thirteen

English

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Cardinal: thirteen     Ordinal: thirteenth     Abbreviated ordinal: 13th     Adverbial: thirteen times     Multiplier: thirteenfold     Latinate multiplier: tredecuple     Germanic collective: thirteensome     Greek or Latinate collective: tredecad     Fractional: thirteenth

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thirteen

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (in most cases)

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

  (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌθɝtˈtin/, /ˌθɝtin-/

• (next word stressed near the first syllable)

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

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

  Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -iːn

Numeral

thirteen

2. The cardinal number occurring after twelve and before fourteen: ten and three.

   Alternative forms: 13 (Arabic numerals), XIII (Roman numerals), D (hexadecimal)

   Synonyms: baker's dozen, long dozen, throtteen (dialectal)

   There are thirteen cards of each of the four suits in a deck of playing cards.

   His brother's age is thirteen.

   • 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 […]

   • 1890 February 28, W. S. Wetmore, “RECOLLECTIONS OF LIFE IN CHINA IN THE FIFTIES.”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette‎, volume XLIV, number 1178, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 256, column 1:

     In the spring of 1857, I, with several friends, left Hongkong for Shanghai, viâ Foochow, in the small coasting steamer Antelope. No noteworthy incident occurred until after leaving Foochow when, as we were enjoying our after dinner coffee and cigars, and by chance discussing the question of thirteen sitting down at table that had occurred at a dinner at which one of the party had shortly before been present, a violent thump and tremulous motion of the vessel announced the unpleasant fact that we had struck upon something. We rushed on deck and found the steamer hard and fast on a reef near Matsu Island. Fortunately the day was fine and there was no sea on.

   • 2014, “Little Green Men”: A Primer on Modern Russian Unconventional Warfare, Ukraine 2013–2014‎, Fort Bragg, North Carolina: The United States Army Special Operations Command, page 42:

     In the summer of 2014, at least thirteen BTGs and elements of five SPETSNAZ units were poised on the Ukrainian border.³⁶

Coordinate terms

• Previous: twelve. Next: fourteen

Derived terms

• grade thirteen
• sweet thirteen
• thirteener
• thirteen hundred
• thirteen-lined ground squirrel
• thirteen to the dozen

