forty

See also: förty

English

English numbers ^(edit)

		400
←  30	←  39	40	41  →	50  →
		4
Cardinal: forty     Ordinal: fortieth     Abbreviated ordinal: 40th     Adverbial: forty times     Multiplier: fortyfold     Fractional: fortieth     Number of musicians: quaranty     Number of days: quarantine

Alternative forms

• fourty (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔːti/
• (Standard Southern British) IPA^(key): /ˈfoːtɪj/
• (General American) enPR: fôr'tē, IPA^(key): /ˈfoɹti/, [ˈfoɹɾi]
  • (St. Louis) IPA^(key): [ˈfɑɹɾij]

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• (Australia, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈfoːtij/, [ˈfo̝ːɾɪj]
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔɾte/, /-tɪ/, /-ti/
• (South Asia) IPA^(key): /fɒ(r).ʈi/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ti
• Hyphenation: for‧ty

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr

Proto-Germanic *fedwōr

Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥-t(-s)

Proto-Germanic *tegun(dz)

Proto-Germanic *tigiwiz

Proto-Germanic *fedwōr tigiwiz

Proto-West Germanic *feuwar tigiwi

Old English fēowertiġ

Middle English fourty

English forty

From Middle English fourty, forty, from Old English fēowertiġ, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr tigiwiz (“forty”). By surface analysis, four +‎ -ty.

Numeral

forty

1. The cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine and before forty-one, represented in Roman numerals as XL and in Arabic numerals as 40.

   Synonym: twoscore (archaic)

   • 1825, unknown, Harrison's Amusing Picture and Poetry Book, page 35:

     'Tis forty years this very day,
     Since you and I, old girl, were married.

Derived terms

• back forty
• forty-eighter
• forty-eleven
• forty-foot equivalent unit
• fortyish
• forty legs
• forty-leven
• Forty Mile
• fortypenny
• forty-rod
• forty-second cousin
• forty-something
• fortysomething
• forty-spot
• forty weepy weepy
• forty winks
• home forty
• pianny-forty
• pianny forty
• plough the back forty
• roaring forties
• sea forty legs
• top forty
• two-forty
• two-forty on a plank road

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: foti

Translations

the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine

• Afrikaans: veertig (af)
• Albanian: dyzet (sq)
• Amharic: አርባ (am) (ʾärba), (numeral: ፵ (40))
• Arabic: أَرْبَعُونَ (ʔarbaʕūna)

  Egyptian Arabic: أربعين (ʔarbiʕīn)

  Moroccan Arabic: ربعين (rabʕīn), أربعين (ʔarbʕīn)

• Aragonese: quarenta, quaranta
• Aramaic:

  Hebrew script: ארבעין c (arb‘īn)

  Syriac: ܐܪܒܥܝܢ c (arb‘īn)

• Armenian: քառասուն (hy) (kʻaṙasun)
• Aromanian: patrudzãts, patrudzãtsi
• Assamese: চল্লিছ (sollis)
• Asturian: cuarenta (ast)
• Avar: кӏикъого (kʼiqxʼogo)
• Azerbaijani: qırx (az)
• Bashkir: ҡырҡ (qırq)
• Basque: berrogei (eu)
• Belarusian: со́рак (be) (sórak)
• Bengali: চল্লিশ (bn) (colliś)
• Bidayuh:

  Biatah Bidayuh: pat puru

• Bikol:

  Central Bikol: apat na pulo

• Breton: daou-ugent (br)
• Bulgarian: четири́десет (četirídeset), четири́йсет (četiríjset)
• Burmese: လေးဆယ် (le:hcai)
• Carpathian Rusyn: со́рок (sórok)
• Catalan: quaranta (ca)
• Chakma: please add this translation if you can
• Chamicuro: ma'pojtamala chunka
• Chamorro: kuårenta
• Chechen: шовзткъа (šovztqʼa)
• Cherokee: ᏅᎩᏍᎪᎯ (nvgisgohi)
• Cheyenne: névó'e
• Chichewa: makumi anayi
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 四十 (sei³ sap⁶)

  Eastern Min: 四十 ((sei seik > si leik))

  Hakka: 四十 (si-sṳ̍p)

  Mandarin: 四十 (zh) (sìshí)

  Teochew: 四十 (si³ zab⁸), 卌 (siab⁴)

