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 Translation for 'paternal grandmother' from English to Polish
NOUN   a paternal grandmother | paternal grandmothers
babka {f} w strony ojcapaternal grandmother
babcia {f}grandmother
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babka {f} [babcia]grandmother
babka {f} w strony matkimaternal grandmother
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Usage Examples English
  • Borges had an English paternal grandmother who, around 1870, married the "criollo" Francisco Borges, a man with a military command and a historic role in the Argentine Civil Wars in what are now Argentina and Uruguay.
  • He worked as a civil engineer before succeeding his paternal grandmother, Sibyl Hathaway, the 21st Dame of Sark, in 1974.
  • Her paternal grandmother, Rosa Albach-Retty, was also an actress.
  • She was named after her paternal grandmother, a businesswoman who had received an award from Queen Noor for enterprise.
  • On that occasion, his father brought him to meet his paternal grandmother (also for the first time) and then snuck out of the apartment.

  • His godparents were King Frederick V (his father), Queen Dowager Sophie Magdalene (his paternal grandmother), Princess Louise (his aunt) and Princess Charlotte Amalie (his grand-aunt).
  • Her first name was "Amalie", after her mother and paternal grandmother, but she began using her middle name at a young age, and she invariably used the name "Emmy Noether" in her adult life and her publications.
  • She was baptised on 9 October 1947 and her godparents included Queen Wilhelmina (her maternal grandmother), her eldest sister Princess Beatrix, Sir Winston Churchill (for whom her father stood proxy), her paternal grandmother Armgard von Cramm, Prince Felix of Luxembourg and his niece Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma.
  • Hollywood actress Tallulah Bankhead was named after her paternal grandmother, who in turn was named after Tallulah Falls.
  • He also has some Corsican origin through his paternal grandmother.

  • Located near Duckburg is a farm owned and run by Grandma Duck, a direct descendant of Cornelius Coot and Donald's paternal grandmother.
  • This is because Charles III is descended through his paternal grandmother from Louis IX's grandson Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse via both her parents.
  • Charles used the surname Wendling, borrowed from Jeanne's paternal grandmother Rose Wendling.
  • She was named Margrethe after her late maternal grandmother, Crown Princess Margaret of Sweden, Alexandrine after her paternal grandmother, Queen Alexandrine, and Ingrid after her mother.
  • Ashley's paternal grandfather was of Sicilian (Italian) descent, and her paternal grandmother was a distant descendant of Mayflower pilgrim William Brewster.

  • After hearing the news of Ottokar's death, Henry IV went to Prague and attempted to gain the guardianship of the king's son Wenceslaus II, as one of his closest relatives (Henry IV's paternal grandmother was Anna of Bohemia, a daughter of late King Ottokar I) and ally.
  • Several accounts identify his paternal grandmother with Aimée du Buc de Rivéry, a cousin of Empress Joséphine.
  • His paternal grandmother Onneca Fortúnez was a Christian princess from the Kingdom of Pamplona.
  • Through this paternal grandmother, Pierre Curie is also a direct descendant of the Basel scientist and mathematician Jean Bernoulli (1667–1748), as is Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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