English [ edit ]
maternal grandfather (plural maternal grandfathers )
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see maternal , grandfather . (This entry is a translation hub .)
Coordinate terms: maternal grandmother , paternal grandfather , paternal grandmother
Translations [ edit ]
one's mother's father
Bengali: নানা ( nana )
Catalan: avi matern m
Cherokee: ( his/her mat. grandfather ) ᎤᏚᏚ ( ududu )
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 )
Hokkien: 外公 ( guā-kong )
Mandarin: 外公 (zh) ( wàigōng ) , 外祖父 (zh) ( wàizǔfù )
Czech: dědeček z matčiny strany
Danish: morfar (da) c
Dutch: grootvader van moederszijde m
Faroese: móðirfaðir m
Finnish: äidinisä (fi)
French: grand-père maternel m
German: Großvater mütterlicherseits m
Gooniyandi: jaminyi
Hindi: नाना (hi) ( nānā ) , नानू m ( nānū ) , मातामह (hi) m ( mātāmah )
Hungarian: anyai nagyapa
Icelandic: móðurfaðir m
Italian: nonno materno
Japanese: 母方 の 祖父 ( ははかたのそふ, hahakata no sofu ) , 外祖父 (ja) ( がいそふ, gaisofu ) , 母方 の お爺さん ( ははかたのおじいさん, haha kata no ojīsan ) ( honorific )
Kalmyk: (please verify ) наһц-аав ( nağts-aav )
Khmer: (please verify ) មាតាមហៈ (km) ( mietaamea’ha’ ) ( royal usage )
Korean: 할아버지 (ko) ( harabeoji ) , 외할아버지 (ko) ( oeharabeoji )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: باپیر (ckb) ( bapîr )
Lao: ຕາ (lo) ( tā )
Latin: avus maternus
Lü: ᦎᦱ ( ṫaa )
Macedonian: дедо (mk) m ( dedo ) , дедо по мајка m ( dedo po majka )
Malay: nenek lelaki
Malayalam: മുത്തച്ഛന് ( muttacchaṉ ) , അപ്പൂപ്പന് ( appūppaṉ )
Mapudungun: cheche
Navajo: acheii
Norwegian:
Bokmål: morfar (no) m
Nynorsk: morfar m
O'odham: ba꞉b
Portuguese: avô maternal
Sanskrit: मातामह (sa) m ( mātāmaha )
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 (shn) ( tǎa )
Slovene: stari oče (sl) m
Spanish: abuelo materno
Swedish: morfar (sv) c
Telugu: మాతామహుడు (te) m ( mātāmahuḍu )
Thai: ตา (th) ( dtaa )
Turkmen: (please verify ) baba (tk)
Vietnamese: ông ngoại (vi) (翁外 )
Volapük: motafat (vo)
Zhuang: da , goengda