Eight

Cardinal number

 * 1)  A numerical value equal to 8; the number occurring after seven and before nine.
 * He works eight hours a day.
 * 1) * 2009: Stuart Heritage, Hecklerspray, Friday the 22nd of May in 2009 at 1 o’clock p.m., “Jon & Kate Latest: People You Don’t Know Do Crap You Don’t Care About”
 * Jon & Kate Plus 8 is a show based on two facts: 1) Jon and Kate Gosselin have eight children, and 2) the word ‘Kate’ rhymes with the word ‘eight’. One suspects that if Kate were ever to have another child, a shady network executive would urge her to put it in a binbag with a brick and drop it down a well. But this is just a horrifying tangent.
 * 1) Describing a set or group with eight components.

Related terms

 * eighth

Noun

 * 1) The digit/figure 8.
 * 2)  Any of the four cards in a normal deck with the value eight.
 * 3)  A light, narrow rowing boat, especially one used in competitive rowing, steered by a cox, in which a eight rowers each have two oars
 * 4)  A race in which such craft participate

Derived terms

 * eight ball
 * eighty
 * figure eight
 * number eight
 * piece of eight

Thesaurus
Octateuch, cast, company, complement, crew, eighter from Decatur, eleven, first string, first team, five, nine, octad, octagon, octahedron, octameter, octastyle, octave, octavo, octet, octonary, octosyllable, ogdoad, platoon, reserves, rowing crew, second string, second team, squad, string, team, third string, utas, varsity

Alternative forms

 * Western (Arabic) numerals: 8
 * Roman numerals: VIII

Etymology
Old English eahta

Cardinal number

 * Albanian:
 * Alutiiq:
 * American Sign Language: [[Image:LSQ 8.jpg|30px]]
 * Amharic: ስምንት (smnt) (numeral: ፰)
 * Arabic: (numeral: )
 * Egyptian Arabic
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܬܡܢܝܐ (tmānyā’), ܬܡܢܐ (tmāne’)
 * Hebrew: תמניא (tmānyā’), תמנא (tmāne’)
 * Armenian: ութ (ut')
 * Assamese: আট (āṭ)
 * Azeri: səkkiz
 * Basque:
 * Bengali: (numeral: )
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: eizh
 * Bulgarian: осем
 * Burmese: (numeral: ၈)
 * Catalan:
 * Valencian:
 * Central Atlas Tamazight:
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chechen:
 * Cherokee: ᏧᏁᎳ (tsunela)
 * Chinese:
 * Standard Chinese (Mandarin): 八 (bā) (numeral: 捌)
 * Bai: 八 (pya)
 * Cantonese: 八 (baat3)
 * Teochew: boih4
 * Eastern Hokkien (Min Dong): 八 (paik)
 * Northern Hokkien (Min Bei): 八 (pai)
 * Gan: 八 (pat)
 * Jin: 八 (pu)
 * Wu: 八 (ba)
 * Xiang: 八 (pa)
 * Cornish: eth
 * Corsican: ottu
 * Crimean Tatar: sekiz
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dena'ina: łtaqul'i
 * Dutch:
 * Erzya: кавксо (kavkso)
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Garífuna: widü
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Guaraní: poapy
 * Gujarati: આઠ (numeral: ૮)
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hawaiian: walu
 * Hebrew: שְׁמוֹנֶה (shmóne) (used in counting), שְׁמוֹנָה (shmona)
 * Hindi: आठ (numeral: ८)
 * Hopi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: ok
 * Ilocano: walo
 * Indonesian:
 * Balinese:
 * Banjarese:
 * Javanese: wolu
 * Madurese:
 * Minangkabau:
 * Sundanese: dalapan
 * Interlingua: octo
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 八 (はち, hachí), 八つ,
 * Kalaallisut: arfineq pingasut
 * Karachay-Balkar:


 * Karelian: kaheksa
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer: (pram bei) (numeral: )
 * Komi: (kökjamys)
 * Korean: 여덟 (yeodeol), 팔 (pal)
 * Kurdish: heşt,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: (numeral: )
 * Latgalian: ,
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: astoņi, astoņas
 * Lithuanian: ,
 * Livonian: kōdõks
 * Lojban: bi
 * Luxembourgish: aacht
 * Macedonian:
 * Malagasy: valo
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: എട്ട്
 * Maltese: tmienja
 * Manchu: jakūn
 * Manx: hoght
 * Maori:
 * Mari: кандаше (kandaše)
 * Maricopa:
 * Marshallese: ralitōk
 * Mongolian: найм (naym), ᠨᠠᠢᠮᠠᠨ (naiman) (numeral: ᠘)
 * Nahuatl: chicuei
 * Navajo: tseebíí
 * Norwegian:
 * Novial: ot
 * O'odham:
 * Occitan: uèch
 * Old English:
 * Oriya: ଆଥ (āth) (numeral: ୮)
 * Persian: (hæšt) (numeral: )
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਅੱਠ (aṭṭh) (numeral: ੮)
 * Quechua: pusajj
 * Romani:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit: अष्टन् (a st an), अष्ट
 * Saterland Frisian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:, (persons)
 * Sichuan Yi:
 * Sindhi: (āta)
 * Sinhala: අට (āta)
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Sranan Tongo:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tachelhit:
 * Tagalog: walo
 * Tamil: (numeral: ௮)
 * Taos: xwíli
 * Tatar:, sigez
 * Telugu: ఎనిమిది (numeral: ౮)
 * Thai: (bpàet) (numeral: )
 * Tibetan: (numeral: ༨)
 * Tok Pisin: etpela
 * Turkish:
 * Tzutujil: bilaje
 * Ukrainian: вісім
 * Urdu:
 * Uyghur: سەككىز
 * Veps: kahesa
 * Vietnamese:
 * Votic: kahõsaa / кахысаа
 * Võro: katõssa
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: acht
 * Zuni:
 * : (numeral: ೮)


 * Catalan: vuitena
 * Valencian: huitena
 * Lithuanian: ,


 * Macedonian: осморка
 * Scottish Gaelic:, (persons)

Noun

 * Basque:
 * Catalan:
 * Valencian:
 * Danish:, ottetal
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: huit
 * German:


 * Latvian: astoņnieks, astotnieks
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luxembourgish: Aacht
 * Macedonian: осмица, осумка
 * Polish: ósemka (1,2)
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: восьмёрка (vos’m’órka)
 * Swedish:


 * Catalan:
 * Valencian:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: huit
 * German:


 * Latvian: astoņnieks, astotnieks
 * Luxembourgish: Aacht
 * Macedonian: осмица, осумка
 * Polish: ósemka (1,2)
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: восьмёрка (vos’m’órka)
 * Swedish:


 * : optar (1); opt  (2)


 * : вісімка (vísimka)