Seven in Different Languages
Discover 'Seven' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Seven
Afrikaans sewe | ||
Albanian shtatë | ||
Amharic ሰባት | ||
Arabic سبعة | ||
Armenian յոթ | ||
Assamese সাত | ||
Aymara paqallqu | ||
Azerbaijani yeddi | ||
Bambara wolonwula | ||
Basque zazpi | ||
Belarusian сем | ||
Bengali সাত | ||
Bhojpuri सात गो के बा | ||
Bosnian sedam | ||
Bulgarian седем | ||
Catalan set | ||
Cebuano pito | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 七 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 七 | ||
Corsican sette | ||
Croatian sedam | ||
Czech sedm | ||
Danish syv | ||
Dhivehi ހަތް | ||
Dogri सात | ||
Dutch zeven | ||
English seven | ||
Esperanto sep | ||
Estonian seitse | ||
Ewe adre | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) pito | ||
Finnish seitsemän | ||
French sept | ||
Frisian sân | ||
Galician sete | ||
Georgian შვიდი | ||
German sieben | ||
Greek επτά | ||
Guarani siete | ||
Gujarati સાત | ||
Haitian Creole sèt | ||
Hausa bakwai | ||
Hawaiian ʻehiku | ||
Hebrew שבע | ||
Hindi सात | ||
Hmong xya | ||
Hungarian hét | ||
Icelandic sjö | ||
Igbo asaa | ||
Ilocano pito | ||
Indonesian tujuh | ||
Irish seacht | ||
Italian sette | ||
Japanese セブン | ||
Javanese pitung | ||
Kannada ಏಳು | ||
Kazakh жеті | ||
Khmer ប្រាំពីរ | ||
Kinyarwanda karindwi | ||
Konkani सात | ||
Korean 일곱 | ||
Krio sɛvin | ||
Kurdish heft | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) حەوت | ||
Kyrgyz жети | ||
Lao ເຈັດ | ||
Latin septem | ||
Latvian septiņi | ||
Lingala nsambo | ||
Lithuanian septyni | ||
Luganda musanvu | ||
Luxembourgish siwen | ||
Macedonian седум | ||
Maithili सात | ||
Malagasy fito | ||
Malay tujuh | ||
Malayalam ഏഴ് | ||
Maltese sebgħa | ||
Maori whitu | ||
Marathi सात | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯷ | ||
Mizo pasarih a ni | ||
Mongolian долоо | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ခုနှစ် | ||
Nepali सात | ||
Norwegian syv | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) zisanu ndi ziwiri | ||
Odia (Oriya) ସାତ | ||
Oromo torba | ||
Pashto اووه | ||
Persian هفت | ||
Polish siedem | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) sete | ||
Punjabi ਸੱਤ | ||
Quechua qanchis | ||
Romanian șapte | ||
Russian семь | ||
Samoan fitu | ||
Sanskrit सप्त | ||
Scots Gaelic seachd | ||
Sepedi tše šupago | ||
Serbian седам | ||
Sesotho supa | ||
Shona minomwe | ||
Sindhi ست | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) හත | ||
Slovak sedem | ||
Slovenian sedem | ||
Somali toddobo | ||
Spanish siete | ||
Sundanese tujuh | ||
Swahili saba | ||
Swedish sju | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) pitong | ||
Tajik ҳафт | ||
Tamil ஏழு | ||
Tatar җиде | ||
Telugu ఏడు | ||
Thai เจ็ด | ||
Tigrinya ሸውዓተ | ||
Tsonga nkombo | ||
Turkish yedi | ||
Turkmen ýedi | ||
Twi (Akan) nson | ||
Ukrainian сім | ||
Urdu سات | ||
Uyghur يەتتە | ||
Uzbek yetti | ||
Vietnamese bảy | ||
Welsh saith | ||
Xhosa sixhengxe | ||
Yiddish זיבן | ||
Yoruba meje | ||
Zulu isikhombisa |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "sewe" is derived from the Old English word "seofon" and the Dutch word "zeven", both of which mean "seven". |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "shtatë" derives from the Proto-Indo-European word "septm" meaning "seven" and is cognate with the word "septem" in Latin. |
| Arabic | In Arabic, "سبعة" not only represents the number "seven," but also holds the connotation of "completion" and "fullness". |
| Armenian | The Armenian word "յոթ" (yowt), meaning "seven," is also a slang term used to refer to a group of close friends. |
| Azerbaijani | The word "yeddi" (seven) in Azerbaijani is derived from the ancient Persian word "hapta" and has cognates in many other languages, such as "hepta" in Greek and "septem" in Latin. |
| Basque | "Zazpi" comes from the Basque root "zat" meaning "part", thus "zazpi" literally means "the seven parts". |
