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Etymology

From Енглески four.

Pronunciation

• МФА^(key): /ˈfaʊ.ə/, /ˈfɔ.ə/

Numeral

four

1. (international standards) NATO & ICAO phonetic alphabet code for the numeral 4.

   Синоним: kartefour (ITU/IMO)

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Енглески

Енглески бројеви ^(edit)

	40
←  3	4	5  →
Cardinal: four     Ordinal: fourth     Multiplier: quadruple, fourfold     Distributive: quadruply

Etymology

From Middle English four, from Old English fēower (fēower), from , from , from previous pre-Grimm , from , the neuter form of . Дублети of cuatro and quatre.

Cognates include West Frisian fjouwer, Dutch and Немачки vier, Norwegian Bokmål and Дански fire, Шведски fyra, Gothic 𐍆𐌹𐌳𐍅𐍉𐍂 (fidwōr) and, more distantly, Латински quattuor (whence Шпански cuatro, Француски quatre), Антички Грчки τέσσαρες (τέσσαρες), Ирски ceathair, Armenian չորս (čʿors), Lithuanian keturi, Албански katër, Санскрт चतुर् (catur).

Pronunciation

• (UK)
  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: fô, МФА^(key): /fɔː/
  • (Scotland) МФА^(key): /fo(ː)ɹ/
• (US)
  • (General American) enPR: fôr, МФА^(key): /fɔɹ/
  • (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: fōr, МФА^(key): /fo(ː)ɹ/
  • (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) МФА^(key): /foə/

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    (with horse–hoarse merger)
• (General Australian, General New Zealand) МФА^(key): /foː/

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• Риме: -ɔː(ɹ)
• Homophones: fore, for, foure (accents with the horse–hoarse merger)

Numeral

four (transliteration needed)

1. A numerical value equal to 4; the number after three and before five; two plus two. This many dots (••••)

   There are four seasons: winter, spring, summer and autumn.

   • Шаблон:RQ:Grey Riders

     Venters began to count them—one—two—three—four—on up to sixteen.

2. Describing a set or group with four elements.

Derived terms

Terms derived from four

• back four
• Four Ashes
• four-bagger
• four-ball
• four-by-four/4X4
• four-color/four-colour
• Four Crosses
• four-dimensional
• four-eyes
• four-flush
• fourfold
• fourfooted/four-footed
• four-handed
• four horsemen
• four hundred
• four-in-hand
• Four Lane Ends
• four-leaf clover
• four-letter word
• fourling
• Four Oaks
• four-o'clock
• four of a kind
• four-on-the-floor
• fourpence
• fourpenny
• fourplex
• four-post bed
• four-poster
• four-pounder
• fourscore
• Four Shire Stone
• foursome
• foursquare
• four square
• four-star
• four-string banjo
• four-string guitar
• fourth
• four-tracked
• four-tracking
• four-wheel
• four-wheel drive, four-wheel-drive
• four-wheeler
• on all fours
• two-by-four

 

Related terms

• fourth

Descendants

• Antigua and Barbuda Creole English: fuar, fua
• Aukan: fo
• Belizean Creole: foa, foar
• Bislama: fo
• Cameroon Pidgin: fo̱
• Grenadian Creole English: fo
• Gullah: fo
• Krio: fo
• Kriol: fo
• Nigerian Pidgin: fo̱r
• Pichinglis: fo
• Pijin: foa
• Saramaccan: fɔ́
• Sranan Tongo: fo
• Ток Писин: foa
• Torres Strait Creole: po

Translations

the cardinal number 4

describing set or group with four components

• Bashkir: дүртәү (dürtäw)
• Bulgarian: четво́рка (bg) f (četvórka)
• Catalan: qüern f
• Lithuanian: ketveri (lt) m, ketverios f

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• Polish: czwórka (pl) f
• Russian: четвёрка (ru) f (četvjórka)

See also

• Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages
• Last: three, 3
• Next: five, 5

Noun

1. (countable) The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof.
2. (countable) Anything measuring four units, as length.

   Do you have any more fours? I want to make this a little taller.

3. A person who is four years old.

   I'll take the threes, fours and fives and go to the playground.

4. (cricket, countable) An event in which the batsmen run four times between the wickets or, more often, a batsman hits a ball which bounces on the ground before passing over a boundary, resulting in an award of 4 runs for the batting team. If the ball does not bounce before passing over the boundary, a six is awarded instead.
5. (basketball, countable) A power forward.
6. (rowing) Four-man sweep racing shell, with or without a coxswain.
   1. The shell itself.

