"Bibi" in Swahili means "grandmother" or "old lady". It is used to show respect to an older woman.
Grandma in Swahili is "Bibi".
In Swahili, "Mrs" can be translated as "Bibi."
Grandmother in Swahili is nyanya, but everyone these days says bibi. Why? No idea. Maybe because nyanya also means tomato, but bibi used to mean mistress in the salacious sense. In many places it still does,
Well it can differ in pure Swahili it is bibi meaning grandmother. But often in Kenyan Swahili they use bibi to mean wife, and exchange it for nyanya. Which by the way also means tomatoe so use wisely. Example: bibi yangu amezeeka= my grandmother has grown old.
Grandma in Swahili is "bibii."
Babu is the word for grandfather. Bibi is the word for grandmother.
Single person grandmother is bibi, the plural is mabibi. Can also mean ladies and madams
mother: mamagrandmother: bibi or nyanya (nyanya is the historic word for grandmother, but in Tanzania and some other places it has been totally replaced by the word bibi).
Grandmother: Bibi (Bee-Bee) or Nyanya Grandfather: Babu (Bah Boo) Mother: Mama Father: Baba (Bah-Bah) Sister: Dada (Dah-Dah) Brother: Kaka (Kah-Kah)
You can say nyanya or bibi. Some people also say shosho
What language is nana? Is this the name that some people call their grandmother? If so, in Swahili it's bibi.Another, older word is no longer commonly used: nyanya, but many argue it's correct since bibi is also used in certain contexts to mean "Mrs." and in certain others "mistress."
Not a word in Swahili