Six in Different Languages
Discover 'Six' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Six
Afrikaans ses | ||
Albanian gjashtë | ||
Amharic ስድስት | ||
Arabic ستة | ||
Armenian վեց | ||
Assamese ছয় | ||
Aymara suxta | ||
Azerbaijani altı | ||
Bambara wɔɔrɔ | ||
Basque sei | ||
Belarusian шэсць | ||
Bengali ছয় | ||
Bhojpuri छह | ||
Bosnian šest | ||
Bulgarian шест | ||
Catalan sis | ||
Cebuano unom | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 六 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 六 | ||
Corsican sei | ||
Croatian šest | ||
Czech šest | ||
Danish seks | ||
Dhivehi ހައެއް | ||
Dogri छे | ||
Dutch zes | ||
English six | ||
Esperanto ses | ||
Estonian kuus | ||
Ewe adẽ | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) anim | ||
Finnish kuusi | ||
French six | ||
Frisian seis | ||
Galician seis | ||
Georgian ექვსი | ||
German sechs | ||
Greek έξι | ||
Guarani poteĩ | ||
Gujarati છ | ||
Haitian Creole sis | ||
Hausa shida | ||
Hawaiian eono | ||
Hebrew שֵׁשׁ | ||
Hindi छह | ||
Hmong rau | ||
Hungarian hat | ||
Icelandic sex | ||
Igbo isii | ||
Ilocano innem | ||
Indonesian enam | ||
Irish seisear | ||
Italian sei | ||
Japanese 6 | ||
Javanese enem | ||
Kannada ಆರು | ||
Kazakh алты | ||
Khmer ប្រាំមួយ | ||
Kinyarwanda atandatu | ||
Konkani स | ||
Korean 육 | ||
Krio siks | ||
Kurdish şeş | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) شەش | ||
Kyrgyz алты | ||
Lao ຫົກ | ||
Latin sex | ||
Latvian seši | ||
Lingala motoba | ||
Lithuanian šeši | ||
Luganda mukaaga | ||
Luxembourgish sechs | ||
Macedonian шест | ||
Maithili छह | ||
Malagasy enin- | ||
Malay enam | ||
Malayalam ആറ് | ||
Maltese sitta | ||
Maori ono | ||
Marathi सहा | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯇꯔꯨꯛ | ||
Mizo paruk | ||
Mongolian зургаа | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ခြောက် | ||
Nepali छ | ||
Norwegian seks | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) zisanu ndi chimodzi | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଛଅ | ||
Oromo ja'a | ||
Pashto شپږ | ||
Persian شش | ||
Polish sześć | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) seis | ||
Punjabi ਛੇ | ||
Quechua suqta | ||
Romanian şase | ||
Russian шесть | ||
Samoan ono | ||
Sanskrit षष्टं | ||
Scots Gaelic sia | ||
Sepedi tshela | ||
Serbian шест | ||
Sesotho tshelela | ||
Shona nhanhatu | ||
Sindhi ڇهه | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) හය | ||
Slovak šesť | ||
Slovenian šest | ||
Somali lix | ||
Spanish seis | ||
Sundanese genep | ||
Swahili sita | ||
Swedish sex | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) anim | ||
Tajik шаш | ||
Tamil ஆறு | ||
Tatar алты | ||
Telugu ఆరు | ||
Thai หก | ||
Tigrinya ሽዱሽተ | ||
Tsonga tsevu | ||
Turkish altı | ||
Turkmen alty | ||
Twi (Akan) nsia | ||
Ukrainian шість | ||
Urdu چھ | ||
Uyghur ئالتە | ||
Uzbek olti | ||
Vietnamese sáu | ||
Welsh chwech | ||
Xhosa ntandathu | ||
Yiddish זעקס | ||
Yoruba mefa | ||
Zulu eziyisithupha |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Although its meaning as 'six' derives from Dutch 'zes', it can also mean 'a big amount'. |
| Albanian | The word "gjashtë" (six) is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root "ghes", meaning "to grasp" or "to seize". |
| Amharic | The word "ስድስት" can also refer to the sixth month of the Ethiopian calendar, which is called "የስድስት" (Yä Sədest). |
| Arabic | The word "ستة" may also be used to describe someone who is overweight or obese. |
| Armenian | "վեց" (six) is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root "*sweḱs" |
| Azerbaijani | "Altı" is also related to "alt" (`gold/golden`) word and probably originally meant "golden (coin)". |
| Basque | In certain Basque dialects, "sei" also means "what". |
| Belarusian | The word "шэсць" ("six") in Belarusian may be derived from the Proto-Slavic word "šestь", meaning "six hands". |
| Bengali | "ছয়" can also be used to refer to the sixth day of the week, Friday. |
| Bosnian | The word "šest" is cognate with the words for "six" in other Slavic languages, such as "sześć" in Polish, "шесть" in Russian, and "šest" in Czech. |
| Bulgarian | The Bulgarian word "шест" can also refer to an object with a narrow and elongated form, such as a stick or a pole, or to the act of measuring or dividing something into six equal parts. |
| Catalan | The Catalan word "sis" is derived from the Latin "sex" and cognate with the Spanish "seis" and Portuguese "seis". |
| Cebuano | Unom is also an alternate term for the first hour of the day in Cebuano. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "六" (liù) can also mean "six of a kind" in a game of dice or cards. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | The numeral 六 ('six') is also used in Chinese as an indicator of quantity, order, or degree, indicating something numerous, excessive, or thorough. |
