fifty

English

English numbers ^(edit)

		500
←  40	←  49	50	51  →	60  →
		5
Cardinal: fifty     Ordinal: fiftieth     Adverbial: fifty times     Multiplier: fiftyfold

Alternative forms

• fiftie (obsolete)
• fitty, fiddy (slang)

Etymology

PIE word
*pénkʷe

From Middle English fifty, from Old English fīftiġ, from Proto-Germanic *fimf tigiwiz (“five tens”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: fĭf'tē, IPA^(key): /ˈfɪfti/

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• Rhymes: -ɪfti
• Hyphenation: fif‧ty

Numeral

fifty

1. The cardinal number occurring after forty-nine and before fifty-one.

Synonyms

• 50 (Arabic numeral); L (Roman numeral); fivety (proscribed)

Derived terms

• 50 cent army
• 50-gon
• buck fifty
• fifties
• fiftieth
• fiftiethly
• fifty-cent tour
• fifty-fifty
• fiftyfold
• fiftyish
• fifty-move rule
• fiftysomething
• fifty thousand
• furious fifties
• keep it a buck fifty

 

Translations

cardinal number

• Afrikaans: vyftig (af)
• Albanian: pesëdhjetë (sq)
• American Sign Language:
• Arabic: خَمْسِينَ (ḵamsīna), (only nominative, formal) خَمْسُونَ (ḵamsūna)

  Egyptian Arabic: خمسين (ḵamsīn)

• Aramaic:

  Hebrew: חמשין c (khamshīn)

  Syriac: ܚܡܫܝܢ c (khamshīn)

• Armenian: հիսուն (hy) (hisun)
• Aromanian: tsindzãts, tsindzãtsi, tsindzets
• Asturian: cincuenta (ast)
• Azerbaijani: əlli (az)
• Bashkir: илле (ille)
• Basque: berrogeita hamar (eu)
• Belarusian: пяцьдзеся́т (be) (pjacʹdzjesját)
• Bengali: পঞ্চাশ (bn) (poncaś)
• Bikol Central: limampulo
• Breton: hanter-kant (br), pemont
• Bulgarian: петдесе́т (petdesét)
• Burmese: ငါးဆယ် (nga:hcai)
• Carpathian Rusyn: пятдеся́ть (pjatdesjátʹ)
• Catalan: cinquanta (ca)
• Central Dusun: limo nohopod
• Chamicuro: pichka chunka
• Chechen: шовзткъе итт (šovztqʼe itt)
• Cherokee: ᎯᏍᎩᏍᎪᎯ (hisgisgohi)
• Chichewa: makumi asanu
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 五十 (ng⁵ sap⁶)

  Hakka: 五十 (ńg-sṳ̍p)

  Mandarin: 五十 (zh) (wǔshí)

  Wu: 五十 (⁶ng-zeq)

• Chuukese: nime
• Chuvash: аллӑ (allă)
• Crimean Tatar: elli
• Czech: padesát (cs)
• Dalmatian: čoncuanta
• Danish: halvtreds (da), halvtredsindstyve (formal)
• Dhivehi: ފަންސާސް (fan̊sās)
• Dutch: vijftig (nl) f
• Dzongkha: ལྔ་བཅུ (lnga bcu)
• Esperanto: kvindek (eo)
• Estonian: viiskümmend (et)
• Extremaduran: cincuenta
• Farefare: pisnuu
• Faroese: fimmti, hálvtrýss
• Fijian: limasagavulu
• Finnish: viisikymmentä (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: please add this translation if you can
• French: cinquante (fr)
• Friulian: cincuante
• Galician: cincuenta (gl)
• Gallo: please add this translation if you can
• Georgian: ორმოცდაათი (ormocdaati)
• German: fünfzig (de), fuffzig (de) (northern and central Germany), fuchzig (southern Germany and Austria)
• Gothic: 𐍆𐌹𐌼𐍆 𐍄𐌹𐌲𐌾𐌿𐍃 (fimf tigjus)
• Greek: πενήντα (el) (penínta)

  Ancient: πεντήκοντα (pentḗkonta), ν΄ (numeral)

• Hausa: hamsin
• Hawaiian: kanalima
• Hebrew: חמישים / חֲמִשִּׁים m or f (khamishím)
• Hindi: पचास (hi) (pacās), पंजाह (hi) (pañjāh)
• Hungarian: ötven (hu)
• Icelandic: fimmtíu (is)
• Ido: kinadek (io)
• Igala: óóje
• Igbo: ìri īse (ig)
• Indonesian: lima puluh
• Ingrian: viiskymment
• Interlingua: cinquanta
• Irish: caoga (ga)
• Italian: cinquanta (it) f
• Japanese: 五十 (ja) (ごじゅう, gojū, いそ, iso, い, i)
• Javanese: ꦱꦺꦏꦼꦠ꧀ (jv) (séket)
• Jeju: 쉰 (swin), 오십 (osip)
• Karachay-Balkar: элли (elli)
• Kazakh: елу (kk) (elu)
• Khakas: иліг (ilìg)
• Khmer: ហាសិប (km) (haː səp), (numeral) ៥០ (50)
• Khün: please add this translation if you can
• Komi-Permyak: витдас (vitdas)
• Korean: 오십(五十) (ko) (osip), 쉰 (ko) (swin)
• Kumyk: элли (elli)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: پەنجا (penca)

  Northern Kurdish: pêncî (ku)

