three

Translingual[edit]


Signal flag for the digit 3

Etymology[edit]

From English three.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA^(key): [ˈtri]^[1]

Noun[edit]

three

(international standards) NATO & ICAO phonetic alphabet clear code for the digit 3.
Synonym: terrathree (ITU/IMO)

References[edit]

^ Annex 10 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation: Aeronautical Telecommunications; Volume II Communication Procedures including those with PANS status‎^[1], 6th edition, International Civil Aviation Organization, October 2001, retrieved 23 January 2019, page §5.2.1.4.3.1

English[edit]

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three

Wikipedia

**English numbers ^(edit)**
	30
← 2	3	4 →
Cardinal: three Ordinal: third Latinate ordinal: tertiary Adverbial: three times, thrice Multiplier: threefold Latinate multiplier: triple Distributive: triply Collective: trio, threesome Multiuse collective: triplet Greek or Latinate collective: triad Greek collective prefix: tri- Latinate collective prefix: tri- Fractional: third Latinate fractional prefix: trient- Elemental: thrin, triplet Greek prefix: trito- Number of musicians: trio, triplet Number of years: triennium

Alternative forms[edit]

thre, threy, thrie (all obsolete)

Etymology[edit]

PIE word
*tréyes

From Middle English thre, threo, thrie, thri, from Old English þrī, from Proto-West Germanic *þrīʀ, from Proto-Germanic *þrīz, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes. Doublet of trey.

Cognate with German drei, Albanian tre, Armenian երեք (erekʿ), Latin trēs, Latvian trīs, Lithuanian trỹs, Greek τρεῖς (treῖs), Old Church Slavonic трьѥ (trĭje), and others.

Pronunciation[edit]

(Received Pronunciation) enPR: thrē IPA^(key): /θɹiː/, [θɾ̪̊iː], [θɾ̪̊ɪi], [θɹ̥ɪi]
(UK, th-fronting) enPR: frē IPA^(key): /fɹiː/
(Ireland) IPA^(key): /θɹiː/, [θɾ̪̊iː], [t̪ɾ̪̊iː]
(General American) enPR: thrē IPA^(key): /θɹiː/, [θɾ̪̊i], [θɹ̥i], [θɹi]
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -iː
Homophones: tree (with th-stopping), free (with th-fronting)

Numeral[edit]

three

A numerical value after two and before four. Represented in Arabic digits as 3; this many dots (•••).
- 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:
  
  Venters began to count them—one—two—three—four—on up to sixteen.
- 2003 April 7, Michelle and Robert Lamoreaux, “A Spy is Born Part II”, in Totally Spies!, season 2, episode 1, Teletoon, Marathon Media, spoken by Clover (Jennifer Hale as Samantha “Sam” and Andrea Taylor):
  Okay, on three, we open the door and jump on the rope. One, two…
  Wait, wait! Do we go on three? Or do we go on “go”?
  Three! Who said anything about “go”?
- 2011 October 18, Paul Dini; Paul Crocker; Sefton Hill, Batman: Arkham City, Rocksteady Studios, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, spoken by Joker thugs:
  Why should she care? One…two…
  Do we shoot on three?
  Yes on three. Like one, two, three, shoot.
Describing a set or group with three elements.

Synonyms[edit]

(numerical value): leash, tether (dialectal)

Related terms[edit]

third, thrice, triple

Translations[edit]

cardinal number 3

Aari: makkán
Abaza: хпа (xpa)
Abkhaz: хԥа (xpa), хҧа (xpa) (old spelling)
Adyghe: щы (śə)
Afrikaans: drie (af)
Aghwan: 𐕀𐔼𐔱 (xib)
Ainu: レ (re)
Aiton: please add this translation if you can
Akan: abiɛsa, abiesã
Akkadian: 𒐈 (šalāšat)
Aklanon: tatlo
Albanian: tre (sq) m, tri (sq) f
Alutiiq: pingayun
American Sign Language:
Amharic: ሦስት (am) (śost), ሶስት (sost) (numeral: ፫ (3))
Andi: лъобгу (lˢobgu)
Arabic: ثَلَاثَة‎ (ar) (ṯalāṯa) (numeral: ٣‎ (3))
Egyptian: تلاتة‎ (talāta)

Hijazi Arabic: ثلاثة‎ f (talāta, ṯalāṯa), تلاتة‎ f (talāta)