| Belarusian | In Belarusian, "сем" has cognates in other Slavic languages meaning "family" or "tribe". |
| Bengali | The word "সাত" can also mean "a group of seven" or "an assembly of seven people". |
| Bosnian | The word "sedam" in Bosnian is derived from the Proto-Slavic "sedmь". It is cognate with the English word "seven". |
| Bulgarian | The Bulgarian word "седем" ("seven") may be related to the Greek word "ἑπτά" ("seven"), or to the Slavic word "сем" ("seven"). |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "set" derives either from the Latin word "septem" or the Vulgar Latin "sette". |
| Cebuano | "Pito" can also be slang for a whistle or flute in Cebuano. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The character "七" (seven) can also mean "the wife of a prince" or "a beautiful woman". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 七 is a character depicting the shape of an old style writing brush and was originally used for the numerals 6, 7, and 8. |
| Corsican | "Sette" comes from the Latin word "septem", also the origin of the English word "seven". |
| Croatian | The word 'sedam' is rooted in the Proto-Indo-European term |
| Czech | The word "sedm" also means "earth" in Proto-Slavic and "grain" in Sanskrit. |
| Danish | The number "syv" is not cognate to the English "seven" and likely originates in Proto-Germanic "sebun". |
| Dutch | In Zeeuws, the word "zeven" takes on a different meaning altogether, referring to a "swampy area" or "meadow". |
| Esperanto | The Esperanto word "sep" also refers to the musical interval of a seventh. |
| Estonian | Seitse ('seven') originates from the Proto-Finnic word *šei̯te, which is related to the Indo-European word *septm ('seven'). |
| Finnish | "Seitsemän" might be connected to the word "seita" ("idol or sacred object"), referring to the seven celestial deities venerated in ancient Finnish mythology. |
| French | French Sept originally referred to the seven gods (the Triads), later to the seven planets, and then to the seven days of the week. |
| Frisian | The word "sân" also refers to a playing field or a meadow, likely due to its association with the seven sides of a dice |
| Galician | The Galician word "sete" also means "thirst". |
| Georgian | In Georgian, "შვიდი" not only means "seven", but also carries connotations of fullness, completion, and the universe. |
| German | Cognate with Old Norse "sjau" and Sanskrit "sapta" |
| Greek | The word 'επτά' ('seven') in Greek comes from the Proto-Indo-European word 'septm', which also meant 'to follow' or 'to be behind'. |
| Gujarati | The word "સાત" in Gujarati also refers to the note "sa" in music. |
| Haitian Creole | In Haitian Creole, "sèt" originally meant "six" but now means "seven" due to Spanish influence. |
| Hausa | The Hausa term 'bakwai', which means 'seven,' may have connections to the term 'bakwa' in other West African languages, suggesting influences within a shared cultural history. |
| Hawaiian | 'ʻEhiku' comes from a Proto-Austronesian root also seen in Malay, Indonesian, Tagalog, and Malagasy. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "שבע" (seven) also means "full" or "satiated", possibly due to the physical feeling of fullness after eating a large meal. |
| Hindi | The word "सात" can also be used to refer to a group of seven people, or to a group of seven things. |
| Hmong | The word "xya" can also mean "a time, an occasion, or on purpose," but the meaning often depends heavily on context. |
| Hungarian | Historically "hét" also referred to a set of seven things or a group of seven people. |
| Icelandic | Sjö's Proto-Norse root, "sebun," was also the basis of the archaic word "syv" for "seven" in Norwegian and Swedish. |
| Igbo | The word "asaa" in the Igbo language also has a secondary meaning, "to be very many." |
| Indonesian | The word "tujuh" can also mean "a lot" or "very much" in some Indonesian dialects. |
