forty-eight

English

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Cardinal: forty-eight     Ordinal: forty-eighth     Adverbial: forty-eight times

Number

forty-eight

1. The cardinal number immediately following forty-seven and preceding forty-nine.

Synonyms

• Arabic numerals: 48
• Roman numerals: XLVIII

Translations

48

• Afrikaans: agt-en-veertig (af)
• Arabic: ثَمَانِيَة وَأَرْبَعُون‎ (ṯamāniya wa-ʾarbaʿūn)
• Azerbaijani: qırx səkkiz (az)
• Basque: berrogeita zortzi (eu)
• Belarusian: со́рак во́сем (sórak vósjem)
• Bengali: আটচল্লিশ (bn) (aṭocolliś)
• Catalan: quaranta-vuit (ca)

  Valencian: quaranta-huit (ca)

• Cherokee: ᏅᎩᏍᎪ ᏧᏁᎳ (nvgisgo tsunela)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 四十八 (sei³ sap⁶ baat³)

  Mandarin: 四十八 (zh) (sìshíbā)

• Danish: otteogfyrre
• Dutch: achtenveertig (nl)
• Esperanto: kvardek ok
• Estonian: nelikümmend kaheksa
• Fijian: vasagavulu ka walu
• Finnish: neljäkymmentäkahdeksan
• French: quarante-huit (fr)
• Friulian: please add this translation if you can
• Galician: corenta e oito (gl)
• Georgian: ორმოცდარვა (ormocdarva)
• German: achtundvierzig (de)
• Greek: σαράντα οκτώ (saránta októ)
• Hebrew: ארבעים־ושמנה‎ (arbaím və-shmoná)
• Hindi: अड़तालीस (hi) (aṛtālīs)
• Hungarian: negyvennyolc (hu)
• Icelandic: fjörutíu og átta (is)
• Italian: quarantotto (it)
• Japanese: 四十八 (shijūhachi)
• Kazakh: қырық сегіз (qyryq segız)
• Korean: 마흔 여덟 (maheun yeodeol), 사십팔 (ko) (sasip'pal)
• Ladin: please add this translation if you can
• Lao: ສີ່ສິບແປດ (sī sip pǣt)
• Latin: duodequinquaginta
• Ligurian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: keturiasdešimt aštuoni
• Lombard: quarantòtt
• Luxembourgish: aachtavéierzeg
• Malay: empat puluh lapan
• Malayalam: നാല്പത്തെട്ട് (nālpatteṭṭŭ), നാല്പത്തിയെട്ട് (nālpattiyeṭṭŭ)
• Navajo: dízdįįtseebíí
• Pennsylvania German: acht un varzich
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Piedmontese: quaranteut
• Polish: czterdzieści osiem
• Portuguese: quarenta e oito (pt)
• Quechua: tawa chunka pusaqniyuq
• Romagnol: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: со́рок во́семь (ru) (sórok vósemʹ)
• Sanskrit: अष्टाचत्वारिंशत् (sa) (aṣṭācatvāriṃśat)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: четрдесет и осам

  Roman: četrdeset i osam

• Spanish: cuarenta y ocho
• Swedish: fyrtioåtta (sv)
• Thai: สี่สิบแปด (sìi-sìp-bpɛ̀ɛt)
• Turkish: kırk sekiz (tr)
• Ukrainian: со́рок ві́сім (sórok vísim)
• Urdu: اڑتالیس‎ (aṛtālīs)
• Volapük: foldegjöl, folsejöl (older term, obsolete)
• Yup'ik: yuinaak malruk pingayunlegen

Noun

forty-eight (plural forty-eights)

1. (US, military) A period of 48 hours' leave, i.e. two days.
   • 1919, Our Navy, the Standard Publication of the U.S. Navy

     They had their ten-day leaves and regular forty-eights from behind the nets of Bantry Bay and Scapa Flow […]