twelve

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)    code for 12, used only with o'clock to indicate direction

Alternative forms

 * Arabic numerals: 12
 * Roman numerals: XII

Etymology
From, from , from , an old compound of and  (i.e., two left over after having already counted to ten), from. Cognate with 🇨🇬,, , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Numeral

 * 1)  The cardinal number occurring after eleven and before thirteen, represented in Arabic numerals as 12 and in Roman numerals as XII.
 * There are twelve months in a year.

Related terms

 * Ordinal: twelfth

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Ainu: tu ikasima wan
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ዐሥራ ሁለት
 * Arabic: اِثْنَا عَشَرَ
 * Egyptian Arabic: اتناشر
 * Hijazi Arabic: اثنعش, اتنعش
 * Aragonese: dotze, doce, doze
 * Aramaic: תרעסר, תרתעסרא
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܬܪܸܥܣܲܪ
 * Syriac: ܬܪܥܣܪ, ܬܪܬܥܣܪܐ
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian:
 * Aymara: tunka payani
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: ун ике
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian:
 * Bengali: (numeral: ১২)
 * Bikol Central: kagduwa
 * Breton:
 * Brunei Malay: dua balas
 * Bulgarian: двана́десет, двана́йсет
 * Burmese: (numeral: ၁၂)
 * Buryat: арбан хоёр
 * Carpathian Rusyn: двана́дцять
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: napulog duha
 * Central Sierra Miwok: ˀoṭíkšake·ny-
 * Chakma:
 * Chamicuro: chunka ma'pojta
 * Chechen: шийтта
 * Cherokee: ᏔᎵᏚ
 * Chichewa: khumi n'ziwiri
 * Chickasaw: awa toklo, pokkó'li awa toklo
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 十二
 * Hakka: 十二
 * Mandarin: (numeral: 拾貳)
 * Chuukese: engon me ru
 * Chuvash: вуниккӗ, вуникӗ, вуник
 * Classical Nahuatl: mahtlāctli omōme
 * Crimean Tatar: on eki
 * Czech:
 * Dalmatian: dotco
 * Danish:
 * Dena'ina: nutiha beq'di
 * Dhivehi: ބާރަ, ދޮޅަސް
 * Dutch:
 * Dzongkha: བཅུ་གཉིས
 * Esperanto: dek du
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese:
 * Fijian: tini ka rua
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: dodis
 * Galician:
 * Garifuna: dûsu
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐍄𐍅𐌰𐌻𐌹𐍆
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: δώδεκα, ιβ΄
 * Greenlandic:
 * Gujarati: (numeral: ૧૨)
 * Haitian Creole: douz
 * Hawaiian: ʻumikūmālua
 * Hebrew: שְׁתֵּים עֶשְׂרֵה, שְׁנֵים עָשָׂר
 * Hindi:
 * Hopi: pakwt niikyang löqmuy siikya’ta
 * Hungarian:
 * Hunsrik: zwellef
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: kakstoist
 * Interlingua: ,
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kannada:, ೧೨
 * Karelian: kaksitostu
 * Kazakh: он екі
 * Khmer: ដប់ពីរ (numeral: ១២)
 * Komi-Permyak: даскык
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: دوانزە, دوازدە
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Southern Kurdish: دوازدە
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Ladin: dodesc
 * Lakota: akénuŋpa
 * Lao: ສິບສອງ (numeral: ໑໒)
 * Latgalian: divpadsmit
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Ligurian: dózze
 * Lithuanian:
 * Livonian: kakštuoistõn
 * Lombard: dodes
 * Louisiana Creole French: douz
 * Low German: ,
 * Lü: ᦉᦲᧇᦉᦸᧂ (numeral: ᧑᧒)
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: двана́есет
 * Malagasy: roa ambinifolo
 * Malay:, sepuluh dua, satu puluh dua
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: tnax
 * Manchu: ᠵᡠᠸᠠᠨ ᠵᡠᠸᡝ
 * Manx: daa yeig
 * Maore Comorian: kumi na mbili
 * Maori:, ngahuru mā rua
 * Middle English: twelve
 * Mon: စှ်ၜါ
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: арван хоёр
 * Mongolian: ᠠᠷᠪᠠᠨ ᠬᠣᠶᠠᠷ, ᠑᠒)
 * Nauruan: ata ma aro
 * Navajo: naakitsʼáadah
 * Ngazidja Comorian: kume na ili
 * Northern Mansi:
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan:
 * Odia: (numeral: ୧୨)
 * Ojibwe: ashi-niizh
 * Old Church Slavonic: дъва на дєсѧтє (numeral: в҃і)
 * Old English: twelf
 * Pali: dvādasa
 * Pennsylvania German: zwelf, zwelfe
 * Persian:
 * Piedmontese: dódes
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਬਾਰਾਂ (numeral: ੧੨)
 * Quechua: chunka iskayniyuq
 * Rakhine:
 * Rohingya: baró
 * Romagnol: dodṣ, dodg
 * Romani: deśuduj
 * Kalo Finnish Romani: deȟ-o-dui
 * Romanian:, , ,
 * Romansch: dudesch
 * Russian:
 * S'gaw Karen: တဆံခံ
 * Sami:
 * Inari: kyehtnubáloh
 * Northern: guoktenuppelohkái
 * Skolt: kuâtmlo
 * Southern: luhkie göökte
 * Samoan: sefulu lua
 * Sanskrit:
 * Santali: ᱜᱮᱞ ᱵᱟᱨ
 * Sardinian: dóghi
 * Scottish Gaelic: dà dheug, dhà dheug
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: два́нае̄ст
 * Roman: dvánaēst
 * Shan: သိပ်းသွင်
 * Sinhalese: දොළහ
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: dwanasćo
 * Upper Sorbian: dwanaće
 * Southern Altai: он эки
 * Spanish:
 * Sranan Tongo: twarfu
 * Swahili: kumi na mbili
 * Swedish:
 * Sylheti:
 * Tagalog:
 * Tahitian: hō'ē 'ahuru ma piti
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar: унике
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: (numeral: ๑๒)
 * Tibetan: བཅུ་གཉིས
 * Tigre: ዐስር ወክልኦት, ዐስር ወክልኤ
 * Tigrinya: ዓሰርተ ክልተ
 * Tok Pisin: twelv, wanpela ten tu
 * Tongan: hongofulu mā ua
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: بارہ
 * Uyghur:
 * Uzbek:
 * Venetian:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Vilamovian: cwełf
 * Volapük:, balsetel
 * Walloon:
 * Welsh:, undeg dau , undeg dwy
 * West Frisian: ,
 * Wolof: fukk ak ñaar
 * Yao: likumi kwisa wili
 * Yiddish: צוועלף
 * Yup'ik: qula malruk
 * Zazaki:, desudıdı
 * Zhuang: cib ngeih
 * Zuni: asdemłan kwili yałdo'

Noun

 * 1) A group of twelve items.
 * Fractions would be a little easier if we counted by twelves.
 * 1) A twelve-bore gun.
 * 2)  A jury (normally composed of twelve persons).
 * 3)  The police; law enforcement, especially a narcotics officer.
 * 4)  Front front side of something, position in front of something.
 * 1)  Front front side of something, position in front of something.

Etymology
From inflected froms of, from , in turn from.