English
Alternative forms
Arabic numerals: 5 ( see for numerical forms in other scripts )
Roman numerals: V
Etymology
From Middle English five , vif , fif , from Old English fīf ( “ five ” ) , from Proto-Germanic *fimf ( “ five ” ) (compare West Frisian fiif , Dutch vijf , German fünf , Norwegian and Swedish fem , Icelandic fimm ), from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe (compare Welsh pump , Latin quinque , Tocharian A päñ , Tocharian B piś , Lithuanian penki , Russian пять ( pjatʹ ) , Albanian pesë, pêsë , Ancient Greek πέντε ( pénte ) , Armenian հինգ ( hing ) , Persian پنج ( panj ) , Sanskrit पञ्च ( páñca ) ).
The nasal *m in Proto-Germanic *fimf was lost through a sound change known as the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant law .
Pronunciation
enPR : fīv
Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95 : Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "RP" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E . IPA (key ) : /faɪv/
Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95 : Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "Southern US" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E . IPA (key ) : /fäːv/
Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95 : Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "AU" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E . IPA (key ) : /fɑev/
Rhymes: -aɪv
Numeral
Five dots
five
A numerical value equal to 5 ; the number following four and preceding six .
Describing a group or set with five elements .
Related terms
Translations
five (5)
Aari: dónq
Abaza: хвба ( xʷba )
Abkhaz: хуба ( xuba )
Abung: lemou
Adyghe: тфы ( tfə )
Afrikaans: vyf (af)
Ainu: アシㇰネ ( asikne )
Aka-Bo: kumugyĭ
Alabama: táɬɬàapi
Albanian: pesë (sq)
Alutiiq: talliman
American Sign Language: (please verify ) 25px
Amharic: አምስት (am) ( ʾämsət ) (numeral: ፭ ( 5 ) )
Amis: lima
Apache:
Western Apache: ashdla'i
Arabic: خَمْسَة ( ḵamsa ) (numeral: ٥ ( 5 ) )
Egyptian Arabic: خمسة ( ḵamsa )
Aragonese: cinco , cinc
Aramaic:
Classical Syriac: ܚܡܫܐ m ( ḥamšā ) , ܚܡܫ f ( ḥammeš )
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: חַמְשָׁא m ( ḥamšā ) , חֲמֵשׁ f ( ḥămēš )
Western Neo-Aramaic: ܚܡܫ m ( ḥammeš ) , ܚܡܫܐ f ( ḥamšaʾ )
Arapaho: yoo3on
Archi: ллъо ( llʰo )
Armenian: հինգ (hy) ( hing )
Aromanian: tsintsi
Asi: lima
Assamese: পাঁচ ( pãs )
Asturian: cinco (ast)
Aymara: phisqa (ay)
Azerbaijani: beş (az)
Bahnar: pơđăm
Balinese: lima
Bashkir: биш ( biş )
Basque: bost (eu)
Belarusian: пяць ( pjacʹ ) , ( collective ) пяцёра ( pjacjóra )
Bengali: পাঁচ (bn) ( pãc ) (numeral: ৫ )
Breton: pemp (br)
Bulgarian: пет (bg) ( pet )
Burmese: ငါး (my) ( nga: ) (numeral: ၅ (my) )
Buryat: табан ( taban )
Catalan: cinc (ca)
Cebuano: lima , singko
Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵙⵎⵎⵓⵙ ( smmus )
Central Dusun: limo
Central Sierra Miwok: máš·ok·a-
Central Tarahumara: marí
Chamicuro: pichka
Chechen: пхиъ ( pxiʔ )
Chepang: पोङा
Cherokee: ᎯᏍᎩ ( hisgi )
Chichewa: sanu
Chickasaw: talhlhá'pi , tulhape
Chinese:
Cantonese: 五 (yue) ( ng5 )
Dungan: ву ( vu )
Hakka: 五 ( ng3 )
Mandarin: 五 (zh) ( wǔ ) (numeral: 伍 (zh) ( wǔ ) )
Min Dong: 五 ( ngu ) , 五 ( ngou )
Min Nan: ( Xiamen ) 五 (zh-min-nan) ( go, ngò ) , ( Teochew ) 五 (zh-min-nan) ( ngou6 )
Wu: 五 ( ng )
Chol: jo'p'ej
Chukchi: мэтлыӈэн ( mėtlyṇėn )
Chuukese: nimu , nime- , nimechö , nimmön
Chuvash: пиллӗк ( pillĕk ) , пилӗк ( pilĕk )
Cia-Cia: lima
Cochimi: sarap
Cornish: pymp
Corsican: cinqui (co)
Cree: nîyânan
Plains Cree: niyānan
Crimean Tatar: beş
Crow: chiaxxó
Czech: pět (cs) , ( collective ) patery
Dalmatian: čenc
Danish: fem (da)
Dargwa: шол ( šol )
Dena'ina: ch'qilu
Dhivehi: ފަސް ( fas )
Drung: pv'nga
Dutch: vijf (nl)
Dzongkha: ལྔ ( lnga ) (numeral: ༥ ( 5 ) )
Eastern Cham: ꨤꨟꨩ ( lamư’ ) , ꨤꨪꨟꨩ ( limư’ )
Eastern Mari: Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95 : Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "chm" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E .
