seventeen

English

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Cardinal: seventeen     Ordinal: seventeenth     Adverbial: seventeen times     Multiplier: seventeenfold     Group collective: seventeensome

Alternative forms

• (Arabic numerals): 17
• (Roman numerals): XVII
• (Exmoor dialect): zewnteen

Etymology

From Middle English seventene, from Old English seofontīene, from Proto-Germanic *sebuntehun. Cognate with Dutch zeventien, West Frisian santjin, German siebzehn, Danish sytten. Equivalent to seven +‎ -teen

Pronunciation

• (next word stressed near the first syllable)

  (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛv.ən.tiːn/

• Audio (US):

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• (next word stressed after the first syllable)

  (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˌsɛv.ənˈtiːn/

• Rhymes: -iːn

Numeral

seventeen

1. The cardinal number occurring after sixteen and before eighteen, represented in Roman numerals as XVII and in Arabic numerals as 17.
   • 1631 (first performance), Philip Massinger, The Emperour of the East. A Tragæ-comœdie. […], London: […] Thomas Harper, for Iohn Waterson, published 1632, →OCLC, Act IV, scene iii:

     [T]he charge of my moſt curious, and coſtly ingredients fraide, amounting to ſome ſeaventeene thouſand crovvnes, a trifle in reſpect of health, vvriting your noble name in my Catalogue, I ſhall acknovvledge my ſelfe amply ſatisfi'd.

Derived terms

• Ordinal: seventeenth

Derived terms

• seventeenth
• seventeen-year locust
• sweet seventeen

 

Translations

cardinal number

• Afrikaans: sewentien (af)
• Ainu: アラワン　イカシマ　ワン, arawan ikasima wan
• Albanian: shtatëmbëdhjetë (sq)
• American Sign Language:
• Amharic: አስራ ሰባት (ʾäsra säbat)
• Arabic: سَبْعَةَ عَشَرَ (sabʕata ʕašara)

  Egyptian Arabic: سبعتاشر (sabaʕtāšar)

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

  Hebrew: שבעסר (shba‘sar) m, שבעסרא (shba‘esrē) f

  Syriac: ܫܒܥܣܪ (shba‘sar) m, ܫܒܥܣܪܐ (shba‘esrē) f

• Armenian: տասնյոթ (hy) (tasnyotʻ)

  Old Armenian: եօթնեւտասն (eōtʻnewtasn)

• Asturian: diecisiete (ast)
• Aymara: tunka paqallquni
• Azerbaijani: on yeddi (az)
• Bashkir: ун ете (un yete)
• Basque: hamazazpi (eu)
• Belarusian: сямна́ццаць (be) (sjamnáccacʹ), семна́ццаць (be) (sjemnáccacʹ)
• Bengali: সতেরো (bn) (śoterō) (numeral: ১৭)
• Bikol Central: kagpito
• Breton: seitek (br)
• Brunei Malay: tujuh balas
• Bulgarian: седемна́десет (sedemnádeset), седемна́йсет (sedemnájset)
• Burmese: ဆယ့်ခုနစ် (hcai.hku.nac) (numeral: ၁၇)
• Buryat: арбан долоон (arban doloon)
• Carpathian Rusyn: сїмна́дцять (sjimnádcjatʹ)
• Catalan: disset (ca)
• Cebuano: napulog pito
• Central Sierra Miwok: naˀá·ča- kenék·aky-ˀ hej·i-ˀ
• Chechen: вуьрхӏитта (vürhitta)
• Cherokee: ᎦᎵᏆᏚ (galiquadu)
• Chichewa: khumi n'zisanu n'ziwiri
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 十七 (sap⁶ cat¹)

  Hakka: 十七 (sṳ̍p-chhit)

  Mandarin: 十七 (zh) (shíqī)