Moroccan Arabic: تلاتة‎ (tlāta)
Aragonese: tres
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܬܠܵܬܵܐ‎ m (tlātā), ܬܠܵܬ‎ f (tlāt)

Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: תְּלָתָא‎ m (təlāṯā), תְּלַת‎ f (təlaṯ)

Syriac: ܬܠܬܐ‎ m (təlāṯā), ܬܠܬ‎ f (təlāṯ)

Western Neo-Aramaic: ܬܠܬܐ‎ m (ṯloṯa), ܐܬܠܬ‎ f (ʾeṯlaṯ)
Archi: лъеб (lʰeb)
Argobba: ሶአስተ (sost)
Armenian: երեք (hy) (erekʿ)
Aromanian: trei (roa-rup)
Asháninka: mawa
Assamese: তিনি (tini) (numeral: ৩)
Asturian: tres (ast), trés (ast)
Avar: лъабго (lˢabgo)
Aymara: kimsa (ay)
Azerbaijani: üç (az)
Banjarese: talu
Bashkir: өс (ös)
Basque: hiru (eu)
Bassa: tã
Bay Miwok: teleeka
Belarusian: тры (be) (try), (collective) тро́е (tróje), тро́йка f (trójka)
Bengali: তিন (bn) (tin) (numeral: ৩)
Bhojpuri: तीन (tīn)
Big Nambas: itl
Bikol Central: tulo (bcl)
Bislama: tri
Brahui: musiŧ
Breton: tri (br) m, teir (br) f
Brunei Malay: tiga
Budukh: шуб (šub), шубуд (šubud)
Buginese: tellu
Bulgarian: три (bg) (tri)
Burmese: သုံး (my) (sum:) (numeral: ၃ (my) (3))
Buryat: гурбан (gurban)
Cahuilla: páh
Catalan: tres (ca)
Cebuano: tulo
Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴽⵕⴰⴹ (kṛaḍ)
Central Dusun: tolu
Central Sierra Miwok: toló·košu-
Chakma: please add this translation if you can
Cham:
Eastern Cham: klau

Western Cham: please add this translation if you can
Chamicuro: kilko
Chamorro: tres
Chechen: кхоъ (qoʔ)
Chepang: सुम्‌ (sum)
Cherokee: ᏦᎢ (tsoi)
Chichewa: tatu
Chickasaw: tochchí'na
Chinese:
Cantonese: 三 (yue) (saam¹)

Dungan: сан (san)

Hakka: 三 (sāng)

Mandarin: 三 (zh) (sān) (numeral: 參／参 (zh))

Min Dong: 三 (săng)

Min Nan: (Xiamen) 三 (zh-min-nan) (sā̃, sām),
Teochew: 三 (sam¹)

