fifty

English

Etymology

Old English fīftiġ

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈfɪfti/

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Alternative forms

• fiftie (archaic)

Numeral

fifty

1. The cardinal number occurring after forty-nine and before fifty-one.

Synonyms

• Arabic numerals: 50
• Roman numerals: L
• fitty, fiddy (nonstandard)

Related terms

• Ordinal: fiftieth.

See also

• Last: forty-nine, forty
• Next: fifty-one, sixty

Translations

cardinal number

American Sign Language: Arabic: خَمْسُونَ (ar) (khamsuuna) Egyptian Arabic: خمسين (khamsiin) Aramaic: Syriac: ܚܡܫܝܢ (khamshīn) c. Hebrew: חמשין (khamshīn) c. Armenian: հիսուն (hy) (hisun) Azeri: əlli (az) Basque: berrogeita hamar (eu) Bosnian: pedeset (bs) Breton: hanter-kant, pemont Burmese: ငါးဆယ် (my) (nga:zè) Catalan: cinquanta (ca) Chamicuro: pichka chunka Chechen: шовзткъе итт (šovztqhe itt) Chinese: 五十 (wǔ shí) Crimean Tatar: elli Croatian: pedèsēt (hr) Czech: padesát (cs) Dalmatian: čoncuanta Danish: halvtreds (da) (lit., "half-thrice-twenty": vigesimal (da)) Dutch: vijftig (nl) f. Esperanto: kvindek (eo) Estonian: viiskümmend (et) Finnish: viisikymmentä (fi) French: cinquante (fr) m. Friulian: cincuante Galician: cincuenta (gl) German: fünfzig (de) f. Greek: πενήντα (penínta) Hebrew: חֲמִשִּׁים (khamishím) m. and f. Hindi: पचास (hi) (pachaas) Hungarian: ötven (hu) Icelandic: fimmtíu (is) Ido: kinadek (io) Indonesian: lima puluh Interlingua: cinquanta Irish: caoga (ga) Italian: cinquanta (it) f.

Japanese: 五十 (go-jū) Javanese: seket Karachay-Balkar: элли (elli) Khakas: иліг Korean: 쉰 (swin), 50 (osip) Kurdish: pêncî, په‌نجا Latin: quinquaginta (la) Limburgish: vieftig Macedonian: педесет (mk) (pédeset) Maltese: ħamsin Manx: jeih as daeed, lieh cheead, queigad Navajo: ashdladiin Norwegian: femti (no) Novial: sinkanti Persian: پنجاه (fa) (panjâh) Polish: pięćdziesiąt Portuguese: cinquenta (Portugal), cinqüenta (Brazil) Romanian: cincizeci (ro) Romansch: tschuncanta (rm) Russian: пятьдесят (ru) (pjat’desját) Sanskrit: पञ्चाशत् (sa) (pañcāśat) Scottish Gaelic: (old system) dà (gd) fichead (gd) 's (gd) a deich (gd), (new system) naochad (gd), (also common) leth-cheud (gd) (literally "half hundred") Sinhala: පනහ (panaha) Slovene: petdeset Spanish: cincuenta (es) Swahili: hamsini Swedish: femtio (sv) Tatar: илле, ille Telugu: యాభై (te) (yaabhai) Turkish: elli (tr) Ukrainian: п’ятдесят (pjatdesját) Urdu: پچاس (ur) (pachaas) Volapük: luldeg (vo) Welsh: hanner cant vigesimal, traditional, pum deg decimal West Frisian: fyftich

bill

Danish: halvtredser (da) c. Finnish: viiskymppi (fi)

German: Fünfziger (de) m.

Noun

fifty (plural fifties)

1. (countable) A fifty-dollar bill.

   Do you want small bills or are fifties OK?

2. (countable) A fifty-pound note.

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: scene · hot · I'd · #847: fifty · trust · perfectly · fixed