English
- (Arabic numerals): 17
- (Roman numerals): XVII
- (Exmoor dialect): zewnteen
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English seventene, from Old English seofontīene, from Proto-Germanic *sebuntehun. Cognate with Dutch zeventien, West Frisian santjin, German siebzehn, Danish sytten.
Equivalent to seven + -teen
Pronunciation
- (next word stressed near the first syllable)
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈsɛv.ən.tiːn/
- (next word stressed after the first syllable)
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˌsɛv.ənˈtiːn/
- Rhymes: -iːn
Numeral
seventeen
- The cardinal number occurring after sixteen and before eighteen, represented in Roman numerals as XVII and in Arabic numerals as 17.
1631 (first performance), Philip Massinger, The Emperour of the East. A Tragæ-comœdie. […], London: […] Thomas Harper, for Iohn Waterson, published 1632, →OCLC, Act IV, scene iii:[T]he charge of my moſt curious, and coſtly ingredients fraide, amounting to ſome ſeaventeene thouſand crovvnes, a trifle in reſpect of health, vvriting your noble name in my Catalogue, I ſhall acknovvledge my ſelfe amply ſatisfi'd.
Derived terms
Derived terms
Translations
cardinal number
- Afrikaans: sewentien (af)
- Ainu: アラワン イカシマ ワン, arawan ikasima wan
- Albanian: shtatëmbëdhjetë (sq)
- Altai:
- Southern Altai: он јети (on ǰeti)
- American Sign Language:
- Amharic: አስራ ሰባት (ʾäsra säbat)
- Arabic: سَبْعَةَ عَشَرَ (sabʕata ʕašara)
- Egyptian Arabic: سبعتاشر (sabaʕtāšar)
- Aragonese: decisiet, dechiset
- Aramaic:
- Hebrew script: שבעסר (shba‘sar) m, שבעסרא (shba‘esrē) f
- Syriac: ܫܒܥܣܪ (shba‘sar) m, ܫܒܥܣܪܐ (shba‘esrē) f
- Armenian: տասնյոթ (hy) (tasnyotʻ)
- Old Armenian: եօթնեւտասն (eōtʻnewtasn)
- Asturian: diecisiete (ast)
- Aymara: tunka paqallquni
- Azerbaijani: on yeddi (az)
- Bashkir: ун ете (un yete)
- Basque: hamazazpi (eu)
- Belarusian: сямна́ццаць (be) (sjamnáccacʹ), семна́ццаць (be) (sjemnáccacʹ)
- Bengali: সতেরো (bn) (śoterō) (numeral: ১৭)
- Bikol:
- Central Bikol: kagpito, diyesisiyete
- Breton: seitek (br)
- Bulgarian: седемна́десет (sedemnádeset), седемна́йсет (sedemnájset)
- Burmese: ဆယ့်ခုနစ် (hcai.hku.nac) (numeral: ၁၇)
- Buryat: арбан долоон (arban doloon)
- Carpathian Rusyn: сїмна́дцять (sjimnádcjatʹ)
- Catalan: disset (ca)
- Cebuano: napulog pito
- Chechen: вуьрхӏитта (vürhitta)
- Cherokee: ᎦᎵᏆᏚ (galiquadu)
- Chichewa: khumi n'zisanu n'ziwiri
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 十七 (sap6 cat1)
- Hakka: 十七 (sṳ̍p-chhit)
- Mandarin: 十七 (zh) (shíqī)
- Chuvash: вунҫиччӗ (vunś̬iččĕ), вунҫичӗ (vunś̬ič̬ĕ), вунҫич (vunś̬ič)
- Cornish: seytek
- Crimean Tatar: on yedi
- Czech: sedmnáct (cs)
- Dalmatian: dichisapto
- Danish: sytten (da)
- Dena'ina: qents'eghuy'i beq'di
