thirteen

Englisch

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Cardinal: thirteen     Ordinal: thirteenth     Adverbial: thirteen times     Multiplier: thirteenfold     Germanic collective: thirteensome

Alternative forms

• Arabic numerals: 13
• Roman numerals: XIII

Etymology

From Middle English thirttene, variant (through metathesis) of thrittene, from Old English þrēotīene, from Proto-Germanic *þritehun, compound of *þrīz (“three”) + *tehun (“teen”). Cognate with West Frisian trettjin, Dutch dertien, German dreizehn, Danish tretten.

Pronunciation

• (next word stressed near the first syllable)

  IPA^(key): /ˈθɜː.tiːn/

  IPA^(key): /ˈθɝ(t).tin/

• Audio (US):

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• (next word stressed after the first syllable)

  IPA^(key): /ˌθɜːˈtiːn/

  IPA^(key): /ˌθɝ(t)ˈtin/

• Rhymes: -iːn

Numeral

thirteen

1. The cardinal number occurring after twelve and before fourteen, represented in Roman numerals as XIII and in Arabic numerals as 13.

   There are thirteen cards of each of the four suits in a deck of playing cards.

   • 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond

     During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant […]

Synonyms

• baker’s dozen
• long dozen
• throtteen (dialect)

Coordinate terms

• Previous: twelve. Next: fourteen

Derived terms

• thirteener

Related terms

• Ordinal: thirteenth

Translations

the cardinal number occurring after twelve and before fourteen

• Afrikaans: dertien (af)
• Albanian: trembëdhjetë (sq)
• American Sign Language: Hu@Side-PalmBack Flatten
• Amharic: አስራ ሶስት (ʾäsra sost)
• Arabic: ثَلَاثَةَ عَشَرَ (ṯalāṯata ʕašara) (numeral: ١٣)

  Egyptian Arabic: تلاتاشر (talataašar)

• Aragonese: treze
• Aramaic:

  Hebrew: תלתעסר m (tlātha‘sar), תלתעסרא f (tlātha‘esrē)

  Syriac: ܬܠܬܥܣܪ m (tlātha‘sar), ܬܠܬܥܣܪܐ f (tlātha‘esrē)

• Armenian: տասներեք (hy) (tasnerekʻ)
• Ashkun: traus
• Assamese: তেৰ (tero)
• Asturian: trece (ast), trelce (ast)
• Aymara: tunka kimsani
• Azerbaijani: on üç (az)
• Bashkir: ун өс (un ös)
• Basque: hamahiru (eu)
• Belarusian: трына́ццаць (trynáccacʹ)
• Bengali: তেরো (terō) (numeral: ১৩)
• Breton: trizek (br)
• Bulgarian: трина́десет (trinádeset), трина́йсет (trinájset)
• Burmese: ဆယ့်သုံး (hcai.sum:) (numeral: ၁၃)
• Buryat: арбан гурбан (arban gurban)
• Catalan: tretze (ca)
• Cebuano: napulog tulo, trese
• Central Sierra Miwok: naˀá·ča- toló·košu-ˀ hej·i-ˀ
• Chechen: кхойтта (qojtta)
• Cherokee: ᏦᎦᏚ (tsogadu)
• Chichewa: khumi n'zitatu
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 十三 (sap⁶ saam¹)

  Hakka: 十三 (sṳ̍p-sâm)

  Mandarin: 十三 (zh) (shísān) (numeral: 拾參／拾参)

  Teochew: san1zab8, sab8

• Chuvash: вунвиҫҫӗ (vunviśśĕ), вунвиҫӗ (vunviś̬ĕ), вунвиҫҫ (vunviśś)
• Classical Nahuatl: mahtlāctli omēyi
• Corsican: trèdeci
• Crimean Tatar: on üç
• Czech: třináct (cs)
• Dalmatian: tretco
• Danish: tretten (da)
• Dena'ina: tuq'i beq'di
• Dhivehi: ތޭރަ (tēra)
• Dutch: dertien (nl) f
• Dzongkha: བཅུ་གསུམ (bcu gsum)
• Esperanto: dek tri
• Estonian: kolmteist (et)
• Faroese: trettan
• Fijian: tini ka tolu
• Finnish: kolmetoista (fi)
• French: treize (fr) m
• Friulian: tredis
• Galician: trece (gl)
• Georgian: ცამეტი (ka) (cameṭi)
• German: dreizehn (de)
• Greek: δεκατρείς (el) m or f (dekatreís), δεκατρία (el) n (dekatría)

  Ancient: τρισκαίδεκα (triskaídeka), ιγ΄ (numeral)

• Greenlandic: aqqaniq-pingasut
• Gujarati: તેર (gu) (ter) (numeral: ૧૩)
• Haitian Creole: trèz
• Hawaiian: ʻumikūmākolu
• Hebrew: שְׁלוֹשׁ עֶשְׂרֵה f (shlosh esre) (used in counting), שְׁלוֹשָׁה עָשָׂר m (shlosha asar)
• Hindi: तेरह (hi) (terah) (numeral: १३ (hi) (13))
• Hopi: pakwt niikyang paykomuy siikya’ta
• Hungarian: tizenhárom (hu)
• Hunsrik: dreizen
• Icelandic: þrettán (is)
• Ido: dek-e-tri
• Inari Sami: kulmânubáloh
• Indonesian: tiga belas (id)
• Interlingua: dece-tres
• Irish: trí déag (ga)
• Istriot: tridase
• Italian: tredici (it) m
• Japanese: 十三 (ja) (じゅうさん, jūsan), 十三 (ja) (とさ, tosa)
• Javanese: telulas
• Kamkata-viri: trić
• Kannada: ಹದಿಮೂರು (kn) (hadimūru) (numeral: ೧೩ (13))
• Kazakh: он үш (kk) (on üş)
• Khmer: ដប់បី (dop bei) (numeral: ១៣)
• Komi-Permyak: даскуим (daskuim)
• Korean: 열셋 (ko) (yeolset), 십삼 (ko) (sipsam) (十三 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji:

