million

See also: Million

English

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

Numeral

million ‎(plural millions)

1. (long and short scales) The cardinal number 1,000,000: 10⁶.ii

See also

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

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

• billion
• trillion

Translations

cardinal number

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

  Hijazi Arabic: مِلْيون m ‎(milyōn)

• Armenian: միլիոն (hy) ‎(milion)
• Asturian: millón (ast)
• Azeri: milyon (az)
• Basque: milioi
• Belarusian: мільён m ‎(milʹjón)
• Bengali: নুযুত ‎(nuyuta), মিলিয়ন ‎(miliẏôn)
• Breton: milion (br)
• Bulgarian: милио́н m ‎(milión)
• Burmese: တသန်း ‎(ta.san:)
• Catalan: milió (ca) m
• Chechen: миллион ‎(million)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 百萬, 百万 ‎(baak³ maan⁶)

  Mandarin: 百萬, 百万 (zh) ‎(bǎi-wàn)

• Crimean Tatar: million
• Czech: milión (cs) m
• Danish: million (da)
• Dutch: miljoen (nl) n
• 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 ‎(daśalākha)
• Hawaiian: miliona
• Hebrew: מיליון (he) ‎(milyón)
• Hiligaynon: hambad, milyon, ramak
• Hindi: दस लाख ‎(das lākh), १०००००० ‎(1000000)
• 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)
• Kalmyk: сай ‎(say)
• Kazakh: миллион (kk) ‎(mïllïon)
• Khmer: មួយលាន ‎(muŏy léan)
• Korean: 백만 (ko) ‎(baek-man, baeng-man) (百萬 (ko))
• Kyrgyz: миллион (ky) ‎(million)
• Lao: ລ້ານ (lo) ‎(lān)

• Latin: millio m
• Latvian: miljons m
• Lithuanian: milijonas (lt) m
• Lojban: ki'u ki'u
• Lun Bawang: ribet
• Macedonian: милио́н (mk) m ‎(milión)
• Malay: juta
• Maltese: miljun
• Manx: millioon
• Maori: miriona
• Middle French: million
• Mongolian: сая (mn) ‎(saja)
• Navajo: tʼááłáhádí míiltsoh, miiltsoh
• Norman: millaon (Guernsey)
• Norwegian: million (no) m
• Novial: milione
• 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 ‎(daśalakṣa), नियुत (sa) ‎(niyuta)
• Scottish Gaelic: millean m, muillean m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: милѝо̄н m, милѝјӯн m

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

• 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), ๑๐๐๐๐๐๐
• Turkish: bir milyon (tr)
• Turkmen: million
• Ukrainian: мільйо́н (uk) m ‎(milʹjón)
• Urdu: دس لاکھ ‎(das lākh)
• Uzbek: million (uz)
• Vietnamese: triệu (vi)
• Volapük: balion (vo)
• Welsh: miliwn (cy)
• Yiddish: מיליאָן ‎(milyon)

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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 966-7980-89-8

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French

Etymology

From Middle French million, from Italian milione.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /mi.ljɔ̃/

Numeral

million

1. million, 10⁶.

Usage notes

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

Derived terms

• millionnaire

External links

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

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Interlingua

Noun

million ‎(plural milliones)

1. million

Numeral

un million

1. a million, one million

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Middle French

Noun

million m (plural millions)

1. (cardinal) million, 10⁶.

Descendants

• Catalan: milió (borrowed)
• French: million

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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

Inflection 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. (cardinal) million