English [edit]
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Alternative forms [edit]
- Arabic numerals: 7 (see for numerical forms in other scripts)
- Roman numerals: VII
Etymology [edit]
From Middle English, from Old English seofon (“seven”), from Proto-Germanic *sebun (“seven”), from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥ (“seven”). Cognate with Scots sevin (“seven”), West Frisian sân (“seven”), Saterland Frisian soogen (“seven”), Dutch zeven (“seven”), German sieben (“seven”), Danish syv (“seven”), Icelandic sjö (“seven”), Latin septem (“seven”), Ancient Greek ἑπτά (heptá, “seven”), Russian семь (sem'), Sanskrit सप्तन् (saptán).
Pronunciation [edit]
Numeral [edit]
seven
- (cardinal) A numerical value equal to 7; the number occurring after six and before eight.
Related terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
cardinal number 7
- Afrikaans: sewe (af)
- Ainu: アㇻワン (arwan)
- Albanian: shtatë (sq)
- Alutiiq: mallrungin
- American Sign Language:

- Amharic: ሰባት (am) (säbat) (numeral: ፯ (am))
- Ancient Greek: ἑπτά (hepta)
- Arabic: سبعة (ar) (sábʕa) (numeral: ٧ (ar))
- Egyptian Arabic: سبعة (sabaʕa)
- Aragonese: siet (an), siete (an), set (an)
- Aramaic:
- Hebrew: שבעא (šabʕā’) m, שבע (šbaʕ) f
- Syriac: ܫܒܥܐ (šabʕā’) m, ܫܒܥ (šbaʕ) f
- Armenian: յոթ (hy) (yot')
- Old Armenian: եօթն (eōtʿn)
- Aromanian: shapte (rup)
- Assamese: please add this translation if you can
- Asturian: siete (ast)
- Aymara: paqallqu (ay)
- Azeri: yeddi (az)
- Balinese: pitu
- Basque: zazpi (eu)
- Belarusian: сем (be) (sjem)
- Bengali: সাত (bn) (sāt) (numeral: ৭ (bn))
- Breton: seizh (br)
- Bulgarian: седем (bg) (sédem)
- Burmese: ခုနစ် (my) (hkunnit) (numeral: ၇ (my))
- Catalan: set (ca)
- Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵙⴰ (sa)
- Chamicuro: kanchis
- Chechen: ворхI (vorh)
- Cherokee: ᎦᎵᏉᎩ (chr) (galiquogi)
- Chichewa: sanu n'ziwiri
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 七 (cmn) (qī) (numeral: 柒 (cmn))
- Cantonese: 七 (chat1)
- Teochew: cig4
- Eastern Hokkien (Min Dong): 七 (chek)
- Wu: 七 (chi)
- Xiang: 七 (tshiu)
- Coptic: ϣⲁϣϥ (šašf)
- Cornish: seyth (kw)
- Corsican: setti (co)
- Crimean Tatar: yedi
- Czech: sedm (cs)
- Dalmatian: sapto
- Danish: syv (da)
- Dena'ina: qents'ughi'i
- Dutch: zeven (nl)
- Erzya: сисем (sisem)
- Esperanto: sep (eo)
- Estonian: seitse (et)
- Faroese: sjey (fo)
- Fijian: vitu (fj)
- Finnish: seitsemän (fi)
- French: sept (fr)
- Friulian: siet
- Galician: sete (gl)
- Garifuna: sedü
- Georgian: შვიდი (ka) (švidi)
- German: sieben (de)
- Gilbertese: itiua
- Gothic: 𐍃𐌹𐌱𐌿𐌽 (sibun)
- Greek: επτά (el) (eptá)
- Greenlandic: arfineq marluk (kl)
- Guaraní: pokõi (gn)
- Gujarati: સાત (gu) (sāt) (numeral: ૭ (gu))
- Haitian Creole: sèt
- Hawaiian: hiku, ʻehiku
- Hebrew: שֶׁבַע (he) (sheva) f (used in counting), שִׁבְעָה (he) (shiv'a) m
- Hindi: सात (hi) (sāt) (numeral: ७ (hi))
- Hopi: tsangeʼ
- Hungarian: hét (hu)
- Icelandic: sjö (is)
- Ido: sep (io)
- Ilocano: pito
- Inari Sami: čiččâm
- Indonesian: tujuh (id)
- Interlingua: septe (ia)
- Irish: seacht (ga)
- Italian: sette (it)
- Japanese: 七 (ja) (しち, shichi; なな, nana; ななつ, nanatsu), 7 (ja)
- Javanese: pitu (jv)
- Kannada: ಏಳು (kn) (ēḷu) (numeral: ೭ (kn))
- Karachay-Balkar: джети (jeti)
- Karelian: seiemen
- Kashubian: sétmë (csb)
- Kazakh: жеті (kk) (jeti)
- Khmer: រាំពីរ (km) (pram pī) (numeral: ៧)
- Komi: сізым (sïzym)
- Korean: 일곱 (ko) (ilgop), 칠 (ko) (chil)
- Kurdish: heft (ku), حهوت (ku)
- Kyrgyz: жети (ky) (jeti)
- Lakota: šakówiŋ
- Lao: ເຈັດ (lo) (chet) (numeral: ໗)
- Latgalian: septeni m, septenis f
- Latin: septem (la)
- Latvian: septiņi (lv) m, septiņas (lv) f
- Lithuanian: septyni (lt) m, septynios (lt) f
- Livonian: seis
- Lojban: ze (jbo)
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- Low German: söven (nds)
- Luxembourgish: siwen (lb)
- Macedonian: седум (mk) (sédum)
- Madurese: pɛttɔʔ
- Malagasy: fito (mg)
