# million
## English
### Etymology

From Old French, from Italian milione (“million”, from mille (“thousand”, from Latin mille) +‎ -one). Compare -illion.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: mĭl′yən, IPA: /ˈmɪljən/, [ˈmɪʎən]
* Audio (UK):(file)
* Audio (US):(file)
* Hyphenation: mil‧lion
* Rhymes: -ɪljən

### Numeral

million (plural millions)
* (long and short scales) The cardinal number 1,000,000: 10$^6$; a thousand thousand.
* (colloquial, hyperbolic) An unspecified very large number.
    I told you a million times before.
    I can think of millions of reasons not to go.
** c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:Let him bring millions infinite of men, Unpeopling weſterne Affrica and Greece: Yet we aſſure vs of the victorie.
** 1981, Chaka Khan (lyrics and music), “Fate”, in What Cha' Gonna Do for Me:Time stood still and we were lost on words to say / And though the people stared, they seemed a million miles away / Oh, we knew it was love we were feeling / We were destined to give it a whole new meaning

#### Usage notes

* Until the early 20th century, million behaved much like an ordinary quantificational noun (such as pair or handful). That is, it inflected in the plural when modified by a numeral greater than 1, and was separated from the noun it quantified with of, as in: five millions of pounds (rather than the modern equivalent, five million pounds).

#### Synonyms

* mil, mil.
* mln, mln.
* M, m, M., m.
* MM, MM.
* mn, mn.

#### Coordinate terms

* thousand
* milliard
* thousand million
* billion
* trillion
* quadrillion
* quintillion
* sextillion

#### Derived terms

* hundred million
* like a million bucks
* like a million dollars
* like a million pounds
* megamillion
* millionaire
* million and one
* millionary
* million city
* million-dollar
* million dollar question
* million-dollar question
* millionennium
* millionfold
* million million
* millionth
* multi-million
* multimillion
* never in a million years
* not in a million
* not in a million years
* one hundred million
* one in a million
* one million
* one thousand million
* supra-million
* ten million
* thanks a million
* thousand million
* you're welcome a million

#### Descendants

* → Hawaiian: miliona
* → Maori: miriona
* → Sinhalese: මිලියනය (miliyanaya)
* → Welsh: miliwn
* → Yoruba: mílíọ̀nù

#### Translations

Afrikaans: miljoen (af)
Albanian: milion (sq)
Arabic: مِلْيُون m (milyōn), ١٠٠٠٠٠٠ (1000000)
Hijazi Arabic: مِلْيون m (milyōn)
Aramaic: ܡܠܝܘܢ m or f (milyōn), ܐܠܦܐ ܐܠܦܐ (alpā alpē)
Armenian: միլիոն (hy) (milion), բյուրհազար (hy) (byurhazar)
Asturian: millón (ast)
Azerbaijani:
Abjad: میلیون (million, milyon), یوز تومان (youz touman)
Roman: milyon (az), yüz tümən (obsolete)
Basque: milioi
Belarusian: мільён (be) m (milʹjón)
Bengali: নুযুত (nujut), মিলিয়ন (miliẏon)
Breton: milion (br)
Bulgarian: милио́н m (milión)
Burmese: သန်း (my) (san:)
Buryat: сая (saja)
Catalan: milió (ca) m
Cebuano: yukot, milyon
Chechen: миллион (million)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 百萬 / 百万 (baak$^3$ maan$^6$)
Mandarin: 百萬 / 百万 (zh) (bǎi-wàn)
Chuukese: minion
Crimean Tatar: million
Czech: milión (cs) m
Danish: million (da) c
Dutch: miljoen (nl) n
Egyptian: (ḥḥ)
Esperanto: miliono (eo)
Estonian: miljon (et)
Finnish: miljoona (fi)
French: million (fr) m
Georgian: მილიონი (milioni)
German: Million (de) f
Greek: εκατομμύριο (el) n (ekatommýrio)
Guaraní: sua
Gujarati: દશ લાખ (daś lākh)
Hawaiian: miliona
Hebrew: מִילְיוֹן (he) (milyón)
Hiligaynon: hambad, milyon, ramak
Hindi: दस लाख (das lākh), १०००००० (1000000), नियुत (hi) m (niyut)
Hungarian: millió (hu)
Icelandic: milljón, miljón (is) f
Indonesian: sejuta (id) (one million), juta (id) (million in general)
Interlingua: un million
Irish: milliún (ga) m
Italian: milione (it) m
Japanese: 百万 (ja) (ひゃくまん, hyaku-man)
Javanese: yuta (jv)
Kalmyk: сай (say)
Kapampangan: sangyuta, milyun
Karaim: miliyon, iz timen, yüz tümen
Kazakh: миллион (kk) (million)
Khmer: មួយលាន (muəy liən)
Korean: 백만(百萬) (ko) (baengman)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: میلیۆن (mîlyon)
Northern Kurdish: mîlyon (ku)
Kyrgyz: миллион (ky) (million)
Lao: ລ້ານ (lo) (lān)
Latin: milliō m, decies centena milia
Latvian: miljons m
Lithuanian: milijonas (lt) m
Louisiana Creole French: milyon
Lü: ᦟᦱᧃᧉ (laan²)
Lun Bawang: ribet
Macedonian: милио́н (mk) m (milión)
Malay: juta (ms)
Malayalam: ദശലക്ഷം (daśalakṣaṁ), പത്തുലക്ഷം (pattulakṣaṁ)
Maltese: miljun
Manchu: ᡨ᠋ᠠᠩᡤᡡ ᡨᡠ᠋ᠮᡝᠨ (tanggū tumen)
Manx: millioon
Maori: miriona
Middle French: million m
Mongolian: сая (mn) (saja)
Navajo: tʼááłáhádí míiltsoh, miiltsoh
Norman: millaon (Guernsey)
Northern Sami: miljovdna
Norwegian:
Bokmål: million (no) m
Nynorsk: million (nn) m
Occitan: milion (oc)
Ojibwe: midaaswaak daso-midaawaak, midaaswaak daso midaawaak
Old Church Slavonic: леодръ (leodrŭ)
Oromo: kitila
Ottoman Turkish: پكمن (pekmen)
Persian: میلیون (fa) (milyon), هزارهزار (hezārhezār) (archaic)
Polish: milion (pl) m inan
Portuguese: milhão (pt) m
Punjabi: ਦਸ ਲਾਖ (das lākh)
Quechua: hunu
Romanian: milion (ro) n
Russian: миллио́н (ru) m (millión)
Sanskrit: दशलक्षं (daśalakṣaṃ), नियुत (sa) (niyuta)
Scottish Gaelic: millean m, muillean m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: милѝо̄н m, милѝјӯн m
Roman: milìōn (sh) m, milìjūn (sh) m
Shan: လၢၼ်ႉ (shn) (lâ̰an)
Sinhalese: මිලියනය (miliyanaya)
Slovak: milión (sk) m
Slovene: milijon (sl)
Spanish: millón (es) m
Swedish: miljon (sv) c, million (sv) c (obsolete)
Tagalog: milyon, angaw
Tajik: миллион (million)
Tatar: миллион (tt) (million)
Telugu: పది లక్షలు (padi lakṣalu)
Thai: ล้าน (th) (láan)
Turkish: bir milyon (tr)
Turkmen: million
Tuvan: сая (saya), миллион (million)
Ukrainian: мільйо́н (uk) m (milʹjón)
Urdu: دس لاکھ (das lākh)
Uyghur: مىليون (milyon)
Uzbek: million (uz)
Vietnamese: một triệu, triệu (vi)
Volapük: balion (vo)
Welsh: miliwn (cy)
Yakut: муҥ (muñ), мөлүйүөн (mölüyüön)
Yiddish: מיליאָן (milyon)
Yoruba: àádọ́ta ọ̀kẹ́, ẹgbẹ̀ẹgbẹ̀rún, mílíọ̀nù
Yup'ik: miilicaaq :

