English
Etymology
From Middle English twelve Old English twelf ( “ twelve ” ) , from Proto-Germanic *twalif *twa- ( “ two ” ) and *-lif ( “ left over ” ) (i.e., two left over after having already counted to ten), from Proto-Indo-European *leykʷ- ( “ leave, remain ” ) . Cognate with Saterland Frisian tweelf tweelif tweelich ( “ twelve ” ) , West Frisian tolve ( “ twelve ” ) , Dutch twaalf ( “ twelve ” ) , German Low German twalf twalv ( “ twelve ” ) , German zwölf ( “ twelve ” ) , Danish Swedish Norwegian tolv ( “ twelve ” ) , Icelandic tólf ( “ twelve ” ) .
Pronunciation
Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290 : Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E . IPA (key ) : /twɛlv/ , [tʰw̥ɛlv] Rhymes: -ɛlv
Numeral
twelve
The cardinal number occurring after eleven and before thirteen , represented in Arabic numerals as 12 and in Roman numerals as XII .
There are twelve months in a year.
( slang ) Law enforcement ; the police
Derived terms
Translations
cardinal number 12
Afrikaans: twaalf (af)
Albanian: dymbëdhjetë (sq)
Amharic: ዐሥራ ሁለት ( ʿäśra hulät )
Arabic: اِثْنَا عَشَرَ ( iṯnā ʕašara )
Egyptian Arabic: اتناشر ( itnašar )
Aragonese: dotze doce doze
Aramaic:
Hebrew: תרעסר m ( tre‘sar ) , תרתעסרא f ( tarta‘esrē )
Syriac: ܬܪܥܣܪ m ( treʿsar ) , ܬܪܬܥܣܪܐ f ( tartaʿesrē )
Armenian: տասներկու (hy) ( tasnerku )
Asturian: doce (ast)
Aymara: tunka payani
Azerbaijani: on iki (az)
Bashkir: ун ике ( un ike )
Basque: hamabi (eu)
Belarusian: двана́ццаць ( dvanáccacʹ )
Bengali: বারো ( barō ) (numeral: ১২ )
Breton: daouzek (br)
Bulgarian: двана́десет ( dvanádeset ) , двана́йсет ( dvanájset )
Burmese: ဆယ့်နှစ် (my) ( hcai.hnac ) (numeral: ၁၂ )
Buryat: арбан хоёр ( arban xojor )
Catalan: dotze (ca)
Cebuano: napulog duha dose
Central Sierra Miwok: ˀoṭíkšake·ny-
Chamicuro: chunka ma'pojta
Chechen: шийтта ( šiı̇tta )
Cherokee: ᏔᎵᏚ ( talidu )
Chichewa: khumi n'ziwiri
Chinese:
Cantonese: 十二 ( sap6 ji6 )
Hakka: 十二 ( sṳ̍p-ngi )
Mandarin: 十二 (zh) ( shí'èr ) (numeral: 拾貳 )
Chuukese: engon me ru
Chuvash: вуниккӗ ( vunikkĕ ) , вуникӗ ( vunik̬ĕ ) , вуник ( vunik )
Classical Nahuatl: mahtlāctli omōme
Crimean Tatar: on eki
Czech: dvanáct (cs)
Dalmatian: dotco
Danish: tolv (da)
Dena'ina: nutiha beq'di
Dhivehi: ބާރަ ( bāra ) , ދޮޅަސް ( doḷas )
Dutch: twaalf (nl)
Dzongkha: བཅུ་གཉིས ( bcu gnyis )
Esperanto: dek du
Estonian: kaksteist (et)
Faroese: tólv (fo)
Fijian: tini ka rua
Finnish: kaksitoista (fi)
French: douze (fr)
Friulian: dodis
Galician: doce (gl)
Garifuna: dûsu
Georgian: თორმეტი (ka) ( tormeṭi )
German: zwölf (de)
Gothic: 𐍄𐍅𐌰𐌻𐌹𐍆 ( twalif )
Greek: δώδεκα (el) ( dódeka )
Ancient: δώδεκα ( dṓdeka ) , ιβ΄ ( numeral )
Greenlandic: aqqaniq-marluk
Gujarati: બાર (gu) ( bār ) (numeral: ૧૨ )
Haitian Creole: douz
Hawaiian: ʻumikūmālua
Hebrew: ( used in counting ) שְׁתֵּים־עֶשְׂרֵה f ( shteim esre ) , שְׁנֵים־עָשָׂר m ( shneim asar )
Hindi: बारह (hi) ( bārah )
Hopi: pakwt niikyang löqmuy siikya’ta
Hungarian: tizenkettő (hu)
Hunsrik: zwellef
Icelandic: tólf (is)
Ido: dek-e-du (io)
Indonesian: dua belas (id)
Interlingua: (please verify ) dece -duo (please verify ) duodece
Irish: dó dhéag (ga)
Italian: dodici (it)
Japanese: 十二 (ja) ( じゅうに, jūni )
Kannada: ಹನ್ನೆರಡು (kn) ( hanneraḍu ) , ೧೨ ( 12 ) ( numeral )
Karelian: kaksitostu
Kazakh: он екі (kk) ( on ekı )
Khmer: ដប់ពីរ ( dop pī ) (numeral: ១២ )
Komi-Permyak: даскык ( daskyk )
Korean: 열둘 (ko) ( yeoldul ) , 십이 (ko) ( sibi ) (十二 (ko) )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: دوانزە ( dwanze ) , دوازدە ( dwazde )
Northern Kurdish: Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290 : Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "ku" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E .
