fifteen

English

English numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: fifteen     Ordinal: fifteenth     Multiplier: fifteenfold

Alternative forms

• fiveteen (obsolete) [17th–18th c.]
• fifteene (obsolete) [16th–19th c.]

Etymology

From Middle English fiftene, from Old English fīftīene, fīftēne, from Proto-Germanic *fimftehun. Cognate with West Frisian fyftjin, Dutch vijftien, German fünfzehn, Danish femten.

Pronunciation

• (next word stressed near the first syllable)

  (UK, US) enPR: fĭf'tēn, IPA^(key): /ˈfɪf.tiːn/

• Audio (US)

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• (next word stressed after the first syllable)

  (UK, US) enPR: fĭf-tēn', IPA^(key): /fɪfˈtiːn/

• Rhymes: -iːn

Numeral

fifteen (cardinal, ordinal fifteenth)

1. The cardinal number occurring after fourteen (14) and before sixteen (16).

Synonyms

• Roman numerals: XV
• Arabic numerals: 15

Coordinate terms

• Previous: fourteen
• Next: sixteen

Derived terms

• 15 minutes, 15 minutes of fame

Translations

cardinal number

• Afrikaans: vyftien (af)
• Albanian: pesëmbëdhjetë (sq)
• American Sign Language: (OpenB@Side-PalmBack Flatten)
• Amharic: አስራ አምስት (ʾäsra ʾämst)
• Arabic: خَمْسَةَ عَشَرَ‎ (ḵamsata ʿašara)

  Egyptian Arabic: خمستاشر‎ (ḵamastāšar)

• Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
• Aramaic:

  Hebrew: חמשעסר‎ m (khamsha‘sar), חמשעסרא‎ f (khamsha‘esrē)

  Syriac: ܚܡܫܥܣܪ‎ m (khamsha‘sar), ܚܡܫܥܣܪܐ‎ f (khamsha‘esrē)

• Armenian: տասնհինգ (hy) (tasnhing)
• Asturian: quince (ast)
• Aymara: tunka phisqani
• Azerbaijani: on beş (az)
• Bashkir: ун биш (un biš)
• Basque: hamabost (eu)
• Belarusian: пятна́ццаць (pjatnáccacʹ)
• Bengali: পনেরো (pônero) (numeral: ১৫)
• Bikol Central: kaglima (bcl)
• Breton: pemzek (br)
• Brunei Malay: lima balas
• Bulgarian: петна́десет (bg) (petnádeset), петна́йсет (petnájset)
• Burmese: ဆယ့်ငါး (hcai.nga:) (numeral: ၁၅)
• Buryat: арбан табан (arban taban)
• Catalan: quinze (ca)
• Cebuano: napulog lima
• Central Sierra Miwok: naˀá·ča- máš·ok·a-ˀ hej·i-ˀ
• Chechen: пхийтта (pχītta)
• Cherokee: ᏍᎩᎦᏚ (sgigadu), ᎯᏍᎦᏚ (hisgadu)
• Chichewa: khumi n'zisanu
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 十五 (sap⁶ ng⁵)

  Hakka: 十五 (sṳ̍p-ńg)

  Mandarin: 十五 (zh) (shíwǔ)

• Chuvash: вунпиллӗк (vunpillĕk), вунпилӗк (vunpilĕk)
• Classical Nahuatl: caxtōlli
• Czech: patnáct (cs)
• Dalmatian: čonco
• Danish: femten (da)
• Dena'ina: ch'qilu beq'di
• Dhivehi: ފަނަރަ‎ (fanara)
• Dutch: vijftien (nl) f
• Dzongkha: བཅོ་ལྔ (bco lnga)
• Esperanto: dek kvin
• Estonian: viisteist (et)
• Faroese: fimtan
• Fijian: tini ka lima
• Finnish: viisitoista (fi)
• French: quinze (fr) m
• Friulian: cuindis
• Galician: quince (gl)
• Georgian: თხუთმეტი (ka) (txutmeṭi)
• German: fünfzehn (de)
• Gothic: 𐍆𐌹𐌼𐍆𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌿𐌽 (fimftaihun)
• Greek: δεκαπέντε (el) (dekapénte)

  Ancient: πεντεκαίδεκα (pentekaídeka), ιε΄ (ie΄) (numeral)

• Greenlandic: aqqaniq-tallimat
• Gujarati: પંદર (gu) (pandar)
• Haitian Creole: kenz
• Hawaiian: ʻumikūmālima
• Hebrew: חֲמֵשׁ־עֶשְׂרֵה‎ f (khamesh esre) (used in counting), חֲמִשָּׁה־עָשָׂר‎ m (khamisha asar)
• Hindi: पंद्रह (hi) m (pandrah)
• Hopi: pakwt niikyang tsivot siikya’ta
• Hungarian: tizenöt (hu)
• Hunsrik: fufzen, finnefzen
• Icelandic: fimmtán (is)
• Ido: dek-e-kin (io)
• Inari Sami: vittnubáloh
• Indonesian: lima belas (id)
• Interlingua: dece-cinque
• Interlingue: deciquin
• Irish: cúig déag
• Italian: quindici (it) m
• Japanese: 十五 (ja) (じゅうご, jūgo)
• Javanese: limalas
• Kannada: ಹದಿನೈದು (kn) (hadinaidu)
• Kazakh: он бес (kk) (on bes)
• Khmer: ដប់ប្រាំ (dop pram) (numeral: ១៥)
• Komi-Permyak: дасвит (dasvit)
• Korean: 열다섯 (ko) (yeoldaseot), 십오 (ko) (sibo) (十五 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: pazde (ku), pazdeh (ku)