• Chuvash: вунҫиччӗ (vunś̬iččĕ), вунҫичӗ (vunś̬ič̬ĕ), вунҫич (vunś̬ič)
• Classical Nahuatl: caxtōlli omōme
• Crimean Tatar: on yedi
• Czech: sedmnáct (cs)
• Dalmatian: dichisapto
• Danish: sytten (da)
• Dena'ina: qents'eghuy'i beq'di
• Dhivehi: ސަތާރަ (satāra)
• Dutch: zeventien (nl) f
• Dzongkha: བཅུ་བདུན (bcu bdun)
• Edo: èháírrọ̀vbúgiè
• Esperanto: dek sep
• Estonian: seitseteist (et)
• Fijian: tini ka vitu
• Finnish: seitsemäntoista (fi)
• French: dix-sept (fr) m
• Friulian: disesiet
• Galician: dezasete (gl)
• Georgian: ჩვიდმეტი (ka) (čvidmeṭi)
• German: siebzehn (de)
• Greek: δεκαεπτά (el) (dekaeptá)

  Ancient: ἑπτακαίδεκα (heptakaídeka), ιζ΄ (numeral)

• Greenlandic: arfersaneq-marluk (kl)
• Gujarati: સત્તર (gu) (sattar)
• Haitian Creole: disèt
• Hawaiian: ʻumikūmāhiku
• Hebrew: שְׁבַע־עֶשְׂרֵה f (shva esre) (used in counting), שִׁבְעָה־עָשָׂר m (shiv'a asar)
• Hindi: सत्रह (hi) (satrah)
• Hopi: pakwt niikyang tsange’ siikya’ta
• Hungarian: tizenhét (hu)
• Hunsrik: sibzen
• Icelandic: sautján (is)
• Ido: dek-e-sep (io)
• Ifè: máaméedze, mɛ́ɛtaɖìnógú
• Igala: ẹ̀gwébie
• Igbo: ìri nà àsaà
• Inari Sami: čiččâmnubáloh
• Indonesian: tujuh belas (id)
• Ingrian: seitsentoist
• Interlingua: dece-septe
• Irish: seacht déag
• Italian: diciassette (it)
• Japanese: 十七 (ja) (じゅうなな, jūnana, じゅうしち, jūshichi)
• Javanese: pitulas (jv)
• Jeju: 열일곱 (yeorilgop), 십칠 (sipchil) (Sino-Korean)
• Kannada: ಹದಿನೇಳು (kn) (hadinēḷu)
• Kazakh: он жеті (on jetı)
• Khmer: ដប់ប្រាំពីរ (dop pram pī) (numeral: ១៧)
• Komi-Permyak: дассизим (dasśiźim)
• Korean: 열일곱 (ko) (yeorilgop), 십칠(十七) (ko) (sipchil)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: حەڤدە (ḧevde)

  Northern Kurdish: hevde (ku)

• Kyrgyz: он жети (ky) (on jeti)
• Ladin: please add this translation if you can
• Lakota: akéšakowiŋ
• Lao: ສິບເຈັດ (sip chet) (numeral: ໑໗)
• Latin: septendecim (la)
• Latvian: septiņpadsmit (lv)
• Ligurian: dîsètte
• Lithuanian: septyniolika (lt)
• Livonian: seistuoistõn
• Lombard: please add this translation if you can
• Louisiana Creole: disèt
• Louisiana Creole French: di-sèt
• Low German: söventeihn (nds)

  German Low German: söventeihn (nds)

