seven

See also: Seven

English

English numbers ^(edit)

	70
←  6	7	8  →
Cardinal: seven     Ordinal: seventh     Multiplier: septuple, sevenfold     Distributive: septuply     Fractional: seventh

Alternative forms

• Arabic numerals: 7 (see for numerical forms in other scripts)
• Roman numerals: VII
• sev'n

Etymology

From Middle English seven, from Old English seofon (“seven”), from Proto-Germanic *sebun (“seven”), from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥ (“seven”). Cognate with Scots seiven (“seven”), West Frisian sân (“seven”), Saterland Frisian soogen (“seven”), Low German söven (“seven”), Dutch zeven (“seven”), German sieben (“seven”), Danish syv (“seven”), Norwegian sju (“seven”), Icelandic sjö (“seven”), Latin septem (“seven”), Ancient Greek ἑπτά (heptá, “seven”), Russian семь (semʹ), Sanskrit सप्तन् (saptán).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛv.ən/

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• Rhymes: -ɛvən
• Homophone: Severn (non-rhotic accents)

Numeral

seven

1. A numerical value equal to 7; the number following six and preceding eight. This many dots: (•••••••).
2. Describing a group or set with seven elements.

Usage notes

Like other numerals, sometimes used postpositively in Late Middle English and Early Modern English, for exampleː

• Sun and moon set in the heaven, with stars, and the planets seven. (The Towneley plays)

Related terms

• seventh

Translations

cardinal number 7

• Aari: tabzá
• Abkhaz: бжьба (bž̍bā)
• Adyghe: блы (blə)
• Afrikaans: sewe (af)
• Ainu: アㇻワン (arwan)
• Aklanon: pito
• Albanian: shtatë (sq)
• Alutiiq: mallrungin
• American Sign Language:
• Amharic: ሰባት (am) (säbat) (numeral: ፯ (7))
• Apache:

  Western Apache: gosts'idi

• Arabic: سَبْعَة‎ (sabʿa), (numeral: ٧‎ (7))

  Egyptian Arabic: سبعة‎ (sabaʿa)

• Aragonese: siet, siete, set
• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܫܒܥܐ‎ m (šaḇʿā), ܫܒܥ‎ f (šəḇaʿ)

  Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: שִׁבְעָא‎ m (šiḇʿā), שְׁבַע‎ f (šəḇaʿ)

  Western Neo-Aramaic: ܫܒܥܐ‎ m (šobʿa), ܐܫܒܥ‎ f (ʾešbaʿ)

• Armenian: յոթ (hy) (yotʿ)

  Old Armenian: եօթն (eōtʿn)

• Aromanian: shapti, shapte
• Asi: pito
• Assamese: সাত (xat) (numeral: ৭)
• Asturian: siete (ast)
• Aymara: paqallqu
• Azerbaijani: yeddi (az)
• Balinese: pitu
• Bashkir: ете (yete)
• Basque: zazpi (eu)
• Belarusian: сем (be) (sjem), (collective) сямёра (sjamjóra)
• Bengali: সাত (sat) (numeral: ৭)
• Bikol Central: pito (bcl)
• Breton: seizh (br)
• Brunei Malay: tujuh
• Bulgarian: се́дем (bg) (sédem)
• Burmese: ခုနစ် (my) (hku.nac) (numeral: ၇ (my) (7))
• Buryat: долоон (doloon)
• Catalan: set (ca)
• Cebuano: pito (ceb)
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵙⴰ (sa)
• Central Dusun: turu
• Central Sierra Miwok: kenék·aky-
• Chamicuro: kanchis
• Chechen: ворхӏ (worh)
• Cherokee: ᎦᎵᏉᎩ (galiquogi)
• Chichewa: sanu n'ziwiri
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 七 (yue) (chat¹)

  Dungan: чи (či)

  Hakka: 七 (chhit)

  Mandarin: 七 (zh) (qī) (numeral: 柒 (zh))

  Min Dong: 七 (chék)

  Min Nan: 七 (zh-min-nan) (chhit) (Xiamen)

  Wu: 七 (tshiq)

  Xiang: 七 (tshiu)