• Kyrgyz: элүү (ky) (elüü)
• Ladin: cincanta
• Lakota: wikčémna žáptaŋ
• Lao: ຫ້າສິບ (hā sip)
• Latin: quinquaginta (la)
• Latvian: piecdesmit (lv)
• Leonese: please add this translation if you can
• Ligurian: çinquanta
• Limburgish: vieftig
• Lithuanian: penkiasdešimt (lt)
• Livonian: vīžkimdõ
• Lombard: cinquanta
• Louisiana Creole French: sinkant
• Lü: please add this translation if you can
• Luxembourgish: fofzeg
• Macedonian: педесет (pedeset)
• Malay: lima puluh (ms)
• Malayalam: അമ്പത് (ml) (ampatŭ), അൻപത് (ml) (aṉpatŭ)
• Maltese: ħamsin
• Manchu: ᠰᡠᠰᠠᡳ (susai)
• Manx: jeih as daeed, lieh cheead, queigad
• Maori: rima tekau (mi)
• Middle English: fifty
• Mon: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: тавь (mn) (tavʹ)
• Nauruan: ajima
• Navajo: ashdladiin
• Neapolitan: please add this translation if you can
• Northern Mansi: ^{(please verify)} атпан (atpan)
• Northern Sami: vihttalogi
• Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: femti (no)
• Occitan: cinquanta (oc)
• Ojibwe: naanimidana
• Old Church Slavonic: пѧть дєсѧтъ (pętĭ desętŭ)
• Old Turkic: 𐰠𐰏 (l²g /⁠elig⁠/)
• Oromo: shantama
• Ottoman Turkish: اللی (elli)
• Pennsylvania German: fuffzich
• Persian: پنجاه (fa) (panjâh)
• Piedmontese: sinquanta
• Polish: pięćdziesiąt (pl)
• Portuguese: cinquenta (pt) (Portugal), cinqüenta (pt) (Brazil)
• Quechua: pichqa chunka
• Romagnol: ẓincvànta
• Romanian: cincizeci (ro), cinzeci (ro)
• Romansch: tschuncanta, tschuncànta, tschunconta, tschinquaunta
• Russian: пятьдеся́т (ru) (pjatʹdesját)
• Samoan: limasefulu
• Sanskrit: पञ्चाशत् (sa) (pañcāśat)
• Santali: ᱢᱚᱬᱮ ᱜᱮᱞ (môṇe gel)
• Sardinian: chimbanta, chimmanta, cimmanta, cincanta
• Scottish Gaelic: (old system) dà fhichead 's a deich, (new system) caogad, (also common) leth-cheud (literally “half hundred”)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: педесет

  Roman: pedeset

• Shan: ႁႃႈသိပ်း (hāa síp)
• Sicilian: cinquanta (scn)
• Sinhalese: පනහ (panaha)
• Slovak: päťdesiat (sk)
• Slovene: petdeset (sl)
• Southern Altai: бежен (bežen), ӧлӱ (ölü)
• Spanish: cincuenta (es)
• Swahili: hamsini (sw)
• Swedish: femtio (sv)
• Tagalog: limampu
• Tahitian: pae 'ahuru
• Tai Dam: please add this translation if you can
• Tai Nüa: please add this translation if you can
• Tajik: панҷоҳ (tg) (panjoh)
• Tatar: илле (tt) (ille)
• Telugu: యాభై (yābhai)
• Thai: ห้าสิบ (th) (hâa-sìp)
• Tigrinya: ሓምሳ (ḥamsa)
• Tocharian B: piśāka
• Tok Pisin: fifti, faipela ten
• Tongan: nimangofulu
• Turkish: elli (tr)
• Turkmen: elli (tk)
• Tuvan: бежен (bejen)
• Udmurt: витьтон (viťton)
• Ukrainian: п'ятдеся́т (uk) (pʺjatdesját)
• Unami: palenàxk txintxke
• Urdu: پچاس (pacās)
• Uyghur: ئەللىك (ellik)
• Uzbek: ellik (uz)
• Venetian: sincuanta (vec), zhincuanta, çinquanta, xinquanta
• Vietnamese: năm mươi (vi)
• Volapük: luldeg (vo), luls (older term, obsolete)
• Welsh: hanner cant (cy) (vigesimal, traditional), pum deg (decimal)
• West Frisian: fyftich
• Yakut: биэс уон (bies uon)
• Yiddish: פֿופֿציק (fuftsik)
• Yoruba: àádọ́ta
• Yup'ik: yuinaak malruk qulen, malruk ipiaq qulen
• Zhuang: please add this translation if you can

See also

• Last: forty-nine, forty
• Next: fifty-one, sixty

Noun

fifty (plural fifties)

1. (countable) A banknote or coin with a denomination of 50.

   Do you want small bills or are fifties OK?

   • 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:

     ‘If you shoot him I’ll give you fifty pounds.’
     ‘All right!’ The driver laughed. ‘I’ll do my best to earn that fifty!’

2. (cricket) A batsman's score of at least 50 runs and less than 100 runs.

Translations

a banknote with a denomination of 50

• Danish: halvtredser c
• Finnish: viisikymppinen
• Georgian: ორმოცდაათიანი (ormocdaatiani)
• German: Fünfziger (de) m
• Japanese: 50ドル札 (gojūdorusatsu)
• Macedonian: педесетка f (pedesetka)
• Navajo: ashdladiin béeso
• Russian: полти́нник (ru) m (poltínnik) (colloquial)
• Swedish: femtiolapp (sv) c

Anagrams

• Tiffy, tiffy

Middle English

Middle English numbers ^(edit)

←  40	50	60  →
	5
Cardinal: fifty     Ordinal: fiftithe

Alternative forms

• fifftiȝ, fifte, fifti, fyffty, fyfty

Etymology

From Old English fīftiġ, from Proto-Germanic *fimf tigiwiz; equivalent to five +‎ -ty.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfiftiː/, (rare) /ˈfiːftiː/

Numeral

fifty

1. fifty

Descendants

• English: fifty
• Scots: fifty, fyfty

References

• “fiftī, card. num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.