Wu: 三 (1se)
Chinook Jargon: ɬun
Chukchi: ӈыроӄ (ŋəroq)
Chuukese: unungat, unuchö, unumön
Chuvash: виҫӗ (viś̬ĕ), виҫҫӗ (viśśĕ)
Classical Nahuatl: ēyi
Cornish: tri m, teyr f
Corsican: trè (co)
Cowlitz: kaʔłiʔ
Cree: nisto
Crimean Tatar: üç
Czech: tři (cs), (collective) troje (cs)
Dalmatian: tra
Danish: tre (da)
Dena'ina: tuq'i
Dhivehi: ތިން‎ (tin̊)
Dinka: diäk
Dolgan: үс (üs)
Drung: vseum
Dutch: drie (nl)
Dzongkha: གསུམ (gsum)
Elfdalian: tri
Enga: tema
Erzya: колмо (kolmo)
Esperanto: tri (eo)
Estonian: kolm (et)
Even: илан (ilan)
Evenki: илан (ilan)
Ewe: etɔ̃
Extremaduran: tres
Faroese: tríggir m, tríggjar f, trý (fo) n, trinnir m (distributive number)
Fataluku: utue
Fijian: tolu (fj)
Finnish: kolme (fi)
French: trois (fr)
Friulian: trê
Ga: etɛ̃, etɛ
Gagauz: üç
Galician: tres (gl)
Garifuna: ürüwa
Ge'ez: ሠለስቱ m (śälästu), ሠላስ f (śälas) (numeral: ፫ (3))
Georgian: სამი (ka) (sami)
German: drei (de)
Gilaki: سه‎ (se)
Gilbertese: tenua
Gothic: 𐌸𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃 (þreis)
Greek: τρία (el) (tría), γ΄ (g΄) (numeral)
Ancient: τρεῖς (treîs), γ΄ (g΄) (numeral)
Greenlandic: pingasut (kl)
Guaraní: mbohapy
Gujarati: ત્રગડો (tragḍo) (numeral: ૩)
Hadza: samaka and inflections
Haitian Creole: twa
Hausa: ukù (ha)
Hawaiian: kolu, ʻekolu
Hebrew: שָׁלוֹשׁ‎ (he) f (shalosh) (used in counting), שְׁלוֹשָׁה‎ m (shlosha)
Higaonon: tatulo
Hiligaynon: tatlo
Hindi: तीन (hi) (tīn) (numeral: ३ (hi) (3)), त्रि (hi) (tri)
Hiri Motu: toi
Hlai: fus
Hopi: pàayoʼ
Hungarian: három (hu)
Hunsrik: drei
Icelandic: þrír (is) m, þrjár (is) f, þrjú (is) n
Icelandic Sign Language: 3@Side-PalmBackFingerUp
Ido: tri (io)
Igbo: atọ
Ilocano: tallo
Indonesian: tiga (id)
Ingrian: kolt
Ingush: кхоъ (qoʔ)
Interlingua: tres (ia)
Iranun: telu
Irish: trí (ga)
Old Irish: trí
Isnag: tallo
Istriot: trì
Istro-Romanian: trei
Italian: tre (it)
Itelmen: ч’оӄ (č’oq)
Japanese: 三 (ja) (san), 三つ (ja) (mittsu)
Jarai: klâo
Javanese: telu (jv)
Kabardian: щы (śə)
Kabuverdianu: tres
Kalmyk: һурвн (ğurvn)
Kannada: ಮೂರು (kn) (mūru): (numeral: ೩ (kn) (3))
Kanuri: yaske
Kapampangan: atlu
Karachay-Balkar: юч (üç)
Karaim: üč
Karakhanid: اُجْ‎ (üč)
Karelian: kolme
Kashubian: trzë
Kaurna: marnkutyi
Kazakh: үш (kk) (üş)
Khakas: ӱс (üs)
Khanty: хәԓум (xəḷum) (Kazym)
Khmer: បី (km) (bəy) (numeral: ៣ (3))
Kokborok: tham
Komi-Permyak: куим (kuim)
Komi-Zyrian: куим (kuim)
Kongo: tatu
Korean: 셋 (ko) (set), 세 (ko) (se) (determiner), 석 (ko) (seok), 삼(三) (ko) (sam)
Koryak: ӈыёӄ
Kumyk: уьч (üç)
Kuna: pa
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: سێ‎ (ckb) (sê)

Northern Kurdish: sê (ku)
Kyrgyz: үч (ky) (üç)
Ladakhi: གསུམ (gsum)
Lakota: yámni
Lao: ສາມ (sām) (numeral: ໓ (3))
Latgalian: treis pl
Latin: trēs (la) m or f, tria (la) n
Latvian: trīs (lv)
Lezgi: пуд (pud)
Ligurian: tréi m, træ f
Lithuanian: trys (lt) m, trys (lt) f
Livonian: kuolm
Lombard: tri m, tre f
Louisiana Creole French: trò, trwa
Low German:
Dutch Low Saxon: drij (Gronings), drèje (Gronings)

German Low German: drei (nds), dree (nds)
Luo: adek
Lushootseed: łixw
Luxembourgish: dräi (lb)
Lü: ᦉᦱᧄ (ṡaam) (numeral: ᧓)
Macedonian: три (mk) (tri)
Madurese: telloʔ
Maguindanao: telu
Makasar: tallu
Malagasy: telo (mg)
Malay:
Jawi: تيݢ‎, تلو‎, تري‎