• Chukchi: ӈэръамытлыӈэн (ṇėrʺamytlyṇėn)
• Chuukese: fis, fisu, fuchö, fumön
• Chuvash: ҫиччӗ (śiččĕ), ҫичӗ (śičĕ), ҫич (śič)
• Classical Nahuatl: chicōme
• Coptic: ϣⲁϣϥ (šašf)
• Cornish: seyth
• Corsican: setti (co)
• Cree: tepakohp
• Crimean Tatar: yedi
• Cuyonon: pito
• Czech: sedm (cs)
• Dalmatian: sapto
• Danish: syv (da)
• Dena'ina: qents'ughi'i
• Dhivehi: ހަތް‎ (hat)
• Dolgan: һэттэ (hette)
• Dupaningan Agta: pitu
• Dutch: zeven (nl)
• Dzongkha: བདུན (bdun)
• Eastern Mari: шымыт (šymyt)
• Erzya: сисем (sisem)
• Esperanto: sep (eo)
• Estonian: seitse (et)
• Even: надан (nadan)
• Evenki: надан (nadan)
• Faroese: sjey (fo)
• Fijian: vitu (fj)
• Finnish: seitsemän (fi)
• French: sept (fr)
• Friulian: siet
• Galician: sete (gl)
• Garifuna: sedü
• Ge'ez: ሰብዐቱ m (säbʿätu), ሰብዑ f (säbʿu) (numeral: ፯ (7))
• Georgian: შვიდი (ka) (švidi)
• German: sieben (de)
• Gilbertese: itiua
• Gothic: 𐍃𐌹𐌱𐌿𐌽 (sibun)
• Greek: επτά (el) (eptá), ζ΄ (z΄) (numeral)

  Ancient: ἑπτά (heptá), ζ΄ (z΄) (numeral)

• Greenlandic: arfineq marluk
• Guaraní: pokõi
• Gujarati: સાત (gu) (sāt) (numeral: ૭)
• Haitian Creole: sèt
• Hausa: bakwài
• Hawaiian: hiku, ʻehiku
• Hebrew: שֶׁבַע‎ (he) f (sheva) (used in counting), שִׁבְעָה‎ (he) m (shiv'a)
• Hiligaynon: pito (hil)
• Hindi: सात (hi) (sāt) (numeral: ७ (hi) (7))
• Hopi: tsangeʼ
• Hungarian: hét (hu)
• Hunsrik: sieve
• Icelandic: sjö (is)
• Ido: sep (io)
• Ilocano: pito (ilo)
• Indonesian: tujuh (id)
• Interlingua: septe (ia)
• Irish: seacht (ga)
• Istriot: siete, sjete
• Istro-Romanian: șåpte
• Italian: sette (it)
• Japanese: 七 (ja) (しち, shichi; なな, nana); 七つ (ja) (ななつ, nanatsu)
• Javanese: pitu (jv)
• Judeo-Tat: хьэфд (ħəfd)
• Jurchen: nadan
• Kabardian: блы (blə)
• Kalmyk: долан (dolan)
• Kannada: ಏಳು (kn) (ēḷu) (numeral: ೭ (kn) (7))
• Kapampangan: pitu (pam)
• Karachay-Balkar: джети
• Karelian: seiččemen
• Kashubian: sétmë
• Kazakh: жеті (kk) (jeti)
• Khakas: читі (çití)
• Khmer: ប្រាំពីរ (km) (pram pii) (numeral: ៧ (7))
• Kikuyu: mũgwanja
• Komi-Permyak: сизим (sizim)
• Komi-Zyrian: сізым (sïzym)
• Korean: 일곱 (ko) (ilgop), 칠 (ko) (chil) (七 (ko))
• Kumyk: етти (yetti)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: heft (ku)

  Sorani: حەوت‎ (ḧewt)

• Kyrgyz: жети (ky) (ceti)
• Ladin: set
• Lakota: šakówiŋ
• Lao: ເຈັດ (chet) (numeral: ໗ (7))
• Latgalian: septeni m, septenis f
• Latin: septem (la)
• Latvian: septiņi (lv) m, septiņas f
• Lithuanian: septyni (lt) m, septynios f
• Livonian: seis
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: söben, söven (nds), seben, seven (nds)

  German Low German: sëwe, sëwen, sæwen, sæben, söven (nds)

• Luxembourgish: siwen (lb)
• Lü: ᦵᦈᧆ (ṫsed) (numeral: ᧗)
• Macedonian: седум (mk) (sedum)
• Madurese: pɛttɔʔ
• Malagasy: fito (mg)
• Malay:

