triangle

See also Triangle

English

A regular triangle, the geometric shape.

A triangle, the musical instrument.

Etymology

From Old French triangle.

Pronunciation

• enPR: trī'-ăng-gəl, IPA: /ˈtraɪæŋɡəl/, X-SAMPA: /"traI{Ng@l/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

triangle (plural triangles)

1. (geometry) A polygon with three sides and three angles.
2. (music) A percussion instrument made by forming a metal rod into a triangular shape which is open at one angle. It is suspended from a string and hit with a metal bar to make a resonant sound.
3. (cue sports) A triangular shaped piece of equipment used for gathering the balls into the formation required by the game being played.
4. A love triangle.
   • 2009, Neil McDonald, Quadrant, November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 104:

     One of the writers' most pleasing inventions was to treat the triangle love story as comedy.

5. (systemics) The structure of systems composed with three interrelated objects.

Synonyms

• (polygon): trigon (rare)
• (love triangle): love triangle, menage à trois
• See also Wikisaurus:triangle

Translations

polygon

• Afrikaans: driehoek (af)
• Albanian: trekëndësh (sq) m
• Arabic: مثلث (ar) (muthállath) m
• Armenian: եռանկյուն (hy) (eṙankyun)
• Asturian: triángulu (ast) m
• Azeri: üçbucaq (az)
• Bashkir: өсмөйөш (ösmöyöş)
• Bengali: ত্রিভুজ (bn)
• Bulgarian: триъгълник (bg) (triǎ̀gǎlnik) m
• Catalan: triangle (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 三角 (cmn) (sānjiǎo), 三角形 (cmn) (sānjiǎoxíng)

• Czech: trojúhelník (cs) m
• Danish: trekant (da) c
• Dutch: driehoek (nl)
• Esperanto: triangulo (eo)
• Estonian: kolmnurk (et)
• Finnish: kolmio (fi)
• French: triangle (fr) m
• Galician: triángulo (gl) m
• German: Dreieck (de) n
• Greek:

  Ancient: τρίγωνον (trígonon) n

  Modern: τρίγωνο (el) (trígono) n

• Haitian Creole: triyang
• Hebrew: משולש (he) (meshulásh) m
• Hindi: त्रिकोण (hi) (trikōṇ)
• Hungarian: háromszög (hu)
• Icelandic: þríhyrningur (is) m
• Ido: triangulo (io)
• Irish: triantán (ga) m
• Italian: triangolo (it) m
• Japanese: 三角形 (ja) (さんかくけい, sankakukei)
• Kalmyk: һурвлҗн (ghurvljn), һурвн булңт (ghurvn bulngt)
• Kazakh: үшбұрыш (kk) (üşburış), үшкіл (kk) (üşkil)
• Khmer: ត្រីកោណ (km) (trəy kaon)
• Korean: 삼각형 (ko) (samgakhyeong)
• Kumyk: уьчмююшлюк (üçmüyüşlük), уьч буччакълыкъ (üç buççaqlıq)

• Kurdish:

  Sorani: سێگۆشه‌ (ku)

• Kyrgyz: үч бурчтук (ky) (üç burçtuq)
• Lao: ຮູບສາມແຈ (lo) (hūp sām chǣ)
• Latin: triangulum (la)
• Lithuanian: trikampis (tl) m
• Macedonian: триаголник (mk) (triagolnik) m
• Malay: segi tiga (ms), segi telu (ms)
• Maori: tapatoru (mi)
• Mongolian: гурвалжин (mn) (gurvalžin)
• Persian: مثلث (fa) (mosalas), سه‌گوش (fa) (se-guš)
• Polish: trójkąt (pl) m
• Portuguese: triângulo (pt) m
• Romanian: triunghi (ro) n
• Russian: треугольник (ru) (treugól’nik) m
• Scottish Gaelic: trì-cheàrnag (gd) f, trì-oinnsinneach (gd) m, trì-oisinneag (gd) f, triantan (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: трокут (sh) m (Croatia)

