million

See also: Million

English

**English numbers ^(edit)**
← 1,000	^{[a], [b]} ← 100,000	1,000,000 (10⁶)	10,000,000 (10⁷) → ^{[a], [b]}	1,000,000,000 (10⁹) → ^{[a], [b], [c]}
Cardinal: million Ordinal: millionth Multiplier: millionfold Metric collective prefix: mega- Metric fractional prefix: micro- Number of years: millionennium, megannum, megayear

Etymology

From Old French, from Italian milione (“million”), from mille (“thousand”) (from Latin mille) + the augmentative suffix -one. Compare -illion.

Pronunciation

enPR: mĭl′yən, IPA^(key): /ˈmɪljən/, [ˈmɪljɪn]
Audio (US) (file)
Audio (UK) (file)
Rhymes: -ɪljən
Hyphenation: mil‧lion

Numeral

million (plural millions)

(long and short scales) The cardinal number 1,000,000: 10⁶; a thousand thousand.
(colloquial, hyperbolic) An unspecified very large number.
I told you a million times before.
I can think of millions of reasons not to go.
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:
  Let him bring millions infinite of men,
  Unpeopling weſterne Affrica and Greece:
  Yet we aſſure vs of the victorie.

Usage notes

Until the early 20th century, million behaved much like an ordinary quantificational noun (such as pair or handful). That is, it inflected in the plural when modified by a numeral greater than 1, and was separated from the noun it quantified with of, as in: five millions of pounds (rather than the modern equivalent, five million pounds).

Derived terms

like a million bucks
megamillion
millionaire
millionary
million-dollar
millionennium
millionfold
millionth
multimillion
never in a million years
one in a million
one million
thanks a million

Related terms

thousand
billion
trillion

Descendants

→ Hawaiian: miliona
→ Maori: miriona
→ Sinhalese: මිලියනය (miliyanaya)
→ Welsh: miliwn
→ Yoruba: mílíọ̀nù

Translations

cardinal number

Afrikaans: miljoen (af)
Albanian: milion (sq)
Arabic: مِلْيُون‎ m (milyōn), ١٠٠٠٠٠٠‎ (1000000)
Hijazi Arabic: مِلْيون‎ m (milyōn)
Armenian: միլիոն (hy) (milion)
Asturian: millón (ast)
Azerbaijani: milyon (az)
Basque: milioi
Belarusian: мільён m (milʹjón)
Bengali: নুযুত (nuĵut), মিলিয়ন (miliyônô)
Breton: milion (br)
Bulgarian: милио́н m (milión)
Burmese: သန်း (my) (san:)
Buryat: сая (saja)
Catalan: milió (ca) m
Cebuano: yukot, milyon
Chechen: миллион (million)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 百萬, 百万 (baak³ maan⁶)
Mandarin: 百萬／百万 (zh) (bǎi-wàn)
Chuukese: minion
Crimean Tatar: million
Czech: milión (cs) m
Danish: million (da) c
Dutch: miljoen (nl) n
Egyptian:

(ḥḥ)
Esperanto: miliono (eo)
Estonian: miljon (et)
Finnish: miljoona (fi)
French: million (fr) m
Georgian: მილიონი (milioni)
German: Million (de) f
Greek: εκατομμύριο (el) n (ekatommýrio)
Guaraní: sua
Gujarati: દશ લાખ (daś lākh)
Hawaiian: miliona
Hebrew: מִילְיוֹן‎ (he) (milyón)
Hiligaynon: hambad, milyon, ramak
Hindi: दस लाख (das lākh), १०००००० (1000000), नियुत (hi) m (niyut)
Hungarian: millió (hu)
Icelandic: milljón, miljón (is) f
Indonesian: juta (id)
Interlingua: un million
Irish: milliún (ga) m
Italian: milione (it) m
Japanese: 百万 (ja) (ひゃくまん, hyaku-man)
Javanese: yuta
Kapampangan: sangyuta, milyun
Kalmyk: сай (say)
Kazakh: миллион (kk) (million)
Khmer: មួយលាន (muəy liən)
Korean: 백만(百萬) (ko) (baengman)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: میلیۆن‎ (mîlyon)
Northern Kurdish: mîlyon (ku)
Kyrgyz: миллион (ky) (million)
Lao: ລ້ານ (lo) (lān)
Latin: milliō m
Latvian: miljons m
Lithuanian: milijonas (lt) m
Louisiana Creole French: milyon
Lun Bawang: ribet
Lü: ᦟᦱᧃᧉ (laan²)
Macedonian: милио́н (mk) m (milión)
Malay: juta (ms)
Malayalam: ദശലക്ഷം (daśalakṣaṃ), പത്തുലക്ഷം (pattulakṣaṃ)
Maltese: miljun
Manchu: ᡨ᠋ᠠᠩᡤᡡ
ᡨᡠ᠋ᠮᡝᠨ
Manx: millioon
Maori: miriona
Middle French: million m
Mongolian: сая (mn) (saja)
Navajo: tʼááłáhádí míiltsoh, miiltsoh
Norman: millaon (Guernsey)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: million (no) m
Nynorsk: million (nn) m
Occitan: milion (oc)
Ojibwe: midaaswaak daso-midaawaak
Old Church Slavonic: леодръ (leodrŭ)
Oromo: kitila
Persian: میلیون‎ (fa) (milyon)
Polish: milion (pl) m inan
Portuguese: milhão (pt) m
Punjabi: ਦਸ ਲਾਖ (das lākh)
Quechua: hunu
Romanian: milion (ro) n
Russian: миллио́н (ru) m (millión)
Sanskrit: दशलक्षं (daśalakṣaṃ), नियुत (sa) (niyuta)
Scottish Gaelic: millean m, muillean m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: милѝо̄н m, милѝјӯн m
Roman: milìōn (sh) m, milìjūn (sh) m
Shan: လၢၼ်ႉ (shn) (lâ̰an)
Sinhalese: මිලියනය (miliyanaya)
Slovak: milión (sk) m
Slovene: milijon (sl)
Spanish: millón (es) m
Swedish: miljon (sv) c, million (sv) c (obsolete)
Tagalog: milyon, angaw
Tajik: миллион (million)
Tatar: миллион (tt) (million)
Telugu: పది లక్షలు (padi lakṣalu)
Thai: ล้าน (th) (láan)
Turkish: bir milyon (tr)
Turkmen: million
Tuvan: сая (saya), миллион (million)
Ukrainian: мільйо́н (uk) m (milʹjón)
Urdu: دس لاکھ‎ (das lākh)
Uyghur: مىليون‎ (milyon)
Uzbek: million (uz)
Vietnamese: triệu (vi)
Volapük: balion (vo)
Welsh: miliwn (cy)
Yakut: муҥ (muŋ), мөлүйүөн (mölüyüön)
Yiddish: מיליאָן‎ (milyon)
Yoruba: àádọ́ta ọ̀kẹ́, ẹgbẹ̀ẹgbẹ̀rún, mílíọ̀nù
Yup'ik: miilicaaq

