dozen

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• Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈdʌzən/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /ˈdɐzən/
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• rhymes with -ʌzən
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• CMU ARPABET: D AH1 Z AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English dozen, dozein, doseyne, from Old French dozaine (“a group of twelve”) (Modern French douzaine), from doze (“twelve”) + -aine (“-ish”), from Latin duodecim (“twelve”) (from duo (“two”) + decem (“ten”)) + -ana (“-ish”).

From a deliberate misspelling of doesn't, originally referring to someone who "dozen sing, dozen rap, dozen do anything."

110 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: dosyn — twelve
• Albanian: duzinë — twelve
• Arabic: دَزِّينَة (dazzīna) — twelve
• Arabic: دَسْتَة (dasta) — twelve
• Arabic: دَرْزَن (darzan) — twelve
• Arabic: درزن (darzan) — twelve
• Arabic: دستة (dasta) — twelve
• Arabic: درزن (dɐrzɐn) — twelve
• Aragonese: ducena — twelve
• Armenian: դյուժին (dyužin) — twelve
• Aromanian: duzinã — twelve
• Azerbaijani: düjün — twelve
• Belarusian: ту́зін (túzin) — twelve
• Bulgarian: дузи́на (duzína) — twelve
• Burmese: ဒါဇင် (dajang) — twelve
• Catalan: dotzena — twelve
• Chinese Cantonese: 打 (daa1) — twelve
• Chinese: 打 (tán) — twelve
• Chinese Mandarin: 打 (dá) — twelve
• Czech: tucet — twelve
• Danish: dusin — twelve
• Danish: tylvt — twelve
• Dutch: dozijn — twelve
• Esperanto: dekduo — twelve
• Estonian: tosin — twelve
• Faroese: tylft — twelve
• Fiji Hindi: darjan — twelve
• Finnish: tusina — twelve
• Finnish: kymmenisen — twelve
• French: douzaine — twelve
• Galician: ducia — twelve
• German: Dutzend — twelve
• Greek: ντουζίνα (ntouzína) — twelve
• Ancient Greek: δωδεκάς (dōdekás) — twelve
• Haitian Creole: douzèn — twelve
• Hebrew: תְּרֵיסָר (t'resár) — twelve
• Hindi: दर्जन (darjan) — twelve
• Hungarian: tucat — twelve
• Icelandic: tylft — twelve
• Icelandic: dúsin — twelve
• Icelandic: dúsín — twelve
• Ido: dek-e-du — twelve
• Ido: dekeduo — twelve
• Indonesian: lusin — twelve
• Irish: dosaen — twelve
• Italian: dozzina — twelve
• Japanese: ダース (dāsu) — twelve
• Khmer: ឡូ (lou) — twelve
• Korean: 다스 (daseu) — twelve
• Latvian: ducis — twelve
• Lithuanian: tuzinas — twelve
• Macedonian: дузина (duzina) — twelve
• Malayalam: ഡസൻ (ḍasaṉ) — twelve
• Manx: dussan — twelve
• Māori: taihana — twelve
• Middle English: doseyne — twelve
• Norwegian Bokmål: dusin — twelve
• Norwegian Bokmål: tylft — twelve
• Norwegian Nynorsk: dusin — twelve
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tylft — twelve
• Occitan: dotzena — twelve
• Old Norse: tylft — twelve
• Persian: دوجین (dojin) — twelve
• Polish: tuzin — twelve
• Portuguese: dúzia — twelve
• Romanian: duzină — twelve
• Russian: дю́жина (djúžina) — twelve
• Scottish Gaelic: dusan — twelve
• Serbo-Croatian: туце — twelve
• Serbo-Croatian: туцет — twelve
• Serbo-Croatian: tuce — twelve
• Serbo-Croatian: tucet — twelve
• Slovak: tucet — twelve
• Slovene: ducat — twelve
• Lower Sorbian: dwanastk — twelve
• Lower Sorbian: ducent — twelve
• Spanish: docena — twelve
• Swahili: dazani — twelve
• Swedish: dussin — twelve
• Swedish: tolft — twelve
• Thai: โหล (lǒo) — twelve
• Turkish: düzine — twelve
• Ukrainian: дю́жина (djúžyna) — twelve
• Urdu: درجن (darjan) — twelve
• Vietnamese: tá — twelve
• Volapük: degtelat — twelve
• Walloon: dozinne — twelve
• Welsh: dwsin — twelve
• Yiddish: טוץ (tuts) — twelve
• Afrikaans: dosyne — dozens: a large number
• Bulgarian: десетки (desetki) — dozens: a large number
• Dutch: tientallen — dozens: a large number
• Esperanto: dekoj — dozens: a large number
• Finnish: kymmeniä — dozens: a large number
• Finnish: tusinoittain — dozens: a large number
• French: dizaines — dozens: a large number
• German: Dutzende — dozens: a large number
• Italian: centinaia — dozens: a large number
• Italian: migliaia — dozens: a large number
• Occitan: dotzenat — dozens: a large number
• Polish: tuziny — dozens: a large number
• Polish: dziesiątki — dozens: a large number
• Polish: kilkadziesiąt — dozens: a large number
• Portuguese: dezena — dozens: a large number
• Portuguese: centena — dozens: a large number
• Russian: деся́тки (desjátki) — dozens: a large number
• Russian: мно́жество (mnóžestvo) — dozens: a large number
• Russian: у́йма (újma) — dozens: a large number
• Spanish: decenas — dozens: a large number
• Walloon: dijhinnes — dozens: a large number