| Irish | The word "seacht" in Irish may also refer to a "team of seven," a "septet," or a "constellation of seven stars." |
| Italian | In Italian gambling slang |
| Japanese | "セブン" (seven) also means "eleven" in Buddhist cosmology. |
| Javanese | "Pitung" also means "an evil spirit that guards the rice field in Javanese mythology." |
| Kannada | The word "ಏಳು" in Kannada can also mean something that is very high or very large in number. |
| Kazakh | "Жеті" also means "abundance" or "a lot" in Kazakh. |
| Khmer | ប្រាំពីរ (prampiir) is also a traditional Khmer number used in the traditional Khmer calendar to denote the months of the year. |
| Korean | "일곱" can also mean "week" or "a lucky number" in Korean. |
| Kurdish | "Heft" can also mean "weight" or "effort" in Kurdish. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "жети" has cognates in other Turkic languages, with its origin likely coming from Proto-Turkic *jeti. |
| Lao | The word "ເຈັດ" (seven) in Lao is derived from the Sanskrit word "sapta" and has the alternate meaning of "completeness" or "totality". |
| Latin | "Septem" is the Latin word for "seven" and is related to the words "September" and "septuple." |
| Latvian | The Latvian word "septiņi" is cognate with the Lithuanian "septyni" and the Russian "семь", all ultimately deriving from a Common Balto-Slavic word meaning "seven". |
| Lithuanian | Septyni is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *septm-, meaning "seven," and shares cognates with many other Indo-European languages. |
| Luxembourgish | The word "siwen" can also refer to the seventh day of the week, or Sunday, in Luxembourgish. |
| Macedonian | The Slavic word седум (sedum) meaning "seven" also has a secondary meaning as "a group of seven persons". |
| Malagasy | The term "fito" also refers to the seventh day of the week, or Saturday, in Malagasy culture |
| Malay | The Malay word "tujuh" is thought to be derived from the Proto-Austronesian word "*pitu" and has cognates in other Austronesian languages, such as Javanese "pitu" and Tagalog "pito." |
| Malayalam | The word "ഏഴ്" can also refer to the seventh day of the week, in particular Sunday. |
| Maltese | "Sebgħa" in Maltese also means "a lot" or "a large number". |
| Maori | Whitu is also the name for the Pleiades star cluster, known as Matariki. |
| Marathi | The word "सात" also carries the alternate meaning of "companionship" and "harmony" in Marathi. |
| Mongolian | "Seven ("долоо") is the most frequent Mongolian numeral. It appears in the word "month ("сар"), which originally meant "seven moons". |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word "khun hnit" in Myanmar (Burmese) is formed from the words "khun" (the numeral 6) and "hnit" (one). |
| Nepali | The Nepali word "सात" (sāt), meaning "seven", is also cognate with the Greek "hepta" and Latin "septem". |
| Norwegian | "Syv" can also mean "lucky" in Norwegian, as it was once considered a lucky number. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | "Zisanu ndi ziwiri" is also used in counting or describing something which comes in twos. |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "اووه" can also mean "great" or "very", as in "اووه ښه" (very good). |
| Persian | In Persian, "هفت" (haft) means "seven," but also refers to the seventh day of the Persian month. |
| Polish | Siedem may also refer to a small, flat cake or pastry in Polish cuisine. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | In Portuguese, "sete" can also mean "thirst" or "lack of interest". |
| Punjabi | In Punjabi, "ਸੱਤ" also refers to intelligence and wisdom, often used to describe highly perceptive individuals. |
| Romanian | "Șapte" is derived from Proto-Slavic "*sedmь" and has the same root as "septem" (Latin). |
| Russian | The word "Семь" also means "family" in Russian, related to the Proto-Slavic word *sedmь, which meant both "seven" and "family, household, group of relatives living together". |
