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Proto-Germanic *tegun(dz)
English fifty
From Middle English fifty, from Old English fīftiġ, from Proto-Germanic *fimf tigiwiz (“five tens”). By surface analysis, five + -ty.
fifty
- The cardinal number occurring after forty-nine and before fifty-one.
1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “II. The Suppliant Maidens”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 51:It was just fifty children that Selene bore to Endymion. Are not the innumerable waves typified by the fifty Nereïds? And did not Priam have fifty sons and fifty daughters?
2008, Christopher Paolini, “Assault on Helgrind”, in Brisingr, page 39:Searching again, he noticed something that had eluded him before: a single flower, a gentian, blooming not fifty feet in front of them, where, by all rights, there ought to be solid rock.
2017 April 17, Rachel Monroe, “#Vanlife, the Bohemian Social-Media Movement”, in The New Yorker[1], archived from the original on 4 August 2017:Accounts with between fifty thousand and two hundred thousand followers are considered “microinfluencers,” and tend to have higher engagement rates—that is, a larger share of their followers like, favorite, or comment on their posts—than those with millions of followers.
- 50 (Arabic numeral); L (Roman numeral); fivety (proscribed)
cardinal number
- Afrikaans: vyftig (af)
- Albanian: pesëdhjetë (sq)
- Altai:
- Southern Altai: бежен (bežen), ӧлӱ (ölü)
- American Sign Language:
- Amharic: አምሳ (ʾämsa), (numeral: ፶ (50))
- Arabic: خَمْسِينَ (ḵamsīna), (only nominative, formal) خَمْسُونَ (ḵamsūna)
- Egyptian Arabic: خمسين (ḵamsīn)
- Aramaic:
- Hebrew script: חמשין c (khamshīn)
- Syriac: ܚܡܫܝܢ c (khamshīn)
- Armenian: հիսուն (hy) (hisun)
- Aromanian: tsindzãts, tsindzãtsi, tsindzets
- Asturian: cincuenta (ast)
- Azerbaijani: əlli (az)
- Bashkir: илле (ille)
- Basque: berrogeita hamar (eu)
- Belarusian: пяцьдзеся́т (be) (pjacʹdzjesját)
- Bengali: পঞ্চাশ (bn) (poncaś)
- Bikol:
- Central Bikol: limampulo
- Breton: hanter-kant (br), pemont
- Bulgarian: петдесе́т (petdesét)
- Burmese: ငါးဆယ် (nga:hcai)
- Carpathian Rusyn: пятдеся́ть (pjatdesjátʹ)
- Catalan: cinquanta (ca)
- Cebuano: kalim-an
- Chamicuro: pichka chunka
- Chechen: шовзткъе итт (šovztqʼe itt)
- Cherokee: ᎯᏍᎩᏍᎪᎯ (hisgisgohi)
- Chichewa: makumi asanu
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 五十 (ng5 sap6)
- Hakka: 五十 (ńg-sṳ̍p)
- Mandarin: 五十 (zh) (wǔshí)
- Wu: 五十 (6ng-zeq)
- Chuukese: nime
- Chuvash: аллӑ (allă)
- Cornish: hanterkans
- Crimean Tatar: elli
- Czech: padesát (cs)
- Dalmatian: cioncuanta
- Danish: halvtreds (da), halvtredsindstyve (formal), femti
- Dhivehi: ފަންސާސް (fan̊sās)
- Dusun:
- Central Dusun: limo nohopod
- Dutch: vijftig (nl) f
- Dzongkha: ལྔ་བཅུ (lnga bcu)
- Erzya: please add this translation if you can
- Esperanto: kvindek (eo)
- Estonian: viiskümmend (et)
- Extremaduran: cincuenta
- Farefare: pisnuu
- Faroese: fimmti, hálvtrýss
