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English
Etymology
From Middle English sixty , sexty , Old English sixtiġ , from Proto-Germanic *sehs tigiwiz ( “ sixty ” ) , equivalent to six + -ty . Cognate with Scots sexty , saxty ( “ sixty ” ) , Saterland Frisian säkstich ( “ sixty ” ) , West Frisian sechstich ( “ sixty ” ) , Dutch zestig ( “ sixty ” ) , German Low German sesstig ( “ sixty ” ) , German sechzig ( “ sixty ” ) , Swedish sextio ( “ sixty ” ) , Norwegian seksti ( “ sixty ” ) , Icelandic sextíu ( “ sixty ” ) . Compare also Sanskrit षष्टि ( ṣaṣṭi ) .
Pronunciation
Numeral
sixty
The cardinal number occurring after fifty-nine and before sixty-one, represented in Roman numerals as LX and in Arabic numerals as 60.
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Translations
cardinal number
Afrikaans: sestig (af)
Albanian: gjashtëdhjetë (sq)
Amharic: ስልሳ ( səlsa )
Arabic: سِتِّينَ ( sittīna ) , ( only nominative, formal ) سِتُّونَ ( sittūna )
Egyptian Arabic: ستين ( sittīn )
Aramaic:
Hebrew: (please verify ) שתין c ( shtīn )
Syriac: (please verify ) ܫܬܝܢ c ( shtīn )
Armenian: վաթսուն (hy) ( vatʻsun )
Aromanian: shaidzãts , shaidzãtsi
Assamese: ষাঠি ( xathi )
Asturian: sesenta (ast)
Avar: лъабкъого ( lˢabqxʼogo )
Azerbaijani: altmış (az)
Bashkir: алтмыш ( altmış )
Basque: hirurogei (eu)
Belarusian: шэ́сцьдзесят (be) ( šéscʹdzjesjat )
Bengali: ষাট (bn) ( śaṭ )
Bikol Central: anom na pulo
Breton: tri-ugent (br)
Bulgarian: шестдесе́т ( šestdesét )
Burmese: ခြောက်ဆယ် ( hkraukhcai )
Carpathian Rusyn: шістдеся́ть ( šistdesjátʹ )
Catalan: seixanta (ca)
Cebuano: kan-oman
Central Dusun: onom nohopod
Chechen: кхузткъа ( quztqʼa )
Cherokee: ᏑᏓᎵᏍᎪᎯ ( sudalisgohi )
Chichewa: makumi asanu n'limodzi
Chinese:
Mandarin: 六十 (zh) ( liùshí )
Wu: 六十 ( 8 loq-zeq)
Chuukese: wone
Chuvash: утмӑл ( utmăl )
Crimean Tatar: altmış
Czech: šedesát (cs)
Danish: tres (da)
Dhivehi: ހަށްޓި ( haṣ̊ṭi ) , ފަސްދޮޅަސް ( fasdoḷas )
Dutch: zestig (nl) f
Dzongkha: དྲུག་ཅུ ( drug cu )
Esperanto: sesdek (eo)
Estonian: kuuskümmend (et)
Farefare: pisyoobɩ
Fijian: onosagavulu
Finnish: kuusikymmentä (fi)
French: soixante (fr) m
Friulian: sessante
Galician: sesenta (gl)
Georgian: სამოცი ( samoci )
German: sechzig (de) f
Gothic: 𐍃𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍃 𐍄𐌹𐌲𐌾𐌿𐍃 ( saihs tigjus )
Greek: εξήντα (el) ( exínta )
Ancient: ἑξήκοντα ( hexḗkonta ) , ξ΄ ( numeral )
Hausa: sìttin
Hawaiian: kanaono
Hebrew: שִׁשִּׁים m or f ( shishím )
Hiligaynon: kan-uman
Hindi: साठ (hi) ( sāṭh )
Hungarian: hatvan (hu)
Icelandic: sextíu (is)
Ido: sisadek (io)
Ilocano: innem a pulo
Indonesian: enam puluh (id)
Ingrian: kuuskymment
Interlingua: sexanta
Irish: seasca (ga)
Italian: sessanta (it)
Japanese: 六十 (ja) ( ろくじゅう, rokujū, むそ, muso )
Javanese: sawidak (jv)
Kapampangan: anam a pulu
Karachay-Balkar: алтмыш ( altmış )
Kazakh: алпыс (kk) ( alpys )
Khakas: алтон ( alton )
Khalaj: altmış
Khmer: ហុកសិប (km) ( hok səp )
Komi-Permyak: кватьдас ( kvaťdas )
