English [ edit ] Alternative forms [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] From New Latin per centum ( “ by the hundred ” ) .
Pronunciation [ edit ] percent (plural percent or percents
A part or other object per hundred
A resolution must receive fifty-one percent of the votes to pass.
percentage .
Usage notes [ edit ]
A percentage is often denoted by the character % .
50% denotes.
The difference of two percentages is measured by percentage point , not by percent.
Derived terms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ]
a part or other object per hundred
Afrikaans: persent
Albanian: përqind
Arabic: فِي الْمِائَة ( fī-l-miʾa ) , بِالْمِائَة ( bi-l-miʾa )
Armenian: տոկոս (hy) ( tokos )
Asturian: por cientu
Azeri: faiz (az)
Belarusian: працэ́нт m ( pracént ) , адсо́так m ( adsótak )
Bulgarian: проце́нт (bg) ( procént )
Catalan: per cent
Chinese:
Cantonese: 百分之…… ( baak3 fan6 zi1 ... ) ( the number follows it, e.g. 30%: 百分之三十 baak3 fan6 zi1 saam1 sap6 ) , 巴仙 ( baa1 sin1 ) ( unit follows the number with qualifier 個/个 )
Hakka: 趴先多 ( phà-sén-tó ) ( unit follows the number )
Mandarin: 百分之…… (zh) ( bǎi fēn zhī... ) ( the number follows it, e.g. 30%: 百分之三十 bǎi fēn zhī sānshí ) , 巴仙 ( bāxiān ) ( unit follows the number with qualifier 個/个 )
Min Nan: 百分之…… ( pah hun chi... ) ( the number follows it, e.g. 30%: 百分之三十 pah hun chi saⁿ-cha̍p )
Czech: procento (cs) n
Danish: procent (da)
Dutch: procent (nl) n
Erzya: сядобелькс ( sjadobelʹks )
Esperanto: procento pocento elcento
Estonian: protsent
Faroese: prosent n
Finnish: prosentti (fi) , sadasosa
French: pour cent (fr) , pourcent (fr)
Georgian: პროცენტი ( ṗrocenṭi )
German: vom Hundert Prozent (de) n Perzent n
Greek: τοις εκατό (el) ( tois ekató )
Hebrew: אחוז (he) ( akhúz )
Hindi: फ़ीसदी ( fīsadī )
Hungarian: százalék (hu)
Icelandic: hundraðshluti (is) m prósenta f hundraðstala f
Ido: po cent centimi (io) pl
Italian: per cento (it)
Japanese: パーセント (ja) ( pāsento )
Kazakh: пайыз (kk) ( payız ) , процент ( procent )
Khmer: ភាគរយ (km) ( pʰiek rɔɔy )
Korean: 퍼센트 (ko) ( peosenteu ) , 프로 (ko) ( peuro )
Lao: ເປີເຊັນ ( pœ̄ sen )
Latin:
New Latin: per centum pro centum
Latvian: procents m
Lithuanian: nuošimtis procentas m
Lojban: ce'i (jbo)
Macedonian: насто ( nasto ) , процент ( procent )
Malay: peratus
Maori: ōrau
Persian: درصد (fa) ( darsad ) , فی صد ( fi sad )
Polish: procent (pl) m inan
Portuguese: por cento
Romanian: procent (ro) n la sută
Russian: проце́нт (ru) m ( procént )
Scottish Gaelic: às a' cheud
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: посто одсто постотак проценат
Roman: posto (sh) , odsto postotak (sh) , procenat (sh)
Slovak: percento n
Slovene: odstotek m
Spanish: por ciento
Swahili: asilimia (sw)
Swedish: procent (sv) c
Tagalog: bahagdan (tl)
Tajik: дарсад ( darsad )
Tamil: விழுக்காடு (ta) ( viḻukkāṭu ) , சதவீதம் (ta) ( catavītam )
Telugu: శాతం ( śātaṃ )
Thai: เปอร์เซ็นต์ (th) ( bpəə-sen )
Turkish: faiz (tr) , yüzde (tr)
Ukrainian: відсо́ток m ( vidsótok ) , проце́нт (uk) m ( procént )
Urdu: جیصدی ( fīṣadī )
Vietnamese: phần trăm (vi)
Yiddish: פּראָצענט m ( protsent )
Adjective [ edit ] percent (not comparable )
Expressed in percents ; usually together with a number .
I got a ten percent raise! The whisky usually contains over fifty percent alcohol by volume in the maturing casks, while the commercial brands are diluted to 40 to 45 percent.
Translations [ edit ] See also [ edit ] Typography
percent
third-person plural present indicative of percer third-person plural present subjunctive of percer
Hungarian [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] percen -t
Pronunciation [ edit ]
IPA (key ) : [ˈpɛrt͡sɛnt] Hyphenation: per‧cent
percent
third-person singular indicative past indefinite of percen past participle of percen
