eleven

Translingual

Alternative forms

• Eleven, ELEVEN

Etymology

Borrowed from English eleven.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [iˈlɛvn]

Noun

eleven

1. (international standards) NATO, ICAO, ITU & IMO radiotelephony code for 11, used only with o'clock to indicate direction

English

English numbers ^(edit)

	110
←  10	11	12  →
Cardinal: eleven     Ordinal: eleventh     Latinate ordinal: undecimary     Adverbial: eleven times     Multiplier: elevenfold     Latinate multiplier: undecuple     Germanic collective: elevensome     Greek or Latinate collective: hendecad     Greek collective prefix: hendeca-     Latinate collective prefix: undeca-     Fractional: eleventh     Number of musicians: undecet

Alternative forms

• Arabic numerals: 11
• Roman numerals: XI

Etymology

From Middle English elleven, enleven, eleven, from Old English endleofan; from Proto-Germanic *ainalif (“one left”) (i.e., one left over after having already counted to ten), a compound of *ainaz and *-lif, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“leave, remain”). Compare West Frisian alve, Low German ölven, Dutch elf, German elf, Icelandic ellefu, Danish and Norwegian elleve.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪˈlɛvən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈlɛv.ən/, /iˈlɛvən/
• (India) IPA^(key): /lɛvən/, /iˈlɛvən/
• (casually also) IPA^(key): [ɪˈlɛbm̩]

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɛvən

Numeral

eleven

1. The cardinal number occurring after ten and before twelve. Represented as 11 in Arabic digits.

Derived terms

• elevener
• elevenie
• elevenish
• elevenness
• elevenpence
• elevenpenny
• elevenscore
• elevenses
• elevensies
• eleventeen
• eleventh
• eleventy
• eplerenone
• forty-leven
• more than eleven
• up to eleven

 

Related terms

• onety-one

Translations

the cardinal number occurring after ten and before twelve

• Afrikaans: elf (af)
• Ainu: sine ikasima wan
• Albanian: njëmbëdhjetë (sq)
• Amharic: አስራ አንድ (ʾäsra ʾänd)
• Arabic: أَحَد عَشَر (ʔaḥad ʕašar), إِحْدَى عَشْرَةَ (ʔiḥdā ʕašrata), (numeral) ١١ (11)

  Egyptian Arabic: حداشر (ḥidāšar)

  Hijazi Arabic: إحدعش (ʔiḥdaʕaš)

• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܚܲܕܸܥܣܲܪ m (ḳadiʿsar), ܚܕܲܥܸܣܪܹܐ f (ḳdaʿisrē)

  Hebrew: חדעסר m (khda‘sar), חדעסרא f (khda‘esrē)

  Syriac: ܚܕܥܣܪ m (khda‘sar), ܚܕܥܣܪܐ f (khda‘esrē)

• Armenian: տասնմեկ (hy) (tasnmek)
• Assamese: এঘাৰঃ (egharoh)
• Asturian: once (ast)
• Aymara: tunka mayani
• Azerbaijani: on bir (az)
• Bashkir: ун бер (un ber)
• Basque: hamaika (eu)
• Belarusian: адзі́наццаць (be) (adzínaccacʹ)
• Bengali: এগারো (bn) (egarō) (numeral: ১১)
• Bikol Central: kagsaro
• Breton: unnek (br)
• Brunei Malay: sabalas
• Bulgarian: едина́десет (bg) (edinádeset), едина́йсет (bg) (edinájset)
• Burmese: ဆယ့်တစ် (hcai.tac) (numeral: ၁၁)
• Buryat: арбан нэгэн (arban negen)
• Carpathian Rusyn: єдена́дцить (jedenádcytʹ)
• Catalan: onze (ca)
• Cebuano: napulog usa
• Central Dusun: hopod om iso
• Central Sierra Miwok: kéŋheṭija·ky-
• Chakma: please add this translation if you can
• Chechen: цхьайтта (cḥʳajtta)
• Cherokee: ᏌᏚᎢ (sadui)
• Chichewa: khumi n'chimodzi
• Chickasaw: awa chaffa, pokkó'li awa chaffa
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 十一 (sap⁶ jat¹)

  Hakka: 十一 (sṳ̍p-yit)