- Malay:
- Rumi: tujuh (ms), pitu (ms), sapta (ms)
- Jawi: توجوه (ms), ڤيتو (ms), سڤتا (ms)
- Malayalam: ഏഴ് (ml)
- Maltese: sebgħa (mt)
- Manchu: nadan
- Mansi: сат (sāt)
- Manx: shiaght (gv)
- Maori: whitu (mi)
- Marathi: सात (mr) (sāt)
- Mari: шымыт (šymyt)
- Maricopa: paxkieg
- Marshallese: jimjuon (mh)
- Middle English: seoven
- Minangkabau: tujuah
- Mirandese: siete
- Mon: ထပှ် (həpɔh)
- Mongolian: долоо (mn) (doloo), ᠳᠣᠯᠤᠭᠠᠨ (dolugan) (numeral: ᠗)
- Montagnais: (Sheshatshiu Innu) nishuasht, (Mushuau Innu) nishuautash
- Nahuatl: chicome (nah)
- Nama: hû
- Nauruan: aeiu (na)
- Navajo: tsostsʼid
- Nepali: सात (ne) (sāt)
- Northern Sami: čieža
- Norwegian: sju (no), syv (no)
- Novial: set
- O'odham: vevkam
- Occitan: sèt (oc)
- Ojibwe: niizhwaaswi
- Old English: seofon (ang)
- Old High German: sibun
- Old Norse: sjau
- Oriya: ସାତ (or) (sāt) (numeral: ୭ (or))
- Pali: सत्त (pi), satta (pi)
- Pashto: اوه (ps) (uwə)
- Persian: هَفت (fa) (haft) (numeral: ۷ (fa))
- Polish: siedem (pl)
- Portuguese: sete (pt)
- Punjabi: ਸੱਤ (pa) (satt) (numeral: ੭ (pa))
- Quechua: qanchis (qu)
- Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
- Romanian: șapte (ro)
- Romansch: set (rm), siat (rm), seat (rm)
- Russian: семь (ru) (sem’)
- Samoan: fitu (sm)
- Sanskrit: सप्तन् (saptán)
- Sardinian: sete (sc), seti (sc)
- Saterland Frisian: soogen
- Scottish Gaelic: seachd (gd), (persons) seachdnar (gd) m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: седам (sh)
- Roman: sedam (sh)
- Shan: ၸဵတ်း (tset4)
- Sichuan Yi: ꏃ (shyp)
- Sikkimese: please add this translation if you can
- Sindhi: سَتَ (sd) (sata)
- Sinhalese: හත (si) (hatha)
- Skolt Sami: čiččâm
- Slovak: sedem (sk)
- Slovene: sédem (sl)
- Spanish: siete (es)
- Sranan Tongo: seybi
- Swahili: saba (sw)
- Swedish: sju (sv)
- Tachelhit: sa m and f
- Tagalog: pito (tl)
- Tajik: ҳафт (tg) (haft)
- Tamil: ஏழு (ta) (ēḻu) (numeral: ௭ (ta))
- Tatar: җиде (tt) (cide), cide (tt) (cide)
- Telugu: ఏడు (te) (ēḍu) (numeral: ౭ (te))
- Thai: เจ็ด (th) (jèt) (numeral: ๗ (th))
- Tibetan: བདུན (bo) (bdun) (numeral: ༧ (bo))
- Tocharian A: ṣpät
- Tocharian B: ṣukt
- Tok Pisin: sevenpela (tpi)
- Tongan: fitu (to)
- Turkish: yedi (tr)
- Tzutujil: wuku
- Ukrainian: сім (uk) (sim), семеро (uk) (sémero) (collective)
- Urdu: سات (ur) (sāt)
- Uyghur: يەتتە (ug) (yette)
- Uzbek: yetti (uz)
- Veps: seicheme
- Vietnamese: bảy (vi)
- Volapük: vel (vo)
- Votic: сеицее / seitsee
- Võro: säidse
- Walloon: set (wa)
- Welsh: saith (cy)
- West Frisian: sân (fy)
- Xhosa: please add this translation if you can
- Yiddish: זיבן (yi) (zibn)
- Zulu: please add this translation if you can
- Zuni: kwilelekk'ya
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See also [edit]
seven (countable and uncountable; plural sevens)
- The digit/figure 7 or an occurrence thereof.
- He wrote three sevens on the paper.
- (countable, card games) A card bearing seven pips.
Translations [edit]
a card bearing seven pips
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Derived terms [edit]
See also [edit]
- (playing cards) playing card; ace, deuce, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, jack, queen, king, joker
Statistics [edit]
Anagrams [edit]
Breton [edit]
Adjective [edit]
seven
- courteous
Middle Dutch [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old Dutch sivun, sivon, from Proto-Germanic *sebun, from earlier *sebunt, from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥, with -t added through influence of "nine" and "ten".
Pronunciation [edit]
Numeral [edit]
seven
- seven
Descendants [edit]
Tok Pisin [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From English seven.
Numeral [edit]
seven
- seven
Usage notes [edit]
Used when counting; see also sevenpela.
Turkish [edit]
Adjective [edit]
seven (comparative daha seven, superlative en seven)
- loving, affectionate
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