Erzya: вете ( veťe )
Esperanto: kvin (eo)
Estonian: viis (et)
Even: ту̇нӈа̇н ( tu̇nŋȧn )
Evenki: тунӈа ( tunŋa )
Ewe: atɔ̃
Faroese: fimm (fo)
Finnish: viisi (fi)
French: cinq (fr)
Old French: cinc
Friulian: cinc
Ga: enumɔ
Galician: cinco (gl)
Garifuna: seingü
Gaulish: pempe
Ge'ez: ኀምስቱ m ( ḫämsətu ) , ኀምስ f ( ḫäms ) (numeral: ፭ ( 5 ) )
Georgian: ხუთი (ka) ( xuti )
German: fünf (de)
Gilbertese: nimaua
Gothic: 𐍆𐌹𐌼𐍆 ( fimf )
Greek: πέντε (el) ( pénte ) , ε΄ ( numeral )
Ancient: πέντε ( pénte ) , ε΄ ( numeral )
Greenlandic: tallimat (kl)
Guaraní: po (gn)
Gujarati: પાંચડો ( pā̃cḍo ) (numeral: ૫ )
Hadza: botáno
Haitian Creole: senk
Hausa: bìyar̃
Hawaiian: lima , ʻelima
Hebrew: חָמֵשׁ (he) f ( khamésh ) ( used in counting ) , חֲמִשָּׁה (he) m ( khamisha )
Hindi: पाँच (hi) ( pā̃c ) (numeral: ५ (hi) ( 5 ) )
Hopi: tsivot
Hungarian: öt (hu)
Hunsrik: finnef
Icelandic: fimm (is)
Ido: kin (io)
Inabaknon: lima
Indonesian: lima (id)
Interlingua: cinque (ia)
Interlingue: Lua error in Module:translations at line 71 : Translations must be for attested and approved main-namespace languages.
Irish: cúig (ga)
Old Irish: cóic
Istriot: sinque
Istro-Romanian: ćinć
Italian: cinque (it)
Iu Mien: biaa
Japanese: 五 (ja) ( ご, go ) , 五つ (ja) ( いつつ, itsutsu )
Jurchen: shunja
K'iche': jo'ob'
Kabardian: тху ( txʷu )
Kannada: ಐದು (kn) ( aidu ) (numeral: ೫ (kn) ( 5 ) )
Kaqchikel: wo'o'
Karachay-Balkar: беш ( beş )
Karaim: bieš
Karakhanid: بٖيشْ ( bḗš )
Karelian: viisi
Kashubian: piãc
Kazakh: бес (kk) ( bes )
Khakas: пис ( pis )
Khanty: ( Kazym ) Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95 : Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "kca" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E .
Khasi: san
Khinalug: пхьу ( pxu )
Khmer: ប្រាំ (km) ( pram ) (numeral: ៥ )
Kiliwa: salchipam
Komi-Zyrian: вит ( vit )
Korean: 다섯 (ko) ( daseot ) , 오 (ko) ( o ) (五 (ko) )
Kumeyaay: sarap
Kurdish:
Kurmanji: Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95 : Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "ku" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E .
