fifty

fifty

English

English numbers ^(edit)

		500
←  40	←  49	50	51  →	60  →
		5
Cardinal: fifty     Ordinal: fiftieth     Adverbial: fifty times     Multiplier: fiftyfold

Alternative forms

• fiftie (obsolete)
• fitty, fiddy (slang)

Etymology

PIE word
*pénkʷe

From Middle English fifty, from Old English fīftiġ, from Proto-Germanic *fimf tigiwiz (“five tens”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: fĭf'tē, IPA^(key): /ˈfɪfti/

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• Rhymes: -ɪfti

Numeral

fifty

1. The cardinal number occurring after forty-nine and before fifty-one.

Synonyms

• 50 (Arabic numeral); L (Roman numeral); fivety (proscribed)

Derived terms

Derived terms

50 cent army 50-gon fifties

fiftieth fiftiethly fifty thousand

fifty-cent tour fifty-fifty fifty-move rule

fiftyfold fiftyish fiftysomething

Translations

cardinal number

Afrikaans: vyftig (af) Albanian: pesëdhjetë (sq) American Sign Language: Arabic: خَمْسِينَ‎ (ḵamsīna), (only nominative, formal) خَمْسُونَ‎ (ḵamsūna) Egyptian Arabic: خمسين‎ (ḵamsīn) Aramaic: Hebrew: 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 (pjacʹdzjesját) Bengali: পঞ্চাশ (bn) (pôñcaś) Bikol Central: limampulo Breton: hanter-kant (br), pemont Bulgarian: петдесе́т (petdesét) Burmese: ငါးဆယ် (nga:hcai) Catalan: cinquanta (ca) Central Dusun: limo nohopod Chamicuro: pichka chunka Chechen: шовзткъе итт (šowztqʼe 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 (ńg zoep) Chuukese: nime Chuvash: аллӑ (allă) Crimean Tatar: elli Czech: padesát (cs) Dalmatian: čoncuanta Danish: halvtreds (da), halvtredsindstyve (formal) Dhivehi: ފަންސާސް‎ (fan̊sās) Dutch: vijftig (nl) f Dzongkha: ལྔ་བཅུ (lnga bcu) Esperanto: kvindek (eo) Estonian: viiskümmend (et) Extremaduran: cincuenta Faroese: fimmti, hálvtrýss Fijian: limasagavulu Finnish: viisikymmentä (fi) Franco-Provençal: please add this translation if you can French: cinquante (fr) 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: πεντήκοντα (pentḗkonta), ν΄ (numeral) Hausa: hamsin Hawaiian: kanalima Hebrew: חמישים / חֲמִשִּׁים‎ m or f (khamishím) Hindi: पचास (hi) (pacās), पंजाह (hi) (pañjāh) Hungarian: ötven (hu) Icelandic: fimmtíu (is) Ido: kinadek (io) Igala: óóje Igbo: ìri īse 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 (osip) 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-Permyak: витдас (vitdas) Korean: 오십(五十) (ko) (osip), 쉰 (ko) (swin) Kumyk: элли (elli) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: پەنجا‎ (ku) (penca) Northern Kurdish: pêncî (ku) Kyrgyz: элүү (ky) (elüü) Ladin: cincanta Lakota: wikčémna žáptaŋ Lao: ຫ້າສິບ (hā sip) Latin: quinquaginta (la) Latvian: piecdesmit Leonese: please add this translation if you can Ligurian: please add this translation if you can Limburgish: vieftig Lithuanian: penkiasdešimt (lt) Livonian: vīžkimdõ Lombard: please add this translation if you can Louisiana Creole French: sinkant Luxembourgish: fofzeg Lü: please add this translation if you can Macedonian: педесет (pedeset) Malay: lima puluh (ms) Malayalam: അമ്പത് (ml) (ampatŭ), അൻപത് (ml) (aṉpatŭ) Maltese: ħamsin Manchu: ᠰᡠᠰᠠᡳ (susai) Mansi: атпан (atpan) Manx: jeih as daeed, lieh cheead, queigad Maori: rima tekau (mi) Middle English: fifty Mon: please add this translation if you can Mongolian: тавь (mn) (tavʹ) Nauruan: ajima Navajo: ashdladiin Neapolitan: please add this translation if you can Northern Sami: vihttalogi Northern Thai: 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 Ottoman Turkish: اللی‎ (elli) Pennsylvania German: fuffzich Persian: پنجاه‎ (fa) (panjâh) Piedmontese: sinquanta Polish: pięćdziesiąt (pl) Portuguese: cinquenta (pt) (Portugal), cinqüenta (pt) (Brazil) Quechua: pichqa chunka Romagnol: please add this translation if you can Romanian: cincizeci (ro), cinzeci (ro) Romansch: tschuncanta, tschuncànta, tschunconta, tschinquaunta Russian: пятьдеся́т (ru) (pjatʹdesját) Rusyn: пятдеся́ть (pjatdesjátʹ) Samoan: limasefulu Sanskrit: पञ्चाशत् (sa) (pañcāśat) Santali: ᱢᱚᱬᱮ ᱜᱮᱞ (môṇe gel) Sardinian: chimbanta, chimmanta, cimmanta, cincanta Scottish Gaelic: (old system) dà fhichead 's a deich, (new system) caogad, (also common) leth-cheud (literally “half hundred”) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: педесет Roman: pedeset Shan: ႁႃႈသိပ်း (hāa síp) Sicilian: cinquanta (scn) Sinhalese: පනහ (panaha) Slovak: päťdesiat (sk) Slovene: petdeset (sl) Southern Altai: бежен (bežen), ӧлӱ (ölü) 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) Tigrinya: ሓምሳ (ḥamsa) Tocharian B: piśāka Tongan: nimangofulu Turkish: elli (tr) Turkmen: elli (tk) Tuvan: бежен (bejen) Udmurt: витьтон (vitʹton) Ukrainian: п'ятдеся́т (uk) (pʺjatdesját) Unami: palenàxk txintxke Urdu: پچاس‎ (pacās) Uyghur: ئەللىك‎ (ellik) Uzbek: ellik (uz) Venetian: sincuanta (vec), zhincuanta, çinquanta, xinquanta Vietnamese: năm mươi (vi) Volapük: luldeg (vo), luls (older term, obsolete) Welsh: hanner cant (cy) (vigesimal, traditional), pum deg (decimal) West Frisian: fyftich Yakut: биэс уон (bies uon) Yiddish: פֿופֿציק‎ (fuftsik) Yoruba: àádọ́ta Yup'ik: yuinaak malruk qulen, malruk ipiaq qulen Zhuang: please add this translation if you can

