nine

English

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English cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : nine     Ordinal : ninth

Etymology

From Middle English nine from Old English niġon, from Proto-Germanic *newun, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA: /naɪn/, SAMPA: /naIn/

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• Rhymes: -aɪn

Cardinal number

nine

1. (cardinal) A numerical value equal to 9; the number occurring after eight and before ten.

   A cat has nine lives.

2. Describing a set or group with nine components.

Related terms

• ninth

Translations

cardinal number

Ainu: シネペサン (shinepesan) Albanian: nëntë (sq) Alutiiq: qulnguyan Amharic: ዘጠኝ (zäT'äny) (numeral: ፱) Arabic: تسعة (ar) (tísʕa) (numeral: ٩) Egyptian Arabic: تسعة (tísʕa) Aramaic: Syriac: ܬܫܥܐ (tišʕā’) m., ܬܫܥ (tšaʕ) f. Hebrew: תשעא (tišʕā’) m., תשע (tšaʕ) f. Armenian: ինը (hy) (inë), ինն (hy) (inn) Assamese: ন (na) Azeri: doqquz (az) Basque: bederatzi Bengali: নয় (noy) (numeral: ৯) Bosnian: devet (bs) Breton: nav Burmese: ကိုး (my) (ko:) (numeral: ၉) Campidanese Sardinian: noi Catalan: nou (ca) Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵜⵥⴰ (tẓa) Chamicuro: iskon Chechen: исс (icc) Cherokee: ᏐᏁᎳ (sonela) Chinese: Standard Chinese (Mandarin): 九 (jiǔ) (numeral: 玖) Cantonese: 九 (gau2) Teochew: gao2 Eastern Hokkien (Min Dong): 九 (kau) Northern Hokkien (Min Bei): 九 (kiu) Wu: 九 (jiq) Cornish: naw Corsican: novi Crimean Tatar: doquz Croatian: dȅvet (hr) Czech: devět (cs) Danish: ni (da) Dena'ina: łq'ich'idi Dhivehi: ނުވަ (dv) (nuva) Dutch: negen (nl) Erzya: вейксе (vejkse) Esperanto: naŭ (eo) Estonian: üheksa (et) Faroese: níggju (fo) Fijian: ciwa Finnish: yhdeksän French: neuf (fr) Galician: nove (gl) Garífuna: nefu Georgian: ცხრა (ka) (tsxra) German: neun (de) Greek: εννέα (el) (ennéa), εννιά (el) (enniá) Guaraní: porundy Gujarati: નવ (nav) (numeral: ૯) Haitian Creole: nèf Hawaiian: iwa Hebrew: תֵּשַׁע (téiša) f. (used in counting), תִּשְׁעָה (tish'a) m. Hindi: नौ (nau) (numeral: ९) Hopi: pept Hungarian: kilenc (hu) Icelandic: níu (is) Ido: non Indonesian: sembilan (id) Balinese: siə Banjarese: sambilan Javanese: saŋa  (jv) Madurese: saŋaʔ Minangkabau: sambilan Sundanese: salapan  (su) Interlingua: nove Irish: naoi (ga) Italian: nove (it) Japanese: 九 (く, ku; きゅう, kyū), 九つ (ja) (ここのつ, kokonotsu), ９ (ja) Kalaallisut: qulingiluat Kannada: please add this translation if you can: (numeral: ೯) Karachay-Balkar: тогъуз (toğuz) Karelian: yhekšän Kazakh: тоғыз (kk) (toğız) Khmer: ប្រាំបួន (pram buon) (numeral: ៩) Komi: ӧкмыс (ökmys) Korean: 아홉 (ahop), 구 (gu)

