Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: voorouer
- Amharic: በቀዳሚ
- Arabic: سلف
- Azerbaijani: əcdad
- Bashkir: ата-баба
- Belarusian: продак
- Bulgarian: предшественик
- Bengali: পূর্বপুরুষ
- Bosnian: predak
- Catalan: ancestre
- Cebuano: katigulangan
- Czech: předek
- Welsh: hynafiad
- Danish: forfader
- German: Vorfahren
- Greek: πρόγονος
- Esperanto: prapatro
- Spanish: antepasado
- Estonian: esivanem
- Basque: arbaso
- Persian: جد
- Finnish: esi
- French: ancêtre
- Irish: sinsear
- Scottish Gaelic: ancestor
- Galician: ancestral
- Gujarati: પૂર્વજ
- Hebrew: קדמון
- Hindi: पूर्वज
- Croatian: predak
- Haitian: zansèt
- Hungarian: őse
- Armenian: նախնին
- Indonesian: nenek moyang
- Icelandic: forfaðir
- Italian: antenato
- Japanese: 先祖
- Javanese: leluhur
- Georgian: წინაპარი
- Kazakh: формалар шебері көмегімен
- Khmer: បុព្វបុរស
- Kannada: ಪೂರ್ವಜ
- Korean: 조상
- Kyrgyz: предок
- Latin: ancestor
- Luxembourgish: Virfahre
- Lao: ບູລຸດ
- Lithuanian: protėvis
- Latvian: sencis
- Malagasy: razambe
- Mari: кугезе
- Maori: tipuna
- Macedonian: претходник
- Malayalam: ancestor
- Mongolian: өвөг
- Marathi: पूर्वज
- Hill Mari: у
- Malay: nenek moyang
- Maltese: antenat
- Burmese: ဘိုး
- Nepali: पूर्वज
- Dutch: voorouder
- Norwegian: stamfaren
- Punjabi: ਪੂਰਵਜ
- Papiamento: interesado
- Polish: przodek
- Portuguese: antepassado
- Romanian: strămoșul
- Russian: предок
- Sinhalese: පිය
- Slovak: predka
- Slovenian: prednik
- Albanian: paraardhës të
- Serbian: предак
- Sundanese: karuhun
- Swedish: ana
- Swahili: babu
- Tamil: மூதாதையர்
- Telugu: పూర్వీకులు
- Tajik: дар ниегон ба он чӣ
- Thai: บรรพบุรุษ
- Tagalog: ninuno
- Turkish: Atam
- Tatar: предок
- Udmurt: вашкала
- Ukrainian: предок
- Urdu: پرکھا
- Uzbek: bo'lsa
- Vietnamese: tổ tiên
- Xhosa: isinyanya
- Yiddish: אַנסעסטער
- Chinese: 祖先
Synonyms, close and similar words for ancestor
- forebear
- progenitor
- forefather
- predecessor
- ascendants
- grandparent
- forbears
- ascendant
- antecedent
- grandsire
- father
- primogenitor
- parent
- root