Nine in Different Languages
Discover 'Nine' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Nine
Afrikaans nege | ||
Albanian nëntë | ||
Amharic ዘጠኝ | ||
Arabic تسع | ||
Armenian ինը | ||
Assamese ন | ||
Aymara llätunka | ||
Azerbaijani doqquz | ||
Bambara kɔnɔntɔn | ||
Basque bederatzi | ||
Belarusian дзевяць | ||
Bengali নয়টি | ||
Bhojpuri नौ | ||
Bosnian devet | ||
Bulgarian девет | ||
Catalan nou | ||
Cebuano siyam | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 九 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 九 | ||
Corsican nove | ||
Croatian devet | ||
Czech devět | ||
Danish ni | ||
Dhivehi ނުވައެއް | ||
Dogri नौ | ||
Dutch negen | ||
English nine | ||
Esperanto naŭ | ||
Estonian üheksa | ||
Ewe asiɛkɛ | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) siyam | ||
Finnish yhdeksän | ||
French neuf | ||
Frisian njoggen | ||
Galician nove | ||
Georgian ცხრა | ||
German neun | ||
Greek εννέα | ||
Guarani porundy | ||
Gujarati નવ | ||
Haitian Creole nèf | ||
Hausa tara | ||
Hawaiian eiwa | ||
Hebrew תֵשַׁע | ||
Hindi नौ | ||
Hmong cuaj | ||
Hungarian kilenc | ||
Icelandic níu | ||
Igbo iteghete | ||
Ilocano siam | ||
Indonesian sembilan | ||
Irish naoi | ||
Italian nove | ||
Japanese ナイン | ||
Javanese sangang | ||
Kannada ಒಂಬತ್ತು | ||
Kazakh тоғыз | ||
Khmer ប្រាំបួន | ||
Kinyarwanda icyenda | ||
Konkani णव | ||
Korean 아홉 | ||
Krio nayn | ||
Kurdish neh | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) نۆ | ||
Kyrgyz тогуз | ||
Lao ເກົ້າ | ||
Latin novem | ||
Latvian deviņi | ||
Lingala libwa | ||
Lithuanian devyni | ||
Luganda mwenda | ||
Luxembourgish néng | ||
Macedonian девет | ||
Maithili नव | ||
Malagasy sivy | ||
Malay sembilan | ||
Malayalam ഒമ്പത് | ||
Maltese disgħa | ||
Maori iwa | ||
Marathi नऊ | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯃꯥꯄꯜ | ||
Mizo pakua | ||
Mongolian ес | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ကိုး | ||
Nepali नौ | ||
Norwegian ni | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) zisanu ndi zinayi | ||
Odia (Oriya) ନଅ | ||
Oromo sagal | ||
Pashto نهه | ||
Persian نه | ||
Polish dziewięć | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) nove | ||
Punjabi ਨੌ | ||
Quechua isqun | ||
Romanian nouă | ||
Russian девять | ||
Samoan iva | ||
Sanskrit नवं | ||
Scots Gaelic naoi | ||
Sepedi senyane | ||
Serbian девет | ||
Sesotho robong | ||
Shona pfumbamwe | ||
Sindhi نو | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) නවය | ||
Slovak deväť | ||
Slovenian devet | ||
Somali sagaal | ||
Spanish nueve | ||
Sundanese salapan | ||
Swahili tisa | ||
Swedish nio | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) siyam | ||
Tajik нӯҳ | ||
Tamil ஒன்பது | ||
Tatar тугыз | ||
Telugu తొమ్మిది | ||
Thai เก้า | ||
Tigrinya ትሸዓተ | ||
Tsonga nkaye | ||
Turkish dokuz | ||
Turkmen dokuz | ||
Twi (Akan) nkron | ||
Ukrainian дев'ять | ||
Urdu نو | ||
Uyghur توققۇز | ||
Uzbek to'qqiz | ||
Vietnamese chín | ||
Welsh naw | ||
Xhosa thoba | ||
Yiddish נײַן | ||
Yoruba mẹsan | ||
Zulu eziyisishiyagalolunye |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The word "nege" is derived from the Old High German "neun" and the Old Dutch "neghen." |
| Albanian | The word "nëntë" also has a figurative meaning in Albanian, referring to a "lot" or "many" |
| Amharic | In Geez, ዘጠኝ "zəṭeñ" means both "nine" and "the ninth hour." |
| Arabic | The Arabic word "تسع" also refers to a female gazelle. |
| Armenian | The word "ինը" means "nine", but is also an old unit of measurement for liquids (about 950 ml). |
| Azerbaijani | The etymology of the Azerbaijani word "doqquz" for nine can be found in Turkic languages where "tokuz" refers to "a gathering" and "a group", referring either to the nine months of pregnancy or a group of nine stars. |
