six

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English cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : six     Ordinal : sixth     Multiplier : sextuple

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old English siex, from Proto-Germanic *sehs, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs. Compare West Frisian seis, Dutch zes, Low German söss, sess, German sechs, Danish seks, also Latin sex.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA: /sɪks/, X-SAMPA: /sIks/

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• Rhymes: -ɪks
• Homophones: sicks, sics
• (New Zealand) Homophone: sucks

Numeral

six

1. (cardinal) A numerical value equal to 6; the number occurring after five and before seven.

Related terms

• sixth

Derived terms

six-figure six of one, half a dozen of the other six-pack, six pack, sixpack

six-shooter, sixshooter sixteen sixth

sixty six ways to Sunday

Translations

cardinal number

• Ainu: イワン (iwan)
• Albanian: gjashtë (sq)
• Alutiiq: arwilgen
• American Sign Language:
• Amharic: ስድስት (am) (sdst) (numeral: ፮)
• Arabic: ستّة (sítta) (numeral: ٦)
• Aragonese: seis (an), sies (an), sieis (an)
• Aramaic:

  Syriac: ܫܬܐ (štā’) m, ܫܬ (šit) f

  Hebrew: שתא (štā’) m, שת (šit) f

• Armenian: վեց (vec')
• Aromanian: shase (rup)
• Assamese: please add this translation if you can
• Aymara: suxta (ay)
• Azeri: altı (az)
• Balinese: ənəm
• Banjarese: anam
• Bashkir: алты (altï)
• Basque: sei (eu)
• Belarusian: шэсць (be) (šesc’)
• Bengali: ছয় (bn) (chay) (numeral: ৬)
• Breton: c'hwec'h
• Burmese: ခြောက် (my) (chauk) (numeral: ၆)
• Catalan: sis (ca)
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵙⴹⵉⵚ (sḍiṣ)
• Chamicuro: sokta
• Chechen: ялх (yalx)
• Cherokee: ᏑᏓᎵ (sudali)
• Chichewa: sanu n'chimodzi
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 六 (liù) (numeral: 陸)

  Bai: 六 (chi)

  Cantonese: 六 (luk6)

  Teochew: lag8

  Eastern Hokkien (Min Dong): 六 (lek)

  Northern Hokkien (Min Bei): 六 (ly)

  Wu: 六 (lo)

• Cornish: whegh
• Corsican: sei
• Crimean Tatar: altı
• Czech: šest (cs)
• Dalmatian: si
• Danish: seks (da)
• Dena'ina: k'uzhch'en'i
• Dutch: zes (nl)
• Erzya: кото (koto)
• Esperanto: ses (eo)
• Estonian: kuus (et)
• Faroese: seks (fo)
• Fijian: ono (fj)
• Finnish: kuusi (fi)
• French: six (fr)
• Friulian: sîs
• Galician: seis (gl)
• Garífuna: sisi
• Georgian: ექვსი (ka) (ek‘vsi)
• German: sechs (de)
• Gilbertese: onoua
• Greek: έξι (el) (éksi)
• Guaraní: poteĩ
• Gujarati: છ (gu) (cha) (numeral: ૬)
• Haitian Creole: sis
• Hawaiian: ono, ʻeono
• Hebrew: שֵׁשׁ (shesh) f, שִׁשָּׁה m (shisha)
• Hindi: छह (hi) (chah), छः (hi) (chaḥ) (numeral: ६ (hi))
• Hopi: navay
• Hungarian: hat (hu)
• Icelandic: sex (is)
• Ido: sis (io)
• Indonesian: enam (id)
• Interlingua: sex
• Irish: sé (ga)
• Italian: sei (it)
• Japanese: 六 (ろく, rokú), むっつ (muttsú), ６ (ja)
• Javanese: nəm (jv)
• Kalaallisut: arfinillit
• Kannada: please add this translation if you can: (numeral: ೬)
• Karachay-Balkar: алты (altı)
• Karakalpak: alti
• Karelian: kuusi
• Kashubian: szesc
• Kazakh: алты (kk) (altı)
• Khmer: ប្រាំមួយ (km) (pram muoy) (numeral: ៦)
• Komi: квайт (kvajt)
• Konkani: ಸೊ (so)
• Korean: 여섯 (ko) (yeoseot), 육 (ko) (yuk) / 륙 (ko) (ryuk)
• Kurdish: şeş, شه‌ش
• Kyrgyz: алты (ky) (altı)
• Lakota: šákpe
• Lao: ຫົກ (lo) (hok) (numeral: ໖)
• Latgalian: seši m, sešys f
• Latin: sex (la)
• Latvian: seši (lv), sešas (lv)
• Lithuanian: šeši (lt)
• Livonian: kūž
• Lojban: xa
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: zes, zès (Gronings)

  German Low German: söss, soss, sess

• Luxembourgish: sechs (lb)
• Macedonian: шест (mk) (šest)
• Madurese: ənnam
• Malagasy: enina (mg)
• Malay:

  Rumi: enam (ms) / nam (ms)

  Jawi: انم (ms) / نم (ms)