- Dhivehi: ސަތާރަ (satāra)
- Dutch: zeventien (nl) f
- Dzongkha: བཅུ་བདུན (bcu bdun)
- Ede:
- Ifè: máaméedze, mɛ́ɛtaɖìnógú
- Edo: èháírrọ̀vbúgiè
- Esperanto: dek sep
- Estonian: seitseteist (et)
- Fijian: tini ka vitu
- Finnish: seitsemäntoista (fi)
- French: dix-sept (fr) m
- Frisian:
- West Frisian: santjin (fy)
- Friulian: disesiet
- Galician: dezasete (gl)
- Georgian: ჩვიდმეტი (ka) (čvidmeṭi)
- German: siebzehn (de)
- Greek: δεκαεπτά (el) (dekaeptá)
- Ancient Greek: ἑπτακαίδεκα (heptakaídeka), ιζ΄ (numeral)
- Greenlandic: arfersaneq-marluk (kl)
- Gujarati: સત્તર (gu) (sattar)
- Haitian Creole: disèt
- Hawaiian: ʻumikūmāhiku
- Hebrew: שְׁבַע־עֶשְׂרֵה f (shva esre) (used in counting), שִׁבְעָה־עָשָׂר m (shiv'a asar)
- Hindi: सत्रह (hi) (satrah)
- Hopi: pakwt niikyang tsange’ siikya’ta
- Hungarian: tizenhét (hu)
- Hunsrik: sibzen
- Icelandic: sautján (is)
- Ido: dek-e-sep (io)
- Igala: ẹ̀gwébie
- Igbo: ìri nà àsaà
- Indonesian: tujuh belas (id)
- Ingrian: seitsentoist
- Interlingua: dece-septe
- Inupiaq: akimiaq malġuk
- Irish: seacht déag
- Italian: diciassette (it)
- Japanese: 十七 (ja) (じゅうなな, jūnana, じゅうしち, jūshichi)
- Javanese: pitulas (jv)
- Jeju: 열일곱 (yeorilgop), 십칠 (sipchil) (Sino-Korean)
- Kannada: ಹದಿನೇಳು (kn) (hadinēḷu)
- Karen:
- S'gaw Karen: တဆံနွံ (ta hsee nwee)
- Kazakh: он жеті (on jetı)
- Khmer: ដប់ប្រាំពីរ (dop pram pī) (numeral: ១៧)
- Komi:
- Komi-Permyak: дассизим (dasśiźim)
- Korean: 열일곱 (ko) (yeorilgop), 십칠(十七) (ko) (sipchil)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: حەڤدە (ḧevde)
- Northern Kurdish: hevde (ku)
- Kyrgyz: он жети (ky) (on jeti)
- Ladin: please add this translation if you can
- Ladino:
- Hebrew: דייזיסייטי
- Latin: diezisiete
- Lakota: akéšakowiŋ
- Lao: ສິບເຈັດ (sip chet) (numeral: ໑໗)
- Latin: septendecim (la)
- Latvian: septiņpadsmit (lv)
- Ligurian: dîsètte
- Lithuanian: septyniolika (lt)
- Livonian: seistuoistõn
- Lombard: please add this translation if you can
- Louisiana Creole: disèt
- Louisiana Creole: di-sèt
- Low German: söventeihn (nds)
- German Low German: söventeihn (nds)
- Lü: ᦉᦲᧇᦵᦈᧆ (ṡiibṫsed) (numeral: ᧑᧗)
- Lucumí: eta dilogun, meta dilogún
- Luxembourgish: siwwenzéng (lb), siwenzéng
- Macedonian: седумнаесет (sedumnaeset)
- Malagasy: fito ambinifolo
- Malay: tujuh belas (ms), pitu belas, sepuluh tujuh, sepuluh pitu, satu puluh tujuh, satu puluh pitu
- Brunei Malay: tujuh balas
- Malayalam: പതിനേഴ് (ml) (patinēḻŭ)
- Maltese: sbatax
- Manchu: ᠵᡠᠸᠠᠨ
ᠨᠠᡩᠠᠨ (juwan nadan)
- Mansi:
- Northern Mansi: (please verify) сатхуйплов (sathujplov)
- Māori: tekau mā whitu (mi)
- Mapudungun: marirekle
- Middle English: seventene
- Miwok:
- Central Sierra Miwok: naˀá·ča- kenék·aky-ˀ hej·i-ˀ
- Mon: please add this translation if you can