Korean: 육십(六十) (ko) ( yuksip ) , 예순 (ko) ( yesun ) , 륙십 (ko) ( ryuksip ) ( North Korea )
Kumyk: алтмыш ( altmış )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: شەست ( şest )
Kyrgyz: алтымыш (ky) ( altımış )
Ladin: sessanta
Lakota: wikčémna šákpe
Lao: ຫົກສິບ ( hok sip )
Latin: sexaginta (la)
Latvian: sešdesmit (lv)
Ligurian: sciûscianta
Lithuanian: šešiasdešimt (lt)
Livonian: kūžkimdõ
Lombard: please add this translation if you can
Louisiana Creole French: swasant
Luxembourgish: siechzeg
Macedonian: ше́есет ( šéeset )
Malay: enam puluh (ms)
Malayalam: അറുപത് (ml) ( aṟupatŭ )
Maltese: sittin
Manchu: ᠨᡳᠨᠵᡠ ( ninju )
Manx: tree feed
Maori: ono ngahuru , ono tekau (mi)
Marathi: साठ ( sāṭh )
Middle English: sixty
Mongolian: жар (mn) ( žar )
Nauruan: añama
Navajo: hastą́diin
Norman: sessànte ( Guernsey ) , souaixante ( Jersey )
Northern Mansi: (please verify ) хо̄тпан ( hōtpan )
Norwegian: seksti (no)
Occitan: seissanta (oc)
Ojibwe: ningodwaasimidana
Old Church Slavonic: шесть десѧтъ ( šestĭ desętŭ )
Old English: sixtiġ
Old Turkic: 𐰞𐱄𐰢𐱀 ( l¹t¹mš /altmïš/ )
Oromo: jaatama
Ottoman Turkish: آلتمش ( altmış )
Pennsylvania German: sechzich
Persian: شصت (fa) ( šast )
Piedmontese: sessanta
Polish: sześćdziesiąt (pl) , kopa (pl) f ( colloquial )
Portuguese: sessenta (pt)
Quechua: suqta chunka
Romagnol: ṣànta
Romanian: șaizeci (ro)
Romansch: sessanta , sissonta , sissànta , sesaunta , sesanta
Russian: шестьдеся́т (ru) ( šestʹdesját )
Samoan: onosefulu
Sanskrit: षष्टि (sa) ( ṣaṣṭi )
Santali: ᱛᱩᱨᱩᱭ ᱜᱮᱞ ( turuy gel )
Sardinian: sessanta
Scottish Gaelic: ( old system ) trì fichead , ( new system ) seasgad
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: шездесет
Roman: šezdeset
Shan: ႁူၵ်းသိပ်း ( húuk síp )
Shor: алтон ( alton )
Sicilian: sissanta (scn)
Sinhalese: හැට ( hæṭa )
Slovak: šesťdesiat (sk)
Slovene: šestdeset (sl)
Southern Altai: алтан ( altan )
Spanish: sesenta (es)
Swahili: sitini (sw)
Swedish: sextio (sv)
Tagalog: animnapu
Tahitian: ono 'ahuru
Tajik: шаст (tg) ( šast )
Tatar: алтмыш (tt) ( altmış )
Telugu: అరవై (te) ( aravai )
Thai: หกสิบ (th) ( hòk-sìp )
Tocharian B: ṣkaska
Tok Pisin: sikisti , sikispela ten
Tongan: onongofulu
Turkish: altmış (tr)
Turkmen: altmyş (tk)
Tuvan: алдан ( aldan )
Udmurt: куатьтон ( kuaťton )
Ukrainian: шістьдеся́т ( šistʹdesját )
Unami: kwëtash txinxke
Urdu: ساٹھ ( sāṭh )
Uyghur: ئاتمىش ( atmish )
Uzbek: oltmish (uz)
Venetan: sesanta (vec)
Vietnamese: sáu mươi (vi)
Volapük: mäldeg (vo)
Waray-Waray: kaunman
Welsh: trigain (cy) ( vigesimal, traditional ) , chwe deg ( decimal )
West Frisian: sechstich
Yakut: алта уон ( alta uon )
Yiddish: זעכציק ( zekhtsik )
Yup'ik: yuinaak pingayun , pingayun ipiaq
See also
Anagrams
Middle English
Etymology
From Old English sixtiġ , from Proto-Germanic *sehs tigiwiz ; equivalent to six + -ty .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈsikstiː/ , /ˈsɛkstiː/
Numeral
sixty
sixty
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