twelve

Translingual

Alternative forms

• Twelve, TWELVE

Etymology

Позајмљено од Енглески twelve.

Pronunciation

• МФА^(кључ): [ˈtwɛlv]

Noun

twelve

1. (international standards) NATO, ICAO, ITU & IMO radiotelephony code for 12, used only with o'clock to indicate direction

English

Енглески бројеви ^(edit)

←  11	12	13  →
Cardinal: twelve     Ordinal: twelfth     Multiplier: twelvefold

Alternative forms

• Arabic numerals: 12
• Roman numerals: XII
• twelue (obsolete)

Etymology

From Средњи Енглески twelve, from Стари Енглески twelf (“twelve”), from Пра-Германски *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 *leyp- (“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 Норвешки tolv (“twelve”), Icelandic tólf (“twelve”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: twĕlv, МФА^(кључ): /twɛlv/, [tw̥ɛɫv]
• enPR: twəlv, МФА^(кључ): /twəlv/, [tw̥əɫv], enPR: twĕlv, МФА^(кључ): /twelv/, [tw̥eɫv]
• enPR: twĕv, МФА^(кључ): /twɛv/, [tw̥ɛv]

• Audio (US):

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• Риме: -ɛlv

Numeral

twelve

1. 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.

Synonyms

• twelveteen (nonstandard)

Derived terms

• feel twelve feet tall
• grade twelve
• it's better to be judged by twelve than to be carried by six
• twelve bar blues
• twelve-bar blues
• twelve godfathers
• twelve good men and true
• twelve hundred
• twelve-inch
• twelve-note
• twelve-ounce curls
• twelve-penny nail
• twelve penny nail
• twelvesome
• twelve-speed
• twelve-stepper
• twelve stepper
• twelve-step program
• twelve-tone
• twelve-tone technique

 

Related terms

• Ordinal: twelfth

Descendants

• → Јапански: トゥエルブ (tuerubu)

Translations

cardinal number 12

• Afrikaans: twaalf (af)
• Ainu: tu ikasima wan
• Albanian: dymbëdhjetë (sq)
• Amharic: ዐሥራ ሁለት (ʿäśra hulät)
• Arabic: اِثْنَا عَشَرَ (iṯnā ʿašara)

  Egyptian Arabic: اتناشر (itnašar)

  Hijazi Arabic: اثنعش (iṯnaʕaš), اتنعش (itnaʕaš)

• Aragonese: dotze, doce, doze
• Aramaic: תרעסר m (tre‘sar), תרתעסרא f (tarta‘esrē)

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܬܪܸܥܣܲܪ (triˁsar)

  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 (be) (dvanáccacʹ)
• Bengali: বারো (bn) (baro) (numeral: ১২)
• Bikol Central: kagduwa
• Breton: daouzek (br)
• Brunei Malay: dua balas
• Bulgarian: двана́десет (dvanádeset), двана́йсет (dvanájset)
• Burmese: ဆယ့်နှစ် (my) (hcai.hnac) (numeral: ၁၂)
• Buryat: арбан хоёр (arban xojor)
• Carpathian Rusyn: двана́дцять (dvanádcjatʹ)
• Catalan: dotze (ca)
• Cebuano: napulog duha
• Central Sierra Miwok: ˀoṭíkšake·ny-
• Chakma: молим додајте овај превод ако можете
• Chamicuro: chunka ma'pojta
• Chechen: шийтта (šiitta)
• Cherokee: ᏔᎵᏚ (talidu)
• Chichewa: khumi n'ziwiri
• Chickasaw: awa toklo, pokkó'li awa toklo
• 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: aqqaneq-marluk (kl)
• 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)
• Ingrian: kakstoist
• Interlingua: ^{(молим оверавање)} dece-duo , ^{(молим оверавање)} 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 (on ekı)
• Khmer: ដប់ពីរ (dop pī) (numeral: ១២)
• Komi-Permyak: даскык (daskyk)
• Korean: 열둘 (ko) (yeoldul), 십이(十二) (ko) (sibi)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: دوانزە (dwanze), دوازدە (dwazde)

  Northern Kurdish: dazde (ku)

  Southern Kurdish:

• 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
• Lombard: dodes
• Louisiana Creole French: douz
• Low German: twölf (nds), twolf (nds)
• Lü: ᦉᦲᧇᦉᦸᧂ (ṡiibṡoang) (numeral: ᧑᧒)
• Luxembourgish: zwielef (lb)
• Macedonian: двана́есет (dvanáeset)
• Malagasy: roa ambinifolo
• Malay: dua belas (ms), sepuluh dua, satu puluh dua
• Malayalam: പന്ത്രണ്ട് (ml) (pantraṇṭŭ)
• Maltese: tnax
• Manchu: ᠵᡠᠸᠠᠨ
  ᠵᡠᠸᡝ
• Manx: daa yeig
• Maore Comorian: kumi na mbili
• Maori: tekau mā rua (mi), ngahuru mā rua (older term)
• Middle English: twelve
• Mon: စှ်ၜါ
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: арван хоёр (arvan hojor)

