milliard

See also: Milliard and milliárd

English

English numbers ^(edit)

←  1,000,000 (106)	←  100,000,000 (108)	1,000,000,000 (109)	1012  → [a], [b]	1015  → [a], [b]
Cardinal: billion, milliard, thousand million     Ordinal: billionth, milliardth     Multiplier: billionfold, milliardfold     Metric collective prefix: giga-     Metric fractional prefix: nano-     Number of years: giga-annum, gigayear

Etymology

From French milliard.

Pronunciation

• Audio (UK)

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• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪlɪɑːd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪliɑɹd/

Numeral

milliard (plural milliards)

1. (now rare) 10⁹, a thousand (times a) million. (Now generally replaced by the short scale billion.) [from 18th c.]
   • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 155:

     For the coming year France would contribute 80 milliard francs ($200 million) to the Algerian budget [...].

Synonyms

• a short scale billion
• a thousand million

Derived terms

• milliardaire
• milliardfold
• milliardth

Translations

10^9 — see billion

See also

• Previous: million. Next: billion.
• Symbolic: 10⁹ = 1,000,000,000

Anagrams

• millirad

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

French milliard.

Numeral

milliard

1. A milliard (a short scale billion).

Declension

Declension of milliard

nominative	milliard
genitive	milliardnıñ
dative	milliardğa
accusative	milliardnı
locative	milliardda
ablative	milliarddan

References

• Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

Danish

Etymology

From French milliard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [miliˈɑˀd̥], [milˈjɑˀd̥]

Noun

milliard

1. 10⁹

Declension

Declension of milliard

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	milliard	milliarden	milliarder	milliarderne
genitive	milliards	milliardens	milliarders	milliardernes

French

French numbers ^(edit)

←  1,000,000 (106)	[a], [b] ←  2,000,000 (2 x 106)	1,000,000,000 (109)	1012  → [a], [b], [c]	1015  → [a], [b], [c]
Cardinal (traditional spelling): un milliard     Cardinal (post-1990 spelling): un-milliard     Ordinal: milliardième
French Wikipedia article on 1,000,000,000 (109)

Etymology

From million, by changing the suffix to -ard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.ljaʁ/

• Audio

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Numeral

milliard m (plural milliards)

1. billion (10⁹)

Derived terms

• milliardaire

Descendants

• → Albanian: miliard
• → Arabic: مليار (milyār)

  Moroccan Arabic: مليار (malyār)

• → Armenian: միլիառ (miliaṙ)
• → Breton: miliard
• → Catalan: miliard
• → Crimean Tatar: milliard
• → Czech: miliarda
• → Danish: milliard
• → Dutch: miljard, milliard
  • Afrikaans: miljard
  • → Indonesian: miliar
  • → Malay: milyar
• → English: milliard
• → Finnish: miljardi
• → German: Milliarde
  • → Estonian: miljard
  • → Hungarian: milliárd
• → Hebrew: מיליארד (miliárd)
• → Italian: miliardo
• → Karelian: miljardi
• → Lithuanian: milijardas
• → Luxembourgish: Milliard
• → Macedonian: милијарда (milijarda)
• → Northern Kurdish: milyar
• → Norwegian: milliard
• → Occitan: miliard
• → Ottoman Turkish: میلیار
  • Turkish: milyar
• → Persian: میلیارد (milyârd)
• → Polish: miliard
• → Romanian: miliard
• → Romansch: milliard, milliarda
• → Russian: миллиард (milliard)
  • → Armenian: միլիարդ (miliard)
  • → Kazakh: миллиард (milliard)
  • → Tatar: миллиард (milliard)
• → Serbo-Croatian: milijarda / милијарда
  • → Ladino: milyarda / מילייארדה
• → Spanish: millardo
• → Swedish: miljard
• → Ukrainian: мільярд (milʹjard)
• → Uyghur: مىليارد (milyard)
• → Uzbek: milliard
• → Yiddish: מיליאַרד (milyard)

Further reading

• “milliard”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

milliard m (definite singular milliarden, indefinite plural milliarder, definite plural milliardene)

1. milliard (a short scale billion).
2. a billion (1000 million)

References

• “milliard” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

milliard m (definite singular milliarden, indefinite plural milliardar, definite plural milliardane)

1. milliard (a short scale billion).
2. a billion (1000 million)

References

• “milliard” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romansch

Alternative forms

• milliarda (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran)

Numeral

milliard

1. (Puter, Vallader) milliard (a short scale billion).

Noun

milliard m (plural milliards)

1. (Puter, Vallader) milliard (a short scale billion).

Derived terms

• milliardari

Tatar

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian миллиа́рд (milliárd).

Numeral

milliard (Cyrillic spelling миллиард)

1. A milliard (a short scale billion).

Declension

declension of milliard

	singular	plural
nominative	milliard	milliard
genitive	milliard	milliard
dative	milliard	milliard
accusative	milliard	milliard
locative	milliard	milliard
ablative	milliard	milliard

Uzbek

Uzbek numbers ^(edit)

←  1,000	←  1,000,000 (106)	1,000,000,000 (109)
Cardinal: milliard     Ordinal: milliardinchi

Numeral

milliard

1. milliard

Derived terms

• milliardinchi (“milliardth”)