• Malayalam: ആറ് (ml) (āṟŭ)
• Maltese: sitta (mt)
• Manchu: ninggun
• Mansi: хот (xōt)
• Manx: shey
• Maori: ono (mi)
• Mapudungun: kayu
• Marathi: सहा (sahā)
• Mari: кудыт (kudyt)
• Maricopa: xamxuk
• Marshallese: jiljino
• Minangkabau: anam
• Mirandese: seis
• Mongolian: зургаа (dzurgaa), ᠵᠢᠷᠭᠤᠭᠠᠨ (jirgugan) (numeral: ᠖)
• Montagnais: (Sheshatshiu Innu) kutuasht, (Mushuau Innu) ashutash
• Nahuatl: chicuace
• Nama: ǃnani
• Nauruan: año (na)
• Navajo: hastą́ą́
• North Frisian: seeks
• Northern Sami: guhtta
• Norwegian: seks (no)
• Novial: six
• O'odham: cudp
• Occitan: sièis (oc)
• Ojibwe: ingodwaaswi
• Old Church Slavonic: шєсть (šestĭ)
• Old English: siex (ang)
• Oriya: please add this translation if you can: (numeral: ୬)
• Persian: شِش (fa) (šeš) (numeral: ۶ (fa))
• Plautdietsch: sass
• Polish: sześć (pl)
• Portuguese: seis (pt)
• Punjabi: ਛੇ (pa) (che) (numeral: ੬ (pa))
• Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
• Rohingya: só
• Romani: shov
• Romanian: șase (ro)
• Romansch: sis (rm)
• Russian: шесть (ru) (šest’)
• Samoan: ono (sm)
• Sanskrit: षष् (sa) (ṣáṣ), (षण् (ṣaṇ), shasta- (prefix).)
• Sardinian: ses (sc)
• Saterland Frisian: säks
• Scots: sax
• Scottish Gaelic: sia (gd), (persons) sianar (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ше̑ст (sh)

  Roman: šȇst (sh)

• Sichuan Yi: ꃘ (fut)
• Sicilian: sei (scn)
• Sikkimese: please add this translation if you can
• Sindhi: ڇَهَه (sd) (chahah)
• Sinhalese: හය (si) (haya)
• Slovak: šesť (sk)
• Slovene: šést (sl)
• Spanish: seis (es)
• Sundanese: genep (su)
• Swahili: sita (sw)
• Swedish: sex (sv)
• Tachelhit: sḍes m, sḍest f
• Tagalog: anim (tl)
• Tajik: шаш (tg) (šaš), шаш (tg) (šaš)
• Tamil: ஆறு (ta) (āṛu) (numeral: ௬)
• Taos: mą́łi
• Tatar: алты (tt) (altı), altı
• Telugu: ఆరు (te) (numeral: ౬)
• Thai: หก (th) (hòk) (numeral: ๖)
• Tibetan: དྲུག (bo) (drug) (numeral: ༦)
• Tocharian A: ṣäk
• Tocharian B: ṣkas
• Tok Pisin: sikispela
• Tongan: ono (to)
• Turkish: altı (tr)
• Tzutujil: uaki
• Ukrainian: шість (uk) (šіst’), шестеро (šéstero) collective
• Urdu: چھہ (ur) (chah)
• Uyghur: ئالتە (ug) (alte)
• Uzbek: olti (uz)
• Veps: kuź
• Vietnamese: sáu (vi)
• Volapük: mäl (vo)
• Votic: kuuz / кууз
• Võro: kuuś
• Walloon: shijh (wa)
• Welsh: chwech (cy)
• West Frisian: seis (fy)
• Xhosa: please add this translation if you can
• Yiddish: זעקס (yi) (zeks)
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can
• Zuni: dobalekk'ya

set or group with six components

• Catalan: sisena (ca) f
• Lithuanian: šešeri (lt) m, šešerios (lt) f

• Scottish Gaelic: a sia (gd), sianar (gd) m

Noun

six (plural sixes)

1. The digit or figure 6.
2. (military slang, by ellipsis of six o'clock) Rear, behind (rear side of something).

   cover my six

3. (cricket, countable) An event whereby a batsman hits a ball which does not bounce before passing over a boundary in the air, resulting in an award of 6 runs for the batting team.
4. (American football) A touchdown.

Derived terms

• at sixes and sevens
• hit someone for six

Translations

digit

• Basque: sei (eu)
• Bulgarian: шест (bg) (šést)
• Catalan: sis (ca) m
• Danish: sekstal (da) n
• Finnish: kuutonen (fi)
• French: six (fr) m
• Galician: seis (gl) m
• German: Sechs (de) f

• Hindi: छह (hi) (chah)
• Lithuanian: šešetas (lt) m
• Macedonian: шестка (mk) (šéstka) f
• Malayalam: ആറ് (ml)
• Polish: szóstka (pl) f
• Swedish: sexa (sv)

cricket

military slang

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• French: six m
• German: Sechs f
• Italian: sei m
• Portuguese: seis m (1)

• Romanian: șase m
• Sindhi: (1), (2) ڇَهَه, ڇَڪو
• Ukrainian: шістка (šístka) f
• Welsh: chwech

See also

• (playing cards) playing card; ace, deuce, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, jack, queen, king, joker
• 6 (Arabic numeral)
• 陸, 六 (Chinese numerals)
• Ⅵ or VI (Roman numeral)
• Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: sun · cut · everything · #498: six · comes · stand · past

Anagrams

• xis

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French

Etymology

From Latin sex.

Pronunciation

• Audio (FR)

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• IPA: /sis/, /si/

Noun

French cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : six     Ordinal : sixième
French Wikipedia article on six

six m (invariable)

1. six

Related terms

• sixain
• six-huit
• à la six-quatre-deux
• sixte
• sizain
• sixième

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Guernésiais

Etymology

From Latin sex.

Numeral

Guernésiais cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : six

six

1. six

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Jèrriais

Jèrriais cardinal numbers

<  5	6	7  >
Cardinal : six

Etymology

From Latin sex, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs.

Numeral

six

1. six

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Lojban

Rafsi

six

1. rafsi of sirxo.

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Middle French

Noun

six m (invariable)

1. six