thirteen

English

English numbers ^(edit)

←  12	13	14  →
Cardinal: thirteen     Ordinal: thirteenth     Abbreviated ordinal: 13th

Alternative forms

• Arabic numerals: 13
• Roman numerals: XIII

Etymology

From Middle English thirttene, variant (through metathesis) of thrittene, from Old English þrēotīene, from Proto-Germanic *þritehun, compound of *þrīz (“three”) + *tehun (“teen”). Cognate with West Frisian trettjin, Dutch dertien, German dreizehn, Danish tretten. Equivalent to three +‎ -teen.

Pronunciation

• (in most cases)

  (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌθɜːˈtiːn/

  (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌθɝtˈtin/, /ˌθɝtin/

• (next word stressed near the first syllable)

  (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈθɜː.tiːn/

  (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈθɝt.tin/, /ˈθɝ.tin/

  Audio (US):

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• 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^[1]:

     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 […]

   • 1890 February 28, W. S. Wetmore, “RECOLLECTIONS OF LIFE IN CHINA IN THE FIFTIES.”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette‎^[2], volume XLIV, number 1178, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 256, column 1:

     In the spring of 1857, I, with several friends, left Hongkong for Shanghai, viâ Foochow, in the small coasting steamer Antelope. No noteworthy incident occurred until after leaving Foochow when, as we were enjoying our after dinner coffee and cigars, and by chance discussing the question of thirteen sitting down at table that had occurred at a dinner at which one of the party had shortly before been present, a violent thump and tremulous motion of the vessel announced the unpleasant fact that we had struck upon something. We rushed on deck and found the steamer hard and fast on a reef near Matsu Island. Fortunately the day was fine and there was no sea on.

   • 2014, “Little Green Men”: A Primer on Modern Russian Unconventional Warfare, Ukraine 2013–2014‎^[3], Fort Bragg, North Carolina: The United States Army Special Operations Command, page 42:

     In the summer of 2014, at least thirteen BTGs and elements of five SPETSNAZ units were poised on the Ukrainian border.³⁶

Synonyms

• baker’s dozen
• long dozen
• throtteen (dialect)

Coordinate terms

• Previous: twelve. Next: fourteen

Derived terms

• grade thirteen
• sweet thirteen
• thirteener
• thirteen hundred
• thirteen-lined ground squirrel
• thirteen to the dozen

Related terms

• Ordinal: thirteenth
• triskaidekaphobia

Translations

the cardinal number occurring after twelve and before fourteen

• Afrikaans: dertien (af)
• Aghwan: 𐕀𐔼𐔱𐔴𐕂𐔰𐕙 (xibec̣ar)
• Albanian: trembëdhjetë (sq)
• American Sign Language: Hu@Side-PalmBack Flatten
• Amharic: አስራ ሶስት (ʾäsra sost)
• Arabic: ثَلَاثَةَ عَشَرَ (ṯalāṯata ʕašara) (numeral: ١٣)

  Egyptian Arabic: تلاتاشر (talataašar)

  Hijazi Arabic: ثلثطعش (talaṭṭaʕaš, ṯalaṯṭaʕaš), تلتطعش (talatṭaʕaš)

• Aragonese: treze
• Aramaic:

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

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

• Armenian: տասներեք (hy) (tasnerekʻ)
• Ashkun: traus
• Assamese: তেৰ (tero)
• Asturian: trece (ast), trelce (ast)
• Aymara: tunka kimsani
• Azerbaijani: on üç (az)
• Bashkir: ун өс (un ös)
• Basque: hamahiru (eu)
• Belarusian: трына́ццаць (be) (trynáccacʹ)
• Bengali: তেরো (bn) (terō) (numeral: ১৩)
• Bikol Central: kagtulo
• Breton: trizek (br)
• Brunei Malay: tiga balas
• Bulgarian: трина́десет (trinádeset), трина́йсет (trinájset)
• Burmese: ဆယ့်သုံး (hcai.sum:) (numeral: ၁၃)
• Buryat: арбан гурбан (arban gurban)
• Carpathian Rusyn: трина́дцять (trynádcjatʹ)
• Catalan: tretze (ca)
• Cebuano: napulog tulo
• Central Sierra Miwok: naˀá·ča- toló·košu-ˀ hej·i-ˀ
• Chechen: кхойтта (qojtta)
• Cherokee: ᏦᎦᏚ (tsogadu)
• Chichewa: khumi n'zitatu
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 十三 (sap⁶ saam¹)

  Hakka: 十三 (sṳ̍p-sâm)

