eighteen

English

English numbers

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Cardinal : eighteen     Ordinal : eighteenth     Multiplier : eighteenfold

Alternative forms

• Arabic numerals: 18. Roman symbols: XVIII

Etymology

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

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
• Albanian: tetëmbëdhjetë (sq)
• American Sign Language:
• Amharic: አስራ ስምንት (ʾäsra smntə)
• Arabic: ثَمَانِيَةَ عَشَرَ‎ (ṯamāniyata ʿašara)

  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)

  Old Armenian: ութեւտասն (utʿewtasn)

• Asturian: dieciocho (ast)
• Aymara: tunka kimsaqallquni
• Azeri: on səkkiz (az)
• Bashkir: ун һигеҙ (un higeð)
• Basque: hemezortzi (eu), hamazortzi (eu)
• Belarusian: васямна́ццаць (vasjamnáccacʹ), васемна́ццаць (vasjemnáccacʹ)
• Bengali: আঠারো (aṭharo) (numeral: ১৮)
• Breton: triwec'h (br)
• Bulgarian: осемна́десет (osemnádeset), осемна́йсет (osemnájset)
• Burmese: ဆယ့်ရှစ် (hcai.hrac) (numeral: ၁၈)
• Buryat: арбан найман (arban najman)
• Catalan: divuit (ca)

  Valencian: díhuit (ca)

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

  Cantonese: 十八 (sap⁶ baat³)

  Hakka: 十八 (sṳ̍p-pat)

  Mandarin: 十八 (zh) (shíbā)

• Chuvash: вунсаккӑр (vunsakkăr), вунсаккăр (vunsakkăr), вунсакăр (vunsakăr)
• Classical Nahuatl: caxtōlli omēyi
• Czech: osmnáct (cs)
• Danish: atten (da)
• Dena'ina: łtaqul'i beq'di
• Dhivehi: އަށާރަ‎ (ashāra)
• Dutch: achttien (nl) f
• Esperanto: dek ok
• Estonian: kaheksateist (et)
• Faroese: átjan
• Fijian: tini ka walu
• Finnish: kahdeksantoista (fi)
• French: dix-huit (fr) m
• Galician: dezaoito (gl)
• Georgian: თვრამეტი (tvrameṭi)
• German: achtzehn (de)
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌷𐍄𐌰𐌿𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌿𐌽 (ahtautaihun)
• Greek: δεκαοκτώ (el) (dekaoktó)
• Greenlandic: arvirsaniq-pingasut
• Gujarati: અઢાર (gu) (aḍhār)
• 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)
• Inari Sami: käävcinubáloh
• Indonesian: delapan belas (id)
• Interlingua: dece-octo
• Irish: ocht déag
• Italian: diciotto (it)
• Japanese: 十八 (ja) (jūhachi)
• Kannada: ಹದಿನೆಂಟು (kn) (hadineṃṭu)
• Kazakh: он сегіз (kk) (on segiz)
• Khmer: ដប់ប្រាំបី (dop pram bei) (numeral: ១៨)
• Komi-Permyak: даскыкьямыс (daskykʹjamys)
• Korean: 열여덟 (ko) (yeoryeodeol), 십팔 (ko) (sippal) (十八 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: hejde (ku)

  Sorani: ھەژدە‎ (hejde)

• Kyrgyz: он сегиз (on segiz)
• Lao: ສິບແປດ (sip pǣt) (numeral: ໑໘)
• Latin: duodēvīgintī (la)
• Latvian: astoņpadsmit (lv)
• Lithuanian: aštuoniolika (lt)
• Livonian: kōdõkstuoistõn
• Low German: achtteihn

  German Low German: achtteihn

• Luxembourgish: uechtzéng (lb)
• Lü: ᦉᦲᧇᦶᦔᧆᧈ (ṡiibṗaed¹) (numeral: ᧑᧘)
• Macedonian: осумна́есет (osumnáeset)
• Malagasy: valo ambinifolo
• 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 (mn) (arvan najm)
• Navajo: tseebíítsʼáadah
• Norman: dix-huit, dgiêx-huit
• Northern Sami: gávccinuppelohkái
• Norwegian: atten (no)
• Novial: dek-ot
• Ojibwe: ashi-nishwaaswi
• Old Church Slavonic: осмь на дєсѧтє (osmĭ na desęte)
• Oriya: ଅଠର (aṭhar) (numeral: ୧୮)
• Persian: هجده‎ (fa) (hejdah), هیجده‎ (fa) (hijdah)
• Polish: osiemnaście (pl), (collective) osiemnaścioro (pl)
• Portuguese: dezoito (pt)
• Punjabi: ਅਠਾਰਾਂ (aṭhārāṅ)
• Quechua: chunka pusaqniyuq
• Romanian: optsprezece (ro)
• Romansch: (Grischun) deschdotg
• Russian: восемна́дцать (ru) (vosemnádcatʹ)
• Rusyn: вӱсямна́дцить (vӱsjamnádcytʹ)
• S'gaw Karen: တဆံဃိး (təhsichö)
• Samoan: sefulu valu
• Sanskrit: अष्टादशन् (sa) (aṣṭādaśan)
• Scottish Gaelic: ochd deug
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: осамнаест

  Roman: osamnaest

• Shan: သိပ်းပႅတ်ႇ (sip⁴ paet²)
• Sinhalese: දහඅට (dahaaṭa)
• Skolt Sami: käcmlo
• Slovak: osemnásť
• Slovene: osemnajst (sl)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: wósymnasćo

  Upper Sorbian: wósomnaće

• Spanish: dieciocho (es)
• Swedish: arton (sv), aderton (sv) (obsolete, Finnish Swedish)
• Tagalog: labingwalo (tl)
• Tahitian: hō'ē 'ahuru ma va'u
• Tajik: ҳаждаҳ (tg) (haždah)
• Tatar: унсигез (unsigez)
• Telugu: పద్దెనిమిది (te) (paddenimidi)
• Thai: สิบแปด (th) (sìp-bpɛ̀ɛt) (numeral: ๑๘)
• Tibetan: བཅོ་བརྒྱད (bco brgyad)
• Tongan: hongofulu mā valu
• Turkish: on sekiz (tr)
• Turkmen: on sekiz (tk)
• Ukrainian: вісімна́дцять (uk) (visimnádcjatʹ)
• Urdu: اٹھارہ‎ (ur) (aṭhārah)
• Uyghur: ئون سەككىز‎ (ug) (on sekkiz)
• Uzbek: oʻn sakkiz
• Vietnamese: mười tám
• Vilamovian: aochcao
• Volapük: degjöl, balsejöl (older term, obsolete)
• Welsh: deunaw (cy) (vigesimal, traditional), un deg wyth (cy) (decimal)
• West Frisian: achttjin (fy)
• Wolof: fukk ak juróom ñett
• Yakut: уон аҕыс (uon ağıs)
• Yiddish: אַכצן‎ (akhtsn)
• Yup'ik: akimiaq pingayun
• Zhuang: cib bet

See also

• Last: seventeen. Next: nineteen