Sorani: پێنج ( pênc )
Kyrgyz: беш (ky) ( beş )
Ladin: cinch
Lakota: záptaŋ
Lao: ຫ້າ ( hā ) (numeral: ໕ )
Latgalian: pīci m , pīcys f
Latin: quīnque (la)
Latvian: pieci m , piecas f
Lenape:
Unami: palenàxk
Ligurian: çìnque
Lithuanian: penki (lt) m , penkios f
Livonian: vīž
Low German:
German Low German: fîf
Luxembourgish: fënnef (lb)
Lü: ᦠᦱᧉ ( ḣaa² ) (numeral: ᧕ )
Macedonian: пет (mk) ( pet )
Madurese: lɛma
Malay:
Jawi: ليم , ڤنچا
Rumi: lima (ms) , panca
Malayalam: അഞ്ചു ( añcu ) , അഞ്ച് (ml) ( añcŭ ) (numeral: ൫ )
Maltese: ħamsa (mt)
Manchu: ᠰᡠᠨᠵᠠ ( sunja )
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Mangarevan: rima
Mansi: Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95 : Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "mns" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E .
Manx: queig
Marathi: पाच ( pāc )
Maricopa: sarapk , srap
Marshallese: ļalem
Matlatzinca: rokut'a
Minangkabau: limo (min)
Mirandese: cinco
Mojave: tharap
Moksha: вете ( veťe )
Mon: မသုန်
Mongolian: тав (mn) ( tav ) , ᠲᠠᠪᠤᠨ ( tabun ) (numeral: ᠕ )
Montagnais: patetat
Mulam: ŋɔ⁴ ( Dongmen, Siba )
Muong: đằm , đăm
Nahuatl: makwilli (nah) , macuilli (nah)
Nama: koro
Nanai: тойңга
Nauruan: aijimo (na)
Navajo: ashdlaʼ
Ndzwani Comorian: -tsanu
Neapolitan: cìnche
Nepali: पाँच (ne) ( pā̃c )
Niuean: lima
North Frisian:
Föhr-Amrum and Mooring: fiiw
Helgoland: fiuw
Sylt: fif
Northern Ohlone: parwes
Norwegian: fem (no)
Novial: Lua error in Module:translations at line 71 : Translations must be for attested and approved main-namespace languages.
O'odham: hetasp
Occitan: cinc (oc)
Ojibwe: naanan
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: пѧть ( pętĭ )
Glagolitic: ⱂⱔⱅⱐ ( pętĭ )
Old English: fif
Old French: cinc
Old Frisian: fīf
Old Norse: fimm
Old Turkic: 𐰋𐰃𐱁 ( béš )
Oriya: ପାଞ୍ଚ (or) ( pañcô ) (numeral: ୫ )
Oroch: туӈа
Oroqen: tʊŋŋa
Ossetian: фондз ( fonʒ )
Ottoman Turkish: بش ( beš )
Pacoh: xông
Paipai: sirap
Palauan: eim
Papiamentu: sinku
Pashto: پنځه ( pinjë )
Pennsylvania German: fimf
Persian: پنج (fa) ( panj ) (numeral: ۵ )
Piedmontese: please add this translation if you can
Pipil: makwil , macuil
Polish: pięć (pl) , ( collective ) pięcioro (pl)
Portuguese: cinco (pt)
Punjabi: ਪੰਜ ( pañj ) (numeral: ੫ ( 5 ) )
Quechua: pichka , pisqa ( Cusco ) , pichka ( San Martín ) , phisqa ( South Bolivian ) , picga , pizga
Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
Rapa Nui: ka rima
Rarotongan: rima
Ratahan: lima
Rohingya: fañs
Romani: pānj
Kalo Finnish Romani: pangȟ
Romanian: cinci (ro)
Roviana: lima
Russian: пять (ru) ( pjatʹ ) , ( collective ) пя́теро (ru) ( pjátero )
Rusyn: пять ( pjatʹ )
Rwanda-Rundi: gatanu
S'gaw Karen: ယဲၢ် ( yeẖ )
Sami:
Inari: vittâ
Northern: vihtta
Skolt: vitt
Southern: vïjhte
Samoan: lima (sm)
Sanskrit: पञ्चन् (sa) ( páñcan )
Santali: please add this translation if you can
Sarcee: gúùt'áá
Sardinian: chimbe
Saterland Frisian: fieuw
Scottish Gaelic: còig , còignear m ( when counting people )
Semai: limak
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пе̑т
Roman: pȇt
Shan: ႁႃႈ ( haa3 ) (numeral: ႕ )
Sichuan Yi: ꉬ ( nge )
Sicilian: cincu (scn)
Sikkimese: ང ( nga )
Silesian: pjyńć
