# seven
## Translingual

* Signal flag for the digit 7

### Alternative forms

* Seven, SEVEN

### Etymology

Borrowed from English seven.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈsɛv.n]

### Noun

seven
* (international standards) NATO & ICAO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for the digit 7.
    Synonym: setteseven (ITU/IMO)
ICAO/NATO radiotelephonic clear codes :
| Alfa | Bravo | Charlie | Delta | Echo | Foxtrot | Golf | Hotel | India | Juliett | Kilo | Lima | Mike |
| November | Oscar | Papa | Quebec | Romeo | Sierra | Tango | Uniform | Victor | Whiskey | Xray | Yankee | Zulu |
| zero | one | two | three (tree) | four (fower) | five (fife) | six | seven | eight | nine (niner) | hundred | thousand | decimal |
ICAO/NATO vs ITU/IMO radiotelephonic clear codes for digits :
| ICAO/NATO | zero | one | two | three (tree) | four (fower) | five (fife) | six | seven | eight | nine (niner) |
| ITU/IMO | nadazero | unaone | bissotwo | terrathree | kartefour | pantafive | soxisix | setteseven | oktoeight | novenine |

### References

* ↑ Annex 10 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation: Aeronautical Telecommunications; Volume II Communication Procedures including those with PANS status‎, 6th edition, International Civil Aviation Organization, 2001 October, archived from the original on 31 March 2019, page §5.2.1.4.3.1

## English
### Alternative forms

* Arabic numerals: 7 (see for numerical forms in other scripts)
* Roman numerals: VII
* sev'n

### Etymology

* PIE word
* *septḿ̥
From Middle English seven, from Old English seofon (“seven”), from Proto-West Germanic *sebun (“seven”), from Proto-Germanic *sebun (“seven”), from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥ (“seven”).
Cognate with Scots seiven (“seven”), West Frisian sân (“seven”), Saterland Frisian soogen (“seven”), Low German söven (“seven”), Dutch zeven (“seven”), German sieben (“seven”), Danish syv (“seven”), Norwegian sju (“seven”), Icelandic sjö (“seven”), Latin septem (“seven”), Ancient Greek ἑπτά (heptá, “seven”), Russian семь (semʹ), Sanskrit सप्तन् (saptán).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈsɛvn̩/
* Audio (Received Pronunciation, male voice):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˈsɛvən/
* Audio (General American, female voice):(file)
* (casually also) IPA: [ˈsɛbm̩]
* Homophone: Severn (non-rhotic)
* Rhymes: -ɛvən
* Hyphenation: se‧ven

### Numeral

seven
* A numerical value equal to 7; the number following six and preceding eight. This many dots: (•••••••). Describing a group or set with seven elements.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Joshua 6:1–5:1 Now Iericho was straitly shut vp, because of the children of Israel: none went out, & none came in. 2 And the Lord said vnto Ioshua, See, I haue giuen into thine hand Iericho, and the King thereof, and the mighty men of valour. 3 And ye shall compasse the city, all yee men of warre, and goe round about the city once: thus shalt thou doe sixe dayes. 4 And seuen Priests shall beare before the Arke seuen trumpets of rams hornes: and the seuenth day yee shall compasse the city seuen times, and the Priests shall blow with the trumpets. 5 And it shall come to passe that when they make a long blast with the rammes-horne, and when ye heare the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout: and the wall of the citie shall fall downe flat, and the people shall ascend vp euery man straight before him.
** 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 175:The cabbalism of the number seven is emphasized, for in hell seven judges at each of seven gates take one of these divine laws away from her.

#### Usage notes

Like other numerals, sometimes used postpositively in Late Middle English and Early Modern English, for exampleː
* Son & moyne set in the heuen, Witħ starnes, & the planettys seuen, [...] (The Creation in The Towneley Plays, ll. 50–51)

#### Derived terms

* four score and seven years ago

#### Related terms

* seventh

#### See also

* Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages

### Noun

seven (countable and uncountable, plural sevens)
* The digit/figure 7 or an occurrence thereof.
    He wrote three sevens on the paper.
* (countable, card games) A card bearing seven pips.

