milliard

See also: Milliard and milliárd

English

English numbers ^(edit)

←  1,000,000 (106)	←  100,000,000 (108)	1,000,000,000 (109)	1012  → [a], [b]	1015  → [a], [b]
Cardinal: billion, milliard, thousand million     Ordinal: billionth, milliardth, thousand-millionth     Multiplier: billionfold, milliardfold, thousand-millionfold     Metric collective prefix: giga-     Metric fractional prefix: nano-     Number of years: giga-annum, gigayear

Etymology

From French milliard.

Pronunciation

• Audio (UK):

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• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪlɪɑːd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪliɑɹd/

Numeral

milliard (plural milliards)

1. (now rare) 10⁹, a thousand (times a) million. (Now generally replaced by the short scale billion.) [from 18th c.]
   • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 155:

     For the coming year France would contribute 80 milliard francs ($200 million) to the Algerian budget [...].

Synonyms

• a short scale billion
• a thousand million

Derived terms

• milliardaire
• milliardfold
• milliardth

Translations

10^9 — see billion

See also

• Previous: million. Next: billion.
• Symbolic: 10⁹ = 1,000,000,000

Anagrams

• millirad

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

French milliard.

Numeral

milliard

1. A milliard (a short scale billion).

Declension

Declension of milliard

nominative	milliard
genitive	milliardnıñ
dative	milliardğa
accusative	milliardnı
locative	milliardda
ablative	milliarddan

References

• Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

Danish

Etymology

From French milliard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [miliˈɑˀd̥], [milˈjɑˀd̥]

Noun

milliard

1. 10⁹

Declension

Declension of milliard

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	milliard	milliarden	milliarder	milliarderne
genitive	milliards	milliardens	milliarders	milliardernes

French

French numbers ^(edit)

←  1,000,000 (106)	←  2,000,000 (2 × 106)	1,000,000,000 (109)	1012  → [a], [b]	1015  → [a], [b]
Cardinal: un milliard     Ordinal: milliardième
French Wikipedia article on 1,000,000,000 (109)

Etymology

From million, by changing the suffix to -ard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.ljaʁ/

• Audio:

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Numeral

milliard m (plural milliards)

1. billion (10⁹)

Derived terms

• Milliard ennuyeux
• milliardaire

 

Descendants

• → Albanian: miliard
• → Arabic: مليار (milyār)

  Moroccan Arabic: مليار (malyār)

• → Armenian: միլիառ (miliaṙ)
• → Breton: miliard
• → Catalan: miliard
• → Crimean Tatar: milliard
• → Czech: miliarda
• → Danish: milliard
• → Dutch: miljard, milliard (obsolete)
  • Afrikaans: miljard
  • → Indonesian: miliar
  • → Malay: milyar
• → English: milliard
• → Finnish: miljardi
• → German: Milliarde
  • → Estonian: miljard
  • → Hungarian: milliárd
• → Hebrew: מיליארד (milyárd)
• → Italian: miliardo
• → Karelian: miljardi
• → Lithuanian: milijardas
• → Luxembourgish: Milliard
• → Macedonian: милијарда (milijarda)
• → Northern Kurdish: milyar
• → Norwegian: milliard
• → Occitan: miliard
• → Ottoman Turkish: میلیار
  • Turkish: milyar
• → Persian: میلیارد (milyârd)
• → Polish: miliard
• → Romanian: miliard
• → Romansch: milliard, milliarda (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran)
• → Russian: миллиард (milliard), млрд (mlrd)
  • → Armenian: միլիարդ (miliard)
  • → Kazakh: миллиард (milliard)
  • → Tatar: миллиард (milliard)
• → Serbo-Croatian: milijarda / милијарда
  • → Ladino: milyarda / מילייארדה
• → Spanish: millardo
• → Swedish: miljard
• → Ukrainian: мільярд (milʹjard)
• → Uyghur: مىليارد (milyard)
• → Uzbek: milliard
• → Yiddish: מיליאַרד (milyard)

Further reading

• “milliard”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

milliard m (definite singular milliarden, indefinite plural milliarder, definite plural milliardene)

1. milliard (a short scale billion).
2. a billion (1000 million)

References

• “milliard” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

milliard m (definite singular milliarden, indefinite plural milliardar, definite plural milliardane)

1. milliard (a short scale billion).
2. a billion (1000 million)

References

• “milliard” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romansch

Alternative forms

• milliarda (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran)

Numeral

milliard

1. (Puter, Vallader) milliard (a short scale billion).

Noun

milliard m (plural milliards)

1. (Puter, Vallader) milliard (a short scale billion).

Derived terms

• milliardari

Tatar

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian миллиа́рд (milliárd).

Numeral

milliard (Cyrillic spelling миллиард)

1. A milliard (a short scale billion).

Declension

    declension of milliard

Nominative	milliard
Genitive	milliardnıñ
Dative	milliardga
Accusative	milliardnı
Locative	milliardda
Ablative	milliarddan

Uzbek

Uzbek numbers ^(edit)

←  1,000	←  1,000,000 (106)	1,000,000,000 (109)
Cardinal: milliard     Ordinal: milliardinchi

Numeral

milliard

1. milliard

Derived terms

• milliardinchi (“milliardth”)