fifteen

English

**English numbers ^(edit)**
← 14	15	16 →
Cardinal: fifteen Ordinal: fifteenth Multiplier: fifteenfold

Etymology

From Middle English fiftene, from Old English fīftīene, fīftēne, from Proto-Germanic *fimftehun. Cognate with West Frisian fyftjin, Dutch vijftien, German fünfzehn, Danish femten.

Pronunciation

(next word stressed near the first syllable)
(UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈfɪf.tiːn/
Audio (US) (file)
(next word stressed after the first syllable)
(UK, US) IPA^(key): /fɪfˈtiːn/
Rhymes: -iːn

Numeral

fifteen (cardinal, ordinal fifteenth)

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

Synonyms

Roman numerals: XV
Arabic numerals: 15

Coordinate terms

Previous: fourteen
Next: sixteen

Derived terms

15 minutes, 15 minutes of fame

Translations

cardinal number

Afrikaans: vyftien (af)
Albanian: pesëmbëdhjetë (sq)
American Sign Language: (OpenB@Side-PalmBack Flatten)
Amharic: አስራ አምስት (ʾäsra ʾämst)
Arabic: خَمْسَةَ عَشَرَ‎ (ḵamsata ʿašara)
Egyptian Arabic: خمستاشر‎ (ḵamastāšar)
Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
Aramaic:
Hebrew: חמשעסר‎ m (khamsha‘sar), חמשעסרא‎ f (khamsha‘esrē)

Syriac: ܚܡܫܥܣܪ‎ m (khamsha‘sar), ܚܡܫܥܣܪܐ‎ f (khamsha‘esrē)
Armenian: տասնհինգ (hy) (tasnhing)
Asturian: quince (ast)
Aymara: tunka phisqani
Azerbaijani: on beş (az)
Bashkir: ун биш (un biš)
Basque: hamabost (eu)
Belarusian: пятна́ццаць (pjatnáccacʹ)
Bengali: পনেরো (pônero) (numeral: ১৫)
Breton: pemzek (br)
Bulgarian: петна́десет (bg) (petnádeset), петна́йсет (petnájset)
Burmese: ဆယ့်ငါး (hcai.nga:) (numeral: ၁၅)
Buryat: арбан табан (arban taban)
Catalan: quinze (ca)
Cebuano: napulog lima, kinse
Central Sierra Miwok: naˀá·ča- máš·ok·a-ˀ hej·i-ˀ
Chechen: пхийтта (pχītta)
Cherokee: ᏍᎩᎦᏚ (sgigadu), ᎯᏍᎦᏚ (hisgadu)
Chichewa: khumi n'zisanu
Chinese:
Cantonese: 十五 (sap⁶ ng⁵)

Hakka: 十五 (sṳ̍p-ńg)

Mandarin: 十五 (zh) (shíwǔ)
Chuvash: вунпиллӗк (vunpillĕk), вунпилӗк (vunpilĕk)
Classical Nahuatl: caxtōlli
Czech: patnáct (cs)
Dalmatian: čonco
Danish: femten (da)
Dena'ina: ch'qilu beq'di
Dhivehi: ފަނަރަ‎ (fanara)
Dutch: vijftien (nl) f
Esperanto: dek kvin
Estonian: viisteist (et)
Faroese: fimtan
Fijian: tini ka lima
Finnish: viisitoista (fi)
French: quinze (fr) m
Friulian: cuindis
Galician: quince (gl)
Georgian: თხუთმეტი (ka) (txutmeṭi)
German: fünfzehn (de)
Gothic: 𐍆𐌹𐌼𐍆𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌷𐌿𐌽 (fimftaihun)
Greek: δεκαπέντε (el) (dekapénte)
Ancient: πεντεκαίδεκα (pentekaídeka), ιε΄ (ie΄) (numeral)
Greenlandic: aqqaniq-tallimat
Gujarati: પંદર (gu) (paṃdar)
Haitian Creole: kenz
Hawaiian: ʻumikūmālima
Hebrew: חֲמֵשׁ־עֶשְׂרֵה‎ f (khamesh esre) (used in counting), חֲמִשָּׁה־עָשָׂר‎ m (khamisha asar)
Hindi: पंद्रह (hi) m (pandrah)
Hopi: pakwt niikyang tsivot siikya’ta
Hungarian: tizenöt (hu)
Hunsrik: fufzen, finnefzen
Icelandic: fimmtán (is)
Ido: dek-e-kin (io)
Inari Sami: vittnubáloh
Indonesian: lima belas (id)
Interlingua: dece-cinque
Interlingue: deciquin
Irish: cúig déag
Italian: quindici (it) m
Japanese: 十五 (ja) (じゅうご, jūgo)
Javanese: limalas
Kannada: ಹದಿನೈದು (kn) (hadinaidu)
Kazakh: он бес (kk) (on bes)
Khmer: ដប់ប្រាំ (dop pram) (numeral: ១៥)
Komi-Permyak: дасвит (dasvit)
Korean: 열다섯 (ko) (yeoldaseot), 십오 (ko) (sibo) (十五 (ko))
Kurdish:
Kurmanji: pazde (ku), pazdeh (ku)