| Samoan | The word fitu is also used in a metaphorical sense to describe completeness or perfection, as in the phrase fitu lelei, which means "complete and perfect". |
| Scots Gaelic | The word "seachd" also refers to the seventh part of something, such as the "seachdamh" – the seventh portion. |
| Serbian | "Седам" is an archaic word that is sometimes used in poetry or religious texts. |
| Sesotho | In Sesotho, "Supa" also means "week" or "the whole, complete thing" and derives from the Bantu root "vuba", meaning "to be complete". |
| Shona | The term "minomwe" in the Bantu language Shona is often used to refer to the concept of "completeness" or "totality". |
| Sindhi | In Sindhi, "ست" can also refer to the concept of "completion" or "perfection", as in the phrase "ست ڏينهن" (lit. "seven days") which symbolizes a complete week. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "හත" (seven) in Sinhala language originates from the Prakrit word "සත්ත" (satta), which in turn comes from the Sanskrit word "सप्त" (sapta). |
| Slovak | The word "sedem" is also used in Slovak for "seventh". |
| Slovenian | The word "sedem" in Slovenian also means "a place where one sits". |
| Somali | It is related to the Proto-Somali word *todobe and is derived from the Proto-Cushitic word *todoɓa. |
| Spanish | The Spanish word for "seven," siete, is descended from the Latin word for "holy," sanctus. |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word "tujuh" is derived from the Proto-Austronesian word "*pitu". |
| Swahili | The word "saba" in Swahili can also be used to refer to the seventh day of the week, Saturday. |
| Swedish | The word 'sju' may originate from the Proto-Germanic 'sebun', meaning 'tied together'. It can also refer to a period of seven years. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | "Pitong" means "seven" in Tagalog but can also refer to a type of small, indigenous guitar with seven strings, or to the seven mystical or ritualistic points on the body. |
| Tajik | The word "Ҳафт" ("seven") in Tajik is cognate with the Persian word "هفت" ("haft") and is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root "*septm̥". |
| Tamil | "ஏழு" also means "music" in Tamil due to the tradition of performing traditional Tamil music in seven modes or scales and in seven different ragas. |
| Telugu | In addition to meaning "seven," "ఏడు" also means "cry" or "weep". |
| Thai | The word "เจ็ด" (seven) is also used to refer to a "week" in the Thai language, with each day of the week corresponding to one of the seven planets in astrology. |
| Turkish | In addition, "yedi" can also mean "to bring" in Turkish, possibly due to the concept of "adding seven" to something. |
| Ukrainian | "сім" is of Proto-Slavic origin, and cognates include Russian "семь," Slovak "sedem," and Polish "siedem." |
| Urdu | "سات" (Saat) may also mean a musical note, an arrow or a layer in Urdu. |
| Uzbek | The word "Yetti" in Uzbek derives from the Persian word "haft" meaning "seven" and can also refer to the seventh day of the week, Saturday. |
| Vietnamese | The Sino-Vietnamese word "bảy" is also used to refer to the seventh lunar month, which is typically associated with the Hungry Ghost Festival. |
| Welsh | The word "saith" in Welsh also means "seven" in the Welsh language. |
| Xhosa | "Sixhengxe" originates from "inxhenxe," meaning "little finger," reflecting that it corresponds to the little finger being the seventh counting unit. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "זיבן" (seven) stems from the Germanic language and is related to the English word "seven". |
| Yoruba | The word "meje" in Yoruba is related to the word "merin" ("four") and originally meant "four and three". |
| Zulu | "Isikhombisa" is also a Zulu term for a type of traditional Zulu shield. |
| English | "Seven" comes from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥, from पीbʰ- (“to join, fit together”), shared with saga and song. |