thirteen

English

English numbers

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Cardinal : thirteen     Ordinal : thirteenth     Multiplier : thirteenfold

Alternative forms

• Arabic numerals: 13
• Roman numerals: XIII

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (next word stressed near the first syllable)

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

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

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• (next word stressed after the first syllable)

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

  (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌθɝ(t)ˈtin/

• 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 […]

Coordinate terms

• Previous: twelve. Next: fourteen

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 (sq)
• American Sign Language: Hu@Side-PalmBack Flatten
• Amharic: አስራ ሶስት (ʾäsra sost)
• Arabic: ثَلَاثَةَ عَشَرَ‏‎ (ṯalāṯata ʿašara) (numeral: ١٣‏)

  Egyptian Arabic: تلاتاشر‏‎ (talataašar)

• Aragonese: treze
• Aramaic:

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

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

• Armenian: տասներեք (hy) (tasnerekʿ)
• Asturian: trece (ast), trelce (ast)
• Aymara: tunka kimsani
• Azeri: on üç (az)
• Bashkir: ун өс (un ös)
• Basque: hamahiru (eu)
• Belarusian: трына́ццаць (trynáccacʹ)
• Bengali: তেরো (tero) (numeral: ১৩)
• Breton: trizek (br)
• Bulgarian: трина́десет (trinádeset), трина́йсет (trinájset)
• Burmese: ဆယ့်သုံး (hcai.sum:) (numeral: ၁၃)
• Buryat: арбан гурбан (arban gurban)
• Catalan: tretze (ca)
• Chechen: кхойтта (qojtta)
• Chichewa: khumi n'zitatu
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 十三 (sap⁶ saam¹)

  Hakka: 十三 (sṳ̍p-sâm)

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

  Teochew: san1zab8, sab8

• Chuvash: вунвиççӗ (vunviççĕ), вунвиçӗ (vunviçĕ), вунвиçç (vunviçç)
• 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
• 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 (cameṭi)
• German: dreizehn (de)
• Gothic: *𐌸𐍂𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌿𐌽 (*þritaihun)
• Greek: δεκατρείς (el) m, f (dekatreís), δεκατρία (el) n (dekatría)

  Ancient Greek: τρισκαίδεκα (triskaídeka)

• Greenlandic: aqqaniq-pingasut
• Gujarati: તેર (gu) (ter) (numeral: ૧૩)
• Haitian Creole: trèz
• Hawaiian: ʻumikūmākolu
• Hebrew: שְׁלֹשׁ־עֶשְׂרֵה‏‎ f (shlosh esre) (used in counting), שְׁלוֹשָה־עָשָׂר‏‎ m (shlosha asar)
• Hindi: तेरह (hi) (terah) (numeral: १३ (hi) (13))
• Hopi: pakwt niikyang paykomuy siikya’ta
• Hungarian: tizenhárom (hu)
• Icelandic: þrettán (is)
• Ido: dek-e-tri
• Inari Sami: kulmânubáloh
• Indonesian: tiga belas (id)
• Interlingua: dece-tres
• Irish: trí déag (ga)
• Istriot: tridase
• Italian: tredici (it) m
• Japanese: 十三 (ja) (じゅうさん, jū-san)
• Javanese: telulas
• Kannada: ಹದಿಮೂರು (kn) (hadimūru) (numeral: ೧೩ (13))
• Kazakh: он үш (kk) (on üş)
• Khmer: ដប់បី (dop bei) (numeral: ១៣)
• Komi-Permyak: даскуим (daskuim)
• Korean: 열셋 (ko) (yeolset), 십삼 (ko) (sipsam) (十三 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: sêzde (ku)

  Sorani: سیانزە‏‎ (siyanze, syanze)

• Kyrgyz: он үч (ky) (on üç)
• Ladin: tredesc
• Lao: ສິບສາມ (sip sām) (numeral: ໑໓)

• Latgalian: treispadsmit
• Latin: tredecim (la)
• Latvian: trīspadsmit (lv)
• Lithuanian: trylika (lt)
• Livonian: kuolmtuoistõn
• Low German: dörteihn (nds), dötteihn, dorteihn
• Luxembourgish: dräizéng (lb)
• Lü: ᦉᦲᧇᦉᦱᧄ (ṡiibṡaam) (numeral: ᧑᧓)
• Macedonian: трина́есет (trináeset)
• Malagasy: telo ambinifolo
• 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 (᠑᠓))
• Navajo: tááʼtsʼáadah
• Norman: treize
• Northern Sami: golbmanuppelohkái
• Norwegian: tretten (no)
• Novial: dek-tri
• Occitan: tretze (oc)
• Ojibwe: ashi-niswi
• Old Church Slavonic: трьѥ на дєсѧтє (trĭje na desęte)
• Oriya: ତେର (or) (ter) (numeral: ୧୩ (13))
• Persian: سیزده‏‎ (fa) (sizdah), ۱۳‏‎ (numeral)
• Polish: trzynaście (pl), (collective) trzynaścioro (pl)
• Portuguese: treze (pt)
• Punjabi: ਤੇਰ੍ਹਾਂ (terhāṅ) (numeral: ੧੩ (13))
• Quechua: chunka kimsayuq
• Romanian: treisprezece (ro), treișpe (informal)
• Romansch: (Grischun, Surmiran) tredesch, (Sursilvan) tredisch, (Vallader) traidesch
• Russian: трина́дцать (ru) (trinádcatʹ)
• Rusyn: трина́дцить (trynádcytʹ)
• S'gaw Karen: တဆံသၢ (təhsithø)
• Samoan: sefulu tolu
• Sanskrit: त्रयोदश (sa) (trayodaśa) (numeral: १३ (13))
• Sardinian: trechi, treghi, treci, tréichi, trexi
• Scottish Gaelic: trì deug
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тринаест

  Roman: trinaest

• Shan: သိပ်းသၢမ် (sip⁴ saam¹)
• Sicilian: trìdici (scn), trìrici (scn)
• Sinhalese: දහතුන (dahatuna)
• Skolt Sami: konmlo
• Slovak: trinásť
• Slovene: trinajst (sl)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: tśinasćo

  Upper Sorbian: třinaće

• Spanish: trece (es)
• Swedish: tretton (sv)
• Tagalog: labintatlo (tl)
• Tahitian: hō'ē 'ahuru ma toru
• Tajik: сездаҳ (tg) (sezdah)
• Tamil: பதின்மூன்று (ta) (patiṉmūṉṟu) (numeral: ௰௩ (௰௩))
• Tatar: унөч (unöç)
• Telugu: పదమూడు (te) (padamūḍu) (numeral: ౧౩ (13))
• Thai: สิบสาม (th) (sìp-sǎam) (numeral: ๑๓)
• Tibetan: བཅུ་གསུམ (bcu gsum)
• 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)
• Venetian: tredese, trédexe (vec)
• Vietnamese: mười ba
• Vilamovian: drecao
• Volapük: degkil, balsekil (older term, obsolete)
• Walloon: traze (wa)
• Welsh: tri ar ddeg (cy) m (vigesimal, traditional), tair ar ddeg (cy) f (vigesimal), un deg tri (cy) (decimal), undeg tair f
• West Frisian: trettjin (fy)
• Wolof: fukk ak ñett
• Xhosa: please add this translation if you can
• Yiddish: דרײַצן‏‎ (draytsn)
• Yup'ik: qula pingayun
• Zhuang: cib sam
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

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