  Sorani: سیانزە (syanze)

• Kyrgyz: он үч (ky) (on üc)
• Ladin: tredesc
• Lakota: akéyamni
• Lao: ສິບສາມ (sip sām) (numeral: ໑໓)
• Latgalian: treispadsmit
• Latin: tredecim (la)
• Latvian: trīspadsmit (lv)
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• Ligurian: trézze
• Lithuanian: trylika (lt)
• Livonian: kuolmtuoistõn
• Low German: dörteihn (nds), dötteihn, dorteihn
• Luxembourgish: dräizéng (lb)
• Lü: ᦉᦲᧇᦉᦱᧄ (ṡiibṡaam) (numeral: ᧑᧓)
• Macedonian: трина́есет (trináeset)
• Malagasy: telo ambinifolo
• Malay: tiga belas, telu belas, sepuluh tiga, sepuluh telu, satu puluh tiga, satu puluh telu
• Malayalam: പതിമൂന്ന് (ml) (patimūnnŭ)
• Maltese: tlettax
• Manchu: (juwan ilan)
• Mansi:
• Manx: tree jeig
• Maori: tekau mā toru (mi)
• Middle English: thrittene
• Mongolian: арван гурав (arvan gurav) (numeral: ᠑᠓ (13))
• Navajo: tááʼtsʼáadah
• Norman: treize
• Northern Sami: golbmanuppelohkái
• Norwegian: tretten (no)
• Novial:
• Occitan: tretze (oc)
• Ojibwe: ashi-niswi
• Old Church Slavonic: трьѥ на дєсѧтє (trĭje na desęte)
• Old English: þrēotīene
• Oriya: ତେର (or) (tera) (numeral: ୧୩ (13))
• Pennsylvania German: dreizeh
• Persian: سیزده (fa) (sizdah), ۱۳ (numeral)
• Polish: trzynaście (pl), (collective) trzynaścioro (pl)
• Portuguese: treze (pt)
• Prasuni: ċšīzē
• Punjabi: ਤੇਰ੍ਹਾਂ (terhā̃) (numeral: ੧੩ (13))
• Quechua: chunka kimsayuq
• Romani:

  Kalo Finnish Romani: deȟ-o-triin

• Romanian: treisprezece (ro), treișpe (informal)
• Romansch: (Grischun, Surmiran) tredesch, (Sursilvan) tredisch, (Vallader) traidesch
• Russian: трина́дцать (ru) (trinádcatʹ)
• Rusyn: трина́дцить (trynádcytʹ)
• S'gaw Karen: တဆံသၢ (ta hsee thuh)
• Samoan: sefulu tolu
• Sanskrit: त्रयोदश (sa) (trayodaśa) (numeral: १३ (13))
• Sardinian: trechi, treghi, treci, tréichi, trexi
• Scottish Gaelic: trì deug
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тринаест

  Roman: trinaest

• Shan: သိပ်းသၢမ် (síp sǎam)
• Sicilian: trìdici (scn), trìrici (scn)
• Sinhalese: දහතුන (dahatuna)
• Skolt Sami: konmlo
• Slovak: trinásť (sk)
• Slovene: trinajst (sl)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: tśinasćo

  Upper Sorbian: třinaće

• Spanish: trece (es)
• Swedish: tretton (sv)
• Tagalog: labintatlo (tl), trese
• Tahitian: hō'ē 'ahuru ma toru
• Tajik: сездаҳ (tg) (sezdah)
• Tamil: பதின்மூன்று (ta) (patiṉmūṉṟu) (numeral: ௰௩)
• Tatar: унөч (unöç)
• Telugu: పదమూడు (te) (padamūḍu) (numeral: ౧౩ (13))
• Thai: สิบสาม (th) (sìp-sǎam) (numeral: ๑๓)
• Tibetan: བཅུ་གསུམ (bcu gsum)
• Tigre: ዐስር ወሰለስ (ʿäsr wäsäläs)
• Tigrinya: ዓሰርተ ሰለስተ (ʿasärtä sälästä)
• Tongan: hongofulu mā tolu
• Turkish: on üç (tr)
• Turkmen: on üç (tk)
• Ukrainian: трина́дцять (uk) (trynádcjatʹ)
• Urdu: تیرہ (terah)
• Uyghur: ئون ئۈچ (ug) (on üch)
• Uzbek: oʻn uch (uz)
• Venetian: tredese, trédexe (vec)
• Vietnamese: mười ba
• Vilamovian: drecao
• Volapük: degkil, balsekil (older term, obsolete)
• Waigali: trū̃š
• Walloon: traze (wa)
• Welsh: tri ar ddeg (cy) m (vigesimal, traditional), tair ar ddeg (cy) f (vigesimal), un deg tri (cy) (decimal), undeg tair f
• West Frisian: trettjin (fy)
• Wolof: fukk ak ñett
• Xhosa: please add this translation if you can
• Yao: likumi kwisa tatu
• Yiddish: דרײַצן (draytsn)
• Yup'ik: qula pingayun
• Zhuang: cib sam
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

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