  Roman: trokut (sh) m (Croatia)

• Sicilian: triàngulu (scn) m
• Slovene: trikotnik (sl) m
• Spanish: triángulo (es) m
• Swahili: pembe tatu (sw)
• Swedish: triangel (sv) c, trekant (sv) c, trehörning (sv) c
• Tagalog: tatsulok (tl)
• Tajik: секунҷа (tg) (sekunça)
• Tatar: öçpoçmaq (tt) (öçpoçmaq)
• Telugu: త్రిభుజము (te) (tribhujamu), త్రికోణము (te) (trikONamu)
• Thai: สามเหลี่ยม (th) (s̄āmh̄elī̀ym)
• Turkish: üçgen (tr)
• Turkmen: üçburçluk (tk)
• Tuvan: үш-бүлүңчүк (üş-bülüñçük)
• Uzbek: uchburchak (uz)
• Volapük: killien (vo)
• Welsh: triongl (cy) m and f
• West Frisian: trijehoek (fy) c
• Yakut: үс муннук (üs munnuk)

percussion instrument

• Asturian: triángulu (ast) m
• Catalan: triangle (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 三角鐵 (cmn), 三角铁 (cmn) (sānjiǎo tiě)

• Czech: triangl (cs) m
• Danish: triangel (da) c
• Dutch: triangel (nl) m
• Esperanto: triangulo (eo)
• Finnish: triangeli (fi)
• French: triangle (fr) m
• Galician: triángulo (gl) m, ferriños (gl) m pl
• German: Triangel (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: τρίγωνον (trígonon) n

  Modern: τρίγωνο (el) (trígono) n

• Hebrew: משולש (he) (meshulásh) m

• Hungarian: triangulum (hu)
• Icelandic: þríhorn (is) n
• Irish: triantán (ga) m
• Italian: triangolo (it) m
• Japanese: トライアングル (ja) (toraianguru)
• Malay: kerincing (ms)
• Polish: trójkąt (pl) m
• Portuguese: triângulo (pt) m
• Russian: треугольник (ru) (treugól’nik) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: трокут (sh) m (Croatia)

  Roman: trokut (sh) m (Croatia)

• Slovene: triangel (sl) m
• Spanish: triángulo (es) m
• Swedish: triangel (sv) c
• Welsh: triongl (cy) m and f

love triangle — see love triangle

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 Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• Afrikaans: driehoek
• Breton: tric'horn m, tric'hornioù pl (1)
• Indonesian: segitiga

• Latin: triangulum n (1)
• Romanian: triunghi n

Derived terms

acute-angled triangle acute triangle anal triangle Bermuda Triangle black triangle circular triangle cyclic triangle Devil's Triangle equilateral triangle eternal triangle femoral triangle golden triangle Golden Triangle isosceles triangle

love triangle North Atlantic Triangle obtuse-angled triangle obtuse triangle Pascal's triangle Polynesian Triangle pubic triangle Reuleaux triangle right-angled triangle right triangle scalene triangle set triangle Sierpinski triangle

spherical triangle star-triangle relation Sunni Triangle triangle choke triangle inequality triangle offense triangle piercing triangle test triangle wave triangular triangular distribution triangular function triangular prism triangulate triangulation

External links

• Triangle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Triangle (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Triangle (disambiguation)
• Triangle (instrument) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Triangle (instrument)

Anagrams

• alerting
• altering
• integral
• relating

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Catalan

Wikipedia ^ca

Noun

triangle m (plural triangles)

1. (geometry) triangle
2. (music) triangle

Related terms

• triangular

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French

Pronunciation

• audio

  (file)

• IPA: /tʁijɑ̃ɡl/

Noun

triangle m (plural triangles)

1. triangle (polygon)
2. triangle (percussion instrument)

Derived terms

• triangulaire

Anagrams

• intégral