See also

• Last: forty-nine, forty
• Next: fifty-one, sixty

Noun

fifty (plural fifties)

1. (countable) A banknote or coin with a denomination of 50.

   Do you want small bills or are fifties OK?

2. (cricket) A batsman's score of at least 50 runs and less than 100 runs.

Translations

a banknote with a denomination of 50

Danish: halvtredser c Finnish: viisikymppinen Georgian: ორმოცდაათიანი (ormocdaatiani) German: Fünfziger (de) m Japanese: 50ドル札 (gojūdorusatsu) Macedonian: педесетка f (pedesetka) Navajo: ashdladiin béeso Russian: полти́нник (ru) m (poltínnik) (colloquial) Swedish: femtiolapp (sv) c

Anagrams

• Tiffy, tiffy

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Middle English

Middle English numbers ^(edit)

←  40	50	60  →
	5
Cardinal: fifty     Ordinal: fiftithe

Alternative forms

• fifftiȝ, fifte, fifti, fyffty, fyfty

Etymology

From Old English fīftiġ, from Proto-Germanic *fimf tigiwiz; equivalent to five +‎ -ty.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfiftiː/, (rare) /ˈfiːftiː/

Numeral

fifty

1. fifty

Descendants

• English: fifty
• Scots: fifty, fyfty

References

• “fiftī, card. num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.