  Sorani: پانزە‎ (panze)

• Kyrgyz: он беш (ky) (on beş)
• Lakota: akézaptaŋ
• Lao: ສິບຫ້າ (sip hā) (numeral: ໑໕)
• Latin: quīndecim (la)

• Latvian: piecpadsmit
• Ligurian: chìnze
• Lithuanian: penkiolika (lt)
• Livonian: vīžtuoistõn
• Low German: föffteihn (nds), foffteihn (nds)

  German Low German: föffteihn (nds), füwtain (nds) (Münsterland)

• Luxembourgish: fofzéng (lb)
• Lü: ᦉᦲᧇᦠᦱᧉ (ṡiibḣaa²) (numeral: ᧑᧕)
• Macedonian: петна́есет (petnáeset)
• Malagasy: dimy ambinifolo
• Malay: lima belas, sepuluh lima, satu puluh lima
• Maltese: ħmistax
• Manchu: ᡨᠣᡶᠣᡥᠣᠨ (tofohon)
• Mansi: атхуйплов (athujplov)
• Maori: tekau mā rima (mi)
• Middle English: fiftene
• Mongolian: арван тав (arvan tav)
• Navajo: ashdlaʼáadah
• Norman: tchinze (Guernsey), tchînze (Jersey)
• North Frisian: füftanj (Föhr)
• Northern Sami: vihttanuppelohkái
• Norwegian: femten (no)
• Novial: dek-sink
• Occitan: quinze (oc)
• Ojibwe: ashi-naanan
• Old Church Slavonic: пѧть на дєсѧтє (pętĭ na desęte)
• Old English: fīftīene
• Oriya: ପନ୍ଦର (or) (pôndôrô) (numeral: ୧୫ (15))
• Pennsylvania German: fuffzeh, fuftzay
• Persian: پانزده‎ (fa) (pânzdah)
• Polish: piętnaście (pl), (collective) piętnaścioro (pl)
• Portuguese: quinze (pt)
• Punjabi: ਪੰਦਰਾਂ (pandarā̃) (numeral: ੧੫ (15))
• Quechua: chunka pichqayuq
• Romani:

  Kalo Finnish Romani: deȟ-o-pangȟ

• Romanian: cincisprezece (ro), cinșpe (informal)
• Romansch: (Grischun) quindesch
• Russian: пятна́дцать (ru) (pjatnádcatʹ)
• Rusyn: пятна́дцить (pjatnádcytʹ)
• S'gaw Karen: တဆံယဲၢ် (ta hsee yeẖ)
• Samoan: sefulu lima
• Sanskrit: पञ्चदश (sa) (páñcadaśa)
• Scottish Gaelic: còig deug
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: петнаест

  Roman: petnaest

• Shan: သိပ်းႁႃႈ (síp hāa)
• Sinhalese: පහළොව (pahaḷova)
• Skolt Sami: vitmlo
• Slovak: pätnásť (sk)
• Slovene: petnajst (sl)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: pěśnasćo

  Upper Sorbian: pjatnaće

• Spanish: quince (es) m
• Swahili: kumi na tano
• Swedish: femton (sv)
• Tagalog: labinlima (tl)
• Tahitian: hō'ē 'ahuru ma pae
• Tajik: понздаҳ (tg) (ponzdah)
• Tatar: унбиш (unbiş)
• Telugu: పదిహేను (te) (padihēnu)
• Thai: สิบห้า (th) (sìp-hâa) (numeral: ๑๕)
• Tibetan: བཅོ་ལྔ (bco lnga)
• Tigre: ዐስር ወሐምስ (ʿäsr wäḥäms)
• Tigrinya: ዓሰርተ ሓሙሽተ (ʿasärtä ḥamuštä)
• Tongan: hongofulu mā nima
• Turkish: on beş (tr)
• Turkmen: on bäş (tk)
• Ukrainian: п’ятна́дцять (uk) (pʺjatnádcjatʹ)
• Urdu: پندرہ‎ (pandrah)
• Uyghur: ئون بەش‎ (ug) (on besh)
• Uzbek: oʻn besh (uz)
• Vietnamese: mười lăm (vi)
• Volapük: deglul, balselul (older term, obsolete)
• Waray-Waray: kinse
• Welsh: pymtheg (cy) (vigesimal, traditional), un deg pump (cy) (decimal)
• West Frisian: fyftjin (fy)
• Wolof: fukk ak juróom
• Yakut: уон биэс (uon bies)
• Yiddish: פֿופֿצן‎ (fuftsn)
• Yup'ik: akimiaq
• Zazaki: pances
• Zhuang: cib haj

See also

• (15 times): quindecuple
• (15-line): quindecuplet
• (15-man): quindecemvir
• (15-year): quindecennial
• (15-sided shape): quindecagon