sixteen

English

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Cardinal: sixteen     Ordinal: sixteenth

Alternative forms

• Symbolic: 16
• Roman: XVI

Etymology

From Middle English sextene, sixtene, from Old English sixtīene, from Proto-Germanic *sehstehun. Cognate with West Frisian sechstjin, Dutch zestien, German sechzehn, Danish seksten. Equivalent to six +‎ -teen.

Pronunciation

• (next word stressed near the first syllable)

  (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪks.tiːn/

• Audio (US):

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• (next word stressed after the first syllable)

  (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˌsɪksˈtiːn/

• Rhymes: -iːn

Numeral

sixteen

1. The cardinal number occurring after fifteen and before seventeen, represented in Arabic numerals as 16 and in Roman numerals as XVI.
   • 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:

     Venters began to count them—one—two—three—four—on up to sixteen.

   • 2022, Jane Harper, Exiles, page 287:

     They'd spent one evening together sixteen months ago, and Falk was acutely aware that he'd probably airbrushed and edited at least some of it without meaning to.

Derived terms

• last sixteen
• round of sixteen
• sixteen hundred
• sixteen penny nail
• sixteen-penny nail
• sweet sixteen

Related terms

• Ordinal: sixteenth

Translations

cardinal number 16

• Afrikaans: sestien (af)
• Albanian: gjashtëmbëdhjetë (sq)
• American Sign Language: ^{(please verify)}
• Amharic: አስራ ስድስት (ʾäsra sədsət)
• Arabic: سِتَّةَ عَشَرَ (sittata ʕašara)

  Egyptian Arabic: ستاشر (sittāšar)

• Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
• Aramaic:

  Hebrew: שתעסר m (shta‘sar), שתעסרא f (shta‘esrē)

• Armenian: տասնվեց (hy) (tasnvecʻ)
• Asturian: dieciséis (ast), selce (ast)
• Aymara: tunka suxtani
• Azerbaijani: on altı (az)
• Bashkir: ун алты (un altı)
• Basque: hamasei (eu)
• Belarusian: шасна́ццаць (be) (šasnáccacʹ)
• Bengali: সোলো (bn) (śōlō) (numeral: ১৬)
• Bikol Central: kag-anom
• Breton: c'hwezek (br)
• Brunei Malay: anam balas
• Bulgarian: шестна́десет (šestnádeset), шестна́йсет (šestnájset)
• Burmese: ဆယ့်ခြောက် (hcai.hkrauk) (numeral: ၁၆)
• Buryat: арбан зургаан (arban zurgaan)
• Carpathian Rusyn: шістна́дцять (šistnádcjatʹ)
• Catalan: setze (ca)
• Cebuano: napulog unom
• Central Sierra Miwok: naˀá·ča- tém·ok·a-ˀ hej·i-ˀ
• Chechen: ялхитта (jalxitta)
• Cherokee: ᏓᎳᏚ (daladu)
• Chichewa: khumi n'zisanu n'chimodzi
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 十六 (sap⁶ luk⁶)

  Hakka: 十六 (sṳ̍p-liuk)

  Mandarin: 十六 (zh) (shíliù)

• Chuvash: вунулттӑ (vunulttă), вунултӑ (vunult̬ă), вунулт (vunult)
• Classical Nahuatl: caxtōlli oncē
• Classical Syriac: ܫܬܥܣܪ m (shta‘sar), ܫܬܥܣܪܐ f (shta‘esrē)
• Crimean Tatar: on altı
• Czech: šestnáct (cs)
• Dalmatian: setco
• Danish: seksten (da)
• Dena'ina: k'uzhch'en'i beq'di
• Dhivehi: ސޯޅަ (sōḷa)
• Dutch: zestien (nl) f
• Dzongkha: བཅུ་དྲུག (bcu drug)
• Esperanto: dek ses
• Estonian: kuusteist (et)
• Fijian: tini ka ono
• Finnish: kuusitoista (fi)
• French: seize (fr)
• Friulian: sedis
• Galician: dezaseis (gl)
• Georgian: თექვსმეტი (ka) (tekvsmeṭi)
• German: sechzehn (de)
• Greek: δεκαέξι (el) (dekaéxi)

  Ancient: ἑκκαίδεκα (hekkaídeka), ιϛ΄ (numeral)

• Greenlandic: arfersanillit (kl)
• Gujarati: સોળ (gu) (soḷ)
• Haitian Creole: sèz
• Hawaiian: ʻumikūmāono
• Hebrew: שֵׁשׁ עֶשְׂרֵה f (shesh esré) (used in counting), שישה עשר \ שִׁשָּׁה עָשָׂר m (shishá asár)
• Hindi: सोलह (hi) (solah)
• Hopi: pakwt niikyang navay siikya’ta
• Hungarian: tizenhat (hu)
• Hunsrik: sechzen
• Icelandic: sextán (is)
• Ido: dek-e-sis (io)
• Inari Sami: kuttnubáloh
• Indonesian: enam belas (id)
• Ingrian: kuustoist
• Interlingua: dece-sex
• Irish: sé déag
• Italian: sedici (it) m
• Japanese: 十六 (ja) (じゅうろく, jūroku)
• Kannada: ಹದಿನಾರು (kn) (hadināru)
• Kazakh: он алты (on alty)
• Khiamniungan Naga: tshìekǜlǖvōk
• Khmer: ដប់ប្រាំមួយ (dop pram muoy) (numeral: ១៦)
• Komi-Permyak: дасквать (daskvať)
• Korean: 열여섯 (ko) (yeoryeoseot), 십육(十六) (ko) (simnyuk), 십륙 (simnyuk) (North Korea)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: شانزە (şanze)