  Wu: 四十

• Chuukese: faik
• Chuvash: хӗрӗх (xĕrĕx)
• Coptic: ϩⲙⲉ (hme)
• Cornish: dew ugens
• Corsican: quaranta
• Crimean Tatar: qırq
• Czech: čtyřicet (cs)
• Dalmatian: quaranta
• Danish: fyrre (da), fyrretyve (formal), firti
• Dhivehi: ސާޅީސް (sāḷīs)
• Dutch: veertig (nl) f
• Dzongkha: བཞི་བཅུ (bzhi bcu)
• Emilian: quaranta
• Esperanto: kvardek (eo)
• Estonian: nelikümmend (et)
• Extremaduran: cuarenta
• Farefare: pisnaasɩ
• Faroese: fjøruti
• Fijian: vasagavulu
• Finnish: neljäkymmentä (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: please add this translation if you can
• French: quarante (fr) m

  Middle French: quarante

  Old French: quarante

• Frisian:

  Old Frisian: fiuwertich

  West Frisian: fjirtich

• Friulian: cuarante
• Galician: corenta (gl)
• Georgian: ორმოცი (ormoci)
• German: vierzig (de) f
• Gothic: 𐍆𐌹𐌳𐍅𐍉𐍂 𐍄𐌹𐌲𐌾𐌿𐍃 (fidwōr tigjus)
• Greek: σαράντα (el) (saránta)

  Ancient Greek: τεσσεράκοντα (tesserákonta), μ΄ (numeral)

• Gujarati: ચાલીસ (cālīs)
• Haitian Creole: karant
• Hausa: arba'in
• Hawaiian: kanahā
• Hawaiian Creole: forty
• Hebrew: אַרְבָּעִים m or f (arba'ím)
• Hindi: चालीस (hi) (cālīs)
• Hungarian: negyven (hu)
• Icelandic: fjörutíu (is)
• Ido: quaradek (io)
• Indonesian: empat puluh
• Ingrian: neljäkymment
• Interlingua: quaranta
• Irish: daichead (ga)
• Istriot: quaranta
• Italian: quaranta (it)
• Japanese: 四十 (ja) (よんじゅう, yonjū), 四十 (ja) (しじゅう, shijū)
• Javanese: please add this translation if you can
• Karachay-Balkar: къыркъ (qırq)
• Kazakh: қырық (kk) (qırıq)
• Khmer: សែសិប (km) (sɐe səp), (numeral) ៤០ (40)
• Khün: please add this translation if you can
• Komi:

  Komi-Permyak: нёльдас (ńoľdas)

• Korean: 마흔 (ko) (maheun), 사십(四十) (ko) (sasip)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: چل (çil)

  Northern Kurdish: çil (ku)

• Kyrgyz: кырк (ky) (kırk)
• Ladin: caranta
• Ladino:

  Hebrew: קוארינטה

  Latin: kuarenta

• Lakota: wikčémna tópa
• Lao: ສີ່ສິບ (sī sip)
• Latin: quadraginta (la)
• Latvian: četrdesmit (lv)
• Leonese: cuarenta
• Ligurian: quaranta
• Lithuanian: keturiasdešimt (lt)
• Livonian: nēļakimdõ
• Lombard: quaranta
• Louisiana Creole: karant
• Lü: ᦉᦲᧈᦉᦲᧇ (ṡii¹ṡiib)
• Luxembourgish: véierzeg
• Macedonian: четириесет (četirieset)
• Malay: empat puluh (ms)
• Malayalam: നാല്പത് (ml) (nālpatŭ)
• Maltese: erbgħin
• Manchu: ᡩᡝᡥᡳ (dehi)
• Mansi:

  Northern Mansi: ^{(please verify)} налыман (nalyman)