- Fijian: limasagavulu
- Finnish: viisikymmentä (fi)
- Franco-Provençal: please add this translation if you can
- French: cinquante (fr)
- Frisian:
- West Frisian: fyftich
- Friulian: cincuante
- Galician: cincuenta (gl)
- Gallo: please add this translation if you can
- Georgian: ორმოცდაათი (ormocdaati)
- German: fünfzig (de), fuffzig (de) (northern and central Germany), fuchzig (southern Germany and Austria)
- Gothic: 𐍆𐌹𐌼𐍆 𐍄𐌹𐌲𐌾𐌿𐍃 (fimf tigjus)
- Greek: πενήντα (el) (penínta)
- Ancient Greek: πεντήκοντα (pentḗkonta), ν΄ (numeral)
- Guarani:
- Paraguayan Guarani: (please verify) popa
- Gujarati: પચાસ (gu) (pacās)
- Haitian Creole: senkant
- Hausa: hamsin
- Hawaiian: kanalima
- Hebrew: חמישים / חֲמִשִּׁים m or f (khamishím)
- Hiligaynon: kalim-an
- Hindi: पचास (hi) (pacās), पंजाह (hi) (pañjāh)
- Hungarian: ötven (hu)
- Icelandic: fimmtíu (is)
- Ido: kinadek (io)
- Igala: óóje
- Igbo: ìri īse (ig)
- Indonesian: lima puluh
- Ingrian: viiskymment
- Interlingua: cinquanta
- Irish: caoga (ga)
- Italian: cinquanta (it) f
- Japanese: 五十 (ja) (ごじゅう, gojū, いそ, iso, い, i)
- Javanese: ꦱꦺꦏꦼꦠ꧀ (jv) (séket)
- Jeju: 쉰 (swin), 오십(五十) (osip)
- Kabuverdianu: sinkuenta
- Kapampangan: limampulu
- Karachay-Balkar: элли (elli)
- Kazakh: елу (kk) (elu)
- Khakas: иліг (ilìg)
- Khmer: ហាសិប (km) (haː səp), (numeral) ៥០ (50)
- Khün: please add this translation if you can
- Komi:
- Komi-Permyak: витдас (vitdas)
- Korean: 쉰 (ko) (swin), 오십(五十) (ko) (osip)
- Kumyk: элли (elli)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: پەنجا (penca)
- Northern Kurdish: pêncî (ku)
- Kyrgyz: элүү (ky) (elüü)
- Ladin: cincanta
- Ladino:
- Hebrew: סינקואינטה
- Latin: sinkuenta
- Lakota: wikčémna žáptaŋ
- Lao: ຫ້າສິບ (hā sip)
- Latin: quinquaginta (la)
- Latvian: piecdesmit (lv)
- Leonese: please add this translation if you can
- Ligurian: çinquanta
- Limburgish: vieftig
- Lithuanian: penkiasdešimt (lt)
- Livonian: vīžkimdõ
- Lombard: cinquanta
- Louisiana Creole: sinkant
- Lü: please add this translation if you can
- Luxembourgish: fofzeg
- Macedonian: педесет (pedeset)
- Malay: lima puluh (ms)
- Malayalam: അമ്പത് (ml) (ampatŭ), അൻപത് (ml) (aṉpatŭ)
- Maltese: ħamsin
- Manchu: ᠰᡠᠰᠠᡳ (susai)
- Mansi:
- Northern Mansi: (please verify) атпан (atpan)
- Manx: jeih as daeed, lieh cheead, queigad
- Māori: rima ngahuru, rima tekau (mi)
- Marathi: पन्नास (mr) (pannās)
- Middle English: fifty
- Mokilese: limeijek
- Moksha: please add this translation if you can
- Mon: please add this translation if you can
- Mongolian: тавь (mn) (tavʹ)
- Nauruan: ajima
- Navajo: ashdladiin
- Neapolitan: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian: femti (no)
- Occitan: cinquanta (oc)
- Ojibwe: naanimidana
- Old Church Slavonic: пѧть дєсѧтъ (pętĭ desętŭ)
- Old Turkic: 𐰠𐰏 (l²g /elig/)
- Oromo: shantama
- Pannonian Rusyn: пейдзешат (pejdzešat)
- Papiamentu: sinkuenta
- Pashto: پنځوس (ps) (pënźos)
- Pennsylvania German: fuffzich
- Persian: پنجاه (fa) (panjâh)
- Piedmontese: sinquanta