  Mandarin: 十三 (zh) (shísān) (numeral: 拾參 / 拾参)

  Teochew: san1zab8, sab8

• Chuvash: вунвиҫҫӗ (vunviśśĕ), вунвиҫӗ (vunviś̬ĕ), вунвиҫҫ (vunviśś)
• Classical Nahuatl: mahtlāctli omēyi
• Corsican: trèdeci
• Crimean Tatar: on üç
• Czech: třináct (cs)
• Dalmatian: tretco
• Danish: tretten (da)
• Dena'ina: tuq'i beq'di
• Dhivehi: ތޭރަ (tēra)
• Dutch: dertien (nl) f
• Dzongkha: བཅུ་གསུམ (bcu gsum)
• Esperanto: dek tri
• Estonian: kolmteist (et)
• Faroese: trettan
• Fijian: tini ka tolu
• Finnish: kolmetoista (fi)
• French: treize (fr) m
• Friulian: tredis
• Galician: trece (gl)
• Georgian: ცამეტი (ka) (cameṭi)
• German: dreizehn (de)
• Greek: δεκατρείς (el) m or f (dekatreís), δεκατρία (el) n (dekatría)

  Ancient: τρεισκαίδεκα (treiskaídeka), τρισκαίδεκα (triskaídeka), ιγ΄ (numeral)

• Greenlandic: aqqaneq-pingasut (kl)
• Gujarati: તેર (gu) (ter) (numeral: ૧૩)
• Haitian Creole: trèz
• Hawaiian: ʻumikūmākolu
• Hebrew: שְׁלוֹשׁ עֶשְׂרֵה f (shlosh esre) (used in counting), שְׁלוֹשָׁה עָשָׂר m (shlosha asar)
• Hindi: तेरह (hi) (terah) (numeral: १३ (hi) (13))
• Hopi: pakwt niikyang paykomuy siikya’ta
• Hungarian: tizenhárom (hu)
• Hunsrik: dreizen
• Icelandic: þrettán (is)
• Ido: dek-e-tri (io)
• Inari Sami: kulmânubáloh
• Indonesian: tiga belas (id)
• Ingrian: kolttoist
• Interlingua: dece-tres
• Inupiaq: qulit piŋasut
• Irish: trí déag (ga)
• Istriot: tridase
• Italian: tredici (it) m
• Japanese: 十三 (ja) (じゅうさん, jūsan), 十三 (ja) (とさ, tosa)
• Javanese: telulas
• Kamkata-viri: trić
• Kannada: ಹದಿಮೂರು (kn) (hadimūru) (numeral: ೧೩ (13))
• Kazakh: он үш (on üş)
• Khiamniungan Naga: tshìekǜsǖmīeh
• Khmer: ដប់បី (dop bei) (numeral: ១៣)
• Komi-Permyak: даскуим (daskuim)
• Korean: 열셋 (ko) (yeolset), 십삼(十三) (ko) (sipsam)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: سیانزە (syanze)

  Northern Kurdish: sêzde (ku)

• Kyrgyz: он үч (ky) (on üc)
• Ladin: tredesc
• Lakota: akéyamni
• Lao: ສິບສາມ (sip sām) (numeral: ໑໓)
• Latgalian: treispadsmit
• Latin: trēdecim (la)
• Latvian: trīspadsmit (lv)
• Ligurian: trézze
• Lithuanian: trylika (lt)
• Livonian: kuolmtuoistõn
• Lombard: tredes (lmo)
• Louisiana Creole French: trèz
• Low German: dörteihn (nds), dötteihn, dorteihn
• Lü: ᦉᦲᧇᦉᦱᧄ (ṡiibṡaam) (numeral: ᧑᧓)
• Luxembourgish: dräizéng (lb)
• Macedonian: трина́есет (trináeset)
• Malagasy: telo ambinifolo
• Malay: tiga belas (ms), telu belas, sepuluh tiga, sepuluh telu, satu puluh tiga, satu puluh telu
• Malayalam: പതിമൂന്ന് (ml) (patimūnnŭ)
• Maltese: tlettax
• Manchu: (juwan ilan), ᠵᡠᠸᠠᠨ
  ᡳᠯᠠᠨ (juwan ilan)
• Manx: tree jeig
• Maori: tekau mā toru (mi)
• Marathi: तेरा (terā)
• Middle English: thrittene
• Mon: စှ်ပိ
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: арван гурав (arvan gurav)

  Mongolian: ᠠᠷᠪᠠᠨ
  ᠭᠤᠷᠪᠠ (arban ɣurba), (numeral) ᠑᠓ (13))