  Mandarin: 十一 (zh) (shíyī), (numeral) 拾壹

• Chuukese: engon me eu
• Chuvash: вунпӗрре (vunp̬ĕrre), вунпӗр (vunp̬ĕr)
• Classical Nahuatl: mahtlāctli oncē
• Corsican: òndeci
• Crimean Tatar: on bir
• Czech: jedenáct (cs)
• Dalmatian: jonco
• Danish: elleve (da)
• Dena'ina: ts'ełq'i beq'di
• Dhivehi: އެގަރަ (egara)
• Dutch: elf (nl)
• Dzongkha: བཅུ་གཅིག (bcu gcig)
• Esperanto: dek unu
• Estonian: üksteist (et)
• Faroese: ellivu
• Fijian: tini ka dua
• Finnish: yksitoista (fi)
• French: onze (fr)
• Friulian: undis
• Galician: once (gl)
• Garifuna: ûnsu
• Georgian: თერთმეტი (ka) (tertmeṭi)
• German: elf (de)
• Gilbertese: tebwi ma teuana
• Gothic: 𐌰𐌹𐌽𐌻𐌹𐍆 (ainlif)
• Greek: έντεκα (el) (énteka)

  Ancient: ἕνδεκα (héndeka), ια΄ (numeral)

• Greenlandic: aqqanillit
• Gujarati: અગિયાર (agiyār) (numeral: ૧૧)
• Haitian Creole: onz
• Hawaiian: ʻumikūmākahi
• Hebrew: אַחַת־עֶשְׂרֵה f (akhat-esre) (used in counting), אַחַד־עָשָׂר m (akhad-asar)

  Biblical: עַשְׁתֵּי עָשָׂר (he) m (ʿashtē ʿasar), עַשְׁתֵּי עֶשְׂרֵה f (ʿashtē ʿesrē)

• Hindi: ग्यारह (hi) (gyārah) (numeral: ११), एकादश (hi) (ekādaś)
• Hopi: pakwt niikyang suk siikya’ta
• Hungarian: tizenegy (hu)
• Hunsrik: ellef
• Icelandic: ellefu (is)
• Ido: dek-e-un (io)
• Igala: ẹ̀gwákáà
• Indonesian: sebelas (id)
• Ingrian: ykstoist
• Interlingua: dece-un, undece
• Irish: aon déag (ga)
• Istriot: ondaze, ondase
• Italian: undici (it)
• Japanese: 十一 (ja) (じゅういち, jūichi), イレブン (ja) (irebun)
• Javanese: sewelas (jv), setunggal welas
• Jeju: 열ᄒᆞ나 (yeolhawna), 십일 (sibil) (Sino)
• Kannada: ಹನ್ನೊಂದು (kn) (hannondu)
• Kapampangan: labing metung
• Karelian: yksitostu
• Kazakh: он бір (on bır)
• Khiamniungan Naga: tshìekǖtsàk
• Khmer: ដប់មួយ (dɑp muəy) (numeral ១១)
• Komi-Permyak: дасӧтік (dasötik)
• Korean: 열하나 (ko) (yeolhana), 십일(十一) (ko) (sibil), 일레븐 (illebeun)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: یانزە (yanze)

  Northern Kurdish: yazde (ku)

• Kyrgyz: он бир (ky) (on bir)
• Ladin: please add this translation if you can
• Lakota: akéwaŋží
• Lao: ສິບເອັດ (sip ʼet) (numeral: ໑໑)
• Latgalian: vīnpadsmit
• Latin: ūndecim (la)
• Latvian: vienpadsmit (lv)
• Ligurian: ùnze
• Lithuanian: vienuolika (lt) f
• Livonian: ikštuoistõn
• Lombard: please add this translation if you can
• Louisiana Creole French: onz
• Low German: ölven (nds), elven
• Lü: ᦉᦲᧇᦵᦀᧆ (ṡiib˙ʼed) (numeral: ᧑᧑)
• Lushootseed: ʔulub ʔi kʷi dəč̓uʔ
• Luxembourgish: älef, elef
• Macedonian: единаесет (edinaeset)
• Malagasy: iraika ambinifolo
• Malay: sebelas (ms), satu belas, sepuluh satu, satu puluh satu
• Malayalam: പതിനൊന്ന് (ml) (patinonnŭ)
• Maltese: ħdax (mt)
• Manchu: ᠵᡠᠸᠠᠨ
  ᡝᠮᡠ (juwan emu)
• Manx: nane jeig, unnanejeig
• Maori: tekau mā tahi (mi), ngahuru mā tahi (older term)
• Marathi: अकरा (mr) (akrā)
• Middle English: elleven
• Mon: စှ်မွဲ
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: арван нэг (mn) (arvan neg)

  Mongolian: ᠠᠷᠪᠠᠨ
  ᠨᠢᠭᠡ (arban nige), (numeral): ᠑᠑ (11))

