Енглески
From Middle English twelve, from Old English twelf (“twelve”), from Proto-Germanic *twalif, an old compound of *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”), Холандски twaalf (“twelve”), German Low German twalf, twalv (“twelve”), Немачки zwölf (“twelve”), Дански, Шведски and Norwegian tolv (“twelve”), Icelandic tólf (“twelve”).
Alternative forms
- Arabic numerals: 12
- Roman numerals: XII
- twelue (obsolete)
Etymology
Pronunciation
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
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Translations
cardinal number 12
- Afrikaans: twaalf (af)
- Albanian: dymbëdhjetë (sq)
- Amharic: ዐሥራ ሁለት (ʿäśra hulät)
- Arabic: اِثْنَا عَشَرَ (iṯnā ʿašara)
- 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 (baro) (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 (šiitta)
- 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 (vunikĕ), 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: (молим проверите) dece-duo , (молим проверите) 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)
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- 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
- 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)
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- 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 hojor) (numeral: ᠑᠒ (12))
- Nauruan: ata ma aro
- Navajo: naakitsʼáadah
- Ngazidja Comorian: kume na -ili
- Norwegian: tolv (no)
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- 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, (молим проверите) douăsprezece f or n, (informal) (молим проверите) douășpe f or n
- Romansch: dudesch (Grischun)
- Russian: двена́дцать (ru) (dvenádcatʹ)
- Rusyn: двана́дцить (dvanádcytʹ)
- S'gaw Karen: တဆံခံ (təhsikhi)
- 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 sǒang)
- 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) (numeral: ๑๒)
- Tibetan: བཅུ་གཉིས (bcu gnyis)
- Tigre: ዐስር ወክልኦት (ʿäsr wäklʾot), ዐስር ወክልኤ (ʿäsr wäklʾe)
- Tigrinya: ዓሰርተ ክልተ (ʿasärtä kltä)
- 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'
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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) A jury (normally composed of twelve persons).
- (slang) police; law enforcement, especially a narcotics officer
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