#### Derived terms

* at six and seven
* at sixes and sevens
* city of seven hills
* dance of the seven veils
* deuce-to-seven lowball
* four score seven years ago
* grade seven
* Group of Seven
* magnificent seven
* Mercury Seven
* number seven
* Our Lady of the Seven Dolors
* Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows
* rugby sevens
* seven and a half
* seven and seven
* seven-arm octopus
* seven arts
* seven bells
* seven card stud
* seven-card stud
* seven come eleven
* seven-day wonder
* seven deadly sins
* seven dirty words
* seven eighths
* seven-eighths
* Sevener, sevener
* seven figures
* sevenfold
* seven-footer
* Seven Hills
* Seven Hills of Rome
* seven hundred
* seven iron
* Seven Islands
* seven-layer cake
* seven-layer dip
* seven-layer salad
* seven-league boot
* seven-league boots
* seven-level
* seven-level screwdriver
* seven minutes in heaven
* sevenness
* sevennight
* seven o'clock
* seven out
* sevens
* Seven Sages
* sevenscore
* seven seals
* seven seas
* seven second delay
* seven-segment
* seven shades
* seven-shooter
* Seven Sisters
* Seven Sleepers Day
* sevensome
* seventh
* seven-thirties
* seven-thirty
* seven thousand
* seven-thousander
* seven-toed Pete
* seven-up
* seven-veil dance
* seven virtues
* Seven Wonders of the World
* seven-year apple
* seven-year itch
* seven-year vine
* triple seven
* twenty-four seven

#### Translations

    The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

### See also

Playing cards in English · playing cards (layout · text) :
| ace | deuce, two | three | four | five | six | seven |
| eight | nine | ten | jack, knave | queen | king | joker |

### Anagrams

* Evens, Neves, eevns, evens, neves, névés

## Bislama
### Etymology

From English seven.

### Numeral

seven
* seven

## Breton
### Adjective

seven
* courteous

## Dutch Low Saxon
### Numeral

seven
* Alternative form of zeuven (seven)

## Fanagalo
### Etymology

Borrowed from English seven.

### Numeral

seven
* seven

## Middle Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈzɛːvən/

### Etymology 1

From Old Dutch sivun, sivon, from Proto-West Germanic *sebun, from Proto-Germanic *sebun.

#### Numeral

sēven
* seven

##### Descendants

* Dutch: zeven
* Limburgish: zeve
* Zealandic: zeven

### Etymology 2

From sēve +‎ -en.

#### Verb

sēven
* to sift, to sieve

##### Descendants

* Dutch: zeven

### Further reading

* “seven”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
* Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “seven (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
* Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “seven (IV)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page IV

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From Old English seofon. Forms with final /ə/ are from Old English inflected forms.

#### Alternative forms

* ceven, seofen, seoven, sevene, sevyn, sewyn
* zeven, zeve (Kent)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɛːvən(ə)/, /ˈsɛvən(ə)/
* (Early Middle English) IPA: /ˈsøːvən(ə)/, /ˈsœvən(ə)/

#### Numeral

seven
* seven
** c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎, published c. 1410, Apocalips 17:9, page 123r, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:⁊ þis is þe wit who þat haþ wiſdom / þe ſeuene heedis ben ſeuene hillis .· on which þe womman ſittiþAnd the mind that has wisdom thinks: "The seven heads are the seven hills that the woman sits on […]

##### Related terms

* sevenefold
* seventene
* seventhe
* seventy
* sevenyght

##### Descendants

* English: seven
* Middle Scots: sevin, sewin
** Scots: seiven, seeven
* Yola: zeven

#### References

* “sē̆ven, num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

seven
* Alternative form of sweven

## Scots
### Numeral

seven
* Alternative form of seiven

## Tok Pisin
### Etymology

From English seven.

### Numeral

seven
* seven

#### Usage notes

Used when counting; see also sevenpela.