• Navajo: tááʼtsʼáadah
• Norman: treize
• Northern Mansi: ^{(please verify)} хурумхуйплов (hurumhujplov)
• Northern Sami: golbmanuppelohkái
• Norwegian: tretten (no)
• Occitan: tretze (oc)
• Odia: ତେର (or) (tera) (numeral: ୧୩ (13))
• Ojibwe: ashi-niswi
• Old Church Slavonic: трьѥ на дєсѧтє (trĭje na desęte) (numeral: г҃і)
• Old English: þrēotīene
• Pennsylvania German: dreizeh
• Persian: سیزده (fa) (sizdah), ۱۳ (numeral)
• Piedmontese: tërdes
• Polish: trzynaście (pl), (collective) trzynaścioro (pl)
• Portuguese: treze (pt)
• Prasuni: ċšīzē
• Punjabi: ਤੇਰ੍ਹਾਂ (terhā̃) (numeral: ੧੩ (13))
• Quechua: chunka kimsayuq
• Romagnol: tredṣ, trédgg
• Romani: deśutrin

  Kalo Finnish Romani: deȟ-o-triin

• Romanian: treisprezece (ro), treișpe (informal)
• Romansch: (Grischun, Surmiran) tredesch, (Sursilvan) tredisch, (Vallader) traidesch
• Russian: трина́дцать (ru) (trinádcatʹ)
• S'gaw Karen: တဆံသၢ (ta hsee thuh)
• Samoan: sefulu tolu
• Sanskrit: त्रयोदश (sa) (trayodaśa) (numeral: १३ (13))
• Santali: ᱜᱮᱞ ᱯᱮ (gel pe)
• Sardinian: trechi, treghi, treci, tréichi, trexi
• Scots: thirteen
• Scottish Gaelic: trì-deug
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тринаест

  Roman: trinaest

• Shan: သိပ်းသၢမ် (síp sǎam)
• Sicilian: trìdici (scn), trìrici (scn)
• Sinhalese: දහතුන (dahatuna)
• Skolt Sami: konmlo
• Slovak: trinásť (sk)
• Slovene: trinajst (sl)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: tśinasćo

  Upper Sorbian: třinaće

• Spanish: trece (es)
• Swahili: kumi na tatu
• Swedish: tretton (sv)
• Tagalog: labintatlo (tl)
• Tahitian: hō'ē 'ahuru ma toru
• Tajik: сездаҳ (tg) (sezdah)
• Tamil: பதின்மூன்று (ta) (patiṉmūṉṟu) (numeral: ௰௩)
• Tatar: унөч (unöç)
• Telugu: పదమూడు (te) (padamūḍu) (numeral: ౧౩ (13))
• Thai: สิบสาม (th) (sìp-sǎam) (numeral: ๑๓)
• Tibetan: བཅུ་གསུམ (bcu gsum)
• Tigre: ዐስር ወሰለስ (ʿäsr wäsäläs)
• Tigrinya: ዓሰርተ ሰለስተ (ʿasärtä sälästä)
• Tok Pisin: tetin, wanpela ten tri
• Tongan: hongofulu mā tolu
• Turkish: on üç (tr)
• Turkmen: on üç (tk)
• Ukrainian: трина́дцять (uk) (trynádcjatʹ)
• Urdu: تیرہ (terah)
• Uyghur: ئون ئۈچ (ug) (on üch)
• Uzbek: oʻn uch (uz)
• Venetan: tredese, trédexe (vec)
• Vietnamese: mười ba (vi)
• Vilamovian: drecao
• Volapük: degkil, balsekil (older term, obsolete)
• Waigali: trū̃š
• Walloon: traze (wa)
• Welsh: tri ar ddeg (cy) m (vigesimal, traditional), tair ar ddeg (cy) f (vigesimal, traditional), un deg tri (cy) (decimal), undeg tair f (decimal)
• West Frisian: trettjin (fy)
• Wolof: fukk ak ñett
• Xhosa: please add this translation if you can
• Yao: likumi kwisa tatu
• Yiddish: דרײַצן (draytsn)
• Yucatec Maya: óoxlajun
• Yup'ik: qula pingayun
• Zazaki: desuhirê, hirês (diq)
• Zhuang: cib sam
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• tetherin

Scots

Scots numbers ^(edit)

←  12	13
Cardinal: thirteen     Ordinal: thirteent

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Scots thretten, from Middle English thrittene, from Old English þrēotīene, þrēotēne, from Proto-Germanic *þritehun.

Numeral

thirteen

1. thirteen

References

• “thirteen, num. adj.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 12 June 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.