• Nahuatl: matlactli once
• Nauruan: ata ma aiquen
• Navajo: łaʼtsʼáadah
• Nepali: एघार (ne) (eghāra) (numeral: ११)
• Ngazidja Comorian: kume na mwedja
• Norman: aonze
• North Frisian: elev (Sylt)
• Northern Mansi: ^{(please verify)} аквахуйплов (akvahujplov)
• Norwegian: elleve (no)
• Occitan: onze (oc)
• Odia: ଏଗାର (egāra) (numeral: ୧୧ (11))
• Ojibwe: ashi-bezhig
• Old Armenian: մետասան (metasan)
• Old Church Slavonic: єдинъ на дєсѧтє (edinŭ na desęte) (numeral: а҃і)
• Old English: endleofan
• Old Norse: ellifu
• Pennsylvania German: elf
• Persian: یازده (fa) (yâzdah)
• Piedmontese: óndes, ùndes
• Polish: jedenaście (pl). (collective) jedenaścioro (pl)
• Portuguese: onze (pt)
• Punjabi: ਗਿਆਰਾਂ (giārā̃) (numeral: ੧੧)
• Quechua: chunka hukniyuq
• Rohingya: egaro
• Romagnol: unṣ, ung
• Romani: deśujekh

  Kalo Finnish Romani: deȟ-o-iek

• Romanian: unsprezece (ro), (informal) unșpe
• Romansch: (Grischun) indesch, (Puter) ündesch
• Russian: оди́ннадцать (ru) (odínnadcatʹ)
• S'gaw Karen: တဆံတၢ (ta hsee tuh)
• Sami:

  Inari: ohtnubáloh

  Northern: oktanuppelohkái

  Skolt: õtmlo

  Southern: luhkie akte

• Samoan: sefulu tasi
• Sanskrit: एकादश (sa) (ekādaśa)
• Santali: ᱜᱮᱞ ᱢᱤᱫ (gel mit’)
• Sardinian: úndagi
• Scots: eleeven
• Scottish Gaelic: aon deug, a h-aon deug
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: једа̀нае̄ст

  Roman: jedànaēst

• Shan: သိပ်းဢဵတ်း (shn) (síp ʼáet)
• Sinhalese: එකොළහ (ekoḷaha)
• Slovak: jedenásť (sk)
• Slovene: enájst (sl)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: jadnasćo

  Upper Sorbian: jědnaće

• Southern Altai: он бир (on bir)
• Spanish: once (es)
• Sranan Tongo: erfu
• Swahili: kumi na moja
• Swedish: elva (sv)
• Sylheti: please add this translation if you can
• Tagalog: labing-isa (tl)
• Tahitian: hō'ē 'ahuru ma hō'ē
• Tajik: ёздаҳ (tg) (yozdah)
• Tamil: பதினோரு (patiṉōru)
• Tatar: унбер (unber)
• Telugu: పదకొండు (te) (padakoṇḍu), ౧౧ (11) (numeral)
• Thai: สิบเอ็ด (th) (sìp-èt) (numeral: ๑๑)
• Tibetan: བཅུ་གཅིག (bcu gcig)
• Tigre: ዐስር ወዎሮት (ʿäsr wäworot), ዐስር ወሐቴ (ʿäsr wäḥäte)
• Tigrinya: ዓሰርተ ሓደ (ʿasärtä ḥadä)
• Tok Pisin: eleven, wanpela ten wan
• Tongan: hongofulu mā taha
• Turkish: on bir (tr), artığın
• Turkmen: on bir (tk)
• Ukrainian: одина́дцять (uk) (odynádcjatʹ)
• Urdu: گیارہ (gyārah)
• Uyghur: ئون بىر (ug) (on bir)
• Uzbek: oʻn bir (uz)
• Venetan: undexe, ondexe
• Vietnamese: mười một (vi)
• Volapük: degbal (vo), balsebal (older term, obsolete)
• Walloon: onze (wa)
• Welsh: (vigesimal, traditional) un ar ddeg (cy), (decimal) un deg un (cy)
• West Frisian: alve (fy)
• Winnebago: hižąkirašąną
• Wolof: fukk ak benn
• Yakut: уон биир (uon biir)
• Yao: likumi kwisa mo
• Yiddish: עלף (elf)
• Yoruba: ọ̀kànlá, oókànlá (counting), mọ́kànlá (adjectival)
• Yup'ik: qula atauciq
• Zazaki: yewndes
• Zhuang: cib it
• Zuni: asdemłan doba yałdo'

See also

• Last: ten. Next: twelve

Noun

eleven (plural elevens)

1. (cricket) A cricket team of eleven players. Hence first eleven - the team of best cricket players (at a school), second eleven - the "B" team, etc.
2. (soccer) A football team of eleven players; the starting lineup.
3. (Internet, slang, sarcastic) Deliberate misspelling of !!. Used to amplify an exclamation, imitating someone who forgets to press the shift key while typing exclamation points.

   A: SUM1 Hl3p ME im alwyz L0ziN!!?!

