Grandmother

Noun

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

Synonyms

 * baba, gammy, gram, gramma, gran, grandma, grandmom, granny, mimi, nan , nanna, nanny, Mamaw, Bam-ma

Antonyms

 * grandfather
 * granddaughter, grandson, grandchild

Hyponyms

 * paternal grandmother
 * maternal grandmother

Hypernyms

 * grandparent

Derived terms

 * great-grandmother

Related terms

 * great-grandfather

Thesaurus
beldam, crone, dame, dowager, frump, gammer, grandam, grandma, grannam, granny, great-grandmother, hag, old battle-ax, old dame, old girl, old granny, old lady, old trot, old wife, old woman, trot, war-horse, witch

Etymology
grand: + mother:

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 maternal grandmother: and paternal grandmother: can be used. Specific translations can be added at those entries.


 * Afrikaans: ouma
 * Ainu: フチ (huci)
 * Alemannic German:
 * Aleut: kukax
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:, ,
 * Azeri: nənə
 * Balinese: dadong
 * Basque: amona
 * Bosnian: ,
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: àvia
 * Central Sierra Miwok: ʔamáˑ-
 * Chamicuro:
 * Cherokee: (paternal) ᎡᏂᏏ, (maternal) ᎠᎵᏏ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (paternal),  (paternal),  (maternal), 外婆 (maternal, colloquial)
 * Min Nan: lai6ma2, ghua7ma2,, , ,
 * Chinook Jargon:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Ewe: mama
 * Filipino: lola
 * Finnish: isoäiti, mummi, mummo; isänäiti
 * French: ,
 * German:, Omi,
 * Greek: γιαγιά (yiayiá), μάμμη (mámmi)
 * Greenlandic:
 * Guaraní: jarýi
 * Hawaiian:
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: nenek
 * Interlingua: granmatre, ava??


 * Irish: máimeó
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, (only about one's own),  (maternal, only about one's own)
 * Khmer: ជីដូន, យាយ
 * Korean: 할머니
 * Kurdish: ,
 * Lao: ຍ່າ paternal, ແມ່ເຖົ້າ maternal
 * Latgalian:, ,
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: vecāmāte, vecmamma
 * Lithuanian: bobutė, senelė, močiutė
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: മുത്തശ്ശി (muthassi), അമ്മുമ്മ (ammumma), അമ്മമ്മ (ammamma)
 * Navajo: ,
 * Norwegian:, (mother of the mother),  (mother of the father)
 * Ojibwe: -ookomis (nookomis, my grandmother)
 * Pashto: ,
 * Persian: مادربزرگ
 * Polish:, , babunia
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: bunică, mamaie , mama mare
 * Russian:
 * Santali:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian: ,
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: babica, stara mama
 * Sotho: nkgono
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: (paternal),  (maternal)
 * Tagalog: lola, impo, lelang, abwela
 * Thai: ย่า,  ยาย
 * Tupinambá: aryîa
 * Turkish: büyükanne,
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese: bà nội,  bà ngoại
 * Volapük: lemot
 * West Frisian: beppe
 * Wiradhuri: baadhin