fifteen

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old English fīftīene, fīftēne, from Proto-Germanic *fimftehun. Compare West Frisian fyftjin, Dutch vijftien, German fünfzehn, Danish femten.

Pronunciation

• (next word stressed near the first syllable)

  (UK, US) IPA: /ˈfɪf.tiːn/

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• (next word stressed after the first syllable)

  (UK, US) IPA: /fɪfˈtiːn/

• Rhymes: -iːn

Number

fifteen (cardinal, ordinal fifteenth)

1. The cardinal number occurring after fourteen (14) and before sixteen (16).

Synonyms

• Roman numerals: XV
• Arabic numerals: 15

See also

• Previous: fourteen
• Next: sixteen

Translations

cardinal number

• Afrikaans: please add this translation if you can
• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• American Sign Language: (OpenB@Side-PalmBack Flatten)
• Arabic: خمسة عشر (ar) (xámsaʈ ʕášar)

  Egyptian Arabic: خمستاشر (xamastaashar)

• Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
• Aramaic:

  Hebrew: חמשעסר (khamsha‘sar) m, חמשעסרא (khamsha‘esrē) f

  Syriac: ܚܡܫܥܣܪ (khamsha‘sar) m, ܚܡܫܥܣܪܐ (khamsha‘esrē) f

• Armenian: տասնհինգ (hy) (tasnhing)
• Asturian: quince (ast)
• Aymara: tunka phisqani (ay)
• Azeri: on beş (az)
• Basque: hamabost (eu)
• Bengali: পনেরো (bn) (pônero)
• Breton: pemzek (br)
• Bulgarian: петнадесет (bg) (petnadeset)
• Burmese: ဆယ့်ငါး (my) (hsè.nga:)
• Catalan: quinze (ca)
• Chechen: пхийтта (pxiytta)
• Cherokee: ᏍᎩᎦᏚ (chr) (sgigadu)
• Chichewa: khumi n'zisanu
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 十五 (cmn) (shíwǔ)

• Czech: patnáct (cs)
• Dalmatian: čonco
• Danish: femten (da)
• Dena'ina: ch'qilu beq'di
• Dutch: vijftien (nl) f
• Esperanto: dek kvin (eo)
• Estonian: viisteist (et)
• Faroese: fimtan (fo)
• Finnish: viisitoista (fi)
• French: quinze (fr) m
• Friulian: cuindis
• Galician: quince (gl)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: fünfzehn (de)
• Greek: δεκαπέντε (el) (dekapénte)
• Greenlandic: aqqaniq-tallimat (kl)
• Guernésiais: tchinze
• Gujarati: પંદર (gu) (paṃdar)
• Haitian Creole: kenz
• Hebrew: חֲמֵשׁ־עֶשְׂרֵה (he) (khamesh esre) f (used in counting), חֲמִשָּׁה־עָשָׂר (he) (khamisha asar) m
• Hindi: पंद्रह (hi) (pa.ndrah) m
• Hopi: pakwt niikyang tsivot siikya’ta
• Hungarian: tizenöt (hu)
• Icelandic: fimmtán (is)
• Ido: please add this translation if you can
• Indonesian: lima belas (id)
• Interlingua: dece-cinque (ia)
• Interlingue: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: cúig déag (ga)

• Italian: quindici (it) m
• Japanese: 十五 (ja) (じゅうご, jū-go)
• Jèrriais: tchînze
• Khmer: ដប់ប្រាំ (km) (dop pram)
• Korean: 열다섯 (ko) (yeoldaseot)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: pazde (ku), pazdeh (ku)

  Sorani: پانزه (ku)

• Lao: ສິບຫ້າ (lo)
• Latin: quīndecim (la)
• Latvian: piecpadsmit (lv)
• Livonian: vīžtuoistõn
• Low German: föffteihn (nds), foffteihn (nds)
• Luxembourgish: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: петнаесет (mk) (petnáeset)
• Malay: lima belas (ms), sepuluh lima (ms), satu puluh lima (ms)
• Maltese: ħmistax (mt)
• Mansi: атхуйплов (atxujplow)
• Mongolian: арван тав‎ (mn) (arvan tav‎)
• Navajo: ashdlaʼáadah
• Norwegian: femten (no)
• Novial: dek-sink
• Occitan: please add this translation if you can
• Ojibwe: ashi-naanan
• Old English: fīftīene (ang)
• Oriya: ପନ୍ଦର (or) (pandara)
• Persian: پانزده (fa) (pænzdah)
• Polish: piętnaście (pl)
• Portuguese: quinze (pt)
• Punjabi: ਪੰਦਰਾਂ (pa) (paṅdrāṅ) (numeral: ੧੫ (pa))
• Romanian: cincisprezece (ro), cinșpe (ro) (informal)
• Romansch: quindesch (rm)
• Russian: пятнадцать (ru) (pjatnádtsat’)
• Sanskrit: पञ्चदश (sa) (páñcadaśa)
• Scottish Gaelic: còig (gd) deug (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: петнаест (sh)

  Roman: petnaest (sh)

• Sinhalese: පහළොව (si) (pahalova)
• Slovak: pätnásť (sk)
• Slovene: petnajst (sl)
• Spanish: quince (es) m
• Swahili: kumi na tano (sw)
• Swedish: femton (sv)
• Tagalog: labinlima (tl)
• Telugu: పదిహేను (te)
• Thai: สิบห้า (th)
• Turkish: on beş (tr)
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Urdu: پندرہ (ur) (pandrah)
• Vietnamese: mười lăm (vi)
• Volapük: deglul (vo)
• Welsh: pymtheg (cy) (vigesimal, traditional), un deg pump (cy) (decimal)
• West Frisian: fyftjin (fy)
• Yiddish: פֿופֿצן (yi) (fuftsn)
• Zazaki: pances

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Translations to be checked

• Serbo-Croatian: petnest

Derived terms

• 15 minutes, 15 minutes of fame