| Basque | The word "bederatzi" is derived from the Proto-Basque "*bedera" meaning "four" and "*atz" meaning "on top of", suggesting a counting system based on fours. |
| Belarusian | The word "дзевяць" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *devętь, which is cognate with the Latin word "novem" and the Greek word "ennéa". In Belarusian, the word "дзевяць" can also be used colloquially to mean "a lot" or "a great deal". |
| Bengali | "নয়টি" refers to the number nine, and also to the ninth day of the month, which is an important day according to Bengali culture. |
| Bosnian | The word 'devet' is also an archaic Bosnian unit of measurement for length or area. |
| Bulgarian | The word "девет" is derived from the Proto-Slavic *devętь, and has reflexes in other Slavic languages, like Czech "devět", Russian "девять", and Polish "dziewięć". |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "nou" derives from the Latin word "novem" and shares an etymology with the English word "new". |
| Cebuano | The Cebuano word "siyam" also means "to try". |
| Chinese (Simplified) | In Daoist tradition, 九 (jiǔ) also represents completion and the end of a cycle. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 九 is also the ninth month of the Chinese calendar. |
| Corsican | In Corsican, nove can also refer to a type of card game played with nine cards. |
| Croatian | The Croatian word 'devet' ('nine') shares its root with the Proto-Indo-European word '*deḱm̥tós', meaning 'tenth'. |
| Czech | The Czech word "devět" also has metaphorical meanings, e.g. "devět křížků" = "old age", "být v sedmém nebi" = "to be very happy". |
| Danish | Ni ('nine') can also mean 'new' or 'next', reflecting its relation to the Latin 'novus' ('new'). |
| Dutch | "Negen" also refers to the first letter in Dutch spelling alphabet (NATO alphabet). |
| Esperanto | "Naŭ" is derived from the Latin "novem", and also shares a root with "nova" ("new"). |
| Estonian | "Üheksa" is cognate with "ühe" ("one") and "ksa" ("ten"). |
| Finnish | "Yhdeksän" is an alteration of "kahdeksän" ("eight"), an "ys-formation" with "ys" as the suffix for adverbs. |
| French | The word "neuf" in French also means "new", likely derived from the Latin "novus" meaning "new". |
| Frisian | The Frisian words for the numbers 11-19 include "njoggen" but are not constructed using it as they are in Dutch (such as English: eleven and Dutch: elf) |
| Galician | The Galician word "nove" derives from the Latin "novem" and is also used in Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan, and French. |
| Georgian | It is believed to have originated from the Proto-Kartvelian word *tskhoro, meaning "plenty" or "abundance." |
| German | The word "neun" is likely derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *neun-, meaning "new," and is cognate with the English word "new." |
| Greek | The word "εννέα" is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root "*newn" meaning "new" or "fresh". |
| Gujarati | "નવ" also means "new" and "strange". |
| Haitian Creole | The Haitian Creole word "nèf" (nine) derives from the French "neuf" (new), while also being a homophone for the French "neuf" (nine). |
| Hausa | In Hausa, the word “tara” (nine) also refers to a “load” or “burden.” |
| Hawaiian | In Japanese, 'eiwa' means 'eternal peace' and in Spanish, it means 'of the egg'. |
| Hebrew | The word "תֵשַׁע" can also mean "ninth" or "the ninth part of something" in Hebrew. |
| Hindi | The word "नौ" (nau) comes from the Sanskrit word "nava" which means "new" and can also refer to a "boat" or "ship". |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "cuaj" can also mean "group of three" or refer to three different items of the same type. |
| Hungarian | The word "kilenc" comes from the Proto-Uralic word *kɨləmə "eight" and the suffix *-c "plus one". |