  Jawi: توجوه‎, ڤيتو‎, سڤتا‎

  Rumi: tujuh (ms), pitu (ms), sapta

• Malayalam: ഏഴു (ml) (ēḻu), ഏഴ് (ml) (ēḻŭ) (numeral: ൭)
• Maltese: sebgħa (mt)
• Manchu: ᠨᠠᡩᠠᠨ (nadan)
• Mangarevan: hitu, itu
• Mansi: са̄т (sāt)
• Manx: shiaght
• Maori: whitu (mi)
• Marathi: सात (sāt)
• Maricopa: paxkieg
• Marshallese: jimjuon
• Middle English: seoven
• Minangkabau: tujuah
• Mirandese: siete
• Moksha: сисем (sisem)
• Mon: ထပှ် (həpɔh)
• Mongolian: долоо (mn) (doloo), ^{(please verify)} ᠳᠣᠯᠤᠭᠠᠨ (ᠳᠣᠯᠤᠭᠠᠨ) (numeral: ᠗)
• Montagnais: (Sheshatshiu Innu) nishuasht, (Mushuau Innu) nishuautash
• Munsee: níishaash
• Muong: páy
• Nahuatl: chicome (nah)
• Nama: hû
• Nanai: надан
• Nauruan: aeiu
• Navajo: tsostsʼid
• Nepali: सात (ne) (sāta)
• Niuean: fitu
• Nogai: ети (yeti)
• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum: sööwen

  Helgoland: seeben

  Mooring and Sylt: soowen

• Norwegian: sju (no), syv (no)
• Novial: set
• O'odham: vevkam
• Occitan: sèt (oc)
• Ojibwe: niizhwaaswi
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: седмь (sedmĭ)

• Old English: seofon
• Old Frisian: siūgun
• Old High German: sibun
• Old Norse: sjau
• Old Turkic: 𐰘𐱅𐰃‎ (yeti)
• Oriya: ସାତ (satô) (numeral: ୭ (7))
• Oscan: 𐌔𐌄𐌚𐌕𐌄𐌍 (seften)
• Ossetian: авд (avd)
• Ottoman Turkish: یدی‎ (yedi)
• Pali: सत्त, satta
• Pangasinan: pito (pag)
• Pashto: اوه‎ (uwë)
• Pennsylvania German: siwwe
• Persian: هَفت‎ (fa) (haft) (numeral: ۷‎)
• Polish: siedem (pl), (collective) siedmioro (pl)
• Portuguese: sete (pt)
• Punjabi: ਸੱਤ (pa) (sat) (numeral: ੭ (7))
• Quechua: qanchis, gancis
• Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
• Rarotongan: ’itu
• Romani: efta

  Kalo Finnish Romani: efta

• Romanian: șapte (ro)
• Romansch: set, siat, seat
• Russian: семь (ru) (semʹ), (collective) се́меро (ru) (sémero)
• Rusyn: сім (sim)
• S'gaw Karen: နွံ (nwi)
• Sami:

  Inari: čiččâm

  Northern: čieža

  Skolt: čiččâm

  Southern: tjïjhtje

• Samoan: fitu (sm)
• Sanskrit: सप्तन् (sa) (saptan)
• Sardinian: sete, seti
• Saterland Frisian: soogen
• Scots: seiven
• Scottish Gaelic: seachd, (persons) seachdnar m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: седам

  Roman: sedam

• Shan: ၸဵတ်း (tsét) (numeral: ႗)
• Sichuan Yi: ꏃ (shyp)
• Sicilian: setti (scn), sietti (scn)
• Sikkimese: དུཨིན (duin)
• Silesian: śedym
• Sindhi: سَتَ‎ (sata)
• Sinhalese: හත (si) (hata)
• Slovak: sedem (sk)
• Slovene: sédem (sl)
• Somali: toddoba (so)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: sedym