Related terms

• Ordinal: thirteenth
• triskaidekaphobia

Translations

the cardinal number occurring after twelve and before fourteen

Afrikaans: dertien (af) Aghwan: 𐕀𐔼𐔱𐔴𐕂𐔰𐕙 (xibec̣ar) Albanian: trembëdhjetë (sq) American Sign Language: Hu@Side-PalmBack Flatten Amharic: አስራ ሶስት (ʾäsra sost) Arabic: ثَلَاثَةَ عَشَرَ (ṯalāṯata ʕašara) (numeral: ١٣) Egyptian Arabic: تلاتاشر (talataašar) Hijazi Arabic: ثلثطعش (talaṭṭaʕaš, ṯalaṯṭaʕaš), تلتطعش (talatṭaʕaš) Aragonese: treze Aramaic: Hebrew: תלתעסר m (tlātha‘sar), תלתעסרא f (tlātha‘esrē) Syriac: ܬܠܬܥܣܪ m (tlātha‘sar), ܬܠܬܥܣܪܐ f (tlātha‘esrē) Armenian: տասներեք (hy) (tasnerekʻ) Ashkun: traus Assamese: তেৰ (tero) Asturian: trece (ast), trelce (ast) Aymara: tunka kimsani Azerbaijani: on üç (az) Bashkir: ун өс (un ös) Basque: hamahiru (eu) Belarusian: трына́ццаць (be) (trynáccacʹ) Bengali: তেরো (bn) (terō) (numeral: ১৩) Bikol Central: kagtulo Breton: trizek (br) Brunei Malay: tiga balas Bulgarian: трина́десет (trinádeset), трина́йсет (trinájset) Burmese: ဆယ့်သုံး (hcai.sum:) (numeral: ၁၃) Buryat: арбан гурбан (arban gurban) Carpathian Rusyn: трина́дцять (trynádcjatʹ) Catalan: tretze (ca) Cebuano: napulog tulo Central Sierra Miwok: naˀá·ča- toló·košu-ˀ hej·i-ˀ Chechen: кхойтта (qojtta) Cherokee: ᏦᎦᏚ (tsogadu) Chichewa: khumi n'zitatu Chinese: Cantonese: 十三 (sap6 saam1) Hakka: 十三 (sṳ̍p-sâm) Mandarin: 十三 (zh) (shísān) (numeral: 拾參 / 拾参) Teochew: san1zab8, sab8 Chuvash: вунвиҫҫӗ (vunviśśĕ), вунвиҫӗ (vunviś̬ĕ), вунвиҫҫ (vunviśś) 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 Dzongkha: བཅུ་གསུམ (bcu gsum) 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 (ka) (cameṭi) German: dreizehn (de) Greek: δεκατρείς (el) m or f (dekatreís), δεκατρία (el) n (dekatría) Ancient: τρεισκαίδεκα (treiskaídeka), τρισκαίδεκα (triskaídeka), ιγ΄ (numeral) Greenlandic: aqqaneq-pingasut (kl) Gujarati: તેર (gu) (ter) (numeral: ૧૩) Haitian Creole: trèz Hawaiian: ʻumikūmākolu Hebrew: שְׁלוֹשׁ עֶשְׂרֵה f (shlosh esre) (used in counting), שְׁלוֹשָׁה עָשָׂר m (shlosha asar) Hindi: तेरह (hi) (terah) Hopi: pakwt niikyang paykomuy siikya’ta Hungarian: tizenhárom (hu) Hunsrik: dreizen Icelandic: þrettán (is) Ido: dek-e-tri (io) Inari Sami: kulmânubáloh Indonesian: tiga belas (id) Ingrian: kolttoist Interlingua: dece-tres Inupiaq: qulit piŋasut Irish: trí déag (ga) Istriot: tridase Italian: tredici (it) m Japanese: 十三 (ja) (じゅうさん, jūsan), 十三 (ja) (とさ, tosa) Javanese: telulas Kamkata-viri: trić Kannada: ಹದಿಮೂರು (kn) (hadimūru) (numeral: ೧೩ (13)) Kazakh: он үш (on üş) Khiamniungan Naga: tshìekǜsǖmīeh Khmer: ដប់បី (dop bei) (numeral: ១៣) Komi-Permyak: даскуим (daskuim) Korean: 열셋 (ko) (yeolset), 십삼(十三) (ko) (sipsam) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: سیانزە (syanze) Northern Kurdish: sêzde (ku) Kyrgyz: он үч (ky) (on üc) Ladin: tredesc Lakota: akéyamni Lao: ສິບສາມ (sip sām) (numeral: ໑໓) Latgalian: treispadsmit Latin: trēdecim (la) Latvian: trīspadsmit (lv) Ligurian: trézze Lithuanian: trylika (lt) Livonian: kuolmtuoistõn Lombard: tredes (lmo) Louisiana Creole French: trèz Low German: dörteihn (nds), dötteihn, dorteihn Lü: ᦉᦲᧇᦉᦱᧄ (ṡiibṡaam) (numeral: ᧑᧓) Luxembourgish: dräizéng (lb) Macedonian: трина́есет (trináeset) Malagasy: telo ambinifolo Malay: tiga belas (ms), telu belas, sepuluh tiga, sepuluh