#### Coordinate terms

| | —0 | —1 | —2 | —3 | —4 | —5 | —6 | —7 | —8 | —9 |
| 0— | — | wan | tu | tri | foa | faiv | sikis | seven | et | nain |
| 1— | ten | eleven | twelv | tetin | fotin | fiftin | sikistin | seventin | etin | naintin |
| 2— | twenti | tupela ten wan | tupela ten tu | tupela ten tri | tupela ten foa | tupela ten faiv | tupela ten sikis | tupela ten seven | tupela ten et | tupela ten nain |
| 3— | teti | tripela ten wan | tripela ten tu | tripela ten tri | tripela ten foa | tripela ten faiv | tripela ten sikis | tripela ten seven | tripela ten et | tripela ten nain |
| 4— | foti | fopela ten wan | fopela ten tu | fopela ten tri | fopela ten foa | fopela ten faiv | fopela ten sikis | fopela ten seven | fopela ten et | fopela ten nain |
| 5— | fifti | faivpela ten wan | faivpela ten tu | faivpela ten tri | faivpela ten foa | faivpela ten faiv | faivpela ten sikis | faivpela ten seven | faivpela ten et | faivpela ten nain |
| 6— | sikisti | sikispela ten wan | sikispela ten tu | sikispela ten tri | sikispela ten foa | sikispela ten faiv | sikispela ten sikis | sikispela ten seven | sikispela ten et | sikispela ten nain |
| 7— | seventi | sevenpela ten wan | sevenpela ten tu | sevenpela ten tri | sevenpela ten foa | sevenpela ten faiv | sevenpela ten sikis | sevenpela ten seven | sevenpela ten et | sevenpela ten nain |
| 8— | eti | etpela ten wan | etpela ten tu | etpela ten tri | etpela ten foa | etpela ten faiv | etpela ten sikis | etpela ten seven | etpela ten et | etpela ten nain |
| 9— | nainti | nainpela ten wan | nainpela ten tu | nainpela ten tri | nainpela ten foa | nainpela ten faiv | nainpela ten sikis | nainpela ten seven | nainpela ten et | nainpela ten nain |

## Turkish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [se.ˈʋæn]
* Hyphenation: sev‧en

### Adjective

seven
* loving, affectionate

#### Related terms

* sevgi
* sevilen
* sevmek
* sevecen

### Noun

seven (definite accusative seveni, plural sevenler)
* lover (somebody who loves)

#### Declension

singular
plural
nominative
seven
sevenler
definite accusative
seveni
sevenleri
dative
sevene
sevenlere
locative
sevende
sevenlerde
ablative
sevenden
sevenlerden
genitive
sevenin
sevenlerin
Possessive forms
nominative
singular
plural
1st singular
sevenim
sevenlerim
2nd singular
sevenin
sevenlerin
3rd singular
seveni
sevenleri
1st plural
sevenimiz
sevenlerimiz
2nd plural
seveniniz
sevenleriniz
3rd plural
sevenleri
sevenleri
definite accusative
singular
plural
1st singular
sevenimi
sevenlerimi
2nd singular
sevenini
sevenlerini
3rd singular
sevenini
sevenlerini
1st plural
sevenimizi
sevenlerimizi
2nd plural
seveninizi
sevenlerinizi
3rd plural
sevenlerini
sevenlerini
dative
singular
plural
1st singular
sevenime
sevenlerime
2nd singular
sevenine
sevenlerine
3rd singular
sevenine
sevenlerine
1st plural
sevenimize
sevenlerimize
2nd plural
seveninize
sevenlerinize
3rd plural
sevenlerine
sevenlerine
locative
singular
plural
1st singular
sevenimde
sevenlerimde
2nd singular
seveninde
sevenlerinde
3rd singular
seveninde
sevenlerinde
1st plural
sevenimizde
sevenlerimizde
2nd plural
seveninizde
sevenlerinizde
3rd plural
sevenlerinde
sevenlerinde
ablative
singular
plural
1st singular
sevenimden
sevenlerimden
2nd singular
seveninden
sevenlerinden
3rd singular
seveninden
sevenlerinden
1st plural
sevenimizden
sevenlerimizden
2nd plural
seveninizden
sevenlerinizden
3rd plural
sevenlerinden
sevenlerinden
genitive
singular
plural
1st singular
sevenimin
sevenlerimin
2nd singular
seveninin
sevenlerinin
3rd singular
seveninin
sevenlerinin
1st plural
sevenimizin
sevenlerimizin
2nd plural
seveninizin
sevenlerinizin
3rd plural
sevenlerinin
sevenlerinin :

#### Antonyms

* sevmeyen