six

English

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English cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : six     Ordinal : sixth     Multiplier : sextuple

Etymology

Old English siex.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA: /sɪks/, SAMPA: /sIks/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɪks
• Homophones: sicks, sics

Cardinal number

six

1. (cardinal) A numerical value equal to 6; the number occurring after five and before seven.
2. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) Describing a set or group with six components.

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 (sdst) (numeral: ፮) Arabic: ستّة (sítta) (numeral: ٦) Aramaic: Syriac: ܫܬܐ (štā’) m., ܫܬ (šit) f. Hebrew: שתא (štā’) m., שת (šit) f. Armenian: վեց (vec') Assamese: please add this translation if you can Aymara: suxta Azeri: altı (az) Basque: sei (eu) Bengali: ছয় (chay) (numeral: ৬) Breton: c'hwec'h Burmese: ခြောက် (my) (chauk) (numeral: ၆) Catalan: sis (ca) Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵙⴹⵉⵙ (sḍis) Chamicuro: sokta Chechen: ялх (yalx) Cherokee: ᏑᏓᎵ (sudali) Chinese: Standard 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) Danish: seks (da) Dena'ina: k'uzhch'en'i Dutch: zes (nl) Erzya: кото (koto) Esperanto: ses (eo) Estonian: kuus (et) Faroese: seks (fo) Finnish: kuusi (fi) French: six (fr) Galician: seis (gl) Garífuna: sisi Georgian: ექვსი (ek‘vsi) German: sechs (de) Greek: έξι (el) (éksi) Guaraní: poteĩ Gujarati: છ (cha) (numeral: ૬) Haitian Creole: sis Hawaiian: ono 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 Indonesian: enam (id) Balinese: ənəm Banjarese: anam Javanese: nəm  (jv) Madurese: ənnam Minangkabau: anam Sundanese: genep  (su) Interlingua: sex Irish: sé (ga) Italian: sei (it) Japanese: 六 (ろく, rokú), むっつ (muttsú), ６ (ja) Kalaallisut: arfinillit Kannada: please add this translation if you can: (numeral: ೬) Karachay-Balkar: алты (altı) Karakalpak: alti Karelian: kuusi Kazakh: алты (kk) (altı) Khmer: ប្រាំមួយ (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: söss (nds) Luxembourgish: sechs (lb) Macedonian: шест (mk) (šest) Malagasy: enina (mg) Malayalam: please add this translation if you can: (numeral: ൬) Maltese: sitta (mt) Manchu: ninggun Manx: shey Maori: ono (mi) Mapudungun: kayu Marathi: सहा (sahā) Mari: кудыт (kudyt) Maricopa: xamxuk Marshallese: jiljino Mongolian: зургаа (dzurgaa), ᠵᠢᠷᠭᠤᠭᠠᠨ (jirgugan) (numeral: ᠖) Montagnais: (Sheshatshiu Innu) kutuasht, (Mushuau Innu) ashutash Nahuatl: chicuace Navajo: hastą́ą́ North Frisian: seeks Northern Sami: guhtta (se) Norwegian: seks (no) Novial: six O'odham: cudp Occitan: sièis (oc) Old Church Slavonic: шєсть (šestĭ) Old English: siex (ang) Oriya: please add this translation if you can: (numeral: ୬) Persian: شِش (šeš) (numeral: ۶) Polish: sześć (pl) Portuguese: seis (pt) Punjabi: ਛੇ (che) (numeral: ੬) Rohingya: só Romani: shov Romanian: șase (ro) Russian: шесть (ru) (šest’) Sanskrit: षष् (ṣáṣ), (षण् (ṣaṇ), shasta- (prefix).) Sardinian: ses Saterland Frisian: säks Scottish Gaelic: sia (gd), (persons) sianar (gd) m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ше̑ст (sh) Roman: šȇst (sh) Sichuan Yi: ꃘ (fut) Sindhi: ڇَهَه (chahah) Sinhala: හය (haya) Slovak: šesť (sk) Slovene: šest (sl) Spanish: seis (es) Swahili: sita (sw) Swedish: sex (sv) Tachelhit: sḍes m., sḍest f. Tagalog: anim Tajik: шаш  (tg) (šaš), шаш  (tg) (šaš) Tamil: ஆறு (ta) (āṛu) (numeral: ௬) Taos: mą́łi Tatar: алты (tt), altı Telugu: ఆరు (numeral: ౬) Thai: หก (hòk) (numeral: ๖) Tibetan: དྲུག (drug) (numeral: ༦) Tok Pisin: sikispela Turkish: altı (tr) Tzutujil: uaki Ukrainian: шість (uk) (šіst’), шестеро (šéstero) collective Urdu: چھہ (ur) (chah) Uyghur: please add this translation if you can Veps: kuź Vietnamese: sáu (vi) Volapük: mäl Votic: kuuz / кууз Võro: kuuś Welsh: chwech (cy) West Frisian: seis Yiddish: זעקס (yi) (zeks) 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.

See also

• Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages

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. 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, card; ace, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, jack, queen, king, joker ^[edit]
• 6 (Arabic numeral)
• 陸, 六 (Chinese numerals)
• Ⅵ or VI (Roman numeral)

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. inv.

1. six

Related terms

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

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Middle French

Noun

six m. inv.

1. six