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Pronunciation
(RP) IPA|/twelv/
audio|en-us-twelve.ogg|Audio (US)

Etymology
Old English twelf from Germanic *twalif-, an old compound of *twa- (see two) and *-lif (meaning left over; see leave) < PIE. *leikw- (leave, remain).

Cardinal number
twelve

1. The cardinal number occurring after eleven and before thirteen, represented in Roman numerals as XII and in Arabic numerals as 12. Ordinal: twelfth.

#*Symbolic: 12
#*Roman: XII
#* w:Chinese numerals|Chinese numerals: ��
#* w:Chinese numerals|Chinese complex numerals: �貳
#* w:Eastern Arabic numerals|Eastern Arabic numerals: ARchar|١٢
#* w:Eastern Arabic numerals|Persian numerals: FAchar|Û±Û²
#* w:Indian numerals|Tibetan numerals: ༡༢
#* w:Indian numerals|Hindi numerals: १२
#* w:Indian numerals|Gujarati numerals: ૧૨
#* w:Indian numerals|Gurmukhi numerals: ੧੨
#* w:Indian numerals|Bengali numerals: ১২
#* w:Indian numerals|Oriya numerals: ୧୨
#* w:Indian numerals|Telugu numerals: ౧౨
#* w:Indian numerals|Kannada numerals: ೧೨
#* w:Indian numerals|Malayalam numerals: ൧൨
#* w:Indian numerals|Tamil numerals: ௰௨
#* w:Khmer script|Khmer numerals: ��
#* w:Thai numerals|Thai numerals: ��
#* w:Lao alphabet|Lao numerals: ��
#* w:Burmese alphabet|Myanmar numerals: ��
#* w:Amharic language|Amharic numerals: ��
#* w:Mongolian alphabet|Mongolian numerals: ��
#* w:Limbu language|Limbu numerals: ��
#Last: eleven|11
#Next: thirteen|13

Adjective
twelve

1. Describing a set or group with twelve components. There are twelve months in a year.

See also
dozen

Translations
rfc-level|Translations at L3+
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Afrikaans: twaalf
Albanian: dymbëdhjetë
Arabic: ARchar|اث�� عشر unicode|(�íθna �ášar)
Aramaic:
:Syriac: ܬܪܥܣܪ (tre�sar) m, ܬܪܬܥܣܪ� (tarta�esr�) f
:Hebrew: תרעסר (tre�sar) m, תרתעסר� (tarta�esr�) f
Basque: hamabi
Bosnian: dvanaest
Breton: daouzek
Bulgarian: дванаде�е� (dvanádeset)
Catalan: dotze
Chinese: �� (shíèr)
Czech: dvanáct
Danish: tolv
Dutch: twaalf
Esperanto: dekdu
Estonian: kaksteist
Finnish: kaksitoista
French: douze
Frisian: tolf, tolve
Garífuna: dûsu
German: zwölf
Greek: δ�δεκα (dódeka)
Gujarati: બાર
Hebrew: שת�� עשר�|שְ�תֵּ��־עֶשְ�רֵ� (shteim esre) f (used in counting), שנ�� עשר|שְ�נֵ��־עָשָ�ר (shneim asar) m
Hindi: बारह (b�rah)
Hungarian: tizenkett�
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Indonesian: dua belas
Interlingua: dece-duo, duodece
Irish: dó dheag
Italian: dodici
Japanese: �� (����, jūni)
Kalaallisut: aqqaniq-marluk
Khmer: KMchar|������ (dop pī)
Korean: �� (yeoldul)
Kurdish: KUchar|د�ا�ز��, KUchar|د�ازد��
Latin: duodecem
Latvian: divpadsmit
Livonian: kakštuoistõn
Maltese: tnax
Manchu: (juwan juwe)
Manx: daa yeig
Norwegian: tolv
Novial: dek-du
Polish: dwana�cie
Portuguese: doze
Romanian: doisprezece m, doi�pe italbrac|m, informal, dou�sprezece f & n, dou��pe italbrac|f & n, informal
Russian: двенад�а�� (dvenádtsat�)
Sanskrit: dvaadashan
Serbian: дванае��, dvanaest
Sinhala: ද��� (dholaha)
Slovak: dvanásť
Slovene: dvanajst
Spanish: doce
Swedish: tolv
Tagalog: labindalawa
Telugu: పన�న��డ�
Welsh: deuddeg (vigesimal, traditional), un deg dau (decimal)
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• 2007-12-08 14:35 - Stephen G. Brown - /* Etymology */

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