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From Middle English fourti, feortiȝ, from Old English fēowertiġ, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fedwōr tigiwiz (“forty”).
forty
- The cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine and before forty-one.
1825, unknown, Harrison's Amusing Picture and Poetry Book, page 35:'Tis forty years this very day,
Since you and I, old girl, were married.
- In modern usage, the spelling fourty is nonstandard.
the cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine
- Afrikaans: veertig (af)
- Albanian: dyzet (sq)
- Arabic: أَرْبَعُونَ (ʔarbaʕūna)
- Egyptian Arabic: أربعين (ʔarbaʕīn)
- Moroccan Arabic: ربعين (rabʕīn), أربعين (ʔarbʕīn)
- Aramaic:
- Hebrew: ארבעין c (arb‘īn)
- Syriac: ܐܪܒܥܝܢ c (arb‘īn)
- Armenian: քառասուն (hy) (kʻaṙasun)
- Aromanian: patrudzãts, patrudzãtsi
- Assamese: চল্লিছ (sollis)
- Asturian: cuarenta (ast)
- Avar: кӏикъого (kʼiqxʼogo)
- Azerbaijani: qırx (az)
- Bashkir: ҡырҡ (qırq)
- Basque: berrogei (eu)
- Belarusian: со́рак (be) (sórak)
- Bengali: চল্লিশ (bn) (colliś)
- Biatah Bidayuh: pat puru
- Bikol Central: apat na pulo
- Breton: daou-ugent (br)
- Bulgarian: четири́десет (četirídeset), четири́йсет (četiríjset)
- Burmese: လေးဆယ် (le:hcai)
- Carpathian Rusyn: со́рок (sórok)
- Catalan: quaranta (ca)
- Chakma: please add this translation if you can
- Chamicuro: ma'pojtamala chunka
- Chamorro: kuårenta
- Chechen: шовзткъа (šovztqʼa)
- Cherokee: ᏅᎩᏍᎪᎯ (nvgisgohi)
- Cheyenne: névó'e
- Chichewa: makumi anayi
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 四十 (sei3 sap6)
- Eastern Min: 四十 ((sei seik > si leik))
- Hakka: 四十 (si-sṳ̍p)
- Mandarin: 四十 (zh) (sìshí)
- Teochew: 四十 (si3 zab8), 卌 (siab4)
- Wu: 四十
- Chuukese: faik
- Chuvash: хӗрӗх (hĕrĕh)
- Coptic: ϩⲙⲉ (hme)
- Crimean Tatar: qırq
- Czech: čtyřicet (cs)
- Dalmatian: quaranta
- Danish: fyrre (da), fyrretyve (formal)
- Dhivehi: ސާޅީސް (sāḷīs)
- Dutch: veertig (nl) f
- Dzongkha: བཞི་བཅུ (bzhi bcu)
- Esperanto: kvardek (eo)
- Estonian: nelikümmend (et)
- Farefare: pisnaasɩ
- Faroese: fjøruti
- Fijian: vasagavulu
- Finnish: neljäkymmentä (fi)
- Franco-Provençal: please add this translation if you can
- French: quarante (fr) m
- Friulian: cuarante
- Galician: corenta (gl)
- Georgian: ორმოცი (ormoci)
- German: vierzig (de) f
- Gothic: 𐍆𐌹𐌳𐍅𐍉𐍂 𐍄𐌹𐌲𐌾𐌿𐍃 (fidwōr tigjus)
- Greek: σαράντα (el) (saránta)
- Ancient: τεσσεράκοντα (tesserákonta), μ΄ (numeral)
- Gujarati: ચાલીસ (cālīs)
- Haitian Creole: karant
- Hausa: arba'in
- Hawaiian: kanahā
- Hebrew: אַרְבָּעִים m or f (arba'ím)
- Hindi: चालीस (hi) (cālīs)
- Hungarian: negyven (hu)
- Icelandic: fjörutíu (is)
- Ido: quaradek (io)
- Indonesian: empat puluh
- Ingrian: neljäkymment
- Interlingua: quaranta
- Irish: daichead (ga)
- Italian: quaranta (it)
- Japanese: 四十 (ja) (よんじゅう, yonjū), 四十 (ja) (しじゅう, shijū)
- Javanese: please add this translation if you can
- Karachay-Balkar: къыркъ (qırq)
- Kazakh: қырық (kk) (qyryq)
- Khmer: សែសិប (km) (sɐe səp), (numeral) ៤០ (40)
- Khün: please add this translation if you can
- Komi-Permyak: нёльдас (ńoľdas)
- Korean: 사십(四十) (ko) (sasip), 마흔 (ko) (maheun)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: چل (çil)
- Northern Kurdish: çil (ku)
- Kyrgyz: кырк (ky) (kırk)
- Ladin: caranta
- Lakota: wikčémna tópa
- Lao: ສີ່ສິບ (sī sip)
- Latin: quadraginta (la)
- Latvian: četrdesmit (lv)
- Ligurian: quaranta
- Lithuanian: keturiasdešimt (lt)
- Livonian: nēļakimdõ
- Lombard: quaranta
