
 * Zazaki: dada, dapir, dapér,
 * Zhuang: buz, naih , daiq
 * Zulu: ukhulu


 * Interlingua: