million

See also: Million

English

English numbers ^(edit)

	10000000
	1,000,000
	100000
Cardinal: million     Ordinal: millionth     Multiplier: millionfold

Etymology

From Old French, from Italian milione (“million”), from mille (“thousand”) (from Latin mille) + the augmentative suffix -one.

Pronunciation

• enPR: mĭl′yən, IPA^(key): /ˈmɪljən/

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• Rhymes: -ɪljən
• Hyphenation: mil‧lion

Noun

million (plural millions)

1. (long and short scales) The cardinal number 1,000,000: 10⁶; a thousand thousand.
2. (colloquial, hyperbolic) An unspecified very large number.

   I told you a million times before.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• like a million bucks
• megamillion
• millionaire
• millionary
• millionfold

• millionth
• never in a million years
• one in a million
• one million
• thanks a million

Related terms

• thousand
• billion
• trillion

Descendants

• → Hawaiian: miliona
• → Maori: miriona
• → Sinhalese: මිලියනය (miliyanaya)
• → Welsh: miliwn

Translations

cardinal number

• Afrikaans: miljoen (af)
• Albanian: milion (sq)
• Arabic: مِلْيُون‎ m (milyōn), ١٠٠٠٠٠٠‎ (1000000)

  Hijazi Arabic: مِلْيون‎ m (milyōn)

• Armenian: միլիոն (hy) (milion)
• Asturian: millón (ast)
• Azerbaijani: milyon (az)
• Basque: milioi
• Belarusian: мільён m (milʹjón)
• Bengali: নুযুত (nujut), মিলিয়ন (miliyôn)
• Breton: milion (br)
• Bulgarian: милио́н m (milión)
• Burmese: သန်း (my) (san:)
• Catalan: milió (ca) m
• Cebuano: yukot, milyon
• Chechen: миллион (million)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 百萬, 百万 (baak³ maan⁶)

  Mandarin: 百萬 (zh), 百万 (zh) (bǎi-wàn)

• Chuukese: minion
• Crimean Tatar: million
• Czech: milión (cs) m
• Danish: million (da)
• Dutch: miljoen (nl) n
• Egyptian: (ḥḥ)
• Esperanto: miliono
• Estonian: miljon (et)
• Finnish: miljoona (fi)
• French: million (fr) m
• Georgian: მილიონი (milioni)
• German: Million (de) f
• Greek: εκατομμύριο (el) n (ekatommýrio)
• Guaraní: sua
• Gujarati: દશ લાખ (daś lākh)
• Hawaiian: miliona
• Hebrew: מִילְיוֹן‎ (he) (milyón)
• Hiligaynon: hambad, milyon, ramak
• Hindi: दस लाख (das lākh), १०००००० (1000000), नियुत (hi) m (niyut)
• Hungarian: millió (hu)
• Icelandic: milljón, miljón (is) f
• Indonesian: juta (id)
• Interlingua: un million
• Irish: milliún (ga) m
• Italian: milione (it) m
• Japanese: 百万 (ja) (ひゃくまん, hyaku-man)
• Javanese: yuta
• Kalmyk: сай (say)
• Kazakh: миллион (kk) (mïllïon)
• Khmer: មួយលាន (muŏy léan)
• Korean: 백만 (ko) (baengman) (百萬 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: میلیۆن‎ (mîlyon)

  Northern Kurdish: mîlyon (ku)

• Kyrgyz: миллион (ky) (million)
• Lao: ລ້ານ (lo) (lān)
• Latin: millio m

• Latvian: miljons m
• Lithuanian: milijonas (lt) m
• Lun Bawang: ribet
• Lü: ᦟᦱᧃᧉ (laan²)
• Macedonian: милио́н (mk) m (milión)
• Malay: juta
• Maltese: miljun
• Manchu: ᡨ᠋ᠠᠩᡤᡡ
  ᡨᡠ᠋ᠮᡝᠨ (t᠋anggū tu᠋men)
• Manx: millioon
• Maori: miriona
• Middle French: million
• Mongolian: сая (mn) (saja)
• Navajo: tʼááłáhádí míiltsoh, miiltsoh
• Norman: millaon (Guernsey)
• Norwegian: million (no) m
• Novial: milione
• Occitan: milion
• Ojibwe: midaaswaak daso-midaawaak
• Persian: میلیون‎ (fa) (milyon)
• Polish: milion (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: milhão (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਦਸ ਲਾਖ (das lākh)
• Quechua: hunu
• Romanian: milion (ro) n
• Russian: миллио́н (ru) m (millión)
• Sanskrit: दशलक्षं (daśalakṣaṃ), नियुत (sa) (niyuta)
• Scottish Gaelic: millean m, muillean m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: милѝо̄н m, милѝјӯн m

  Roman: milìōn (sh) m, milìjūn (sh) m

• Shan: လၢၼ်ႉ (lâ̰an)
• Sinhalese: මිලියනය (miliyanaya)
• Slovak: milión (sk) m
• Slovene: milijon (sl)
• Spanish: un millón (es) m
• Swedish: miljon (sv) c
• Tagalog: milyon, angaw
• Tajik: миллион (million)
• Tatar: миллион (tt) (million)
• Telugu: పది లక్షలు (padi lakṣalu)
• Thai: ล้าน (th) (láan)
• Turkish: bir milyon (tr)
• Turkmen: million
• Tuvan: сая (saya), миллион (mïllïon)
• Ukrainian: мільйо́н (uk) m (milʹjón)
• Urdu: دس لاکھ‎ (das lākh)
• Uzbek: million (uz)
• Vietnamese: triệu (vi)
• Volapük: balion (vo)
• Welsh: miliwn (cy)
• Yakut: муҥ (muŋ), мөлүйүөн (mölüyüön)
• Yiddish: מיליאָן‎ (milyon)
• Yup'ik: miilicaaq

See also

• (short scale) Previous: thousand. Next: billion
• (long scale) Previous: thousand. Next: milliard
• (Ordinal) millionth
• ISO prefix: mega-
• mega

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Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From French million.

Numeral

million

1. million

Declension

Declension of million

nominative	million
genitive	millionnıñ
dative	millionğa
accusative	millionnı
locative	millionda
ablative	milliondan

References

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

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed via French million from Italian milione.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [miliˈoˀn], [milˈjoˀn]

Numeral

million

1. A million, 10⁶.

Noun

million c (singular definite millionen, plural indefinite millioner)

1. a million

References

• “million” in Den Danske Ordbog

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French

Etymology

From Middle French million, from Italian milione.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.ljɔ̃/

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Numeral

French numbers ^(edit)

	1,000,000
Cardinal: million     Ordinal: millionième

million

1. million, 10⁶.

Coordinate terms

• Previous: mille, 10³
• Next: milliard, 10⁹

Derived terms

• millionnaire

Descendants

• → Crimean Tatar: million

Further reading

• “million” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Interlingua

Noun

million (plural milliones)

1. million
   • 2012, Panorama in Interlingua, September-October, p. 24:

     Le anno passate 46 milliones statouniteses esseva povre.

     Last year 46 million U.S. Americans were poor.

Numeral

un million

1. a million, one million

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Middle French

Etymology

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Noun

million m (plural millions)

1. million, 10⁶.

Descendants

• French: million
  • → Crimean Tatar: million
• → Catalan: milió
• → Dutch: miljoen
  • Afrikaans: miljoen
• → English: million
  • → Hawaiian: miliona
  • → Maori: miriona
  • → Sinhalese: මිලියනය (miliyanaya)
  • → Welsh: miliwn
• → Irish: milliún

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Italian milione

Numeral

million

1. A million, 10⁶.

Noun

million m (definite singular millionen, indefinite plural millioner, definite plural millionene)

1. a million

References

• “million” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Italian milione

Numeral

million

1. a million, 10⁶.

Noun

million m (definite singular millionen, indefinite plural millionar, definite plural millionane)

1. a million

References

• “million” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Swedish

Noun

million c

1. Obsolete spelling of miljon

Declension

Declension of million
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	million	millionen	millioner	millionerna
Genitive	millions	millionens	millioners	millionernas

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Tatar

Numeral

million (Cyrillic spelling миллион)

1. million