eighteen

English

Etymology

From Middle English ehtetene, from Old English eahtatīene, eahtatēne, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōutehun. Compare West Frisian achttjin, Dutch achttien, German achtzehn, Danish atten.

Alternative forms

• Arabic numerals: 18. Roman symbols: XVIII

Pronunciation

• (next word stressed near the first syllable)

  (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.tiːn/

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• (next word stressed after the first syllable)

  (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˌeɪˈtiːn/

• Rhymes: -iːn

Numeral

eighteen

1. The cardinal number occurring after seventeen and before nineteen, represented in Roman numerals as XVIII and in Arabic numerals as 18.

Related terms

• Ordinal: eighteenth

Translations

cardinal number

• Afrikaans: agtien, agttien
• American Sign Language:
• Arabic: ثمانية عشر (θamāniyat ʕášar)

  Egyptian Arabic: تمنتاشر (tamantāšar)

• Aramaic:

  Hebrew: תמנעסר m (tmāna‘sar), תמנעסרא f (tmāna‘esrē)

  Syriac: ܬܡܢܥܣܪ m (tmāna‘sar), ܬܡܢܥܣܪܐ f (tmāna‘esrē)

• Armenian: տասնութ (hy) (tasnutʿ)
• Asturian: dieciocho (ast)
• Aymara: tunka kimsaqallquni
• Azeri: on səkkiz (az)
• Basque: hemezortzi (eu), hamazortzi (eu)
• Belarusian: васемнаццаць (vasjemnáccac’)
• Bengali: আঠারো (aţharo)
• Breton: triwec'h (br)
• Bulgarian: осемнадесет (osemnadeset)
• Burmese: ဆယ့်ရှစ် (hsè.shit)
• Catalan: divuit (ca)

  Valencian: dihuit

• Cebuano: napulo'g walo, disiotso
• Chechen: берхIитта (bierχIitta)
• Chichewa: khumi n'zisanu n'zitatu
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 十八 (zh) (shíbā)

• Czech: osmnáct (cs)
• Danish: atten (da)
• Dena'ina: łtaqul'i beq'di
• Dutch: achttien (nl) f
• Esperanto: dek ok
• Estonian: kaheksateist (et)
• Finnish: kahdeksantoista (fi)
• French: dix-huit (fr) m
• Galician: dezaoito (gl)
• German: achtzehn (de)
• Greek: δεκαοκτώ (el) (dekaoktó)
• Greenlandic: arvirsaniq-pingasut
• Haitian Creole: dizuit
• Hawaiian: ʻumikūmāwalu
• Hebrew: שְׁמוֹנֶה־עֶשְׂרֵה f (shmone esre) (used in counting), שְׁמוֹנָה־עָשָׂר m (shmona asar)
• Hindi: अठारह (hi) (aṭhārah)
• Hopi: pakwt niikyang nanalt siikya’ta
• Hungarian: tizennyolc (hu)
• Icelandic: átján (is), áttján (archaic)
• Ido: dek ed ok (io)
• Indonesian: delapan belas
• Interlingua: dece-octo
• Irish: ocht déag (ga)
• Italian: diciotto (it)
• Japanese: 十八 (ja) (jū-hachi)

• Jèrriais: dgiêx-huit
• Khmer: ដប់ប្រាំបី (dop pram bei)
• Korean: 열여덟 (ko) (yeolyeodeol)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: هه‌ژده‌ (ku)

• Lao: ສິບແປດ
• Latin: duodēvīgintī (la)
• Latvian: astoņpadsmit (lv)
• Livonian: kōdõkstuoistõn
• Low German: achtteihn
• Luxembourgish: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: осумнаесет (osumnáeset)
• Malay: lapan belas, delapan belas, sepuluh lapan, sepuluh delapan, satu puluh lapan, satu puluh delapan
• Maltese: tmintax
• Mansi: нёлловхуйплов (ɲollowxujplow)
• Mapudungun: maripura
• Mongolian: арван найм‎ (arvan najm‎)
• Navajo: tseebíítsʼáadah
• Norwegian: atten (no)
• Novial: dek-ot
• Ojibwe: ashi-nishwaaswi
• Old Armenian: ութեւտասն (utʿewtasn)
• Persian: هجده (fa) (hejdah), هیجده (fa) (hijdah)
• Polish: osiemnaście (pl) pl
• Portuguese: dezoito (pt)
• Punjabi: ਅਠਾਰ੍ਹਾਂ (aṭhārhāṅ)
• Quechua: chunka pusaqniyuq
• Romanian: optsprezece (ro)
• Russian: восемнадцать (ru) (vosemnádtsat’)
• Sanskrit: अष्टादशन् (aṣṭādaśan)
• Scottish Gaelic: ochd deug
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: осамнаест

  Roman: osamnaest

• Sinhalese: දහඅට (dahaaṭa)
• Slovene: osemnajst (sl)
• Spanish: dieciocho (es)
• Swedish: arton (sv), aderton (sv) (obsolete, Finnish Swedish)
• Tagalog: labingwalo (tl)
• Telugu: పద్దెనిమిది (te) (paddenimidi)
• Thai: สิบแปด
• Turkish: on sekiz (tr)
• Ukrainian: вісімнадцять (uk) (visimnadcjat')
• Urdu: اٹھارہ (ur) (aṭhārah)
• Vietnamese: mười tám
• Volapük: degjöl
• Welsh: deunaw (cy) (vigesimal, traditional), un deg wyth (cy) (decimal)
• West Frisian: achttjin (fy)
• Yiddish: אַכצן (akhtsn)

See also

• Last: seventeen. Next: nineteen