thirteen

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Etymology

From Middle English thirttene, variant (through metathesis) of thrittene, from Old English þreotīene, þreotene, from Proto-Germanic *þritehun. Compare West Frisian trettjin, Dutch dertien, German dreizehn, Danish tretten.

Alternative forms

• Arabic numerals: 13
• Roman numerals: XIII

Pronunciation

• (next word stressed near the first syllable)

  (UK) IPA: /ˈθɜː.tiːn/

  (US) IPA: /ˈθɝ.tin/

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• (next word stressed after the first syllable)

  (UK) IPA: /ˌθɜːˈtiːn/

  (US) IPA: /ˌθɝˈtin/

• Rhymes: -iːn

Number

thirteen

1. The cardinal number occurring after twelve and before fourteen, represented in Roman numerals as XIII and in Arabic numerals as 13.

Related terms

• Ordinal: thirteenth

See also

• baker’s dozen
• thirteener
• throtteen

Translations

the cardinal number occurring after twelve and before fourteen

• Afrikaans: dertien (af)
• Albanian: trembëdhjetë (sq)
• American Sign Language: Hu@Side-PalmBack Flatten
• Amharic: አስራሶስት (am) (asra sosts)
• Ancient Greek: τρισκαίδεκα (triskaideka)
• Arabic: ثَلاثة عَشَرَ (ar) (thalaatha 3ashara) (numeral: ١٣)

  Egyptian Arabic: تلاتاشر (talataashar)

• Aramaic:
• Hawaiian: ʻumikūmākolu

  Hebrew: תלתעסר (tlātha‘sar) m, תלתעסרא (tlātha‘esrē) f

  Syriac: ܬܠܬܥܣܪ (tlātha‘sar) m, ܬܠܬܥܣܪܐ (tlātha‘esrē) f

• Armenian: տասներեք (hy) (tasnerek')
• Aymara: tunka kimsani (ay)
• Azeri: on üç (az)
• Basque: hamahiru (eu)
• Belarusian: трынаццаць (be) (trynáccac’)
• Bengali: তেরো (bn) (tero) (numeral: ১৩ (bn)
• Breton: trizek (br)
• Bulgarian: тринадесет (bg) (trinadeset)
• Burmese: ဆယ့်သုံး (my) (hsè.thon:)
• Catalan: tretze (ca)
• Chechen: кхойтта (qoytta)
• Chichewa: khumi n'zitatu
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 十三 (cmn) (shísān) (numeral: 拾參 (cmn))

  Teochew: san1zab8, sab8

• Corsican: trèdeci
• Czech: třináct (cs)
• Dalmatian: tretco
• Danish: tretten (da)
• Dena'ina: tuq'i beq'di
• Dutch: dertien (nl) f
• Esperanto: dek tri (eo)
• Estonian: kolmteist (et)
• Faroese: trettan (fo)
• Finnish: kolmetoista (fi)
• French: treize (fr) m
• Friulian: tredis
• Galician: trece (gl)
• Georgian: ცამეტი (ka) (c'ameti)
• German: dreizehn (de)
• Greek: δεκατρείς (el) (dekatreís) m and f, δεκατρία (el) (dekatría) n
• Gujarati: તેર (gu) (ter)
• Haitian Creole: trèz
• Hebrew: שְׁלֹשׁ־עֶשְׂרֵה (he) (shlosh esre) f (used in counting), שְׁלוֹשָה־עָשָׂר (he) (shlosha asar) m
• Hindi: तेरह् (hi) (terah) (numeral: १३ (hi))
• Hopi: pakwt niikyang paykomuy siikya’ta
• Hungarian: tizenhárom (hu)
• Icelandic: þrettán (is)
• Indonesian: tiga belas (id)
• Interlingua: dece-tres (ia)
• Irish: trí déag (ga)
• Italian: tredici (it) m
• Japanese: 十三 (ja) (じゅうさん, jū-san)
• Jèrriais: treize
• Kalaallisut: aqqaniq-pingasut

• Kannada: ಹದಿಮೂರು (kn) (hadimūru) (numeral: ೧೩ (kn))
• Khmer: ដប់បី (km) (dop bei) (numeral: ១៣)
• Korean: 열셋 (ko) (yeolset)
• Kurdish: sêzde (ku)
• Lao: ສິບສາມ (lo) (sip-saam) (numeral: ໑໓)
• Latgalian: treispadsmit
• Latin: tredecim (la)
• Latvian: trīspadsmit (lv)
• Lithuanian: trylika (lt)
• Livonian: kuolmtuoistõn
• Low German: dörteihn (nds), dötteihn (nds), dorteihn (nds)
• Luxembourgish: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: тринаесет (mk) (trináeset)
• Malay: tiga belas (ms), telu belas (ms), sepuluh tiga (ms), sepuluh telu (ms), satu puluh tiga (ms), satu puluh telu (ms)
• Malayalam: പതിമൂന്ന് (ml) (patimūnn)
• Maltese: tlettax (mt)
• Manchu: (juwan ilan)
• Mansi: хурумхуйплов (xūrumxujplow)
• Manx: tree jeig (gv)
• Mongolian: арван гурав (mn) (arvan gurav) (numeral: ᠑᠓)
• Navajo: tááʼtsʼáadah
• Norwegian: tretten (no)
• Novial: dek-tri
• Occitan: tretze (oc)
• Ojibwe: ashi-niswi
• Oriya: ତେର (or)
• Persian: سیزده (fa)
• Polish: trzynaście (pl)
• Portuguese: treze (pt)
• Punjabi: ਤੇਰ੍ਹਾਂ (pa) (terhāṅ) (numeral: ੧੩)
• Romanian: treisprezece, treișpe (informal)
• Romansch: tredesch (rm)
• Russian: тринадцать (ru) (trinádcat’)
• Sanskrit: त्रयोदश (sa) (tráyodash, numeral: १३)
• Sardinian: trechi (sc)
• Scottish Gaelic: trì (gd) deug (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тринаест (sh)

  Roman: trinaest (sh)

• Sinhalese: දහතුන (si) (dhahathuna)
• Slovak: trinásť (sk)
• Slovene: trinajst (sl)
• Spanish: trece (es)
• Swedish: tretton (sv)
• Tagalog: labintatlo (tl)
• Tamil: பதின்மூன்று (ta) (numeral: ௰௩)
• Telugu: పదమూడు (te) (padamūḍu) (numeral: ౧౩)
• Thai: สิบสาม (th) (sìp săam) (numeral: ๑๓)
• Tibetan: བཅུ་གསུམ (bo) (bcu gsum)
• Turkish: on üç (tr)
• Urdu: تیرہ (ur) (terah)
• Volapük: degkil (vo)
• Welsh: tri ar ddeg m (vigesimal, traditional), tair ar ddeg f (vigesimal), un deg tri (decimal)
• West Frisian: trettjin (fy)
• Yiddish: דרײַצן (yi) (draytsn)

Coordinate terms

• Previous: twelve. Next: fourteen

Anagrams

• tetherin