Sindhi: پَنجَ ( panja )
Sinhalese: පහ (si) ( paha )
Slovak: päť (sk)
Slovene: pét (sl)
Somali: shan (so)
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: pěś
Upper Sorbian: pjeć
Southern Ohlone: parue
Southern Sami: vïjhte
Spanish: cinco (es)
Sukuma: itaano
Swahili: tano (sw)
Swazi: hlanu
Swedish: fem (sv)
Tagalog: lima (tl) , singko
Tahitian: pae
Tai Dam: hả
Tai Nüa: ᥞᥣᥲ ( hàa )
Tajik: панҷ (tg) ( panj )
Tamil: ஐந்து (ta) ( aintu ) (numeral: ௫ ), ஐந்து (ta) ( aintu )
Taos: p’ą́nyuo
Taroko: lima
Tashelhit: semmos m , semmost f
Tatar: биш (tt) ( biş )
Tboli: limu
Telugu: ఐదు (te) ( aidu ) (numeral: ౫ (te) ( 5 ) )
Tetum: lima
Thai: ห้า (th) ( hâa ) (numeral: ๕ (th) )
Tibetan: ལྔ ( lnga ) (numeral: ༥ ( 5 ) )
Tigre: ሐምስ ( ḥäms ) (numeral: ፭ ( 5 ) )
Tigrinya: ሓሙሽተ ( ḥamuštä ) (numeral: ፭ ( 5 ) )
Tlahuica: kuit'aa
Tocharian A: päñ
Tocharian B: piś
Tok Pisin: faipela
Tswana: tlhano
Turkish: beş (tr)
Turkmen: bäş (tk)
Tuvaluan: lima
Tz'utujil: kho’o
Ubykh: ʃxə
Udihe: туӈа
Udmurt: вить ( viť )
Ukrainian: п'ять (uk) ( pʺjatʹ )
Umbrian: 𐌐𐌖𐌌𐌐𐌄 ( pumpe )
Urdu: پانچ ( pāñc )
Uyghur: بەش (ug) ( besh )
Uzbek: besh (uz)
Venetian: sinque , zsinque
Veps: viž
Vietnamese: năm (vi)
Vilamovian: fynf
Volapük: lul (vo)
Votic: viiz , вииз
Võro: viiś
Wallisian: nima
Walloon: cénk (wa)
Waray-Waray: lima
Welsh: pump (cy)
West Frisian: fiif (fy)
Western Cham: ليما
White Hmong: tsib
Winnebago: saacą
Wiradhuri: marra
Wolof: juróom
Xhosa: hlanu
Yagnobi: панч ( panč )
Yakut: биэс ( bies )
Yao: msano
Yaqui: mámni
Yiddish: פֿינף ( finf )
Yoruba: márùn-ún
Yucatec Maya: jo'
Yup'ik: talliman
Zazaki: poj
Zealandic: vuuf , vuve ( in counting )
Zhuang: ngux , haj (Sawndip 五 )
Zulu: hlanu
Zuni: apde
set or group with five components
See also
Noun
five (plural fives )
The digit /figure 5.
He wrote a five followed by four zeroes.
A banknote with a denomination of five units of currency. See also fiver .
Can anyone here change a five ?
Anything measuring five units, as length .
All the fives are over there in the corner, next to the fours.
A person who is five years old.
The fives and sixes will have a snack first, then the older kids.
Five o'clock .
See you at five .
A short rest , especially one of five minutes .
Take five , soldier.
( basketball ) A basketball team , club or lineup .
Derived terms
Translations
Translations to be checked
See also
Anagrams
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old English fīf , from Proto-Germanic *fimf , from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe ; the v is from inflected forms of the word; these forms underwent intervocalic voicing.
Pronunciation
Numeral
cardinal number
5
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fower
Next:
six
five
five
Related terms
Descendants
Scots
Etymology
From Middle English five , from Old English fīf , from Proto-Germanic *fimf , from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /faiːv/
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Numeral
cardinal number
5
Previous:
fower
Next:
sax
five
five
Related terms
Walloon
Etymology
From Latin febris ( “ fever ” ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
five f (plural fives )
fever