• Manx: daeed
• Māori: whā tekau (mi)
• Middle English: fourty
• Mokilese: pahjek
• Mon: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: дөч (mn) (döč)
• Nauruan: animo
• Navajo: dízdiin
• Neapolitan: quaranta
• Norman: quarante
• Northern Altai: тӧртен (törten) кырык (kïrïk)
• Norwegian: førti (no)
• Occitan: quaranta (oc)
• Ojibwe: niimidana
• Old Church Slavonic: четꙑре десѧте (četyre desęte)
• Old East Slavic: сорокъ (sorokŭ)
• Old English: fēowertiġ
• Old Galician-Portuguese: quaraenta, quareenta
• Old Tupi: xe pó, xe py, abá pó, i py, xe pó, xe py, amõ abá pó, i py, xe pó, xe py, amõ abá pó, i py abé
• Oromo: afurtama
• Papiamentu: kuarenta
• Pashto: څلوېښت (ps) (śalwex̌t)
• Pennsylvania German: varzich
• Persian: چهل (fa) (čehel)
• Phoenician: 𐤀𐤓𐤁𐤏𐤌 (ʾrbʿm)
• Piedmontese: quaranta
• Plautdietsch: featijch
• Polish: czterdzieści (pl)
• Portuguese: quarenta (pt)
• Punjabi: ਚਾਲ਼ੀ (cāḷī), ਚਾਲ੍ਹੀ (cālhī)
• Quechua: tawa chunka
• Romagnol: cvaranta, quarânta
• Romani: saranda
• Romanian: patruzeci (ro)
• Romansh: quaranta, curonta, curànta, curanta, quaraunta
• Russian: со́рок (ru) (sórok)
• Saanich: ṈESEȽŚÁ¸
• Samoan: fasefulu
• Sanskrit: चत्वारिंशत् (sa) (catvāriṃśat)
• Santali: ᱯᱩᱱ ᱜᱮᱞ (pun gel), ᱵᱟᱨ ᱤᱥᱤ (bar isi)
• Sardinian: baranta, caranta
• Savosavo: aghavaleza
• Scottish Gaelic: (old system) dà fhichead, (new system) ceathrad
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: четрдесет

  Latin: četrdeset

• Shan: သီႇသိပ်း (sìi síp)
• Sicilian: quaranta (scn)
• Sikkimese: please add this translation if you can
• Sinhalese: හතළිහ (hataḷiha)
• Slovak: štyridsať (sk)
• Slovene: štirideset (sl)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: styrźasća

  Upper Sorbian: štyrceći

• Southern Altai: тӧртӧн (törtön), кырык (kïrïk)
• Spanish: cuarenta (es)

  Old Spanish: quaraenta

• Swahili: arobaini (sw), arubaini (sw)
• Swedish: fyrti (sv), fyrtio (sv)
• Tagalog: apatnapu
• Tahitian: maha 'ahuru
• Tai Dam: please add this translation if you can
• Tai Nüa: please add this translation if you can
• Tajik: чил (tg) (čil)
• Tamil: நாற்பது (ta) (nāṟpatu)
• Tatar: кырык (tt) (qırıq)
• Telugu: నలభై (te) (nalabhai)
• Thai: สี่สิบ (th) (sìi-sìp)

  Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can

• Tibetan: བཞི་བཅུ (bzhi bcu), ༤༠ (40) (numeral)
• Tigrinya: ኣርባዓ (ti) (ʾarbaʿa)
• Tocharian B: śtwārka
• Tofa: дөртэн (dörten)
• Tok Pisin: foti, fopela ten
• Tongan: fāngofulu
• Turkish: kırk (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: قرق (kırk)

• Turkmen: kyrk (tk)
• Udmurt: ньыльдон (ńyľdon)
• Ukrainian: со́рок (uk) (sórok)
• Unami: neinxke
• Urdu: چالیس (cālīs)
• Uyghur: قىرىق (qiriq)
• Uzbek: qirq (uz)
• Venetan: cuaranta (vec), quaranta (vec)
• Vietnamese: bốn mươi (vi), bốn chục
• Volapük: foldeg (vo), fols (older term, obsolete)
• Walloon: cwarante (wa), karantt
• Welsh: deugain (cy) (vigesimal, traditional), pedwar deg (cy) (decimal)
• Wolaytta: oytama
• Yakut: түөрт уон (tüört uon)
• Yiddish: פֿערציק (fertsik)
• Yucatec Maya: kaʼakʼáal
• Yup'ik: yuinaak malruk, malruk ipiaq
• Zazaki: çores
• Zhuang: please add this translation if you can

Noun

forty (plural forties)

1. (US, slang) A bottle (of beer) containing forty fluid ounces.
   • 1995, “I Got 5 on It”, in Operation Stackola, performed by Luniz:

     It's on, wrap my lips around the forty / And when it comes to getting another stogie […] Grab your forty, let's get keyed

Derived terms

Terms derived from the numeral or noun forty

• Forties
• forty minutes of hell
• Forty Thieves
• forty winks
• north forty

Etymology 2

From fort + y.

Adjective

forty (comparative more forty, superlative most forty)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a fort.

Translations

resembling or characteristic of a fort — see fortlike

Further reading

• “forty n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present.

Middle English

Numeral

forty

1. alternative form of fourty

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔr.tɘ/
• Rhymes: -ɔrtɘ
• Syllabification: for‧ty

Noun

forty

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of fort