Rumi: tiga (ms), telu (ms), tri
Malayalam: മൂന്നു (mūnnu), മൂന്ന് (ml) (mūnnŭ) (numeral: ൩)
Maltese: tlieta (mt)
Manchu: ᡳᠯᠠᠨ (ilan)
Mangarevan: toru
Mansaka: toro
Mansi: хурум (hurum)
Manx: three, tree
Maori: toru (mi)
Maranao: telo
Marathi: तीन (tīn)
Mari:
Eastern Mari: кумыт (kumyt)
Maricopa: xamok, hmuk
Marshallese: jilu
Mauritian Creole: trwa
Mazanderani: سه‎ (se)
Megleno-Romanian: trei
Middle English: thre
Minangkabau: tigo
Mirandese: trés
Mizo: pa-thum
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: гурав (mn) (gurav)

Mongolian: ᠭᠤᠷᠪᠠ (ɣurba), ᠓ (3) (numeral)
Montagnais: nishtᵘ
Motu: toi
Muong: pà
Mòcheno: drai
Nama: ǃnona
Nauruan: aiju
Navajo: tááʼ
Negidal: елан, илан
Nepali: तीन (ne) (tīn)
Ngazidja Comorian: -raru
Niuean: tolu
Nivkh: тяӄр̌ (țaqř)
Nogai: уьш (üş)
Norman: trais
North Frisian:
Föhr-Amrum: trii

Helgoland: tree

Mooring: tra m, trii f or n

Sylt: trii
Northern Ohlone: kaphan
Northern Yukaghir: йалуонь (jaluoņ)
Norwegian: tre (no), tri (no)
O'odham: vaik
Occitan: tres (oc)
Ojibwe: niswi
Okinawan: 三 (san), 三ち (mīchi)
Old Church Slavonic: триѥ (trije), трьѥ (trĭje), три (tri) (numeral: г҃)
Old English: þrī
Old Frisian: thrē, thriā, thriū
Old Javanese: tĕlu, tiga
Old Turkic: 𐰇𐰲‎ (üč /üč/)
Oriya: ତିନି (or) (tini) (numeral: ୩ (3))
Oromo: sadii
Oscan: 𐌕𐌓𐌝𐌔 (trís)
Ossetian: ӕртӕ (ærtæ)
Ottoman Turkish: اوچ‎ (üç)
Papiamentu: tres
Pashto: درې‎ (ps) (dre)
Pennsylvania German: drei
Persian: سه‎ (fa) (se), سو‎ (fa) (so) (dialectal), (numeral: ۳‎)
Piedmontese: tre
Pijin: tri
Pipil: yey
Polish: trzy (pl) pl, (collective) troje (pl), trójka (pl) f
Portuguese: três (pt)
Proto-Norse: ᚦᚱᛁᛃᛟᛉ f pl (þrijoʀ)
Punjabi: ਤਿੰਨ (tinn) (numeral: ੩ (3))
Purepecha: tanimu
Quechua: kimsa (qu), kinsa
Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
Rapa Nui: ka toru
Rarotongan: toru
Rawang: shø̀m
Rohingya: tin
Romagnol: tri m
Romani: trin
Kalo Finnish Romani: triin
Romanian: trei (ro)
Romansch: trais
Russian: три (ru) (tri), тро́е (ru) (tróje) (collective), тро́йка (ru) f (trójka)
Rusyn: три (try)
S'gaw Karen: သၢ (thuh)
Saho: adox
Sami:
Inari: kulmâ

Northern: golbma

Skolt: koumm

Southern: golme
Samoan: tolu (sm)
Sanskrit: त्रि (sa) (tri), त्रयं (trayaṃ)
Santali: ᱯᱮ (pe)
Sarcee: táyk'í
Sardinian
Campidanese: tresi

Logudorese: tres
Saterland Frisian: tjo
Scottish Gaelic: trì, triùir m
Semai: tige
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: три̑

Roman: trȋ
Shan: သၢမ် (shn) (sǎam) (numeral: ႓)
Sherpa: གསུམ (gsum)
Shor: ӱш (üş)
Sichuan Yi: ꌕ (suo)
Sicilian: tri (scn)
Sidamo: sase
Sikkimese: སུམ (sum)
Sindhi: ٽي‎ (sd) (ti)
Sinhalese: තුන (si) (tuna)
Slovak: tri (sk), traja
Slovene: tríje, (when counting) trí (sl)
Slovincian: třȧ̃
Somali: saddex (so)
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: tśi

