six

See also: Six and sîx

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English

English numbers (edit)

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Cardinal: six     Ordinal: sixth     Multiplier: sextuple, sixfold

Etymology

From Middle English six, from Old English syx, siex, from Proto-Germanic *sehs, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs. Compare West Frisian seis, Dutch zes, Low German söss, sess, German sechs, Norwegian and Danish seks, also Latin sex, Sanskrit षष् (ṣaṣ).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /sɪks/, enPR: sĭks

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• Rhymes: -ɪks
• Homophones: sicks, sics

Numeral

six

1. (cardinal) A numerical value equal to 6; the number following five and preceding seven. This many dots: (••••••).
2. Describing a group or set with six elements.

Derived terms

• six-figure
• sixfold
• six of one, half a dozen of the other
• six-pack, six pack, sixpack
• six-shooter, sixshooter
• sixteen
• sixth
• sixty
• six ways to Sunday

 

Related terms

• sixth

Translations

cardinal number

• Abaza: цба (cbā)
• Abkhaz: фба (fbā)
• Adyghe: хы (xə)
• Afrikaans: ses (af)
• Ainu: イワン (iwan)
• Albanian: gjashtë (sq)
• Alutiiq: arwilgen
• American Sign Language:
• Amharic: ስድስት (am) (sədst) (numeral: ፮)
• Arabic: سِتَّة‎ (ar) (sitta)
• Aragonese: seis, sies, sieis
• Aramaic:

  Hebrew: שתא‎ m (štā’), שת‎ f (šit)

  Syriac: ܫܬܐ‎ m (štā’), ܫܬ‎ f (šit)

• Armenian: վեց (hy) (vecʿ)
• Aromanian: shasi, shase
• Assamese: ছয় (soy) (numeral: ৬)
• Asturian: seis (ast)
• Aymara: suxta
• Azerbaijani: altı (az)
• Balinese: ənəm
• Banjarese: anam
• Bashkir: алты (altï)
• Basque: sei (eu)
• Belarusian: шэсць (šescʹ), (collective) шасцёра (šascjóra)
• Bengali: ছয় (chôy) (numeral: ৬)
• Breton: c'hwec'h (br)
• Bulgarian: шест (bg) (šest)
• Burmese: ခြောက် (my) (hkrauk)
• Buryat: зургаан (zurgaan)
• Catalan: sis (ca)
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵙⴹⵉⵚ (sḍiṣ)
• Central Dusun: onom
• Central Sierra Miwok: tém·ok·a-
• Chamicuro: sokta
• Chechen: ялх (jalχ)
• Cherokee: ᏑᏓᎵ (sudali)
• Chichewa: sanu n'chimodzi
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 六 (yue) (luk⁶)

  Dungan: лю (li͡u)

  Hakka: 六 (liuk)

  Mandarin: 六 (zh) (liù)

  Min Dong: 六 (loik)

  Min Nan: 六 (zh-min-nan) (la̍k, lio̍k)

  Wu: 六 (loq)

• Chukchi: ыннанмытлыӈэн (ynnanmytlyṇėn)
• Chuvash: улттӑ (ulttă)
• Classical Nahuatl: chicuacē
• Cornish: whegh
• Corsican: sei (co)
• Cree: nikotwâsik
• Crimean Tatar: altı
• Czech: šest (cs), (collective) šestery
• Dalmatian: si
• Danish: seks (da)
• Dena'ina: k'uzhch'en'i
• Dhivehi: ހަ‎ (dv) (ha)
• Dutch: zes (nl)
• Dzongkha: please add this translation if you can
• Eastern Mari: кудыт (kudət)
• Erzya: кото (koto)
• Esperanto: ses (eo)
• Estonian: kuus (et)
• Even: нюӈэн (ņuŋən)
• Evenki: нюӈун (ńuŋun)
• Faroese: seks (fo)
• Fijian: ono (fj)
• Finnish: kuusi (fi)
• French: six (fr)
• Friulian: sîs
• Galician: seis (gl)
• Garifuna: sisi
• Ge'ez: ስድስቱ m (sədstu), ስሱ f (səsu) (numeral: ፮ (6))
• Georgian: ექვსი (ka) (ekvsi)
• German: sechs (de)