| Icelandic | The word "níu" in Icelandic is cognate with the word "new" in English, and can also mean "renewed" or "fresh". |
| Igbo | "Ite ghete" also means "what is it doing" in Igbo. |
| Indonesian | "Sembilan" can also refer to the Sultanate of Selangor or the state of Negeri Sembilan in Malaysia. |
| Irish | The Irish word "naoi" is derived from the Proto-Celtic *nawan, meaning "holy" or "special". |
| Italian | The Italian word "nove" shares many cognates with words for "new" in other Romance languages, such as the words "nuevo" in Spanish, "nouveau" in French, and "novo" in Portuguese. |
| Japanese | The first character of "ナイン" is also used to write "なむ", an archaic word for "eight". |
| Javanese | In Javanese, 'sangang' not only means 'nine' but also 'many', 'various', or 'different'. |
| Kannada | "ಒಂಬತ್ತು" means "nine" and can also be used to mean "a lot" or "many". |
| Kazakh | The word "тоғыз" (nine) in Kazakh is derived from the Proto-Turkic word "toquz", which also means "nine". |
| Khmer | "ប្រាំបួន" (nine) is also a Khmer homonym for "the 14th day of the waning moon". |
| Korean | The word "아홉" also means "a few" or "several" in Korean. |
| Kurdish | 'Neh' also means 'new' or 'fresh' in Kurdish. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "тогуз" also means "complete" or "perfect" in Kyrgyz, as it is often associated with the concept of "the nine perfections" (тогуз сапат). |
| Lao | The Lao word "ເກົ້າ" "nine" also means "old" or "ancient" and is used to count people or things that are considered valuable or important. |
| Latin | Novem, in Latin, is derived from "novem," and can also refer to the ninth day of the Roman calendar. |
| Latvian | The word "deviņi" is related to the ancient Indo-European root "*dekm" meaning "ten". |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "devyni" also shares the same Proto-Indo-European root *deḱm as its Latin cognate "decem" and modern English "ten". |
| Luxembourgish | The word “néng” is cognate with “nine” in English, “neuf” in French, “nove” in Portuguese, and with “novem” in Latin, meaning nine. |
| Macedonian | The word "девет" in Macedonian is a cognate of the word "nine" in English, and also means "great" or "mighty". |
| Malagasy | The word "sivy" in Malagasy originates from the Proto-Austronesian word "siwa" meaning "nine". It is cognate with the Malay word "sembilan", the Javanese word "songo", and the Tagalog word "siyam". |
| Malay | The name for this number, which derives from an Austroasiatic root *sa(m)-bĕlu, is shared between Malay, Javanese, and Balinese. |
| Malayalam | The word "ഒമ്പത്" ("nine") in Malayalam is derived from the Proto-Dravidian root ‘*omb-u’, meaning "nine". |
| Maltese | The Maltese word "disgħa" is derived from the Arabic word "تسعة" (tisa’), which means "nine". |
| Maori | *Iwa* also refers to a type of bird and the numeral 'one' in the traditional number system. |
| Marathi | The Marathi word "नऊ" (nauu) is derived from the Sanskrit word "नव" (nava), meaning "new" or "fresh". |
| Mongolian | Alternate meaning of "ес" is "nine" in Mongolian. |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word "ကိုး" can also mean "above," "upwards," or "to rise." |
| Nepali | The word "नौ" means "boat" in the Nepali language, and "nine" in Sanskrit. |
| Norwegian | "Ni" is an archaic word for "new" and is cognate with the English "new" and German "neu." |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | 'Zisanu ndi zinayi' can also be used colloquially to signify something being a lot or in abundance. |
| Pashto | In Pashto, "نهه" (nine) is cognate to "nava" in Sanskrit and "no" in Persian, indicating a common Indo-European origin. |
| Persian | It is a homograph of نه that means "whine". |