  Upper Sorbian: sydom

• Southern Altai: јети (ǰeti)
• Southern Ohlone: tsaquichi
• Spanish: siete (es)
• Sranan Tongo: seybi
• Swahili: saba (sw)
• Swedish: sju (sv)
• Tagalog: pito (tl)
• Tahitian: hitu
• Tai Dam: chết
• Tajik: ҳафт (tg) (haft)
• Tamil: ஏழு (ta) (ēḻu) (numeral: ௭ (௭))
• Tashelhit: sa m or f
• Tatar: җиде (tt) (cide)
• Telugu: ఏడు (te) (ēḍu) (numeral: ౭ (te) (7))
• Thai: เจ็ด (th) (jèt) (numeral: ๗ (th) (7))
• Tibetan: བདུན (bdun) (numeral: ༧ (7))
• Tigre: ሰቡዕ (säbuʿ) (numeral: ፯ (7))
• Tigrinya: ሸውዓተ (ti) (šäwʿatä) (numeral: ፯ (7))
• Tocharian A: ṣpät
• Tocharian B: ṣukt
• Tok Pisin: sevenpela
• Tongan: fitu
• Turkish: yedi (tr)
• Turkmen: ýedi (tk)
• Tuvaluan: fitu
• Tuvan: чеди (čädï)
• Tz'utujil: ^{(please verify)} wuku
• Udmurt: сизьым (sizʹym)
• Ukrainian: сім (uk) (sim), се́меро (sémero) (collective)
• Unami: nishash
• Urdu: سات‎ (sāt)
• Uyghur: يەتتە‎ (ug) (yette)
• Uzbek: yetti (uz)
• Venetian: sete
• Veps: seicheme
• Vietnamese: bảy (vi)
• Vilamovian: zejwa
• Volapük: vel (vo)
• Votic: seitsee
• Võro: säidse
• Walloon: set (wa)
• Waray-Waray: siete
• Welsh: saith (cy)
• West Frisian: sân (fy)
• White Hmong: xya
• Winnebago: šaagowį
• Wolof: juróom ñaar
• Xhosa: sixhenxe
• Yagnobi: авд
• Yakut: сэттэ (sette)
• Yao: msano na wili
• Yiddish: זיבן‎ (zibn)
• Yup'ik: malrunlegen
• Zazaki: hewt
• Zhuang: caet (Sawndip 七)
• Zulu: isikhombisa (zu)
• Zuni: kwilelekk'ya

set or group with seven components

• Bashkir: етәү (yetäw)

• Russian: семёрка (ru) f (semjórka)

See also

• Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages

Noun

seven (countable and uncountable, plural sevens)

1. The digit/figure 7 or an occurrence thereof.

   He wrote three sevens on the paper.

2. (countable, card games) A card bearing seven pips.

Translations

the figure seven

• Asturian: siete (ast) m
• Basque: zazpi (eu)
• Belarusian: сямёрка f (sjamjórka)
• Catalan: set (ca) m
• Danish: syvtal n
• Dupaningan Agta: pitu
• Dutch: zeven (nl) f
• Finnish: seiska (fi), seitsemäinen, seitsikko (fi)
• French: sept (fr)
• Galician: sete (gl) m or f
• German: Sieben (de) f

  Alemannic German: sibe

• Hungarian: hetes (hu)
• Khmer: ប្រាំពីរ (km) (pram pi)
• Lithuanian: septynetas (lt) m
• Macedonian: седмица f (sedmica), седумка f (sedumka)

• Norwegian: sjutall n, syvtall n
• Pennsylvania German: siwwe
• Polish: siódemka (pl) f
• Portuguese: sete (pt) m
• Romanian: șapte (ro)
• Russian: семёрка (ru) f (semjórka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сѐдмица f

  Roman: sèdmica (sh) f

• Slovak: sedmička f
• Spanish: siete (es)
• Swahili: saba (sw)
• Swedish: sjua (sv) c
• Tagalog: pito (tl)
• Walloon: set (wa)

a card bearing seven pips

• Catalan: set (ca) m
• Danish: syver c
• Dutch: zeven (nl) f
• Finnish: seiska (fi)
• Hungarian: hetes (hu)
• Macedonian: седмица f (sedmica)

• Polish: siódemka (pl) f
• Portuguese: sete (pt) m
• Russian: семёрка (ru) f (semjórka)
• Slovak: sedma f
• Swedish: sjua (sv) c

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• German: ^{(please verify)} Sieben (de) f
• Romanian: (1) ^{(please verify)} șapte (ro) m, (2) ^{(please verify)} șeptar (ro) m

• Ukrainian: ^{(please verify)} сі́мка (uk) f (símka)