• Lü: ᦉᦲᧇᦵᦈᧆ (ṡiibṫsed) (numeral: ᧑᧗)
• Lucumí: eta dilogun, meta dilogún
• Luxembourgish: siwwenzéng (lb), siwenzéng
• Macedonian: седумнаесет (sedumnaeset)
• Malagasy: fito ambinifolo
• Malay: tujuh belas (ms), pitu belas, sepuluh tujuh, sepuluh pitu, satu puluh tujuh, satu puluh pitu
• Malayalam: പതിനേഴ് (ml) (patinēḻŭ)
• Maltese: sbatax
• Maori: tekau mā whitu (mi)
• Mapudungun: marirekle
• Middle English: seventene
• Mon: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: арван долоо (arvan doloo)
• Navajo: tsostsʼidtsʼáadah
• Nigerian Pidgin: sẹ́vìntín
• Norman: dgiêx-sept
• Northern Mansi: ^{(please verify)} сатхуйплов (sathujplow)
• Northern Sami: čiežanuppelohkái
• Norwegian: sytten (no)
• Nuosu: ꏃ (shyp)
• Occitan: dètz-e-sèt (oc)
• Odia: ସତର (or) (satara) (numeral: ୧୭ (17))
• Ojibwe: ashi-niizhwaaswi
• Old Church Slavonic: седмь на десѧте (sedmĭ na desęte) (numeral: з҃і)
• Olukumi: mèzelémègwa
• Pennsylvania German: siwwezeh
• Persian: هفده (fa) (hefdah)
• Piedmontese: dissèt
• Polish: siedemnaście (pl), (collective) siedemnaścioro (pl)
• Portuguese: dezassete (pt) (Portugal), dezessete (pt) (Brazil)
• Punjabi: ਸਤਾਰਾਂ (pa) (satārā̃)
• Quechua: chunka qanchisniyuq
• Romagnol: diccèt
• Romani:

  Kalo Finnish Romani: deȟ-o-efta

• Romanian: șaptesprezece (ro), șapteșpe (ro) (informal)
• Romansch: (Grischun) deschset
• Russian: семна́дцать (ru) (semnádcatʹ)
• S'gaw Karen: တဆံနွံ (ta hsee nwee)
• Samoan: sefulu fitu
• Sanskrit: सप्तदश (sa) (saptádaśa)
• Santali: ᱜᱮᱞ ᱮᱭᱟᱭ (gel eyay)
• Scottish Gaelic: seachd deug
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: седамнаест

  Roman: sedamnaest

• Shan: သိပ်းၸဵတ်း (síp tsáet)
• Sinhalese: දහහත (dahahata)
• Skolt Sami: činmlo
• Slovak: sedemnásť (sk)
• Slovene: sedemnajst (sl)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: sedymnasćo

  Upper Sorbian: sydomnaće

• Spanish: diecisiete (es)
• Swahili: kumi na saba
• Swedish: sjutton (sv)
• Tagalog: labimpito (tl)
• Tahitian: hō'ē 'ahuru ma hitu
• Tajik: ҳафдаҳ (hafdah)
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Tatar: унҗиде (uncide)
• Telugu: పదిహేడు (te) (padihēḍu)
• Thai: สิบเจ็ด (th) (sìp-jèt) (numeral: ๑๗)
• Tibetan: བཅུ་བདུན (bcu bdun)
• Tigre: ዐስር ወሰቡዕ (ʿäsr wäsäbuʿ)
• Tigrinya: ዓሰርተ ሸውዓተ (ʿasärtä šäwʿatä)
• Tok Pisin: seventin, wanpela ten seven
• Tongan: hongofulu mā fitu
• Turkish: on yedi (tr)
• Turkmen: on ýedi (tk)
• Ukrainian: сімна́дцять (uk) (simnádcjatʹ)
• Urdu: سترہ (satrah)
• Uyghur: ئون يەتتە (ug) (on yette)
• Uzbek: oʻn yetti (uz)
• Vietnamese: mười bảy
• Volapük: degvel, balsevel (older term, obsolete)
• Votic: seittseteiššümed
• Welsh: dau ar bymtheg m (vigesimal, traditional), dwy ar bymtheg f (vigesimal), un deg saith (decimal)
• West Frisian: santjin (fy)
• Wolof: fukk ak juróom ñaar
• Yakut: уон сэттэ (uon sette)
• Yiddish: זיבעצן (zibetsn)
• Yoruba: ẹ̀tàdínlógún, ẹẹ́tàdínlógún (counting), mẹ́tàdínlógún
• Yup'ik: akimiaq malruk
• Zazaki: hewtês (diq), desuhewt
• Zhuang: cib caet

See also

• Last: sixteen. Next: eighteen

Middle English

Numeral

seventeen

1. Alternative form of seventene