| Polish | "Dziewięć" is related to the Proto-Slavic word "devętь", which also means "nine", and is cognate with the Latin word "novem". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "nove" can also mean "new". |
| Punjabi | The word 'ਨੌ' has alternate meanings in Punjabi, including 'a cry of admiration' and 'a low moaning sound'. |
| Romanian | "Nouă" also means "to swim" and "a bride" in Romanian. |
| Russian | The Russian word “девять” (“nine”) derives from the Proto-Indo-European root “*newṇ” meaning “new”. |
| Samoan | Iva can also mean a group of nine or an entire group. |
| Scots Gaelic | In Gaelic "naoi" can mean both "nine" and "holy". |
| Serbian | "Devet" in Serbian can also mean "many" and was originally a collective noun for "a group of nine." |
| Sesotho | The Sesotho word "robong" can also refer to a group of nine objects or a period of nine days. |
| Shona | "Pfumbamwe" can also mean "a group of nine people" or "a group of nine things". |
| Sindhi | Sindhi word "نو" can also refer to any number that is the sum of digits of 9, like 18, 27, 36, etc. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The Sinhala word "නවය" also means "new" or "fresh". |
| Slovak | The word "deväť" is derived from the Proto-Slavic word *devętь, which also means "much" or "a lot". |
| Slovenian | In Slovene, the number nine is also known as "devetica," originating from the Proto-Slavic "devęti," meaning "to get one more time." |
| Somali | Sagaal is also used to refer to the ninth day of the month or to the last day of a period of time. |
| Spanish | La palabra "nueve" en español proviene del latín "novem" y también puede referirse a un conjunto de nueve elementos. |
| Sundanese | The word "salapan" is cognate with the word "sembilan" in Indonesian, both being derived from the Proto-Austronesian word *siwa-N. |
| Swahili | In Tanzanian Swahili, "tisa" also refers to an "extremely large amount" of something. |
| Swedish | The word 'nio' in Swedish also means 'new'. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | Siyam may also mean abstinence or refraining from something, as in the case of "siyam sa karne" (abstinence from meat). |
| Tajik | The word "нӯҳ" also means "new" in Tajik. |
| Tamil | "ஒன்பது" (literally, "one-with-eight") refers to the nine parts of the human body that are considered vital: the two eyes, two ears, two nostrils, mouth, and the two hands. |
| Telugu | "తొమ్మిది" is derived from the Sanskrit word "navmi", which means "ninth", but it also means "nine" in Telugu. |
| Thai | The word "เก้า" (nine) can also refer to the period of nine days and nights leading up to a cremation ceremony in Thailand. |
| Turkish | "Dokuz" is also the term for a card with an image of nine stars that is the highest-ranking card in Turkish "King" card games |
| Ukrainian | The word "дев'ять" in Ukrainian is cognate with the word "девять" in Russian and "dziewięć" in Polish, all meaning "nine" and sharing the same Indo-European root *new̆(e)n̥-. |
| Urdu | The Urdu word "نو" (nau) also means "new" and is cognate with the English word "new" and the Latin word "novus". |
| Uzbek | The Uzbek word "to'qqiz" is of Persian origin and also means "strong" or "firm" |
| Vietnamese | The word "chín" can also mean "ripe" in Vietnamese. |
| Welsh | Naw is the number "9" in Welsh and is also used in Irish, Scottish, Manx, and some dialects of English |
| Xhosa | The word 'Thoba' also means 'to gather' or 'to collect' in Xhosa. |
| Yiddish | The word "נײַן" in Yiddish also means "no" and is a cognate of the German "nein". |
| Yoruba | "Mẹsan," meaning "nine" in Yoruba, also signifies "abundance," reflecting its bountiful nature. |
| Zulu | The term "eziyisishiyagalolunye" also represents a traditional Zulu system of counting by groups of 5 rather than ten. |
| English | "Nine", in addition to being a number, is also a "collective word" for nine musicians playing together. |