- Polish: pięćdziesiąt (pl)
- Portuguese: cinquenta (pt) (Portugal), cinqüenta (pt) (Brazil)
- Punjabi: ਪੰਜਾਹ (pañjāh), ਪੰਜਾਹ (pañjāh)
- Quechua: pichqa chunka
- Réunion Creole French: sinkant
- Romagnol: ẓincvànta
- Romanian: cincizeci (ro), cinzeci (ro)
- Romansh: tschuncanta, tschuncànta, tschunconta, tschinquaunta
- Russian: пятьдеся́т (ru) (pjatʹdesját)
- Sami:
- Inari Sami: please add this translation if you can
- Kildin Sami: выдтлоагкь (vydtlågk’)
- Northern Sami: vihttalogi
- Samoan: limasefulu
- Sanskrit: पञ्चाशत् (sa) (pañcāśat)
- Santali: ᱢᱚᱬᱮ ᱜᱮᱞ (môṇe gel)
- Sardinian: chimbanta, chimmanta, cimmanta, cincanta
- Savosavo: aratale
- Scottish Gaelic: (old system) dà fhichead 's a deich, (new system) caogad, (also common) leth-cheud (literally “half hundred”)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: педесет
- Latin: pedeset
- Shan: ႁႃႈသိပ်း (hāa síp)
- Sicilian: cinquanta (scn)
- Sinhalese: පනහ (panaha)
- Slovak: päťdesiat (sk)
- Slovene: petdeset (sl)
- Spanish: cincuenta (es)
- Swahili: hamsini (sw)
- Swedish: femtio (sv)
- Tagalog: limampu
- Tahitian: pae 'ahuru
- Tai Dam: please add this translation if you can
- Tai Nüa: please add this translation if you can
- Tajik: панҷоҳ (tg) (panjoh)
- Tatar: илле (tt) (ille)
- Telugu: యాభై (yābhai)
- Thai: ห้าสิบ (th) (hâa-sìp)
- Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
- Tigrinya: ሓምሳ (ḥamsa)
- Tocharian B: piśāka
- Tok Pisin: fifti, faipela ten
- Tongan: nimangofulu
- Turkish: elli (tr)
- Ottoman Turkish: اللی (elli)
- Turkmen: elli (tk)
- Tuvan: бежен (bejen)
- Udmurt: витьтон (viťton)
- Ukrainian: п'ятдеся́т (uk) (pʺjatdesját)
- Unami: palenàxk txintxke
- Urdu: پچاس (pacās)
- Uyghur: ئەللىك (ellik)
- Uzbek: ellik (uz)
- Venetan: sincuanta (vec), zhincuanta, çinquanta, xinquanta
- Vietnamese: năm mươi (vi)
- Volapük: luldeg (vo), luls (older term, obsolete)
- Võro: please add this translation if you can
- Votic: please add this translation if you can
- Waray-Waray: kalim-an
- Welsh: hanner cant (cy) (vigesimal, traditional), pum deg (decimal)
- Wolaytta: ishatama
- Yakut: биэс уон (bies uon)
- Yiddish: פֿופֿציק (fuftsik)
- Yoruba: àádọ́ta
- Yucatec Maya: lajun tu óoxkʼáal
- Yup'ik: yuinaak malruk qulen, malruk ipiaq qulen
- Zhuang: please add this translation if you can
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fifty (plural fifties)
- (countable) A banknote or coin with a denomination of 50.
Do you want small bills or are fifties OK?
1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:‘If you shoot him I’ll give you fifty pounds.’
‘All right!’ The driver laughed. ‘I’ll do my best to earn that fifty!’
- (cricket) A batsman's score of at least 50 runs and less than 100 runs.
a banknote with a denomination of 50
From Old English fīftiġ, from Proto-West Germanic *fimf tigiwi, from Proto-Germanic *fimf tigiwiz; equivalent to fyf + -ty.
- IPA(key): /ˈfiftiː/, (rare) /ˈfiːftiː/
fifty
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