fifteen

English

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Cardinal: fifteen     Ordinal: fifteenth

Alternative forms

• fiveteen (obsolete) [17th–18th c.]
• fifteene (obsolete) [16th–19th c.]

Etymology

PIE word
*pénkʷe

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.

Pronunciation

• (next word stressed near the first syllable)

  (UK, US) enPR: fĭf'tēn, IPA^(key): /ˈfɪf.tiːn/

• Audio (US):

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• (next word stressed after the first syllable)

  (UK, US) enPR: fĭf-tēn', IPA^(key): /fɪfˈtiːn/

• Rhymes: -iːn

Numeral

fifteen (cardinal, ordinal fifteenth)

1. The cardinal number occurring after fourteen (14) and before sixteen (16).
   • 1968, Christopher Hodder-Williams, “Hands”, in Fistful of Digits, London: Coronet Books, published 1972, →ISBN, page 125:

     She was, in fact, constitutionally impervious to statistics and preferred to study the be-headphoned group of fifteen or so lethargic wanderers who were taking even less notice of the remorseless squawkings than she was.

Synonyms

• Roman numerals: XV
• Arabic numerals: 15

Coordinate terms

• Previous: fourteen
• Next: sixteen

Derived terms

• 15 minutes, 15 minutes of fame
• fifteen and two
• fifteen hundred
• fifteen-minute city
• freshman fifteen
• make a dollar out of fifteen cents
• sweet fifteen

 

Translations

cardinal number

• Afrikaans: vyftien (af)
• Albanian: pesëmbëdhjetë (sq)
• American Sign Language: (OpenB@Side-PalmBack Flatten)
• Amharic: አስራ አምስት (ʾäsra ʾämsət)
• Arabic: خَمْسَةَ عَشَرَ (ḵamsata ʕašara)

  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 biş)
• Basque: hamabost (eu)
• Belarusian: пятна́ццаць (be) (pjatnáccacʹ)
• Bengali: পনেরো (bn) (ponerō) (numeral: ১৫)
• Bikol Central: kaglima
• Breton: pemzek (br)
• Brunei Malay: lima balas
• Bulgarian: петна́десет (bg) (petnádeset), петна́йсет (petnájset)
• Burmese: ဆယ့်ငါး (hcai.nga:) (numeral: ၁၅)
• Buryat: арбан табан (arban taban)
• Carpathian Rusyn: пятна́дцять (pjatnádcjatʹ)
• Catalan: quinze (ca)
• Cebuano: napulog lima
• Central Sierra Miwok: naˀá·ča- máš·ok·a-ˀ hej·i-ˀ
• Chechen: пхийтта (pxiı̇tta)
• 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 (vunp̬illĕk), вунпилӗк (vunp̬ilĕk)
• Classical Nahuatl: caxtōlli
• Czech: patnáct (cs)
• Dalmatian: čonco
• Danish: femten (da)
• Dena'ina: ch'qilu beq'di
• Dhivehi: ފަނަރަ (fanara)
• Dutch: vijftien (nl) f
• Dzongkha: བཅོ་ལྔ (bco lnga)
• 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΄ (numeral)

• Greenlandic: aqqaneq-tallimat
• Gujarati: પંદર (gu) (pandar)
• 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)
• Ingrian: viistoist
• Interlingua: dece-cinque
• 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 (on bes)
• Khiamniungan Naga: tshìekǜmǖngōu
• Khmer: ដប់ប្រាំ (dop pram) (numeral: ១៥)
• Komi-Permyak: дасвит (dasvit)
• Korean: 열다섯 (ko) (yeoldaseot), 십오(十五) (ko) (sibo)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: پانزە (panze)

  Northern Kurdish: pazde (ku), pazdeh (ku)

• Kyrgyz: он беш (ky) (on beş)
• Ladin: please add this translation if you can
• Lakota: akézaptaŋ
• Lao: ສິບຫ້າ (sip hā) (numeral: ໑໕)
• Latin: quīndecim (la)
• Latvian: piecpadsmit (lv)
• Ligurian: chìnze
• Lithuanian: penkiolika (lt)
• Livonian: vīžtuoistõn
• Lombard: quindes
• Louisiana Creole French: kinz
• Low German: föffteihn (nds), foffteihn (nds)

  German Low German: föffteihn (nds), füwtain (nds) (Münsterland)

• Lü: ᦉᦲᧇᦠᦱᧉ (ṡiibḣaa²) (numeral: ᧑᧕)
• Luxembourgish: fofzéng (lb)
• Macedonian: петна́есет (petnáeset)
• Malagasy: dimy ambinifolo
• Malay: lima belas (ms), sepuluh lima, satu puluh lima
• Malayalam: പതിനഞ്ച് (ml) (patinañcŭ)
• Maltese: ħmistax
• Manchu: ᡨᠣᡶᠣᡥᠣᠨ (tofohon)
• Maori: tekau mā rima (mi)
• Marathi: पंधरा (pandhrā)
• Middle English: fiftene
• Mon: စှ်သုန်
• Mongolian: арван тав (arvan tav)
• Navajo: ashdlaʼáadah
• Neapolitan: quinnece
• Norman: tchinze (Guernsey), tchînze (Jersey)
• North Frisian: füftanj (Föhr)
• Northern Mansi: ^{(please verify)} атхуйплов (athujplov)
• Northern Sami: vihttanuppelohkái
• Norwegian: femten (no)
• Occitan: quinze (oc)
• Odia: ପନ୍ଦର (or) (pandara) (numeral: ୧୫ (15))
• Ojibwe: ashi-naanan
• Old Church Slavonic: пѧть на дєсѧтє (pętĭ na desęte) (numeral: е҃і)
• Old English: fīftīene
• Pennsylvania German: fuffzeh, fuftzay
• Persian: پانزده (fa) (pânzdah)
• Piedmontese: quindes
• Polish: piętnaście (pl), (collective) piętnaścioro (pl)
• Portuguese: quinze (pt)
• Punjabi:,

  Gurmukhi: ਪੰਦਰਾਂ (pandrā̃)

  Shahmukhi: پَندراں (pandrāṉ)

• Quechua: chunka pichqayuq
• Romagnol: quinṣ, quingg
• Romani:

  Kalo Finnish Romani: deȟ-o-pangȟ

• Romanian: cincisprezece (ro), cinșpe (informal)
• Romansch: (Grischun) quindesch
• Russian: пятна́дцать (ru) (pjatnádcatʹ)
• S'gaw Karen: တဆံယဲၢ် (ta hsee yeẖ)
• Samoan: sefulu lima
• Sanskrit: पञ्चदश (sa) (páñcadaśa)
• Scottish Gaelic: còig-deug
• Seraiki: پَندھَرَاں (pandharāṉ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: петнаест

  Roman: petnaest

• Shan: သိပ်းႁႃႈ (síp hāa)
• Sinhalese: පහළොව (pahaḷowa)
• 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)
• Tok Pisin: fiftin, wanpela ten faiv
• 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: pancês (diq), desupanc
• Zhuang: cib haj

See also

• (15 times): quindecuple
• (15-line): quindecuplet
• (15-man): quindecemvir
• (15-year): quindecennial
• (15-sided shape): quindecagon

Noun

fifteen (plural fifteens)

1. (Ireland, mostly in plural) An Irish traybake made with crushed digestive biscuits, marshmallows and glacé cherries combined with condensed milk and desiccated coconut.

See also

• fifteens