Sorani: پانزە‎ (panze)
Kyrgyz: он беш (ky) (on beş)
Lakota: akézaptaŋ
Lao: ສິບຫ້າ (sip hā) (numeral: ໑໕)
Latin: quīndecim (la)

Latvian: piecpadsmit
Ligurian: chìnze
Lithuanian: penkiolika (lt)
Livonian: vīžtuoistõn
Low German: föffteihn (nds), foffteihn (nds)
German Low German: föffteihn (nds), füwtain (nds) (Münsterland)
Luxembourgish: fofzéng (lb)
Lü: ᦉᦲᧇᦠᦱᧉ (ṡiibḣaa²) (numeral: ᧑᧕)
Macedonian: петна́есет (petnáeset)
Malagasy: dimy ambinifolo
Malay: lima belas, sepuluh lima, satu puluh lima
Maltese: ħmistax
Mansi: атхуйплов (atxujplow)
Maori: tekau mā rima (mi)
Mongolian: арван тав (arvan tav)
Navajo: ashdlaʼáadah
Norman: tchinze (Guernsey), tchînze (Jersey)
North Frisian: füftanj (Föhr)
Northern Sami: vihttanuppelohkái
Norwegian: femten (no)
Novial: dek-sink
Occitan: quinze (oc)
Ojibwe: ashi-naanan
Old Church Slavonic: пѧть на дєсѧтє (pętĭ na desęte)
Old English: fīftīene
Oriya: ପନ୍ଦର (or) (pandar) (numeral: ୧୫ (15))
Pennsylvania German: fuffzeh, fuftzay
Persian: پانزده‎ (fa) (pânzdah)
Polish: piętnaście (pl), (collective) piętnaścioro (pl)
Portuguese: quinze (pt)
Punjabi: ਪੰਦਰਾਂ (paṅdrāṅ) (numeral: ੧੫ (15))
Quechua: chunka pichqayuq
Romani:
Kalo Finnish Romani: deȟ-o-pangȟ
Romanian: cincisprezece (ro), cinșpe (informal)
Romansch: (Grischun) quindesch
Russian: пятна́дцать (ru) (pjatnádcatʹ)
Rusyn: пятна́дцить (pjatnádcytʹ)
S'gaw Karen: တဆံယဲၢ် (təhsiyɛ̱)
Samoan: sefulu lima
Sanskrit: पञ्चदश (sa) (páñcadaśa)
Scottish Gaelic: còig deug
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: петнаест

Roman: petnaest
Shan: သိပ်းႁႃႈ (síp hāa)
Sinhalese: පහළොව (pahaḷova)
Skolt Sami: vitmlo
Slovak: pätnásť (sk)
Slovene: petnajst (sl)
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: pěśnasćo

Upper Sorbian: pjatnaće
Spanish: quince (es) m
Swahili: kumi na tano
Swedish: femton (sv)
Tagalog: labinlima (tl)
Tahitian: hō'ē 'ahuru ma pae
Tajik: понздаҳ (tg) (ponzdah)
Tatar: унбиш (unbiş)
Telugu: పదిహేను (te) (padihēnu)
Thai: สิบห้า (th) (sìp-hâa) (numeral: ๑๕)
Tibetan: བཅོ་ལྔ (bco lnga)
Tigre: ዐስር ወሐምስ (ʿäsr wäḥäms)
Tigrinya: ዓሰርተ ሓሙሽተ (ʿasärtä ḥamuštä)
Tongan: hongofulu mā nima
Turkish: on beş (tr)
Turkmen: on bäş (tk)
Ukrainian: п’ятна́дцять (uk) (pʺjatnádcjatʹ)
Urdu: پندرہ‎ (pandrah)
Uyghur: ئون بەش‎ (ug) (on besh)
Uzbek: oʻn besh (uz)
Vietnamese: mười lăm (vi)
Volapük: deglul, balselul (older term, obsolete)
Waray-Waray: kinse
Welsh: pymtheg (cy) (vigesimal, traditional), un deg pump (cy) (decimal)
West Frisian: fyftjin (fy)
Wolof: fukk ak juróom
Yakut: уон биэс (uon bies)
Yiddish: פֿופֿצן‎ (fuftsn)
Yup'ik: akimiaq
Zazaki: pances
Zhuang: cib haj

fifteen

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