  Mongolian: ᠠᠷᠪᠠᠨ
  ᠬᠣᠶᠠᠷ (arban qoyar), (numeral) ᠑᠒ (12))

• Nauruan: ata ma aro
• Navajo: naakitsʼáadah
• Ngazidja Comorian: kume na -ili
• Northern Mansi:
• Norwegian: tolv (no)
• Occitan: dotze (oc)
• Odia: ବାର (or) (barô) (numeral: ୧୨ (12))
• Ojibwe: ashi-niizh
• Old Church Slavonic: дъва на дєсѧтє (dŭva na desęte) (numeral: в҃і)
• Old English: twelf
• Pali: dvādasa
• Pennsylvania German: zwelf, zwelfe
• Persian: دوازده (fa) (davâzdah)
• Piedmontese: dódes
• Polish: dwanaście (pl), (collective) dwanaścioro (pl)
• Portuguese: doze (pt)
• Punjabi: ਬਾਰਾਂ (bārā̃) (numeral: ੧੨)
• Quechua: chunka iskayniyuq
• Rakhine: молим додајте овај превод ако можете
• Rohingya: baró
• Romagnol: dodṣ, dodg
• Romani: deśuduj

  Kalo Finnish Romani: deȟ-o-dui

• Romanian: ^{(молим оверавање)} doisprezece (ro) m, (informal) ^{(молим оверавање)} doișpe (ro) m, ^{(молим оверавање)} douăsprezece f or n, (informal) ^{(молим оверавање)} douășpe f or n
• Romansch: dudesch (Grischun)
• Russian: двена́дцать (ru) (dvenádcatʹ)
• S'gaw Karen: တဆံခံ (təhsikhi)
• Sami:

  Inari: kyehtnubáloh

  Northern: guoktenuppelohkái

  Skolt: kuâtmlo

  Southern: luhkie göökte

• Samoan: sefulu lua
• Sanskrit: द्वादश (sa) (dvādaśa)
• Santali: ᱜᱮᱞ ᱵᱟᱨ (gel bar)
• 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)
• Sranan Tongo: twarfu
• Swahili: kumi na mbili
• Swedish: tolv (sv)
• Sylheti: молим додајте овај превод ако можете
• Tagalog: labindalawa (tl)
• 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)
• Tok Pisin: twelv, wanpela ten tu
• Tongan: hongofulu mā ua
• Turkish: on iki (tr)
• Turkmen: on iki (tk)
• Ukrainian: двана́дцять (uk) (dvanádcjatʹ)
• Urdu: بارہ (bārah)
• Uyghur: ئون ئىككى (ug) (on ikki)
• Uzbek: oʻn ikki (uz)
• Venetian: dódexe (vec)
• Vietnamese: mười hai (vi)
• Vilamovian: cwełf
• Volapük: degtel (vo), balsetel (older term, obsolete)
• Walloon: doze (wa)
• Welsh: deuddeg (cy) (vigesimal, traditional), undeg dau m (decimal), undeg dwy f (decimal)
• West Frisian: tolf (fy), tolve (fy)
• Wolof: fukk ak ñaar
• Yao: likumi kwisa wili
• Yiddish: צוועלף (tsvelf)
• Yup'ik: qula malruk
• Zazaki: dıwês (diq), desudıdı
• Zhuang: cib ngeih
• Zuni: asdemłan kwili yałdo'

See also

• Last: eleven. Next: thirteen

Noun

twelve (plural twelves)

1. A group of twelve items.

   Fractions would be a little easier if we counted by twelves.

2. A twelve-bore gun.
   • 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 880:

     In this way Von Esslin ‘inherited’ two fine hammerless twelves which he used once or twice for duck on the Camargue.

3. (law, colloquial) A jury (normally composed of twelve persons).
4. (slang) The police; law enforcement, especially a narcotics officer.
5. (military slang, by ellipsis of twelve o'clock) Front (front side of something, position in front of something).

   watch your twelve

   • За наводе коришћења овог термина, видите Цитати:twelve.

Related terms

• twelfth

See also

• dozen

Middle English

Средњи Енглески бројеви ^(edit)

←  11	12	13  →
Cardinal: twelve

Alternative forms

• twelfe, twelf, twælf, tuelf

Etymology

From inflected froms of Стари Енглески twelf, from Пра-Западно Германски *twalif, in turn from Пра-Германски *twalif.

Pronunciation

• МФА^(кључ): /ˈtwɛlv(ə)/, /ˈtwɛlf(ə)/

Numeral

twelve

1. twelve

Descendants

• Енглески: twelve
• Шкотски: twal, twol (obsolete twelf, twalf, tuelf)