  Alemannic German: sächs

• Gilbertese: onoua
• Gothic: 𐍃𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍃 (saihs)
• Greek: έξι (el) (éxi), στ΄ (st΄) (numeral)

  Ancient: ἕξ (héx), ϛ΄ (ϛ΄) (numeral)

• Greenlandic: arfinillit (kl)
• Guaraní: poteĩ
• Gujarati: છ (gu) (cha) (numeral: ૬)
• Haitian Creole: sis
• Hausa: shidà
• Hawaiian: ono, ʻeono
• Hebrew: שֵׁשׁ‎ (he) f (shesh), שִׁשָּׁה / שישה‎ m (shisha)
• Hindi: छह (hi) (chah), छः (hi) (chaḥ)
• Hopi: navay
• Hungarian: hat (hu)
• Iban: nam
• Icelandic: sex (is)
• Ido: sis (io)
• Ilocano: innem
• Inari Sami: kuttâ
• Indonesian: enam (id)
• Interlingua: sex
• Irish: sé (ga)
• Istriot: seije
• Istro-Romanian: şåse
• Italian: sei (it)
• Japanese: 六 (ja) (ろく, roku), 六つ (ja) (むっつ, muttsu), ６ (ja) (ろく, roku), シックス (shikksu)
• Javanese: nəm
• Kabardian: хы (xə)
• Kannada: ಆರು (kn) (āru), ೬ (kn) (6) (numeral)
• Karachay-Balkar: алты (altı)
• Karakalpak: alti
• Karelian: kuusi
• Kashubian: szesc
• Kazakh: алты (kk) (altı)
• Khakas: алты (altı)
• Khmer: ប្រាំមួយ (pram muəy)
• Komi-Zyrian: квайт (kvajt)
• Konkani: ಸೊ (so)
• Korean: 여섯 (ko) (yeoseot), 육 (ko) (yuk) (六 (ko)), 륙 (ko) (ryuk) (六 (ko)) (North Korea)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: şeş (ku)

  Sorani: شەش‎ (şeş)

• Kyrgyz: алты (ky) (altı)
• Ladin: sies
• Lakota: šákpe
• Lao: ຫົກ (hok) (numeral: ໖)
• Latgalian: seši m, sešys f
• Latin: sex (la)
• Latvian: seši (lv), sešas
• Ligurian: sêi
• Lithuanian: šeši (lt)
• Livonian: kūž
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: zes (nds), zès (Gronings)

  German Low German: söss (nds), soss, sess (nds)

• Luxembourgish: sechs (lb)
• Lü: ᦷᦠᧅ (ḣok) (numeral: ᧖)
• Macedonian: шест (mk) (šest)
• Madurese: ənnam
• Malagasy: enina (mg)
• Malay:

  Jawi: انم‎, نم‎

  Rumi: enam (ms), nam

• Malayalam: ആറു (āṟu), ആറ് (ml) (āṟŭ) (numeral: ൬)
• Maltese: sitta (mt)
• Manchu: ᠨᡳᠩᡤᡠᠨ (ninggun)

• Mangarevan: ono
• Mansi: хо̄т (xōt)
• Manx: shey
• Maori: ono (mi)
• Mapudungun: kayu
• Marathi: सहा (sahā)
• Maricopa: xamxuk
• Marshallese: jiljino
• Minangkabau: anam
• Mirandese: seis
• Moksha: мота (mota)
• Mongolian: зургаа (mn) (zurgaa), ᠵᠢᠷᠭᠤᠭᠠᠨ (ǰirɣuɣan) (numeral: ᠖)
• Montagnais: (Sheshatshiu Innu) kutuasht, (Mushuau Innu) ashutash
• Munsee: ngwútaash
• Muong: khảu
• Nahuatl: chicuace (nah)
• Nama: ǃnani
• Nauruan: año
• Navajo: hastą́ą́
• Nepali: छ (ne) (cha)
• Niuean: ono
• Nogai: алты (altı)
• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum and Mooring: seeks

