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)
- American Sign Language:
- Amharic: አስራ ሰባት (ʾäsra säbat)
- Arabic: سَبْعَةَ عَشَرَ (sabʕata ʕašara)
- Egyptian Arabic: سبعتاشر (sabaʕtāšar)
- Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
- Aramaic:
- Hebrew: 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: kagpito
- Breton: seitek (br)
- Brunei Malay: tujuh balas
- 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
- Central Sierra Miwok: naˀá·ča- kenék·aky-ˀ hej·i-ˀ
- 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)
- Classical Nahuatl: caxtōlli omōme
- 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)
- Edo: èháírrọ̀vbúgiè
- Esperanto: dek sep
- Estonian: seitseteist (et)
- Fijian: tini ka vitu
- Finnish: seitsemäntoista (fi)
- French: dix-sept (fr) m
- Friulian: disesiet
- Galician: dezasete (gl)
- Georgian: ჩვიდმეტი (ka) (čvidmeṭi)
- German: siebzehn (de)
- Greek: δεκαεπτά (el) (dekaeptá)
- Ancient: 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)
- Ifè: máaméedze, mɛ́ɛtaɖìnógú
- Igala: ẹ̀gwébie
- Igbo: ìri nà àsaà
- Inari Sami: čiččâmnubáloh
- 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)
- Kazakh: он жеті (on jetı)
- Khiamniungan Naga: tshìekǜtshǖnīeh
- Khmer: ដប់ប្រាំពីរ (dop pram pī) (numeral: ១៧)
- 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
- Roman: 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 French: 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
- Malayalam: പതിനേഴ് (ml) (patinēḻŭ)
- Maltese: sbatax
- Manchu: ᠵᡠᠸᠠᠨ
ᠨᠠᡩᠠᠨ (juwan nadan)
- Maori: tekau mā whitu (mi)
- Mapudungun: marirekle
- Middle English: seventene
- Mon: please add this translation if you can
- Mongolian: арван долоо (arvan doloo)
- Navajo: tsostsʼidtsʼáadah
- Nigerian Pidgin: sẹ́vìntín
- Norman: dgiêx-sept
- Northern Mansi: (please verify) сатхуйплов (sathujplov)
- Northern Sami: čiežanuppelohkái
- 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
- 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)
- Romansch: (Grischun) deschset
- Russian: семна́дцать (ru) (semnádcatʹ)
- S'gaw Karen: တဆံနွံ (ta hsee nwee)
- Samoan: sefulu fitu
- Sanskrit: सप्तदश (sa) (saptádaśa)
- Santali: ᱜᱮᱞ ᱮᱭᱟᱭ (gel eyay)
- Scottish Gaelic: seachd-deug
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: седамнаест
- Roman: sedamnaest
- Shan: သိပ်းၸဵတ်း (síp tsáet)
- Sinhalese: දහහත (dahahata)
- Skolt Sami: činmlo
- 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
- Volapük: degvel, balsevel (older term, obsolete)
- Votic: seittseteiššümed
- Welsh: dau ar bymtheg m (vigesimal, traditional), dwy ar bymtheg f (vigesimal), un deg saith (decimal)
- West Frisian: santjin (fy)
- 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