- Mongolian: арван долоо (arvan doloo)
- Naga:
- Khiamniungan Naga: tshìekǜtshǖnīeh
- Nahuatl:
- Classical Nahuatl: caxtōlli omōme
- Navajo: tsostsʼidtsʼáadah
- Nigerian Pidgin: sẹ́vìntín
- Norman: dgiêx-sept
- Norwegian: sytten (no)
- Nuosu: ꏃ (shyp)
- Occitan: dètz-e-sèt (oc)
- Odia: ସତର (or) (satara) (numeral: ୧୭ (17))
- Ojibwe: ashi-niizhwaaswi
- Old Church Slavonic: седмь на десѧте (sedmĭ na desęte) (numeral: з҃і)
- Olukumi: mèzelémègwa
- Pannonian Rusyn: седемнац (sedemnac)
- Pennsylvania German: siwwezeh
- Persian: هفده (fa) (hefdah)
- Piedmontese: dissèt
- Polish: siedemnaście (pl), (collective) siedemnaścioro (pl)
- Portuguese: dezassete (pt) (Portugal), dezessete (pt) (Brazil)
- Punjabi: ਸਤਾਰਾਂ (pa) (satārā̃)
- Quechua: chunka qanchisniyuq
- Romagnol: diccèt
- Romani:
- Kalo Finnish Romani: deȟ-o-efta
- Romanian: șaptesprezece (ro), șapteșpe (ro) (informal)
- Romansh: (Grischun) deschset
- Russian: семна́дцать (ru) (semnádcatʹ)
- Sami:
- Inari Sami: čiččâmnubáloh
- Northern Sami: čiežanuppelohkái
- Skolt Sami: činmlo
- Samoan: sefulu fitu
- Sanskrit: सप्तदश (sa) (saptádaśa)
- Santali: ᱜᱮᱞ ᱮᱭᱟᱭ (sat) (gel eyay)
- Scottish Gaelic: seachd-deug
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: седамнаест
- Latin: sedamnaest
- Shan: သိပ်းၸဵတ်း (síp tsáet)
- Sikkimese: བཅུ་བདུན (bcu bdun)
- Sinhalese: දහහත (dahahata)
- Slovak: sedemnásť (sk)
- Slovene: sedemnajst (sl)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: sedymnasćo
- Upper Sorbian: sydomnaće
- Spanish: diecisiete (es)
- Swahili: kumi na saba
- Swedish: sjutton (sv)
- Tagalog: labimpito (tl)
- Tahitian: hō'ē 'ahuru ma hitu
- Tajik: ҳафдаҳ (hafdah)
- Tamil: பதினேழு (ta) (patiṉēḻu)
- Tatar: унҗиде (uncide)
- Telugu: పదిహేడు (te) (padihēḍu)
- Thai: สิบเจ็ด (th) (sìp-jèt) (numeral: ๑๗)
- Tibetan: བཅུ་བདུན (bcu bdun)
- Tigre: ዐስር ወሰቡዕ (ʿäsr wäsäbuʿ)
- Tigrinya: ዓሰርተ ሸውዓተ (ʿasärtä šäwʿatä)
- Tok Pisin: seventin, wanpela ten seven
- Tongan: hongofulu mā fitu
- Turkish: on yedi (tr)
- Turkmen: on ýedi (tk)
- Ukrainian: сімна́дцять (uk) (simnádcjatʹ)
- Urdu: سترہ (satrah)
- Uyghur: ئون يەتتە (ug) (on yette)
- Uzbek: oʻn yetti (uz)
- Vietnamese: mười bảy (vi)
- Volapük: degvel, balsevel (older term, obsolete)
- Votic: seittseteiššümed
- Welsh: dau ar bymtheg m (vigesimal, traditional), dwy ar bymtheg f (vigesimal), un deg saith (decimal)
- Wolof: fukk ak juróom ñaar
- Yakut: уон сэттэ (uon sette)
- Yiddish: זיבעצן (zibetsn)
- Yoruba: ẹ̀tàdínlógún, ẹẹ́tàdínlógún (counting), mẹ́tàdínlógún
- Yucatec Maya: uʼuklajun
- Yup'ik: akimiaq malruk
- Zazaki: hewtês (diq), desuhewt
- Zhuang: cib caet
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See also
Middle English
Numeral
seventeen
- alternative form of seventene