      The team bought a new four last season.

   2. The crew rowing in a four boat.

      Our four won both races.

   3. (colloquial) A regatta event for four boats.

      We got third place in the varsity four.

7. (obsolete) A four-pennyworth of spirits.
   • 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, IV:

     I was a-strollin' down, thinkin' between ourselves how uncommon handy a four of gin hot would be, when suddenly the glint of a light caught my eye in the window of that same house.

Derived terms

• (numeral): rouf (back slang)

Translations

digit or figure 4

• Armenian: չորս (hy) (čʿors)
• Asturian: cuatro (ast) m
• Basque: lau (eu)
• Belarusian: чацвёрка f (čacvjórka)
• Bulgarian: четворка (bg) f (četvorka)
• Catalan: quatre (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 四 (yue) (sei³)

  Mandarin: 四 (zh) (sì)

• Danish: firtal n
• Dutch: vier (nl) f
• Finnish: nelonen (fi)
• French: quatre (fr) m
• German: Vier (de) f

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• Greek: τέσσερα (el) n (téssera)
• Italian: quattro (it)
• Japanese:
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: چوار‎ (ckb) (çwar)

• Lithuanian: ketvertas (lt) m
• Macedonian: четворка f (četvorka)
• Papiamentu: kuater
• Pennsylvania German: fierra, vier, viere, fiah
• Polish: czwórka (pl) f
• Portuguese: quatro (pt) m
• Russian: четвёрка (ru) f (četvjórka)
• Spanish: cuatro (es)
• Swedish: fyra (sv) c
• Tagalog:

anything measuring four units

• Finnish: nelonen (fi)

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four years old

• Finnish: nelivuotias

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in cricket

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basketball: power forward — see power forward

rowing: four-man sweep racing shell or its crew

• Bulgarian: четворка (bg) f (četvorka)
• Finnish: nelikko (fi)

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• German: Doppelvierer m

four-pennyworth of spirits

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The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Romanian: ^{(молим проверите)} patru (ro) m

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• Ukrainian: ^{(молим проверите)} четві́рка (uk) f (četvírka)
• Welsh: ^{(молим проверите)} pedwar (cy) m

See also

Pages starting with "four".

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

Symbols of number four in various numeral systems

• Arabic numerals: 4
• Chinese numerals: 肆, 四
• Greek numerals: (uppercase) Δ΄, (lowercase) δ΄
• Roman numerals: IV or IIII

Anagrams

• Rufo, furo, rouf, rufo-, uORF ^{(alphagram foru)}

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Француски

Etymology

From Old French forn, from Латински furnus, from , from , from .

Pronunciation

• МФА^(key): /fuʁ/

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• Риме: -uʁ

Noun

four (transliteration needed) m (plural fours)

1. oven
2. stove
3. flop

Derived terms

• au four
• avoir une brioche au four
• enfourner
• être au four et au moulin
• faire un four
• four à micro-ondes
• gant de four
• noir comme dans un four
• petit four

Related terms

• fournaise
• fourneau

Further reading

• “four” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Istriot

Etymology

From Латински foris, foras. Compare Италијански fuori, Friulian fûr, Dalmatian fure, Venetian fora.

Adverb

four (transliteration needed)

1. out, outside

Preposition

four (transliteration needed)

1. out, outside

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Middle English

Middle English бројеви ^(edit)

	40
←  3	4	5  →
Cardinal: four     Ordinal: ferthe

Alternative forms

• fore, feour, fower, fowwre, foure, fowr, vour

Etymology

From Old English feōwer (feōwer).

Pronunciation

• МФА^(key): /fɔu̯r/, /fuːr/
• (early) МФА^(key): /ˈføːwər/

Numeral

four (transliteration needed)

1. four
   • Шаблон:RQ:Wycliffe NT Lichfield

Related terms

• ferthe
• fourtene
• fourty

Descendants

• Енглески: four
  • Northumbrian: fower
• Scots: fower

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Norman

Alternative forms

• fou (Jersey)

Etymology

From Old French forn, from Латински furnus.

Noun

four (transliteration needed) m (plural fours)

1. (Guernsey) oven

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Walloon

Noun

four (transliteration needed) m (plural fours)

1. hay