telu, satu puluh tiga, satu puluh telu Malayalam: പതിമൂന്ന് (ml) (patimūnnŭ) Maltese: tlettax Manchu: (juwan ilan), ᠵᡠᠸᠠᠨ ᡳᠯᠠᠨ (juwan ilan) Manx: tree jeig Maori: tekau mā toru (mi) Marathi: तेरा (terā) Middle English: thrittene Mon: စှ်ပိ Mongolian: Cyrillic: арван гурав (arvan gurav) Mongolian: ᠠᠷᠪᠠᠨ ᠭᠤᠷᠪᠠ (arban ɣurba), (numeral) ᠑᠓ (13)) Navajo: tááʼtsʼáadah Norman: treize Northern Mansi: (please verify) хурумхуйплов (hurumhujplov) Northern Sami: golbmanuppelohkái Norwegian: tretten (no) Occitan: tretze (oc) Odia: ତେର (or) (tera) (numeral: ୧୩ (13)) Ojibwe: ashi-niswi Old Church Slavonic: трьѥ на дєсѧтє (trĭje na desęte) (numeral: г҃і) Old English: þrēotīene Pennsylvania German: dreizeh Persian: سیزده (fa) (sizdah), ۱۳ (numeral) Piedmontese: tërdes Polish: trzynaście (pl), (collective) trzynaścioro (pl) Portuguese: treze (pt) Prasuni: ċšīzē Punjabi: ਤੇਰ੍ਹਾਂ (terhā̃) (numeral: ੧੩ (13)) Quechua: chunka kimsayuq Romagnol: tredṣ, trédgg Romani: deśutrin Kalo Finnish Romani: deȟ-o-triin Romanian: treisprezece (ro), treișpe (informal) Romansch: (Grischun, Surmiran) tredesch, (Sursilvan) tredisch, (Vallader) traidesch Russian: трина́дцать (ru) (trinádcatʹ) S'gaw Karen: တဆံသၢ (ta hsee thuh) Samoan: sefulu tolu Sanskrit: त्रयोदश (sa) (trayodaśa) (numeral: १३ (13)) Santali: ᱜᱮᱞ ᱯᱮ (sat) (gel pe) Sardinian: trechi, treghi, treci, tréichi, trexi Scots: thirteen Scottish Gaelic: trì-deug Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: тринаест Roman: trinaest Shan: သိပ်းသၢမ် (síp sǎam) Sicilian: trìdici (scn), trìrici (scn) Sikkimese: བཅུ་གསུམ (bcu gsum) Sinhalese: දහතුන (dahatuna) Skolt Sami: konmlo Slovak: trinásť (sk) Slovene: trinajst (sl) Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: tśinasćo Upper Sorbian: třinaće Spanish: trece (es) Swahili: kumi na tatu Swedish: tretton (sv) Tagalog: labintatlo (tl) Tahitian: hō'ē 'ahuru ma toru Tajik: сездаҳ (tg) (sezdah) Tamil: பதின்மூன்று (ta) (patiṉmūṉṟu) (numeral: ௰௩) Tatar: унөч (unöç) Telugu: పదమూడు (te) (padamūḍu) (numeral: ౧౩ (13)) Thai: สิบสาม (th) (sìp-sǎam) (numeral: ๑๓) Tibetan: བཅུ་གསུམ (bcu gsum) Tigre: ዐስር ወሰለስ (ʿäsr wäsäläs) Tigrinya: ዓሰርተ ሰለስተ (ʿasärtä sälästä) Tok Pisin: tetin, wanpela ten tri 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) Venetan: tredese, trédexe (vec) Vietnamese: mười ba (vi) Vilamovian: drecao Volapük: degkil, balsekil (older term, obsolete) Waigali: trū̃š Walloon: traze (wa) Welsh: tri ar ddeg (cy) m (vigesimal, traditional), tair ar ddeg (cy) f (vigesimal, traditional), un deg tri (cy) (decimal), undeg tair f (decimal) West Frisian: trettjin (fy) Wolof: fukk ak ñett Xhosa: please add this translation if you can Yao: likumi kwisa tatu Yiddish: דרײַצן (draytsn) Yucatec Maya: óoxlajun Yup'ik: qula pingayun Zazaki: desuhirê, hirês (diq) Zhuang: cib sam Zulu: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• tetherin

Scots

Scots numbers ^(edit)

←  12	13
Cardinal: thirteen     Ordinal: thirteent

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Scots thretten, from Middle English thrittene, from Old English þrēotīene, þrēotēne, from Proto-Germanic *þritehun.

Numeral

thirteen

1. thirteen

References

• “thirteen, num. adj.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 12 June 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.