  Helgoland: sös

  Sylt: soks

• Northern Sami: guhtta
• Norwegian: seks (no)
• Novial: six
• O'odham: cudp
• Occitan: sièis (oc)
• Ojibwe: ingodwaaswi
• Old Church Slavonic: шесть (šestĭ)
• Old English: siex
• Old Frisian: sex
• Old Turkic: 𐰞𐱃𐰃‎ (altï)
• Oriya: ଛଅ (or) (cha'a): (numeral: ୬)
• Oscan: 𐌔𐌄𐌇𐌔 (sehs)
• Ossetian: æхсæз (æxsæz)
• Ottoman Turkish: آلتی‎ (altı)
• Pashto: شپږ‎ (ps) (špag)
• Pennsylvania German: sechs
• Persian: شِش‎ (fa) (šeš)
• Plautdietsch: sass
• Polish: sześć (pl), (collective) sześcioro (pl)
• Portuguese: seis (pt)
• Punjabi: ਛੇ (che) (numeral: ੬ (6))
• Quechua: suqta, sogta
• Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
• Rapa Nui: ono
• Rarotongan: ono
• Rohingya: só
• Romani: shov

  Kalo Finnish Romani: ȟou

• Romanian: șase (ro)
• Romansch: sis
• Russian: шесть (ru) (šestʹ), (collective) ше́стеро (ru) (šéstero)
• Rusyn: шість (šistʹ)
• S'gaw Karen: ဃု (chʉ)
• Samoan: ono (sm)
• Sanskrit: षष् (sa) (ṣaṣ), (षण् (ṣaṇ), shasta- (prefix).)
• Sardinian: ses
• Saterland Frisian: säks
• Scots: sax
• Scottish Gaelic: sia, (persons) sianar m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ше̑ст

  Roman: šȇst (sh)

• Shan: ႁူၵ်း (hok4) (numeral: ႖)
• Sichuan Yi: ꃘ (fut)
• Sicilian: sei (scn)
• Sikkimese: ཏུཀ (tuk)
• Silesian: šeść
• Sindhi: ڇَهَه‎ (chahah)
• Sinhalese: හය (si) (haya)
• Skolt Sami: kutt
• Slovak: šesť (sk)
• Slovene: šést (sl)
• Somali: lix (so)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: šesć

  Upper Sorbian: šěsć

• Southern Altai: алты (altï)
• Spanish: seis (es)
• Sundanese: genep (su)
• Swahili: sita (sw)
• Swedish: sex (sv)
• Tagalog: anim (tl)
• Tahitian: ono
• Tai Dam: hốc
• Tai Nüa: ᥞᥨᥐᥱ (hok³)
• Tajik: шаш (tg) (šaš)
• Tamil: ஆறு (ta) (āṟu)
• Taos: mą́łi
• Tashelhit: sḍes m, sḍest f
• Tatar: алты (tt) (altı)
• Telugu: ఆరు (te) (āru)
• Thai: หก (th) (hòk)
• Tibetan: དྲུག (drug)
• Tigre: ስስ (səs) (numeral: ፮ (6))
• Tigrinya: ሽድሽተ (šədštä) (numeral: ፮ (6))
• Timugon Murut: onom
• Tocharian A: ṣäk
• Tocharian B: ṣkas
• Tok Pisin: sikispela
• Tongan: ono
• Turkish: altı (tr)
• Turkmen: alty (tk)
• Tuvaluan: ono
• Tuvan: алды (aldı)
• Tz'utujil: ^{(please verify)} uaki
• Udmurt: куать (kuatʹ)
• Ukrainian: шість (uk) (šistʹ), ше́стеро (šéstero) (collective)
• Umbrian: 𐌔𐌄𐌇𐌔 (sehs)
• Unami: kwëtash
• Urdu: چھہ‎ (chah)
• Uyghur: ئالتە‎ (ug) (alte)
• Uzbek: olti (uz)
• Venetian: sei
• Veps: kuź
• Vietnamese: sáu (vi)
• Vilamovian: zachs
• Volapük: mäl (vo)
• Votic: kuuz, кууз
• Võro: kuuś
• Walloon: shijh (wa)
• Waray-Waray: onum
• Welsh: chwech (cy)
• West Frisian: seis (fy)
• White Hmong: rau
• Winnebago: hakewe
• Wolof: juróom benn
• Xhosa: ntandathu
• Yagnobi: ухш
• Yakut: алта (alta)
• Yao: msano na mo
• Yiddish: זעקס‎ (zeks)
• Yup'ik: arvinlegen
• Zazaki: şeş
• Zhuang: loeg (Sawndip 六)
• Zulu: sithupha
• Zuni: dobalekk'ya

set or group with six components

• Catalan: sisena (ca) f
• Greek: εξάδα (el) f (exáda)
• Lithuanian: šešeri (lt) m, šešerios f