Southern Kurdish: دوازدە ( dwazde )
Kyrgyz: он эки (ky) ( on eki )
Ladin: dodesc
Lakota: akénuŋpa
Lao: ສິບສອງ ( sip sǭng ) (numeral: ໑໒ )
Latgalian: divpadsmit
Latin: duodecim (la)
Latvian: divpadsmit (lv)
Ligurian: dózze
(deprecated template usage ) {{trans-mid }}Lithuanian: dvylika (lt)
Livonian: kakštuoistõn
Low German: twölf (nds) , twolf (nds)
Luxembourgish: zwielef (lb)
Lü: ᦉᦲᧇᦉᦸᧂ ( ṡiibṡoang ) (numeral: ᧑᧒ )
Macedonian: двана́есет ( dvanáeset )
Malagasy: roa ambinifolo
Malay: dua belas sepuluh dua satu puluh dua
Malayalam: പന്ത്രണ്ട് (ml) ( pantraṇṭŭ )
Maltese: tnax
Manchu: (juwan juwe )
Mansi: Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290 : Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "mns" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E .
Manx: daa yeig
Maore Comorian: kumi na mbili
Maori: tekau mā rua (mi) , ngahuru mā rua ( older term )
Middle English: twelve
Mongolian: арван хоёр ( arvan xojor ) (numeral: ᠑᠒ ( 12 ) )
Nauruan: ata ma aro
Navajo: naakitsʼáadah
Ngazidja Comorian: kume na -ili
Norwegian: tolv (no)
Novial: Lua error in Module:translations at line 71 : Translations must be for attested and approved main-namespace languages.
Occitan: dotze (oc)
Ojibwe: ashi-niizh
Old Church Slavonic: дъва на дєсѧтє ( dŭva na desęte )
Oriya: ବାର (or) ( bār ) (numeral: ୧୨ ( 12 ) )
Pennsylvania German: zwelf zwelfe
Persian: دوازده (fa) ( davâzdah )
Polish: dwanaście (pl) , ( collective ) dwanaścioro (pl)
Portuguese: doze (pt)
Punjabi: ਬਾਰਾਂ ( bārāṅ ) (numeral: ੧੨ )
Quechua: chunka iskayniyuq
Romani:
Kalo Finnish Romani: deȟ-o-dui
Romanian: (please verify ) doisprezece (ro) m ( informal ) (please verify ) doișpe (ro) m (please verify ) douăsprezece f or n ( informal ) (please verify ) douășpe f or n
Romansch: dudesch ( Grischun )
Russian: двена́дцать (ru) ( dvenádcatʹ )
Rusyn: двана́дцить ( dvanádcytʹ )
S'gaw Karen: တဆံခံ ( ta hsee khee )
Sami:
Inari: kyehtnubáloh
Northern: guoktenuppelohkái
Skolt: kuâtmlo
Southern: luhkie göökte
Samoan: sefulu lua
Sanskrit: द्वादश (sa) ( dvādaśa )
Sardinian: dóghi
Scottish Gaelic: dà dheug a dhà dheug
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: два́нае̄ст
Roman: dvánaēst
Shan: သိပ်းသွင် ( síp sǎung )
Sinhalese: දොළහ ( doḷaha )
Slovak: dvanásť (sk)
Slovene: dvanájst (sl)
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: dwanasćo
Upper Sorbian: dwanaće
Southern Altai: он эки ( on eki )
Spanish: doce (es)
Swedish: tolv (sv)
Tagalog: labindalawa (tl) , dose
Tahitian: hō'ē 'ahuru ma piti
Tajik: дувоздаҳ (tg) ( duvozdah )
Tamil: பன்னிரண்டு (ta) ( paṉṉiraṇṭu )
Tatar: унике ( unike )
Telugu: పండ్రెండు (te) ( paṇḍreṇḍu )
Thai: สิบสอง (th) ( sìp-sɔ̌ɔng ) (numeral: ๑๒ )
Tibetan: བཅུ་གཉིས ( bcu gnyis )
Tigre: ዐስር ወክልኦት ( ʿäsr wäkləʾot ) , ዐስር ወክልኤ ( ʿäsr wäkləʾe )
Tigrinya: ዓሰርተ ክልተ ( ʿasärtä kəltä )
Tongan: hongofulu mā ua
Turkish: on iki (tr)
Turkmen: on iki (tk)
Ukrainian: двана́дцять (uk) ( dvanádcjatʹ )
Urdu: بارہ ( baarah )
Uyghur: ئون ئىككى (ug) ( on ikki )
Uzbek: oʻn ikki (uz)
Venetian: dódexe (vec)
Vietnamese: mười hai
Vilamovian: cwełf
Volapük: degtel (vo) , balsetel ( older term, obsolete )
Walloon: doze (wa)
Welsh: deuddeg (cy) ( vigesimal, traditional ) , un deg dau (cy) ( decimal ) , undeg dwy f
West Frisian: tolf (fy) , tolve (fy)
Wolof: fukk ak ñaar
Yao: likumi kwisa wili
Yiddish: צוועלף ( tsvelf )
Yup'ik: qula malruk
Zhuang: cib ngeih
Zuni: asdemłan kwili yałdo'
See also
Noun
twelve (plural twelves
A group of twelve items .
Fractions would be a little easier if we counted by twelves .
A twelve-bore gun .
1982 , Lawrence Durrell , Constance , Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet ), page 880:
In this way Von Esslin ‘inherited’ two fine hammerless twelves which he used once or twice for duck on the Camargue.
( law , colloquial ) jury (normally composed of twelve persons).( slang ) police ; law enforcement , especially a narcotics officer
See also
Middle English
Etymology
From Old English twelf Proto-Germanic *twalif
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈtwɛlv(ə)/ , /ˈtwɛlf(ə)/
Numeral
twelve
twelve
Descendants
