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fifteen

noun · num · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • UK, US: fĭf'tēn
  • UK, US: /ˈfɪf.tiːn/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • UK, US: fĭf-tēn'
  • UK, US: /fɪfˈtiːn/
  • rhymes with -iːn
  • CMU ARPABET: F IH0 F T IY1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  • CMU ARPABET 2: F IH1 F T IY1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

An Irish traybake made with crushed digestive biscuits, marshmallows and glacé cherries combined with condensed milk and desiccated coconut.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Ireland, plural

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

num

Meaning 2

The cardinal number occurring after fourteen (14) and before sixteen (16).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: cardinal

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

adjective satellite

Meaning 3

being one more than fourteen

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: 15, xv

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

the cardinal number that is the sum of fourteen and one

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: 15, XV

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: large integer

History

Etymology

PIE word *pénkwe Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pénkwe Proto-Germanic *fimf Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥ Proto-Germanic *tehun Proto-Germanic *fimftehun Anglian Old English fīftīene Middle English fiftene English fifteen From Middle English fiftene, from Old English fīftīene, fīftēne, from Proto-Germanic *fimftehun. Cognate with West Frisian fyftjin, Dutch vijftien, German fünfzehn, Danish femten. Equivalent to five + -teen.

Across languages

Translations

207 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: vyftien — cardinal number
  • Albanian: pesëmbëdhjetë — cardinal number
  • Southern Altai: он беш (on beš) — cardinal number
  • Amharic: አስራ አምስት (ʾäsra ʾämsət) — cardinal number
  • Arabic: خَمْسَةَ عَشَرَ (ḵamsata ʕašara) — cardinal number
  • Arabic: خمستاشر (ḵamastāšar) — cardinal number
  • Aragonese: quince — cardinal number
  • Aramaic: חמשעסר (khamsha‘sar) — cardinal number
  • Aramaic: חמשעסרא (khamsha‘esrē) — cardinal number
  • Aramaic: ܚܡܫܥܣܪ (khamsha‘sar) — cardinal number
  • Aramaic: ܚܡܫܥܣܪܐ (khamsha‘esrē) — cardinal number
  • Armenian: տասնհինգ (tasnhing) — cardinal number
  • Asturian: quince — cardinal number
  • Aymara: tunka phisqani — cardinal number
  • Azerbaijani: on beş — cardinal number
  • Bashkir: ун биш (un biş) — cardinal number
  • Basque: hamabost — cardinal number
  • Belarusian: пятна́ццаць (pjatnáccacʹ) — cardinal number
  • Bengali: পনেরো (ponerō) — cardinal number
  • Central Bikol: kaglima — cardinal number
  • Breton: pemzek — cardinal number
  • Bulgarian: петна́десет (petnádeset) — cardinal number
  • Bulgarian: петна́йсет (petnájset) — cardinal number
  • Burmese: ဆယ့်ငါး (hcai.nga:) — cardinal number
  • Buryat: арбан табан (arban taban) — cardinal number
  • Carpathian Rusyn: пятна́дцять (pjatnádcjatʹ) — cardinal number
  • Catalan: quinze — cardinal number
  • Cebuano: napulog lima — cardinal number
  • Chechen: пхийтта (pxiı̇tta) — cardinal number
  • Cherokee: ᏍᎩᎦᏚ (sgigadu) — cardinal number
  • Cherokee: ᎯᏍᎦᏚ (hisgadu) — cardinal number
  • Chichewa: khumi n'zisanu — cardinal number
  • Chinese Cantonese: 十五 (sap6 ng5) — cardinal number
  • Hakka Chinese: 十五 (sṳ̍p-ńg) — cardinal number
  • Chinese Mandarin: 十五 (shíwǔ) — cardinal number
  • Chuvash: вунпиллӗк (vunp̬illĕk) — cardinal number
  • Chuvash: вунпилӗк (vunp̬ilĕk) — cardinal number
  • Czech: patnáct — cardinal number
  • Dalmatian: čonco — cardinal number
  • Danish: femten — cardinal number
  • Dena'ina: ch'qilu beq'di — cardinal number