| Corsican | Corsican "Sei" also means "to be sitting" in the present tense. |
| Croatian | The word "šest" likely derives from the Proto-Slavic word *šestь, which also means "fist" or "handful", reflecting the method of counting to six by using one's fingers. |
| Dutch | The root "zes-" is also used to denote 6-legged creatures like "spin" (spider) or "kriebeldier" (insect). |
| Esperanto | Esperanto's "ses" shares a root with "sex," but the words' meanings diverged in Proto-Indo-European. |
| Estonian | "Kuus" may also refer to the six strings of a kantele, six sides of a die, or six days of creation in the Bible. |
| Finnish | "Kuusi" also means "spruce" as the wood was originally a unit of wood used for measuring lumber. |
| French | The French word for “six” can also be used colloquially to mean “a lot.” |
| Frisian | "Seis" can also mean "to leak" in Frisian. |
| Galician | In Galician, "seis" can also mean "cuttlefish" or "thrush". |
| Georgian | Derived from Proto-Kartvelian *wekvs-i, akin to Laz ušu and Svan wəšḳʷə. |
| German | "Sechs" is related to the Old High German word "sehs" meaning "group of six" and has an alternate meaning of "a team of six horses or oxen". |
| Greek | έξι is also used figuratively to describe something as 'a lot' or 'many' in Greek, similar to the English phrase 'a dime a dozen'. |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "છ" can also refer to the sixth day of the week, Thursday. |
| Haitian Creole | The word "sis" in Haitian Creole has an alternate meaning as a noun referring to a "sister". |
| Hausa | Shida is also a word for a measure of volume or a cylindrical container. |
| Hawaiian | The word "eono" can also mean "the number of a party" or "a company of friends" in Hawaiian. |
| Hebrew | The name for 'six' in Hebrew (שֵׁשׁ) may derive from the Egyptian 'sfh' ('to seize', 'to capture'). |
| Hindi | The term "छह" is rooted in Sanskrit language, and means "the sound made while sneezing" (छिः). |
| Hmong | The word "rau" for "six" in Hmong is homophonous with the word for "leaf" and refers to the six-sided shape of certain leaves. |
| Hungarian | The Hungarian word “hat” can also mean “snow” and derives from the Proto-Uralic “*kata”, meaning “fur; winter”. |
| Icelandic | In Icelandic, "sex" is a neutral word that can refer to both "six" and "gender." |
| Igbo | "Isii" also means "one" in the Igbo language and it is one of the few words that describe numbers but also have other meanings in the Igbo language. |
| Indonesian | The word "enam" in Indonesian is cognate with "onom" in Tagalog, "anim" in Malay, and "anam" in Javanese, all meaning "six". |
| Irish | The Irish word "seisear" also refers to the number of dancers in a traditional set dance. |
| Italian | "Sei" in Italian can also mean "you are" or "oneself" depending on the context. |
| Japanese | In Japanese, the character '六' (pronounced 'roku') can also be used as a suffix to denote something that is sixth in a series or group |
| Javanese | "Enem" also refers to "something of an excessive degree" or "someone of a despicable character" |
| Kannada | "ಆರು" (six) also means "one's own" or "own belonging" in Kannada. |
| Kazakh | The word "алты" is thought to derive from the Proto-Turkic word for "six" (*altu), which is cognate with other Turkic languages such as Turkish "altı" and Tatar "alty". |
| Khmer | The word "ប្រាំមួយ" originally meant "five-one", and can also be used to mean "fifth" or "one before six". |
| Korean | The word "육" ("육") can also refer to the number of months in the Korean lunar calendar, or the five elements plus energy ("기"). |
| Kurdish | The word "şeş" in Kurdish is also used to refer to the sixth day of the week, Friday. |
| Kyrgyz | The word "алты" also has meanings "gold" and "gold coins". |
| Lao | The word "ຫົກ" can also mean "to be different" or "to be unlike" in Lao. |
| Latvian | The Latvian word "seši" is likely to be related to the Proto-Indo-European root "*sweḱs" and Slavic "šest", all ultimately deriving from the same source word. |
| Lithuanian | The Lithuanian word "šeši" (six) is derived from the Proto-Baltic numeral *k'ešši and is cognate with the words for "six" in other Baltic languages, such as Latvian "seši" and Prussian "sexi". |
| Luxembourgish | It comes from the Proto-Germanic word "*sehs", and cognates of the word can be found in various Germanic languages. |
| Macedonian | The word "шест" in Macedonian also refers to the number six or to the number six hundred. |
| Malagasy | The Malagasy word "enin-" (six) derives from the Proto-Austronesian "*enem" meaning "six", and also appears in Malay and Javanese. |
| Malay | In Sanskrit, the word "enam" means "all". |
| Malayalam | "ആറ്" also means "stop" in Malayalam. |
