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Etymology [edit]
Middle English fower, from Old English fēower, from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres. Cognate with German vier, Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐌳𐍅𐍉𐍂 (fidwor), Ancient Greek τέσσαρες (tessares), Latin quattuor (French quatre, Portuguese quatro), Old Norse fjórir (Danish fire), Russian четыре (četýre), Sanskrit चतुर् (catur).
Pronunciation [edit]
Numeral [edit]
four
- (cardinal) A numerical value equal to 4; the number after three and before five; two plus two. This many dots (••••)
- There are four seasons: winter, spring, summer and autumn.
- Describing a set or group with four components.
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Translations [edit]
the cardinal number 4
- Ainu: イネ (ine)
- Albanian: katër (sq)
- Alutiiq: staaman
- American Sign Language:
 (4@Side-PalmBack)
- Amharic: አራት (am) (arat) (numeral: ፬ (am))
- Arabic: أربعة (ar) (’árbaʕa) (numeral: ٤ (ar))
- Aragonese: quatre (an), quatro (an)
- Aramaic:
- Syriac: ܐܪܒܥܐ (’arbʕā’) m, ܐܪܒܥ (’arbaʕ) f
- Hebrew: ארבעא (’arbʕā’) m, ארבע (’arbaʕ) f
- Armenian: չորս (hy) (čors)
- Aromanian: patru (rup)
- Assamese: please add this translation if you can
- Asturian: cuatro (ast)
- Aymara: pusi (ay)
- Azeri: dörd (az)
- Balinese: patpat, empat
- Banjarese: ampat
- Basque: lau (eu)
- Batak: epat
- Batak Karo: empat
- Batak Toba: opat
- Belarusian: чатыры (be) (čatyry)
- Bengali: চার (bn) (cār) (numeral: ৪ (bn))
- Bontoc: epat
- Breton: pevar (br) m, peder (br) f
- Bulgarian: четири (bg) (chetiri)
- Burmese: လေး (my) (le:) (numeral: ၄ (my))
- Casiguran Dumagat Agta: epat
- Catalan: quatre (ca)
- Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴽⴽⵓⵥ (kkuẓ)
- Chamicuro: ma'pojtamala
- Chechen: диъ (di’)
- Cherokee: ᏅᎩ (chr) (nvgi)
- Chichewa: nayi
- Chinese:
- Old Chinese: 亖 (*hljids)
- Hakka: 四 (si)
- Mandarin: 四 (cmn) (sì) (numeral: 肆)
- Cantonese: 四 (sei3)
- Min Nan: 四 (nan) (sì, sù)
- Teochew: 四 (nan) (si3)
- Eastern Hokkien (Min Dong) 四 (se)
- Wu 四 (sz)
- Cornish: peswar (kw) m, peder (kw) f
- Corsican: quattru (co)
- Crimean Tatar: dört
- Czech: čtyři (cs)
- Danish: fire (da)
- Dena'ina: dink'i
- Dutch: vier (nl)
- Embaloh: ampat
- Erzya: ниле (nile)
- Esperanto: kvar (eo)
- Estonian: neli (et)
- Fijian: va (fj)
- Finnish: neljä (fi)
- French: quatre (fr) m
- Friulian: cuatri
- Ga: ejwɛ
- Galician: catro (gl)
- Garífuna: gádürü
- Georgian: ოთხი (ka) (ot‘χi)
- German: vier (de)
- Gilbertese: aua
- Greek: τέσσερις (el) (tésseris) m and f, τέσσερα (el) (téssera) n
- Ancient Greek: τέτταρες (téttares), τέσσαρες (téssares)
- Greenlandic: sisamat (kl)
- Guaraní: irundy (gn)
- Gujarati: ચાર (gu) (ćhār) (numeral: ૪ (gu))
- Haitian Creole: kat
- Hanunoo: upat
- Hawaiian: hā, ʻehā
- Hebrew: אַרְבַּע (he) (arbá) f (used in counting), אַרְבָּעָה (he) (arbaá) m
- Hindi: चार (hi) (cār) (numeral: ४ (hi))