- Louisiana Creole French: karant
- Lü: ᦉᦲᧈᦉᦲᧇ (ṡii¹ṡiib)
- Luxembourgish: véierzeg
- Macedonian: четириесет (četirieset)
- Malay: empat puluh (ms)
- Malayalam: നാല്പത് (ml) (nālpatŭ)
- Maltese: erbgħin
- Manchu: ᡩᡝᡥᡳ (dehi)
- Manx: daeed
- Maori: whā tekau (mi)
- Mon: please add this translation if you can
- Mongolian: дөч (mn) (döč)
- Nauruan: animo
- Navajo: dízdiin
- Neapolitan: please add this translation if you can
- Norman: quarante
- Northern Mansi: (please verify) налыман (nalyman)
- Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian: førti (no)
- Occitan: quaranta (oc)
- Ojibwe: niimidana
- Old Church Slavonic: четыре десѧте (četyre desęte)
- Old East Slavic: сорокъ (sorokŭ)
- Old English: fēowertiġ
- Old Frisian: fiuwertich
- Old Tupi: xe pó, xe py, abá pó, i py, xe pó, xe py, amõ abá pó, i py, xe pó, xe py, amõ abá pó, i py abé
- Oromo: afurtama
- Pennsylvania German: varzich
- Persian: چهل (fa) (čehel)
- Phoenician: 𐤀𐤓𐤁𐤏𐤌 (ʾrbʿm)
- Piedmontese: quaranta
- Plautdietsch: featijch
- Polish: czterdzieści (pl)
- Portuguese: quarenta (pt)
- Quechua: tawa chunka
- Romagnol: cvaranta
- Romani: saranda
- Romanian: patruzeci (ro)
- Romansch: quaranta, curonta, curànta, curanta, quaraunta
- Russian: со́рок (ru) (sórok)
- Saanich: ŋəsɬšeʔ
- Samoan: fasefulu
- Sanskrit: चत्वारिंशत् (sa) (catvāriṃśat)
- Santali: ᱯᱩᱱ ᱜᱮᱞ (pun gel), ᱵᱟᱨ ᱤᱥᱤ (bar isi)
- Sardinian: baranta, caranta
- Scottish Gaelic: (old system) dà fhichead, (new system) ceathrad
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: четрдесет
- Roman: četrdeset
- Shan: သီႇသိပ်း (sìi síp)
- Sicilian: quaranta (scn)
- Sikkimese: please add this translation if you can
- Sinhalese: හතළිහ (hataḷiha)
- Slovak: štyridsať (sk)
- Slovene: štirideset (sl)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: styrźasća
- Upper Sorbian: štyrceći
- Southern Altai: тӧртӧн (törtön), кырык (kïrïk)
- Spanish: cuarenta (es)
- Swahili: arobaini (sw), arubaini (sw)
- Swedish: fyrti (sv), fyrtio (sv)
- Tagalog: apatnapu
- Tahitian: maha 'ahuru
- Tai Dam: please add this translation if you can
- Tai Nüa: please add this translation if you can
- Tajik: чил (tg) (čil)
- Tamil: நாற்பது (ta) (nāṟpatu)
- Tatar: кырык (tt) (qırıq)
- Telugu: నలభై (te) (nalabhai)
- Thai: สี่สิบ (th) (sìi-sìp)
- Tibetan: བཞི་བཅུ (bzhi bcu), ༤༠ (40) (numeral)
- Tigrinya: ኣርባዓ (ti) (ʾarbaʿa)
- Tocharian B: śtwārka
- Tofa: дөртэн (dörten)
- Tok Pisin: foti, fopela ten
- Tongan: fāngofulu
- Turkish: kırk (tr)
- Turkmen: kyrk (tk)
- Udmurt: ньыльдон (ńyľdon)
- Ukrainian: со́рок (uk) (sórok)
- Unami: neinxke
- Urdu: چالیس (cālīs)
- Uyghur: قىرىق (qiriq)
- Uzbek: qirq (uz)
- Venetan: cuaranta (vec), quaranta (vec)
- Vietnamese: bốn mươi (vi), bốn chục
- Volapük: foldeg (vo), fols (older term, obsolete)
- Welsh: deugain (cy) (vigesimal, traditional), pedwar deg (cy) (decimal)
- West Frisian: fjirtich
- Yakut: түөрт уон (tüört uon)
- Yiddish: פֿערציק (fertsik)
- Yup'ik: yuinaak malruk, malruk ipiaq
- Zazaki: çores
- Zhuang: please add this translation if you can
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forty (plural forties)
- (slang) A bottle of beer containing forty fluid ounces.
Terms derived from the numeral or noun forty
From fort + -y.
forty (comparative more forty, superlative most forty)
- Resembling or characteristic of a fort.
- IPA(key): /ˈfɔr.tɘ/
- Rhymes: -ɔrtɘ
- Syllabification: for‧ty
forty
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of fort
