fifteen

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (next word stressed near the first syllable)

  (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈfɪf.tiːn/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• (next word stressed after the first syllable)

  (UK, US) 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

See also

• Previous: fourteen
• Next: sixteen

Translations

cardinal number

• Afrikaans: vyftien
• Albanian: pesëmbëdhjetë
• American Sign Language: (OpenB@Side-PalmBack Flatten)
• Arabic: خمسة عشر (xámsat ʿášar)

  Egyptian Arabic: خمستاشر (xamastāšar)

• Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
• Aramaic:
• Armenian: տասնհինգ (hy) (tasnhing)
• Asturian: quince (ast)
• Aymara: tunka phisqani
• Azeri: on beş (az)
• Basque: hamabost (eu)
• Belarusian: пятнаццаць (pjatnáccacʹ)
• Bengali: পনেরো (pônero)
• Breton: pemzek (br)
• Bulgarian: петнадесет (bg) (petnadeset)
• Burmese: ဆယ့်ငါး (hsè.nga:)
• Catalan: quinze (ca)
• Chechen: пхийтта (pχītta)
• Cherokee: ᏍᎩᎦᏚ (sgigadu)
• Chichewa: khumi n'zisanu
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 十五 (zh) (shíwǔ)

• Czech: patnáct (cs)
• Dalmatian: čonco
• Danish: femten (da)
• Dena'ina: ch'qilu beq'di
• Dutch: vijftien (nl) f
• Esperanto: dek kvin
• Estonian: viisteist (et)
• Faroese: fimtan
• Finnish: viisitoista (fi)
• French: quinze (fr) m
• Friulian: cuindis
• Galician: quince (gl)
• Georgian: თხუთმეტი (t’xut’meti)
• German: fünfzehn (de)
• Greek: δεκαπέντε (el) (dekapénte)
• Greenlandic: aqqaniq-tallimat
• Guernésiais: tchinze
• Gujarati: પંદર (gu) (paṃdar)
• Haitian Creole: kenz
• Hawaiian: ʻumikūmālima

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

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

• Hebrew: חֲמֵשׁ־עֶשְׂרֵה f (khamesh esre) (used in counting), חֲמִשָּׁה־עָשָׂר m (khamisha asar)
• Hindi: पंद्रह (hi) m (pa.ndrah)
• Hopi: pakwt niikyang tsivot siikya’ta
• Hungarian: tizenöt (hu)
• Icelandic: fimmtán (is)
• Ido: please add this translation if you can
• Indonesian: lima belas
• Interlingua: dece-cinque
• Interlingue: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: cúig déag (ga)
• Italian: quindici (it) m
• Japanese: 十五 (ja) (じゅうご, jū-go)

• Jèrriais: tchînze
• Kazakh: он бес (on bes)
• Khmer: ដប់ប្រាំ (dop pram)
• Korean: 열다섯 (ko) (yeoldaseot)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: pazde (ku), pazdeh (ku)

  Sorani: پانزه

• Kyrgyz: он беш (on beş)
• Lao: ສິບຫ້າ
• Latin: quīndecim (la)
• Latvian: piecpadsmit (lv)
• Lithuanian: penkiolika (lt)
• Livonian: vīžtuoistõn
• Low German: föffteihn (nds), foffteihn (nds)
• Luxembourgish: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: петнаесет (petnáeset)
• Malay: lima belas, sepuluh lima, satu puluh lima
• Maltese: ħmistax
• Mansi: атхуйплов (atxujplow)
• Mongolian: арван тав‎ (arvan tav‎)
• Navajo: ashdlaʼáadah
• Norwegian: femten (no)
• Novial: dek-sink
• Occitan: please add this translation if you can
• Ojibwe: ashi-naanan
• Old English: fīftīene
• Oriya: ପନ୍ଦର (pandara)
• Persian: پانزده (fa) (pænzdah)
• Polish: piętnaście (pl)
• Portuguese: quinze (pt)
• Punjabi: ਪੰਦਰਾਂ (paṅdrāṅ) (numeral: ੧੫)
• Quechua: chunka pichqayuq
• Romanian: cincisprezece (ro), cinșpe (informal)
• Romansch: quindesch
• Russian: пятнадцать (ru) (pjatnádcatʹ)
• Sanskrit: पञ्चदश (páñcadaśa)
• Scottish Gaelic: còig deug
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: петнаест

  Roman: petnaest

• Sinhalese: පහළොව (pahaḷova)
• Slovak: pätnásť
• Slovene: petnajst (sl)
• Spanish: quince (es) m
• Swahili: kumi na tano
• Swedish: femton (sv)
• Tagalog: labinlima (tl)
• Telugu: పదిహేను (te) (padihēnu)
• Thai: สิบห้า (sìp hâa)
• Turkish: on beş (tr)
• Ukrainian: п'ятнадцять (uk) (pʺjatnádcjatʹ)
• Urdu: پندرہ (pandrah)
• Vietnamese: mười lăm (vi)
• Volapük: deglul
• Welsh: pymtheg (cy) (vigesimal, traditional), un deg pump (cy) (decimal)
• West Frisian: fyftjin (fy)
• Yiddish: פֿופֿצן (fuftsn)
• Zazaki: pances

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• Serbo-Croatian: petnest

Derived terms

• 15 minutes, 15 minutes of fame