- Hopi: naalöyöʼ
- Hungarian: négy (hu)
- Iban: empat
- Icelandic: fjórir (is) m, fjórar (is) f, fjögur (is) n
- Ido: quar (io)
- Indonesian: empat (id)
- Interlingua: quatro (ia)
- Interlingue: please add this translation if you can
- Irish: ceathair (ga), ceithre (ga)
- Old Irish: cethair
- Isnag: appat
- Italian: quattro (it) m
- Itawit: appat
- Japanese: 四 (ja) (よん, yon; し, shi), 四つ (ja) (よっつ, yottsu), ４ (ja)
- Javanese: papat (jv), pat (jv)
- Kannada: ನಾಲ್ಕು (kn) (nālku) (numeral: ೪ (kn))
- Karachay-Balkar: тёрт (tört)
- Karelian: neä
- Kashubian: szterë (csb)
- Kazakh: төрт (kk) (tört)
- Khakas: тӧрт
- Khmer: បួន (km) (buon) (numeral: ៤)
- Komi: нёль (njolj)
- Korean: 네 (ko) (ne), 넷 (ko) (net), 사 (ko) (sa) (四 (ko)
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: چوار (ku) (çwar), چار (ku) (çar)
- Lakota: tópa
- Lao: ສີ່ (lo) (sii) (numeral: ໔ (lo))
- Latgalian: četri m, četrys f
- Latin: quattuor (la)
- Latvian: četri (lv) m, četras (lv) f
- Laz: ოთხო
- Lenape:
- Unami: newa
- Lithuanian: keturi (lt) m, keturios (lt) f
- Livonian: nēļa
- Lojban: vo (jbo)
- Low German: veer (nds)
- Luxembourgish: véier (lb)
- Macedonian: четири (mk) (čétiri)
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- Madurese: empaʔ, empak
- Makasar: appaʔ
- Malay:
- Rumi: empat (ms) / pat (ms), catur (ms)
- Jawi: امڤت (ms) / ڤت (ms), چاتور (ms)
- Malayalam: നാല് (ml) (nāl)
- Maltese: erbgħa (mt)
- Manchu: duin
- Mansi: нила (nila)
- Mandar: appeʔ
- Manx: kiare (gv)
- Maori: whā (mi)
- Marathi: चार (mr) (cār)
- Mari: нылыт (nylyt)
- Maricopa: tcumpopk
- Marshallese: emān
- Middle English: fower
- Minangkabau: ampeʔ, ampek
- Mirandese: quatro
- Mon: ပန် (pɔn)
- Mongolian: дөрөв (mn) (döröv), ᠳᠥᠷᠪᠡᠨ (dörben) (numeral: ᠔)
- Montagnais: neu
- Muna: paa
- Nahuatl: nahui (nah)
- Nama: haka
- Nauruan: aeoq (na)
- Navajo: dį́į́ʼ
- Nias: õfa
- Northern Sami: njeallje
- Norwegian: fire (no)
- Novial: quar
- O'odham: giʼik
- Occitan: quatre (oc)
- Ojibwe: niiwin
- Old English: feower (ang)
- Old Javanese: pat
- Old Norse: fjórir
- Oriya: ଛାରି (or) (chāri) (numeral: ୪ (or))
- Pamona: opo
- Persian: چَهار (fa) (čæhār, čāhār) (numeral: ۴ (fa))
- Pipil: nawi, nahui
- Polish: cztery (pl)
- Portuguese: quatro (pt)
- Punjabi: ਚਾਰ (pa) (cār) (numeral: ੪ (pa))
- Quechua: tahua (qu)
- Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
- Rohingya: sair
- Romani: shtar/श्तार
- Romanian: patru (ro)
- Romansch: quatter (rm), quater (rm)
- Russian: четыре (ru) (četýre)
- Sangir: epaʔ
- Sanskrit: चतुर् (sa) (catúr)
- Sardinian: batero (sc), baturu (sc), batoro (sc), batro (sc), quatru (sc)
- Sasak: empat
- Saterland Frisian: fjauer
- Scottish Gaelic: ceithir (gd), (persons) ceathrar (gd) m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: четири (sh)
- Roman: četiri (sh)
- Shan: သီႇ (sʰi2)
- Shor: тӧрт
- Sichuan Yi: ꇖ (ly)
- Sicilian: quattru (scn)