Upper Sorbian: třo m, tři f or n
Southern Altai: ӱч (üč)
Southern Ohlone: capjan
Spanish: tres (es)
Sranan Tongo: dri
Sumerian: 𒁹𒁹𒁹 (eš5)
Sundanese: tilu (su)
Swahili: tatu (sw)
Swazi: tsatfu
Swedish: tre (sv)
Sylheti: ꠔꠤꠘ (tin)
Tabasaran: шубуб (šubub)
Tagalog: tatlo (tl)
Tahitian: toru
Tai Dam: ꪎꪱꪣ
Tai Nüa: ᥔᥣᥛᥴ (sáam)
Tajik: се (tg) (se)
Talysh: سه‎ (se) (Asalemi)
Tamil: மூன்று (ta) (mūṉṟu) (numeral: ௩)
Tangut: 𘕕 (*sọ¹)
Taos: póyuo
Tarantino: tréde
Tashelhit: krad m, krat f
Tatar: өч (tt) (öç)
Tausug: tū
Tedim Chin: thum
Telugu: మూడు (te) (mūḍu) (numeral: ౩ (te) (3))
Ternate: raange
Tetum: tolu
Thai: สาม (th) (sǎam) (numeral: ๓ (th) (3))
Tibetan: གསུམ (gsum) (numeral: ༣ (3))
Tidore: raange
Tigre: ሰለስ (säläs) (numeral: ፫ (3))
Tigrinya: ሰለስተ (sälästä) (numeral: ፫ (3))
Tlingit: nás’k, nás’gináx̱
Toba Batak: tolu
Tocharian A: tre
Tocharian B: trai, trey
Tok Pisin: tripela
Tupinambá: mosapyr
Turkish: üç (tr)
Turkmen: üç (tk)
Tuvaluan: tolu
Tuvan: үш (üş)
Tz'utujil: oxi
Udi: хиб (χib)
Udmurt: куинь (kuiń)
Ukrainian: три (uk) (try), (collective) тро́є (tróje), трі́йко (tríjko) colloquial, трі́єчко (tríječko) colloquial diminutive, трі́йка (uk) f (tríjka)
Umbrian: 𐌕𐌓𐌉𐌚 (trif)
Unami: naxa
Urdu: تین‎ m (tīn)
Uyghur: ئۈچ‎ (ug) (üch)
Uzbek: uch (uz)
Venetian: tre (vec), tri
Veps: koume
Vietnamese: ba (vi)
Vilamovian: draj
Volapük: kil (vo)
Votic: kõlmõd
Võro: kolm
Wakhi: tru
Walloon: troes (wa)
Waray-Waray: bungto
Welsh: tri (cy) m, tair (cy) f
West Frisian: trije (fy)
Western Apache: táági, tāāgi
Western Bukidnon Manobo: tetelu
White Hmong: peb
Winnebago: taanį
Wiradhuri: Bula Ngumbaay
Wolof: ñett
Xhosa: thathu
Yagara: burla ganar
Yagnobi: тирай (tiray)
Yakan: tellu
Yakut: үс (üs)
Yao: tatu
Yiddish: דרײַ‎ (dray)
Yoruba: ẹ̀ta
Yucatec Maya: óox
Yup'ik: pingayun
Yámana: matan
Zaghawa: we
Zazaki: hirê
Zealandic: drie, drieë (in counting)
Zhuang: sam (Sawndip 三)
Zou: thum
Zulu: thathu
Zuni: ha'i

describing set or group with three components

Bashkir: өсәү (ösäw)
Catalan: trio (ca) m
Dutch: trits (nl) c
French: trio (fr) m
Italian: terna (it) f, trio (it) m
Latgalian: treji m, trejis f
Lithuanian: trejeri (lt) m, trejerios f
Macedonian: тројка f (trojka)
Polish: trójka (pl) f
Romanian: triplu (ro) m or n, triplă f
Russian: тро́йка (ru) f (trójka)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: тро́јка f

Roman: trójka (sh) f
Spanish: trío (es) m
Walloon: troejhinne (wa) f

Noun[edit]

three (plural threes)

The digit/figure 3.
Anything measuring three units, as length.
Put all the threes in a separate container.
A person who is three years old.
All the threes will go in Mrs. Smith's class, while I'll take the fours and fives.
The playing card featuring three pips.
Three o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
- 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
  It was a weary time. A carriage clock had been placed on the discoloured wooden mantelpiece, and slowly its hands crept on from one to two and from two to three.
(basketball) Abbreviation of three-pointer.