| Maltese | The word "sitta" in Maltese can also mean "the sixth", "six times", or "in sixes". |
| Maori | The word "ono" can also mean "bad" or "evil" in Maori. |
| Marathi | The Marathi word 'सहा' also means 'to bear' or 'to endure', reflecting its etymological root in Sanskrit. |
| Mongolian | Зургаа also means "to draw" in Mongolian. |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | The word "ခြောက်" can also mean "to be afraid" or "to be frightened" in Myanmar (Burmese). |
| Nepali | The word 'छ' can also mean 'beauty' or 'lustre' in Sanskrit and Nepali. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "zisanu ndi chimodzi" can also be used to mean "the one that comes after five". |
| Pashto | In Pashto, "شپږ" also means "a group of six" like a pack of cards. |
| Persian | The Persian word "شش" also means "lungs" or "honeycomb. |
| Polish | The Polish word 'sześć' comes from an Old Polish word meaning 'five', as in the early days of counting six was considered the number after five. |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | While in Portugal "seis" can only mean "six", in Brazil it can also mean "very" or "a lot". |
| Punjabi | In Punjabi, "ਛੇ" (cheh) is colloquially used to refer to a type of traditional head covering worn by women. |
| Romanian | Şase, a word for "six" in Romanian, is also sometimes used to mean "dice". |
| Russian | Derived from Proto-Slavic *šestь, ultimately deriving from Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs |
| Samoan | The word "ono" in Samoan also means "complete" or "whole" and is used in the expression "ono po" meaning "entirely or completely whole" |
| Scots Gaelic | The root of the Gaelic word for "six" is probably related to the Sanskrit word "sad," meaning to sit or rest. |
| Serbian | The Serbian word "шест" (six) also means "pole" or "stick". |
| Sesotho | The name 'tshelela' likely derives from a Sesotho verb meaning 'to scatter'. |
| Shona | In some dialects, "nhanhatu" can also refer to a group of six people or things. |
| Sindhi | In Sindhi, ڇهه is also used as a noun for the sixth part of something. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | The word "හය" also signifies "noble", "great" or "majestic" in Sinhala. |
| Slovak | "Šesť" also refers to the number 666 in some dialects. |
| Slovenian | The word "šest" may also refer to the number "hundred" or the "six-stringed bass guitar". |
| Somali | The Somali word "lix" can also refer to a type of tree or a specific breed of goat. |
| Spanish | "Seis" also means "the sixth musical note" in Spanish. |
| Sundanese | The word "genep" in Sundanese could originally mean "to take" or "to seize". |
| Swahili | The word "sita" is also used to mean "to be six in number" and "a group of six persons or things". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | In Proto-Malayo-Polynesian, "anim" was the word for "two." While it's unclear why it came to signify "six" instead, the "two" usage survives in several Southeast Asian languages as well as in the Philippine indigenous Aeta group's own language. |
| Tajik | The word "шаш" also means "a part" or "a piece" in Tajik. |
| Tamil | "ஆறு" can also mean "a river" in Tamil, and derives from the Proto-Dravidian root *ar- "to flow". |
| Telugu | The word "ఆరు" can also mean "six-sided" or "a cluster of six." |
| Thai | The Thai word "หก" (pronounced 'hok') also means "to spill" or "to shed". |
| Turkish | The word "altı" in Turkish can also refer to the underside of something, such as the underside of a table or a boat. |
| Ukrainian | The word “шість” is cognate with Proto-Balto-Slavic “*šęšь” or Proto-Slavic “**šesti” which also gave rise to words for “sixth”. These, in turn go back to Proto-Indo-European “*swéḱs” from “*swék” (“turn, go”) |
| Urdu | The word "چھ" in Urdu also means "that" or "it". |
| Uzbek | The verb "olti" ("to take, catch, seize") is derived from the noun "olti" ("six") and refers to the act of snatching or grabbing something with a quick hand movement. |
| Vietnamese | The Sino-Vietnamese word "sáu" is also used to refer to the sixth day of the lunar month or the sixth lunar month itself. |
| Welsh | The word "chwech" in Welsh is also used to refer to the sixth day of the week or the act of moving in a diagonal direction. |
| Xhosa | In Xhosa culture, "Ntandathu" also represents the sixth sense or extra sensory perception (ESP), alluding to the concept that humans have five physical senses and a sixth spiritual or intuitive sense. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "זעקס" also refers to a specific dice throw in the game of craps. |
| Yoruba | The Yoruba word "mefa" can also mean "a large quantity" or "a great number". |
| Zulu | The word "eziyisithupha" is derived from the Proto-Bantu word *tshí-paaɗa* meaning "to split apart". |
| English | The word |