  Northern Kurdish: şazde (ku)

• Kyrgyz: он алты (ky) (on altı)
• Ladin: please add this translation if you can
• Lakota: akéšakpe
• Lao: ສິບຫົກ (sip hok) (numeral: ໑໖)
• Latin: sēdecim (la)
• Latvian: sešpadsmit (lv)
• Ligurian: sézze
• Lithuanian: sešiolika
• Livonian: kūžtuoistõn
• Lombard: sèdes
• Louisiana Creole French: sèz
• Low German: sössteihn (nds), sossteihn

  German Low German: sössteihn (nds)

• Lü: ᦉᦲᧇᦷᦠᧅ (ṡiibḣok) (numeral: ᧑᧖)
• Luxembourgish: siechzéng (lb)
• Macedonian: шесна́есет (šesnáeset)
• Malagasy: enina ambinifolo
• Malay: enam belas (ms), sepuluh enam, satu puluh enam
• Malayalam: പതിനാറ് (ml) (patināṟŭ)
• Maltese: sittax
• Manchu: ᠵᡠᠸᠠᠨ
  ᠨᡳᠩᡤᡠᠨ (juwan ninggun)
• Maori: tekau mā ono (mi)
• Mapudungun: marikayu
• Middle English: sixtene
• Mongolian: арван зургаа (mn) (arvan zurgaa)
• Navajo: hastą́ʼáadah
• Norman: seize
• Northern Mansi: ^{(please verify)} хотхуйплов (hothujplov)
• Northern Sami: guhttanuppelohkái
• Norwegian: seksten (no)
• Occitan: setze (oc)
• Odia: ଶୋଳ (śoḷa) (numeral: ୧୬ (16))
• Ojibwe: ashi-ingodwaaswi
• Old Church Slavonic: шесть на десѧте (šestĭ na desęte) (numeral: ѕ҃і)
• Pashto: شپاړس (ps) (špâṛës)
• Pennsylvania German: sechzeh, sexzeh, sechtzay
• Persian: شانزده (fa) (šânzdah)
• Piedmontese: sëddes
• Polish: szesnaście (pl), (collective) szesnaścioro (pl)
• Portuguese: dezasseis (pt) (Portugal), dezesseis (pt) (Brazil)
• Punjabi: ਸੋਲਾਂ (pa) (solā̃)
• Quechua: chunka suqtayuq
• Romagnol: seṣ, ségg
• Romani:

  Kalo Finnish Romani: deȟ-o-ȟou

• Romanian: șaisprezece (ro), șaișpe (informal)
• Romansch: (Grischun, Surmiran) sedesch, (Puter, Vallader) saidesch, (Sursilvan) sedisch
• Russian: шестна́дцать (ru) (šestnádcatʹ)
• S'gaw Karen: တဆံဃု (ta hsee xu)
• Samoan: sefulu ono
• Samogitian: šešiuolėka
• Sanskrit: षोडशन् (sa) (ṣóḍaśan)
• Santali: ᱜᱮᱞ ᱛᱩᱨᱩᱭ (gel turuy)
• Sardinian: sedichi, seghi, segi, seighi
• Scottish Gaelic: sia-deug
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шеснаест

  Roman: šesnaest

• Shan: သိပ်းႁူၵ်း (síp húuk)
• Sinhalese: දහසය (dahasaya)
• Skolt Sami: kutmlo
• Slovak: šestnásť (sk)
• Slovene: šestnajst (sl)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: šesnasćo

  Upper Sorbian: šěsnaće

• Spanish: dieciséis (es) m
• Swahili: kumi na sita
• Swedish: sexton (sv)
• Tagalog: labing-anim (tl)
• Tahitian: hō'ē 'ahuru ma ono
• Tajik: шонздаҳ (tg) (šonzdah)
• Tatar: уналты (unaltı)
• Telugu: పదహారు (te) (padahāru)
• Thai: สิบหก (th) (sìp-hòk) (numeral: ๑๖)
• Tibetan: བཅུ་དྲུག (bcu drug)
• Tigre: ዐስር ወስስ (ʿäsr wäss)
• Tigrinya: ዓሰርተ ሽድሽተ (ʿasärtä šədšətä)
• Tok Pisin: sikistin, wanpela ten sikis
• Tongan: hongofulu mā ono
• Turkish: on altı (tr)
• Turkmen: on alty (tk)
• Ukrainian: шістна́дцять (uk) (šistnádcjatʹ)
• Urdu: سولہ (solah)
• Uyghur: ئون ئالتە (ug) (on alte)
• Vietnamese: mười sáu
• Volapük: degmäl, balsemäl (older term, obsolete)
• Welsh: un ar bymtheg (cy) (vigesimal, traditional), un deg chwech (cy) (decimal)
• West Frisian: sechstjin (fy)
• Wolof: fukk ak juróom benn
• Yakut: уон алта (uon alta)
• Yiddish: זעכצן (zekhtsn)
• Yup'ik: akimiaq atauciq
• Zazaki: desuses, sestês
• Zhuang: cib loeg

See also

• Last: fifteen. Next: seventeen

Anagrams

• exteins, extines, sextine

Middle English

Numeral

sixteen

1. Alternative form of sixtene