   B: y d0nt u just g0 away l0zer!!1!!one!!one!!eleven!!1!

4. (countable, US, slang) A number off the charts of a hypothetical scale of one to ten.
   1. An exceptional specimen, (particularly) a physically attractive person.
   2. A very high level of intensity.

Synonyms

• (sarcastic substitution for !): one, 1

Derived terms

• eleven-dimensional
• eleven hundred
• eleven o'clock
• eleven plus
• eleven-plus
• eleven-striped blind snake
• eleven thousand
• film at eleven
• first eleven
• grade eleven
• legs eleven
• more at eleven
• number eleven
• second eleven
• seven come eleven
• third eleven
• up to eleven

 

See also

• Appendix:English collective nouns

Catalan

Verb

eleven

1. third-person plural present indicative of elevar

Danish

Noun

eleven c

1. definite singular of elev

Hungarian

Etymology

Lexicalization of the obsolete form of the present participle élő (“living”), originally an adverb, compare hirtelen, meztelen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛlɛvɛn]
• Hyphenation: ele‧ven
• Rhymes: -ɛn

Adjective

eleven (comparative elevenebb, superlative legelevenebb)

1. (literary or archaic) alive

   Synonym: élő

2. lively

   Synonyms: élénk, fürge

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	eleven	elevenek
accusative	elevent	eleveneket
dative	elevennek	eleveneknek
instrumental	elevennel	elevenekkel
causal-final	elevenért	elevenekért
translative	elevenné	elevenekké
terminative	elevenig	elevenekig
essive-formal	elevenként	elevenekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	elevenben	elevenekben
superessive	elevenen	eleveneken
adessive	elevennél	eleveneknél
illative	elevenbe	elevenekbe
sublative	elevenre	elevenekre
allative	elevenhez	elevenekhez
elative	elevenből	elevenekből
delative	elevenről	elevenekről
ablative	eleventől	elevenektől
non-attributive possessive - singular	elevené	eleveneké
non-attributive possessive - plural	elevenéi	elevenekéi

Derived terms

• elevenedik → megelevenedik
• (elevenít →) megelevenít, felelevenít
• elevenség
• elevenül

 

Further reading

• eleven in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• eleven in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

Middle English

Numeral

eleven

1. Alternative form of elleven

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

eleven m

1. definite singular of elev

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

eleven m

1. definite singular of elev

Spanish

Verb

eleven

1. inflection of elevar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

Swedish

Noun

eleven

1. definite singular of elev

Tok Pisin

Tok Pisin numbers ^(edit)

←  10	11	12  →
Cardinal: eleven

Etymology

From English eleven.

Numeral

eleven

1. eleven

Usage notes

Used when counting; see also wanpela ten wan.

Coordinate terms

Tok Pisin cardinal numbers from 1 to 99

	—0	—1	—2	—3	—4	—5	—6	—7	—8	—9
0—	—	wan	tu	tri	foa	faiv	sikis	seven	et	nain
1—	ten	eleven	twelv	tetin	fotin	fiftin	sikistin	seventin	etin	naintin
2—	twenti	tupela ten wan	tupela ten tu	tupela ten tri	tupela ten foa	tupela ten faiv	tupela ten sikis	tupela ten seven	tupela ten et	tupela ten nain
3—	teti	tripela ten wan	tripela ten tu	tripela ten tri	tripela ten foa	tripela ten faiv	tripela ten sikis	tripela ten seven	tripela ten et	tripela ten nain
4—	foti	fopela ten wan	fopela ten tu	fopela ten tri	fopela ten foa	fopela ten faiv	fopela ten sikis	fopela ten seven	fopela ten et	fopela ten nain
5—	fifti	faivpela ten wan	faivpela ten tu	faivpela ten tri	faivpela ten foa	faivpela ten faiv	faivpela ten sikis	faivpela ten seven	faivpela ten et	faivpela ten nain
6—	sikisti	sikispela ten wan	sikispela ten tu	sikispela ten tri	sikispela ten foa	sikispela ten faiv	sikispela ten sikis	sikispela ten seven	sikispela ten et	sikispela ten nain
7—	seventi	sevenpela ten wan	sevenpela ten tu	sevenpela ten tri	sevenpela ten foa	sevenpela ten faiv	sevenpela ten sikis	sevenpela ten seven	sevenpela ten et	sevenpela ten nain
8—	eti	etpela ten wan	etpela ten tu	etpela ten tri	etpela ten foa	etpela ten faiv	etpela ten sikis	etpela ten seven	etpela ten et	etpela ten nain
9—	nainti	nainpela ten wan	nainpela ten tu	nainpela ten tri	nainpela ten foa	nainpela ten faiv	nainpela ten sikis	nainpela ten seven	nainpela ten et	nainpela ten nain