- Sikkimese: please add this translation if you can
- Simeulue: at
- Sindhi: چار (sd) (čār)
- Sinhalese: හතර (si) (hathara)
- Slovak: štyri (sk)
- Slovene: štírje (sl), (when counting) štíri (sl)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: styri
- Southern Altai: тӧрт
- Spanish: cuatro (es)
- Sundanese: opat (su)
- Swahili: nne (sw)
- Swedish: fyra (sv)
- Tachelhit: koz m, kozt f
- Tagalog: apat (tl)
- Tajik: чор (tg) (čor)
- Tamil: நான்கு (ta) (nāṉku) (numeral: ௪ (ta))
- Taos: wíaną
- Tatar: дүрт (tt) (dürt), dürt (tt) (dürt)
- Tboli: fat
- Telugu: నాలుగు (te) (nālugu) (numeral: ౪ (te))
- Thai: สี่ (th) (sèe) (numeral: ๔ (th))
- Tibetan: བཞི (bo) (bzhi) (numeral: ༤ (bo))
- Tiruray: efot
- Tocharian A: śtwar
- Tocharian B: śtwer
- Tok Pisin: fopela (tpi)
- Tontemboan: epat
- Tupinambá: irundyk, oîoîrundyk
- Turkish: dört (tr)
- Tuwali Ifugao: opát
- Tzutujil: kikhi'
- Ukrainian: чотири (uk) (čotýry), четверо (čétvero) (collective)
- Uma: opoʔ
- Uyghur: تۆت (ug) (töt)
- Uzbek: toʻrt (uz)
- Veps: nel'l'
- Vietnamese: bốn (vi)
- Volapük: fol (vo)
- Votic:
- Roman: nellä
- Cyrillic: неллэ
- Võro: nelli
- Walloon: cwate (wa)
- Welsh: pedwar (cy) m, pedair (cy) f
- West Coast Bajau: empat
- West Frisian: fjouwer (fy)
- Wolio: apa
- Yiddish: פֿיר (yi) (fir)
- Zhuang: 四 (za) (seiq)
- Zuni: a:wide
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set or group with four components
See also [edit]
See also [edit]
four (countable and uncountable; plural fours)
- (countable) The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof.
- (countable) Anything measuring four units, as length.
- Do you have any more fours? I want to make this a little taller.
- A person who is four years old.
- I'll take the threes, fours and fives and go to the playground.
- (cricket, countable) An event whereby a batsman hits a ball which bounces on the ground before passing over a boundary in the air, resulting in an award of 4 runs for the batting team. If the ball does not bounce before passing over the boundary, a six is awarded instead.
- (rowing) Quadruple sculls.
- (obsolete) A four-pennyworth of spirits.
- 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, IV:
- I was a-strollin' down, thinkin' between ourselves how uncommon handy a four of gin hot would be, when suddenly the glint of a light caught my eye in the window of that same house.
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Look at pages starting with four.
- (playing cards) playing card; ace, deuce, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, jack, queen, king, joker
Symbols of number four in various numeral systems
Statistics [edit]
French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Latin furnus.
Pronunciation [edit]
four m (plural fours)
- oven
- stove
- flop
Derived terms [edit]
Guernésiais [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Latin furnus.
four m (plural fours)
- oven