  • Dhivehi: ފަނަރަ (fanara) — cardinal number
  • Dutch: vijftien — cardinal number
  • Dzongkha: བཅོ་ལྔ (bco lnga) — cardinal number
  • Esperanto: dek kvin — cardinal number
  • Estonian: viisteist — cardinal number
  • Faroese: fimtan — cardinal number
  • Fijian: tini ka lima — cardinal number
  • Finnish: viisitoista — cardinal number
  • French: quinze — cardinal number
  • North Frisian: füftanj — cardinal number
  • West-Frisian: fyftjin — cardinal number
  • Friulian: cuindis — cardinal number
  • Galician: quince — cardinal number
  • Georgian: თხუთმეტი (txutmeṭi) — cardinal number
  • German: fünfzehn — cardinal number
  • Gothic: 𐍆𐌹𐌼𐍆𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌿𐌽 (fimftaihun) — cardinal number
  • Greek: δεκαπέντε (dekapénte) — cardinal number
  • Ancient Greek: πεντεκαίδεκα (pentekaídeka) — cardinal number
  • Ancient Greek: ιε ́ — cardinal number
  • Greenlandic: aqqaneq-tallimat — cardinal number
  • Gujarati: પંદર (pandar) — cardinal number
  • Haitian Creole: kenz — cardinal number
  • Hawaiian: ʻumikūmālima — cardinal number
  • Hebrew: חֲמֵשׁ־עֶשְׂרֵה (khamesh esre) — cardinal number
  • Hebrew: חֲמִשָּׁה־עָשָׂר (khamisha asar) — cardinal number
  • Hindi: पंद्रह (pandrah) — cardinal number
  • Hopi: pakwt niikyang tsivot siikya’ta — cardinal number
  • Hungarian: tizenöt — cardinal number
  • Hunsrik: fufzen — cardinal number
  • Hunsrik: finnefzen — cardinal number
  • Icelandic: fimmtán — cardinal number
  • Ido: dek-e-kin — cardinal number
  • Indonesian: lima belas — cardinal number
  • Ingrian: viistoist — cardinal number
  • Interlingua: dece-cinque — cardinal number
  • Inupiaq: akimiaq — cardinal number
  • Irish: cúig déag — cardinal number
  • Italian: quindici — cardinal number
  • Japanese: 十五 (jūgo) — cardinal number
  • Javanese: limalas — cardinal number
  • Kannada: ಹದಿನೈದು (hadinaidu) — cardinal number
  • S'gaw Karen: တဆံယဲၢ် (ta hsee yeẖ) — cardinal number
  • Kazakh: он бес (on bes) — cardinal number
  • Khmer: ដប់ប្រាំ — cardinal number
  • Komi-Permyak: дасвит (dasvit) — cardinal number
  • Korean: 열다섯 (yeoldaseot) — cardinal number
  • Korean: 십오 (sibo) — cardinal number
  • Central Kurdish: پانزە (panze) — cardinal number
  • Northern Kurdish: pazde — cardinal number
  • Northern Kurdish: pazdeh — cardinal number
  • Kyrgyz: он беш (on beş) — cardinal number
  • Lakota: akézaptaŋ — cardinal number
  • Lao: ສິບຫ້າ (sip hā) — cardinal number
  • Latin: quīndecim — cardinal number
  • Latvian: piecpadsmit — cardinal number
  • Ligurian: chìnze — cardinal number
  • Lithuanian: penkiolika — cardinal number
  • Livonian: vīžtuoistõn — cardinal number
  • Lombard: quindes — cardinal number
  • Louisiana Creole: kinz — cardinal number
  • Low German: föffteihn — cardinal number
  • Low German: foffteihn — cardinal number
  • Low German: föffteihn — cardinal number
  • Low German: füwtain — cardinal number
  • : ᦉᦲᧇᦠᦱᧉ (ṡiibḣaa2) — cardinal number
  • Luxembourgish: fofzéng — cardinal number
  • Macedonian: петна́есет (petnáeset) — cardinal number
  • Malagasy: dimy ambinifolo — cardinal number
  • Malay: lima belas — cardinal number
  • Malay: sepuluh lima — cardinal number
  • Malay: satu puluh lima — cardinal number
  • Brunei Malay: lima balas — cardinal number
  • Malayalam: പതിനഞ്ച് (patinañcŭ) — cardinal number
  • Maltese: ħmistax — cardinal number
  • Manchu: ᡨᠣᡶᠣᡥᠣᠨ (tofohon) — cardinal number
  • Māori: tekau mā rima — cardinal number
  • Marathi: पंधरा (pandhrā) — cardinal number
  • Middle English: fiftene — cardinal number
  • Central Sierra Miwok: naˀá·ča- máš·ok·a-ˀ hej·i-ˀ — cardinal number
  • Mon: စှ်သုန် — cardinal number
  • Mongolian: арван тав (arvan tav) — cardinal number
  • Khiamniungan Naga: tshìekǜmǖngōu — cardinal number
  • Classical Nahuatl: caxtōlli — cardinal number
