triangular

English

A triangular sign

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɹaɪˈæŋ.ɡjə.lə/, /tɹaɪˈæŋ.ɡjʊ.lə/
• IPA^(key): /tɹaɪˈæŋ.ɡjə.lɚ/, /tɹaɪˈaɪŋ.ɡjʊ.lɚ/

Adjective

triangular (comparative more triangular, superlative most triangular)

1. Shaped like a triangle.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

     A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away, […].

2. Of, or pertaining to, triangles.
3. Having a triangle as a base; as, a triangular prism, a triangular pyramid.
4. Having three elements or parties; trilateral, tripartite.

Synonyms

• threeside, trigonal

Related terms

• triangular harp

Translations

shaped like a triangle

• Bengali: ত্রিভুজাকৃতি (tribhujakriti)
• Breton: tric'hornek (br)
• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Czech: trojúhelníkový, trojúhelníkovitý (cs)
• Danish: trekantet (da)
• Dutch: driehoekig (nl)
• Esperanto: triangula
• Finnish: kolmikulmainen (fi), kolmiomainen (fi)
• French: triangulaire (fr)
• Galician: triangular (gl)
• German: dreieckig (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: τρίγωνος (trígōnos)

• Hungarian: háromszögletű, háromszög alakú, (rare in this sense) háromszögű (hu)
• Irish: triantánach
• Italian: triangolare (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latin: triangulus m
• Manx: tree-uillinagh, tree corneilagh
• Maori: tapatoru
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: trekantet, trekanta (no), triangulær

  Nynorsk: trekanta, triangulær

• Portuguese: triangular (pt) m or f
• Russian: треуго́льный (ru) (treugólʹnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: triantanach
• Spanish: triangular (es)
• Swedish: triangulär (sv), trekantig (sv)
• Tagalog: tatsihain
• Yiddish: דרײַעקיק (drayekik), דרײַקאַנטיק (draykantik)

of or pertaining to triangles

• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Czech: trojúhelníkový
• Esperanto: triangula
• Finnish: kolmio- (fi), kolmiomainen (fi)
• German: dreiecks- (de)
• Irish: triantánach
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Maori: tapatoru
• Portuguese: triangular (pt) m or f
• Russian: треуго́льный (ru) (treugólʹnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: triantanach
• Spanish: triangular (es)
• Tagalog: tatsihain

having a triangle as a base

• Finnish: kolmikulmainen (fi), kolmiomainen (fi)
• Hungarian: háromszög alapú
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: triantánach
• Scottish Gaelic: triantanach

having three elements or parties

• Finnish: kolmikantainen
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: (with three parties) háromoldalú, három résztvevős, (with three elements) háromrészes (hu)

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

Translations to be checked

• Danish: ^{(please verify)} trekantet (da)
• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} driehoekig (nl)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: ^{(please verify)} dreieckig (de)

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [tɾi.əŋ.ɡuˈla]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [tɾi.aŋ.ɡuˈlaɾ]

Adjective

triangular m or f (masculine and feminine plural triangulars)

1. triangular

Verb

triangular (first-person singular present triangulo, first-person singular preterite triangulí, past participle triangulat)

1. to triangulate

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Galician

Adjective

triangular m or f (plural triangulares)

1. triangular, shaped like a triangle
2. having a triangle as a base
3. having three elements or parties

Related terms

• triángulo
• triangularmente

Further reading

• “triangular”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Late Latin triangulāris.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɾi.ɐ̃.ɡu.ˈlaɾ/
• Hyphenation: tri‧an‧gu‧lar

Adjective

1. triangular

Verb

1. to triangulate

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɾjanɡuˈlaɾ/ [t̪ɾjãŋ.ɡuˈlaɾ]
• Hyphenation: tri‧an‧gu‧lar

Adjective

triangular m or f (masculine and feminine plural triangulares)

1. triangular

Verb

1. to triangulate

Further reading

• “triangular”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014