maternal grandfather

English

Noun

maternal grandfather (plural maternal grandfathers)

The father of one's mother.

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Translations

Note: These are terms specific to the maternal grandfather. There may be other terms for a given language at grandfather and paternal grandfather.

one's mother's father

Albanian: gjysh (sq), babagjysh (sq)
Aleut: latux
Azerbaijani: baba (az)
Breton: tad-kozh (br) m
Bulgarian: прадядо (bg) m (pradjado)
Catalan: avi matern m
Cherokee: ᎡᏚᏓ (eduda)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 公公 (gung¹ gung¹, gung¹^-⁴ gung¹), 外公 (ngoi⁶ gung¹), 外祖父 (ngoi⁶ zou² fu⁶)

Hakka: 姐公 (chiá-kûng), 外阿公 (ngoi-â-kûng)

Mandarin: 外公 (zh) (wàigōng), 外祖父 (zh) (wàizǔfù)

Min Nan: 外公 (guā-kong)
Czech: dědeček (cs) z matčiny strany
Danish: morfar (da) c
Dutch: grootvader (nl) van moederszijde m
Esperanto: avo
Ewe: tɔgbui
Faroese: abbi (fo), móðirfaðir m
Finnish: isoisä (fi), vaari (fi), ukki (fi), pappa (fi), äidinisä (fi)
French: grand-père maternel (fr) m
German: Großvater mütterlicherseits m
Gooniyandi: jaminyi
Greek: παππούς (el) (pappoús), (από τη μητέρα)
Hebrew: סָב‎‎ (he) m (sav), סַבָּא‎‎ (he) m (sába)
Hindi: नाना (hi) (nānā)
Hungarian: nagyapa (hu)
Italian: nonno materno
Japanese: 母方のお爺さん (ははかたのおじいさん, haha kata no ojīsan), 外祖父 (ja) (がいそふ, gaisofu)
Kalmyk: наһц-аав (nahts-aav)
Khmer: មាតាមហៈ (km) (mietaamea’ha’) (royal usage)
Korean: 할아버지 (ko) (harabeoji), 외할아버지 (ko) (oeharabeoji)

Kurdish:
Sorani: باپیر‎‎
Lao: ຕາ (lo) (tā)
Latin: avus maternus
Lü: ᦎᦱ (ṫaa)
Malay: nenek lelaki
Malayalam: മുത്തച്ഛന്‍ (muttacchan‍), അപ്പൂപ്പന്‍ (appūppan‍)
Mapudungun: cheche
Navajo: acheii
Norwegian: bestefar (no), morfar (no)
O'odham: ba꞉b
Old English: ealdfæder m
Polish: dziadek (pl) m
Portuguese: avô maternal
Russian: дед (ru) m (ded), де́душка (ru) m (déduška) (по матери́нской ли́нии)
Scots: gudesire
Scottish Gaelic: seanair màithreil m
Serbo-Croatian: дед m, ded (sh) m, дјед m, djed (sh) m, деда m, deda (sh) m, дједа m, djeda (sh) m
Shan: တႃ (tǎa)
Slovak: dedo m, dedko m, starý otec (sk) m
Slovene: ded m, stari oče (sl) m
Spanish: abuelo materno
Swedish: morfar (sv) c
Telugu: మాతామహుడు (te) m (mātāmahuḍu)
Thai: ตา (th) (dtaa)
Turkish: dede (tr)
Turkmen: baba (tk)
Vietnamese: ông ngoại (vi)
Volapük: motafat (vo)
Zhuang: da, goengda

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