  • Navajo: ashdlaʼáadah — cardinal number
  • Neapolitan: quinnece — cardinal number
  • Norman: tchinze — cardinal number
  • Norman: tchînze — cardinal number
  • Norwegian: femten — cardinal number
  • Occitan: quinze — cardinal number
  • Odia: ପନ୍ଦର (pandara) — cardinal number
  • Ojibwe: ashi-naanan — cardinal number
  • Old Church Slavonic: пѧть на дєсѧтє (pętĭ na desęte) — cardinal number
  • Old English: fīftīene — cardinal number
  • Pannonian Rusyn: петнац (petnac) — cardinal number
  • Pennsylvania German: fuffzeh — cardinal number
  • Pennsylvania German: fuftzay — cardinal number
  • Persian: پانزده (pânzdah) — cardinal number
  • Piedmontese: quindes — cardinal number
  • Polish: piętnaście — cardinal number
  • Polish: piętnaścioro — cardinal number
  • Portuguese: quinze — cardinal number
  • Punjabi: ਪੰਦਰਾਂ (pandrā̃) — cardinal number
  • Punjabi: پَندراں (pandrāṉ) — cardinal number
  • Quechua: chunka pichqayuq — cardinal number
  • Réunion Creole French: kinz — cardinal number
  • Romagnol: quinṣ — cardinal number
  • Romagnol: quingg — cardinal number
  • Kalo Finnish Romani: deȟ-o-pangȟ — cardinal number
  • Romanian: cincisprezece — cardinal number
  • Romanian: cinșpe — cardinal number
  • Romansh: quindesch — cardinal number
  • Russian: пятна́дцать (pjatnádcatʹ) — cardinal number
  • Inari-Sami: vittnubáloh — cardinal number
  • Kildin-Sami: выдтэмплоагкь (vydtemplågk’) — cardinal number
  • Northern Sami: vihttanuppelohkái — cardinal number
  • Skolt-Sami: vitmlo — cardinal number
  • Samoan: sefulu lima — cardinal number
  • Sanskrit: पञ्चदश (páñcadaśa) — cardinal number
  • Scottish Gaelic: còig-deug — cardinal number
  • Saraiki: پَندھَرَاں (pandharāṉ) — cardinal number
  • Serbo-Croatian: петнаест — cardinal number
  • Serbo-Croatian: petnaest — cardinal number
  • Shan: သိပ်းႁႃႈ (síp hāa) — cardinal number
  • Sikkimese: བཅོ་ལྔ (bco lnga) — cardinal number
  • Sinhalese: පහළොව (pahaḷowa) — cardinal number
  • Slovak: pätnásť — cardinal number
  • Slovene: petnajst — cardinal number
  • Lower Sorbian: pěśnasćo — cardinal number
  • Upper Sorbian: pjatnaće — cardinal number
  • Spanish: quince — cardinal number
  • Swahili: kumi na tano — cardinal number
  • Swedish: femton — cardinal number
  • Tagalog: labinlima — cardinal number
  • Tahitian: hō'ē 'ahuru ma pae — cardinal number
  • Tajik: понздаҳ (ponzdah) — cardinal number
  • Tamil: பதினைந்து (patiṉaintu) — cardinal number
  • Tatar: унбиш (unbiş) — cardinal number
  • Telugu: పదిహేను (padihēnu) — cardinal number
  • Thai: สิบห้า (sìp-hâa) — cardinal number
  • Tibetan: བཅོ་ལྔ (bco lnga) — cardinal number
  • Tigre: ዐስር ወሐምስ (ʿäsr wäḥäms) — cardinal number
  • Tigrinya: ዓሰርተ ሓሙሽተ (ʿasärtä ḥamuštä) — cardinal number
  • Tok Pisin: fiftin — cardinal number
  • Tok Pisin: wanpela ten faiv — cardinal number
  • Tongan: hongofulu mā nima — cardinal number
  • Turkish: on beş — cardinal number
  • Turkmen: on bäş — cardinal number
  • Ukrainian: п’ятна́дцять (pʺjatnádcjatʹ) — cardinal number
  • Urdu: پندرہ (pandrah) — cardinal number
  • Uyghur: ئون بەش (on besh) — cardinal number
  • Uzbek: oʻn besh — cardinal number
  • Vietnamese: mười lăm — cardinal number
  • Volapük: deglul — cardinal number
  • Volapük: balselul — cardinal number
  • Waray-Waray: kinse — cardinal number
  • Welsh: pymtheg — cardinal number
  • Welsh: un deg pump — cardinal number
  • Wolaytta: tammanne ichchasha — cardinal number
  • Wolof: fukk ak juróom — cardinal number
  • Yakut: уон биэс (uon bies) — cardinal number
  • Yiddish: פֿופֿצן (fuftsn) — cardinal number
  • Yucatec Maya: joʼolajun — cardinal number
  • Yup'ik: akimiaq — cardinal number
  • Zazaki: pancês (diq) — cardinal number
  • Zazaki: desupanc — cardinal number
  • Zhuang: cib haj — cardinal number
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