milliard

See also Milliard

English

Etymology

From French milliard.

Pronunciation

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• (UK) IPA: /ˈmɪlɪɑːd/
• (US) IPA: /ˈmɪliɑɹd/

Numeral

milliard (plural milliards)

1. (cardinal, now rare) 10⁹, a thousand times a million. (Now generally replaced by billion.) [from 18th c.]
   • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 155:

     For the coming year France would contribute 80 milliard francs ($200 million) to the Algerian budget [...].

Derived terms

• milliardth

See also

• Previous: million. Next: billion.
• Symbolic: 10⁹ = 1,000,000,000

Synonyms

• a short scale billion

Translations

10^9

• Afrikaans: miljard (af)
• Albanian: miliard (sq)
• Arabic: مِلْيار (ar) (milyār) m
• Armenian: միլիարդ (hy) (miliard)
• Breton: miliard (br)
• Bulgarian: милиард (bg) (miliard)
• Catalan: mil milions (ca) m, (rare) miliard (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 十億 (cmn), 十亿 (cmn) (shí yì)

  Cantonese: sap⁶ jik¹

  Taiwanese: cha̍p ek

• Crimean Tatar: milliard
• Czech: miliarda (cs)
• Danish: milliard (da)
• Dutch: miljard (nl) n
• Esperanto: miliardo (eo)
• Estonian: miljard (et)
• Faroese: milliard (fo)
• Finnish: miljardi (fi)
• French: milliard (fr)
• Galician: mil millóns (gl)
• Georgian: მილიარდი (ka) (miliardi)
• German: Milliarde (de) f
• Greek: δισεκατομμύριο (el) (disekatommýrio) n
• Hebrew: מיליארד (he) (miliard)
• Hungarian: milliárd (hu)
• Icelandic: milljarður (is)
• Ido: miliardo (io)
• Indonesian: milyar (id)
• Interlingua: milliardo (ia)
• Irish: míle milliún (ga)
• Italian: miliardo (it)
• Japanese: 十億 (ja) (じゅうおく, jūoku)
• Kazakh: миллиард (kk) (milliard)

• Korean: 십억 (ko) (sip-eok)
• Kurdish: milyar (ku)
• Latin: milliardum (la)
• Latvian: miljards (lv)
• Lithuanian: milijardas (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Milliard (lb)
• Macedonian: милиарда (mk) (miliarda)
• Maltese: miljard (mt) m
• Mongolian: тэрбум (mn) (terbum)
• Norwegian:

  Norwegian Bokmål: milliard (nb)

  Norwegian Nynorsk: milliard (nn)

• Novial: miliarde
• Occitan: miliard (oc)
• Persian: ميليارد (fa) (milyârd)
• Polish: miliard (pl)
• Portuguese: mil milhões (pt)
• Romanian: miliard (ro) n
• Russian: миллиард (ru) (milliárd) m
• Scottish Gaelic: billean (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: милијарда (sh) f

  Roman: milijarda (sh) f

• Slovak: miliarda (sk) f
• Slovene: milijarda (sl)
• Spanish: millardo (es) m, mil millones (es) m pl
• Swedish: miljard (sv) c
• Tatar: миллиард (tt) (milliard), milliard (tt) (milliard)
• Thai: พันล้าน (th) (phan lan)
• Turkish: milyar (tr)
• Ukrainian: мільярд (uk) (mil’jard)
• Vietnamese: tỷ (vi)
• Welsh: mil miliwn (cy)
• West Frisian: miljard (fy)

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Crimean Tatar

Etymology

French milliard.

Cardinal numeral

milliard

1. A milliard (a short scale billion).

Declension

    declension of milliard

nominative	milliard
genitive	milliardnıñ
dative	milliardğa
accusative	milliardnı
locative	milliardda
ablative	milliarddan

References

• Useinov & Mireev Dictionary, Simferopol, Dolya, 2002 [1]

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French

Etymology

From million, by changing the suffix to -ard.

Numeral

milliard

1. A milliard (a short scale billion).

Noun

milliard m (plural milliards)

1. A milliard (a short scale billion).

Usage notes

• Previous: million, 10⁶
• Next: billion, 10¹²

Derived terms

• milliardaire

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Norwegian

Cardinal numeral

milliard

1. A milliard (a short scale billion).

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Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) milliarda

Numeral

milliard

1. (Puter, Vallader) milliard (a short scale billion).

Noun

milliard m (plural milliards)

1. (Puter, Vallader) milliard (a short scale billion).

Derived terms

• milliardari

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Tatar

Cardinal numeral

milliard (Cyrillic spelling миллиард)

1. A milliard (a short scale billion).

Declension

    declension of milliard

Nominative	milliard
Genitive	milliardnıñ
Dative	milliardga
Accusative	milliardnı
Locative	milliardda
Ablative	milliarddan