thirteen

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Etymology

From Middle English thirttene, variant (through metathesis) of thrittene, from Old English þreotīene, þreotene, from Proto-Germanic *þritehun. Compare West Frisian trettjin, Dutch dertien, German dreizehn, Danish tretten.

Alternative forms

• Arabic numerals: 13
• Roman numerals: XIII

Pronunciation

• (next word stressed near the first syllable)

  (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈθɜː.tiːn/

  (US) IPA^(key): /ˈθɝ.tin/

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• (next word stressed after the first syllable)

  (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌθɜːˈtiːn/

  (US) IPA^(key): /ˌθɝˈtin/

• Rhymes: -iːn

Numeral

thirteen

1. The cardinal number occurring after twelve and before fourteen, represented in Roman numerals as XIII and in Arabic numerals as 13.

   There are thirteen cards of each of the four suits in a deck of playing cards.

   • 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond

     During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant […]

Related terms

• Ordinal: thirteenth

See also

• baker’s dozen
• thirteener
• throtteen

Translations

the cardinal number occurring after twelve and before fourteen

• Afrikaans: dertien
• Albanian: trembëdhjetë
• American Sign Language: Hu@Side-PalmBack Flatten
• Amharic: አስራሶስት (asra sosts)
• Ancient Greek: τρισκαίδεκα (triskaideka)
• Arabic: ثَلاثة عَشَرَ (thalaatha 3ashara) (numeral: ١٣)

  Egyptian Arabic: تلاتاشر (talataashar)

• Aramaic:
• Armenian: տասներեք (hy) (tasnerekʿ)
• Asturian: trece (ast), trelce (ast)
• Aymara: tunka kimsani
• Azeri: on üç (az)
• Basque: hamahiru (eu)
• Belarusian: трынаццаць (trynáccac’)
• Bengali: তেরো (tero) (numeral: ১৩
• Breton: trizek (br)
• Bulgarian: тринадесет (trinadeset)
• Burmese: ဆယ့်သုံး (hsè.thon:)
• Catalan: tretze (ca)
• Chechen: кхойтта (qojtta)
• Chichewa: khumi n'zitatu
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 十三 (zh) (shísān) (numeral: 拾參)

  Teochew: san1zab8, sab8

• Corsican: trèdeci
• Czech: třináct (cs)
• Dalmatian: tretco
• Danish: tretten (da)
• Dena'ina: tuq'i beq'di
• Dutch: dertien (nl) f
• Esperanto: dek tri
• Estonian: kolmteist (et)
• Faroese: trettan
• Finnish: kolmetoista (fi)
• French: treize (fr) m
• Friulian: tredis
• Galician: trece (gl)
• Georgian: ცამეტი (c’ameti)
• German: dreizehn (de)
• Greek: δεκατρείς (el) m, f (dekatreís), δεκατρία (el) n (dekatría)
• Gujarati: તેર (gu) (ter)
• Haitian Creole: trèz
• Hawaiian: ʻumikūmākolu

  Hebrew: תלתעסר (tlātha‘sar) m, תלתעסרא (tlātha‘esrē) f

  Syriac: ܬܠܬܥܣܪ (tlātha‘sar) m, ܬܠܬܥܣܪܐ (tlātha‘esrē) f

• Hebrew: שְׁלֹשׁ־עֶשְׂרֵה f (shlosh esre) (used in counting), שְׁלוֹשָה־עָשָׂר m (shlosha asar)
• Hindi: तेरह् (terah) (numeral: १३ (hi))
• Hopi: pakwt niikyang paykomuy siikya’ta
• Hungarian: tizenhárom (hu)
• Icelandic: þrettán (is)
• Indonesian: tiga belas
• Interlingua: dece-tres
• Irish: trí déag (ga)
• Italian: tredici (it) m
• Japanese: 十三 (ja) (じゅうさん, jū-san)
• Jèrriais: treize
• Kalaallisut: aqqaniq-pingasut

• Kannada: ಹದಿಮೂರು (kn) (hadimūru) (numeral: ೧೩ (13))
• Khmer: ដប់បី (dop bei) (numeral: ១៣)
• Korean: 열셋 (ko) (yeolset)
• Kurdish: sêzde (ku)
• Lao: ສິບສາມ (sip-saam) (numeral: ໑໓)
• Latgalian: treispadsmit
• Latin: tredecim (la)
• Latvian: trīspadsmit (lv)
• Lithuanian: trylika (lt)
• Livonian: kuolmtuoistõn
• Low German: dörteihn (nds), dötteihn, dorteihn
• Luxembourgish: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: тринаесет (trináeset)
• Malay: tiga belas, telu belas, sepuluh tiga, sepuluh telu, satu puluh tiga, satu puluh telu
• Malayalam: പതിമൂന്ന് (ml) (patimūnn)
• Maltese: tlettax
• Manchu: (juwan ilan)
• Mansi: хурумхуйплов (xūrumxujplow)
• Manx: tree jeig
• Mongolian: арван гурав (arvan gurav) (numeral: ᠑᠓)
• Navajo: tááʼtsʼáadah
• Norwegian: tretten (no)
• Novial: dek-tri
• Occitan: tretze (oc)
• Ojibwe: ashi-niswi
• Oriya: ତେର
• Persian: سیزده (fa)
• Polish: trzynaście (pl)
• Portuguese: treze (pt)
• Punjabi: ਤੇਰ੍ਹਾਂ (terhāṅ) (numeral: ੧੩)
• Quechua: chunka kimsayuq
• Romanian: treisprezece (ro), treișpe (informal)
• Romansch: tredesch
• Russian: тринадцать (ru) (trinádcat’)
• Sanskrit: त्रयोदश (trayodaśa) (tráyodash, numeral: १३ (13))
• Sardinian: trechi
• Scottish Gaelic: trì deug
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тринаест

  Roman: trinaest

• Sinhalese: දහතුන (dahatuna)
• Slovak: trinásť
• Slovene: trinajst (sl)
• Spanish: trece (es)
• Swedish: tretton (sv)
• Tagalog: labintatlo (tl)
• Tamil: பதின்மூன்று (ta) (patiṉmūṉṟu) (numeral: ௰௩ (௰௩))
• Telugu: పదమూడు (te) (padamūḍu) (numeral: ౧౩ (౧౩))
• Thai: สิบสาม (sìp săam) (numeral: ๑๓)
• Tibetan: བཅུ་གསུམ (bcu gsum)
• Turkish: on üç (tr)
• Urdu: تیرہ (terah)
• Volapük: degkil
• Welsh: tri ar ddeg m (vigesimal, traditional), tair ar ddeg f (vigesimal), un deg tri (decimal), undeg tair f
• West Frisian: trettjin (fy)
• Yiddish: דרײַצן (draytsn)

Coordinate terms

• Previous: twelve. Next: fourteen

Anagrams

• tetherin