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From French million.

Numeral

million

million

Declension

Declension of million

nominative	million
genitive	millionnıñ
dative	millionğa
accusative	millionnı
locative	millionda
ablative	milliondan

References

Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎, Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed via French million from Italian milione.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [miliˈoˀn], [milˈjoˀn]

Numeral

million

A million, 10⁶.

Noun

million c (singular definite millionen, plural indefinite millioner)

a million

References

“million” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

**French numbers ^(edit)**
← 1,000	^{[a], [b]} ← 100,000	1,000,000 (10⁶)	2,000,000 (2 x 10⁶) → ^{[a], [b]}	1,000,000,000 (10⁹) →
Cardinal (traditional spelling): unmillion Cardinal (post-1990 spelling): un-million Ordinal: millionième Ordinal abbreviation: 1 000 000e, (now nonstandard) 1 000 000ème
French Wikipedia article on 1,000,000 (10⁶)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French million, from Italian milione.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mi.ljɔ̃/
audio (file)

Numeral

million m (plural millions)

million (10⁶)

Derived terms

millionnaire

Descendants

→ Crimean Tatar: million

Interlingua

Noun

million (plural milliones)

million
- 2012, Panorama in Interlingua, September-October, p. 24:
  Le anno passate 46 milliones statouniteses esseva povre.
  Last year 46 million U.S. Americans were poor.

Numeral

un million

a million, one million

Middle French

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

million m (plural millions)

million, 10⁶.

Descendants

French: million
- → Crimean Tatar: million
→ Catalan: milió
→ Dutch: miljoen, millioen
- Afrikaans: miljoen
- Negerhollands: millioon
- → Caribbean Hindustani: melyun
- → Caribbean Javanese: milyun
→ English: million
- → Hawaiian: miliona
- → Maori: miriona
- → Sinhalese: මිලියනය (miliyanaya)
- → Welsh: miliwn
→ Irish: milliún

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Italian milione.

Numeral

million

A million, 10⁶.

Noun

million m (definite singular millionen, indefinite plural millioner, definite plural millionene)

a million

References

“million” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Italian milione.

Numeral

million

a million, 10⁶.

Noun

million m (definite singular millionen, indefinite plural millionar, definite plural millionane)

a million

References

“million” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Noun

million c

Obsolete spelling of miljon

Declension

Declension of million
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	million	millionen	millioner	millionerna
Genitive	millions	millionens	millioners	millionernas

Tatar

Numeral

million (Cyrillic spelling миллион)

million

Uzbek

Numeral

million

million

Derived terms

millioninchi (“millionth”)

million

English

Etymology

Pronunciation

Numeral

Usage notes

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

Translations

See also

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Numeral

Declension

References

Danish

Etymology

Pronunciation

Numeral

Noun

References

French

Etymology

Pronunciation

Numeral

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

Interlingua

Noun

Numeral

Middle French

Etymology

Noun

Descendants

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Numeral

Noun

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Numeral

Noun

References

Swedish

Noun

Declension

Tatar

Numeral

Uzbek

Numeral

Derived terms