multiplication table

English

Noun

multiplication table (plural multiplication tables)

1. (arithmetic) A table showing the products of each of the integers from 1 to 10 (or, especially formerly, 12) with each of the integers from 1 to 10 (or 12).

   Synonym: (informal) times table

   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Alteration”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 21:

     It was not till animated by some discussion, based upon the multiplication-table, that you saw how keen and shrewd those large, dull, gray eyes could become.

   • 1865 November (indicated as 1866), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “The Pool of Tears”, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, pages 19–20:

     I’ll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is—oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate! However, the Multiplication Table doesn’t signify: let’s try Geography.

Translations

in arithmetic

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: բազմապատկման աղյուսակ (bazmapatkman aġyusak)
• Burmese: အလီ (my) (a.li)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 乘數表／乘数表 (sing⁴ sou³ biu²)

  Mandarin: 乘法表 (zh) (chéngfǎbiǎo), 九九乘法表 (zh) (jiǔjiǔchéngfǎbiǎo)

• Czech: tabulka násobilky f, násobilka f
• Danish: multiplikationstabel c, gangetabel c, lille tabel c (literally “small table”) (table from 1x1 to 10x10), store tabel c (literally “great table”) (table from 1x1 to 20x20)
• Dutch: tafel van vermenigvuldiging f
• Finnish: kertotaulu (fi)
• French: table de multiplication (fr) f
• German: Einmaleins (de) n (literally “one-times-one”); kleines Einmaleins n (from 1x1 to 10x10); großes Einmaleins n (from 1x1 to 20x20)
• Greek: προπαίδεια (el) f (propaídeia)
• Hindi: पहाड़ा (hi) (pahāṛā)
• Hungarian: szorzótábla (hu), egyszeregy (hu)
• Irish: tábla méadaithe m
• Italian: tavola pitagorica (it) f, tabellina (it) f
• Japanese: 九九 (ja) (kuku), 九九の表 (kuku-no-hyō)
• Korean: 구구법 (ko) (gugubeop)
• Macedonian: таблица множење f (tablica množenje)
• Norwegian: multiplikasjonstabell m

  Bokmål: gangetabell m

  Nynorsk: gongetabell m

• Polish: tabliczka mnożenia (pl) f
• Portuguese: tabuada (pt) f, tabuada de multiplicação f, tabuada de multiplicar f
• Romanian: tabla înmulțirii (ro) f
• Russian: табли́ца умноже́ния (ru) f (tablíca umnožénija)
• Spanish: tabla de multiplicar f
• Swahili: jedwali (sw)
• Swedish: multiplikationstabell (sv) c
• Tagalog: talay ng palaramihan
• Telugu: ఎక్కము (te) (ekkamu)
• Turkish: çarpım tablosu (tr), çarpım cetveli (tr), kerrat cetveli (tr)
• Vietnamese: bảng cửu chương