Derived terms

Terms derived from the numeral or noun seven

• at sixes and sevens
• dance of the seven veils
• deuce-to-seven lowball
• Group of Seven
• rugby sevens
• seven card stud
• seven deadly sins
• Sevener/sevener
• sevenfold
• Seven Hills of Rome
• seven iron
• seven-league boots
• seven minutes in heaven
• sevenness
• sevennight
• seven out

• sevens
• Seven Sages
• sevenscore
• seven seals
• seven seas
• seven second delay
• Seven Sisters
• Seven Sleepers Day
• sevensome
• seventh
• seven-up
• seven virtues
• Seven Wonders of the World
• seven-year itch
• twenty-four seven
• unseven

See also

Playing cards in English · playing cards (layout · text)
ace	deuce, two	three	four	five	six	seven
eight	nine	ten	jack, knave	queen	king	joker, jolly joker

Anagrams

• Evens, Neves, eevns, evens, neves, névés

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Breton

Adjective

seven

1. courteous

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Dutch Low Saxon

Numeral

seven

1. Alternative form of zeuven (seven)

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Fanagalo

Etymology

Borrowed from English seven.

Numeral

seven

1. seven

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Middle Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɛːvən/

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch sivun, sivon, from Proto-Germanic *sebun, from earlier *sebunt, from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥, with -t added through influence of "nine" and "ten".

Numeral

sēven

1. seven

Descendants

• Dutch: zeven
• Limburgish: zeve
• Zealandic: zeven

Etymology 2

From sēve +‎ -en.

Verb

sēven

1. to sift, to sieve

Inflection

Weak
Infinitive	sēven
3rd sg. past	—
3rd pl. past	—
Past participle	—
Infinitive	sēven
In genitive	sēvens
In dative	sēvene
Indicative	Present	Past
1st singular	sēve	—
2nd singular	sēefs, sēves	—
3rd singular	sēeft, sēvet	—
1st plural	sēven	—
2nd plural	sēeft, sēvet	—
3rd plural	sēven	—
Subjunctive	Present	Past
1st singular	sēve	—
2nd singular	sēefs, sēves	—
3rd singular	sēve	—
1st plural	sēven	—
2nd plural	sēeft, sēvet	—
3rd plural	sēven	—
Imperative	Present
Singular	sēef, sēve
Plural	sēeft, sēvet
	Present	Past
Participle	sēvende	—

Descendants

• Dutch: zeven

Further reading

• “seven”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “seven (I)”, in Middelniederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “seven (IV)”, in Middelniederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page IV

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Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English seofon, in turn from Proto-Germanic *sebun, from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥.

Alternative forms

• seofen, seoven, sevene, ceven, sevyn, sewyn

Pronunciation

• (Early ME) IPA^(key): /ˈsøːvən/, /ˈsœvən/
• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛːvən/, /ˈsɛvən/

Numeral

Middle English numbers ^(edit)

←  6	7	8  →
Cardinal: seven     Ordinal: sevenþe     Multiplier: sevenefold

seven

1. seven

Related terms

• sevenefold
• seventene
• sevenþe
• sevenyght

Descendants

• English: seven
• Scots: seiven, seeven (obsolete sevin, sewin)
• Yola: zeven

Etymology 2

From Old English swefn.

Noun

seven

1. Alternative form of sweven

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Scots

Numeral

seven

1. Alternative form of seiven

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English seven.

Numeral

seven

1. seven

Usage notes

Used when counting; see also sevenpela.

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Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [seven]
• Hyphenation: sev‧en

Adjective

seven (comparative daha seven, superlative en seven)

1. loving, affectionate

Related terms

• sevgi
• sevilen
• sevmek

Noun

seven (definite accusative seveni, plural sevenler)

1. lover (somebody who loves)

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	seven
Definite accusative	seveni
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	seven	sevenler
Definite accusative	seveni	sevenleri
Dative	sevene	sevenlere
Locative	sevende	sevenlerde
Ablative	sevenden	sevenlerden
Genitive	sevenin	sevenlerin
Possessive forms Singular Plural 1st singular sevenim sevenlerim 2nd singular sevenin sevenlerin 3rd singular seveni sevenleri 1st plural sevenimiz sevenlerimiz 2nd plural seveniniz sevenleriniz 3rd plural sevenleri sevenleri

Antonyms

• sevmeyen