• Russian: шестёрка (ru) f (šestjórka)
• Scottish Gaelic: a sia, sianar m

Noun

six (plural sixes)

1. The digit or figure 6.
2. (military slang, by ellipsis of six o'clock) Rear, behind (rear side of something).

   cover my six

3. (cricket, countable) An event whereby a batsman hits a ball which does not bounce before passing over a boundary in the air, resulting in an award of 6 runs for the batting team.
4. (American football) A touchdown.

Derived terms

• at sixes and sevens
• deep six
• hit someone for six
• long six
• short six
• six feet under

Translations

digit

• Basque: sei (eu)
• Belarusian: шасцёрка f (šascjórka)
• Bulgarian: шест (bg) (šest)
• Catalan: sis (ca) m
• Danish: sekstal n
• Finnish: kuutonen (fi)
• French: six (fr) m
• Galician: seis (gl) m
• German: Sechs (de) f
• Greek: έξι (el) n (éxi)

• Hindi: छह (hi) (chah)
• Lithuanian: šešetas (lt) m
• Macedonian: шестка f (šestka)
• Malayalam: ആറ് (ml) (āṟŭ)
• Polish: szóstka (pl) f
• Portuguese: seis (pt) m, meia dúzia (Brazilian Portuguese), meia (pt) (Brazilian Portuguese)
• Romanian: șase (ro)
• Russian: шестёрка (ru) f (šestjórka)
• Spanish: seis (es)
• Swedish: sexa (sv)

cricket

military slang

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} six (fr) m
• German: ^{(please verify)} Sechs (de) f
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} sei (it) m
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} șase (ro) m

• Sindhi: (1), (2) ^{(please verify)} ڇَهَه‎, ^{(please verify)} ڇَڪو‎ (sd)
• Ukrainian: ^{(please verify)} ші́стка (uk) f (šístka)
• Welsh: ^{(please verify)} chwech (cy)

See also

Playing cards in English · playing cards (layout · text)
ace	deuce, two	three	four	five	six	seven
eight	nine	ten	jack, knave	queen	king	joker

• 6 (Arabic numeral)
• 陸, 六 (Chinese numerals)
• Ⅵ or VI (Roman numeral)
• στ΄ or ϛ΄ (Greek numeral)
• Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages

Anagrams

• ISX, XIs, xis

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French

Etymology

From Middle French six, from Old French sis, six, from Latin sex, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sis/
• (before a vowel or mute h) IPA^(key): /si.z‿/
• (before a consonant or aspirate h) IPA^(key): /si/

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• Rhymes: -is

Noun

French cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : six     Ordinal : sixième
French Wikipedia article on six

six m (plural six)

1. six

Related terms

• sixain
• six-huit
• à la six-quatre-deux
• sixte
• sizain
• sixième

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: sis
• Louisiana Creole French: sis
• Mauritian Creole: sis

See also

Further reading

• “six” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• sex, cex

Etymology

From Old English siex, syx, from Proto-Germanic *sehs, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiks/

Numeral

cardinal number

6	Previous:	five
	Next:	seven

six

1. six

Related terms

• sixte
• sixtene

Descendants

• English: six
• Scots: sex, sax
• Yola: zeese

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Middle French

Etymology

From Old French sis, six.

Numeral

six (invariable)

1. six

Descendants

• French: six
  • Haitian Creole: sis
  • Louisiana Creole French: sis
  • Mauritian Creole: sis
• Norman: six

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Norman

Norman cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : six

Norman cardinal numbers

<  5	6	7  >
Cardinal : six

Etymology

From Latin sex, from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Jersey)

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Numeral

six

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) six

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Novial

Novial cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : six     Ordinal : sixesmi

Numeral

six

1. (cardinal) six