Kurdish: Kurmanji: neh Sorani: نۆ Lao: ເກົ້າ (lo) (kao) (numeral: ໙) Latgalian: deveni m., devenis f. Latin: novem (la) Latvian: deviņi m., deviņas f. Lithuanian: devyni (lt) m., devynios (lt) f. Livonian: īdõks (old spelling: ȳdõks) Lojban: so Luxembourgish: néng (lb) Macedonian: девет (mk) (dévet) Malagasy: sivy (mg) Malay: sembilan (ms) Malayalam: please add this translation if you can: (numeral: ൯) Maltese: disgħa Manchu: uyun Manx: nuy Maori: iwa (mi) Mari: индеше (indeše) Maricopa: nyimxanok Marshallese: ratimjuon Mongolian: ес (mn) (yes), ᠢᠰᠦᠨ (yisün) (numeral: ᠙) Montagnais: peikushteu Nahuatl: chicuei Navajo: náhástʼéí Northern Sami: ovcci Norwegian: ni (no) Novial: nin O'odham: hemuckam Occitan: nòu Old English: nigon (ang) Oriya: ଦଶ (dash) (numeral: ୯) Ottoman Turkish: طقوز Persian: نُه (noh) (numeral: ۹) Polish: dziewięć (pl) Portuguese: nove (pt) Punjabi: ਨੌਂ (nauṁ) (numeral: ੯) Quechua: jisq'un Rapanui: ka iva Romani: enja Romanian: nouă (ro) Russian: девять (ru) (dévjat’) Sanskrit: नवम् (návam) Sardinian: noe (sc) Saterland Frisian: njuugen Scottish Gaelic: naoi, (persons) naoinear (gd) m. Serbian: Cyrillic: девет (sr) Roman: devet Sichuan Yi: ꈬ (ggu) Sindhi: please add this translation if you can Sinhalese: නවය (navaya) Skolt Sami: ååu´c Slovak: deväť (sk) Slovene: devet (sl) Spanish: nueve (es) Sranan Tongo: neygi Swahili: tisa (sw) Swedish: nio (sv) Tachelhit: tza m. and f. Tagalog: siyam Tamil: ஒன்பது (ta) (oṉpatu) (numeral: ௯) Tatar: тугыз, tuğız Telugu: తొనిమిది, తొమ్మిది (numeral: ౯) Thai: เก้า (kào) (numeral: ๙) Tibetan: please add this translation if you can: (numeral: ༩) Tok Pisin: nainpela Turkish: dokuz (tr) Tzutujil: waxaqi Uyghur: توققۇز (ug) Veps: ühesa Vietnamese: chín (vi) Volapük: zül Votic: ühesää / үхесээ Võro: ütessä Walloon: noûf Warlpiri: ɟaɻukutu Welsh: naw (cy) West Frisian: njoggen Zarma: yegga Zuni: denalekk'ya

set or group with nine components

Catalan: novena (ca) f. Lithuanian: devyneri (lt) m., devynerios (lt) f.

Swahili: tisa (sw) Turkish: dokuzlu

See also

• Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages

Noun

nine (plural nines)

1. The digit or figure 9.
2. (card games) A playing card with nine pips.
3. (weaponry) A nine-millimeter semi-automatic pistol.
4. (computing, engineering, usually in plural) A statistical unit of proportion (of reliability, purity, etc.).

   They guaranteed that our Web site would have 99.99% uptime, or four nines.

Derived terms

• cloud nine
• dressed to the nines
• on cloud nine
• the whole nine yards

Translations

the digit or figure 9

Armenian: ինը (hy) (inë), ինն (hy) (inn) Basque: bederatzi (eu) Catalan: nou (ca) m. Danish: nital (da) n. Finnish: yhdeksikkö, ysi (slang) French: neuf (fr) Hungarian: kilences (hu)

Lithuanian: devynetas (lt) m. Macedonian: деветка (mk) (dévetka) f. Malayalam: ഒന്‍പത് (ml) Polish: dziewiątka (pl) f. Russian: девятка (ru) (d'ev'átka) f. Sranan Tongo: neygi Swahili: tisa (sw)

card with nine pips

Catalan: nou (ca) m. Danish: nier (da) c. Finnish: yhdeksikkö, ysi (slang) Macedonian: деветка (mk) (dévetka) f.

Polish: dziewiątka f. Russian: девятка (ru) (d'ev'átka) f. Swahili: tisa (sw)

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Arabic: تسعة (tísʕa) Serbo-Croatian: devetka f. Serbo-Croatian: devetka f. French: neuf m. German: Neun f.

Italian: nove m. Persian: نُه (noh) Portuguese: nove m. (1,2) Romanian: nouar m. (1); nouă m. (2) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: деветка f. Roman: devetka f. Swedish: nia

See also

• (playing cards) playing card, card; ace, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, jack, queen, king, joker ^[edit]

Coordinate terms

• Previous: eight (8)
• Next: ten (10)

Synonyms

• Roman numerals: IX

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Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• nin

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈninə/

Cardinal number

nine

1. (Alsatian) nine

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Turkish

Noun

nine

1. grandmother

See also

büyükanne, anneanne, babaanne