### See also

* (short scale) Previous: thousand. Next: billion
* (long scale) Previous: thousand. Next: milliard
* (Ordinal) millionth
* ISO prefix: mega-
* mega

## Crimean Tatar
### Etymology

From French million.

### Numeral

million
* million

#### Declension
### References

* Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎, Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

## Danish
### Etymology

Borrowed via French million from Italian milione.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [miliˈoˀn], [milˈjoˀn]

### Numeral

million
* A million, 10$^6$.

### Noun

million c (singular definite millionen, plural indefinite millioner)
* a million

#### Declension
### References

* “million” in Den Danske Ordbog

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle French million, from Italian milione.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mi.ljɔ̃/
** Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔ̃

### Numeral

million m (plural millions)
* million (10$^6$)

#### Derived terms

* millionnaire

#### Descendants

* → Crimean Tatar: million
* Louisiana Creole: milyon
* → Polish: milion, milon, milijon, milian (Middle Polish), miljon (pre-reform orthography (1936))

### Further reading

* “million”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Interlingua
### Noun

million (plural milliones)
* million
** 2012, Panorama in Interlingua, September-October, p. 24:
    Le anno passate 46 milliones statouniteses esseva povre.Last year 46 million U.S. Americans were poor.

### Numeral

un million
* a million, one million

## Middle French
### Etymology

From Old French million, probably borrowed from Italian milione.

### Noun

million m (plural millions)
* million, 10$^6$.

#### Descendants

* French: million
** → Crimean Tatar: million
* → Catalan: milió
* → Dutch: miljoen, millioen (obsolete)
** Afrikaans: miljoen
** Negerhollands: millioon
** → Caribbean Hindustani: melyun
** → Caribbean Javanese: milyun
* → English: million
** → Hawaiian: miliona
** → Maori: miriona
** → Sinhalese: මිලියනය (miliyanaya)
** → Welsh: miliwn
* → Irish: milliún

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Italian milione.

### Numeral

million
* A million, 10$^6$.

### Noun

million m (definite singular millionen, indefinite plural millioner, definite plural millionene)
* a million

### References

* “million” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Italian milione.

### Numeral

million
* a million, 10$^6$.

### Noun

million m (definite singular millionen, indefinite plural millionar, definite plural millionane)
* a million

### References

* “million” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Swedish
### Noun

million c
* Obsolete spelling of miljon.

#### Declension
## Tatar
### Numeral

million (Cyrillic spelling миллион)
* million

## Uzbek
### Numeral

million
* million

#### Derived terms

* millioninchi (“millionth”)