Three

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1 Etymology 2 Cardinal number 2.1 Translations 3 Noun 4 Translations

Etymology

Old English þreo, from Germanic *þrijiz, from PIE *treyes. Cognate to German drei, French trois, Greek τρεις, Russian три.

Cardinal number

three

• Arabic numerals: 3
• Chinese numerals: 叄, 三
• Roman numerals: III
  • Last: two, 2
  • Next: four, 4

1. One plus two. The typical number of parts in most monocot flower. Ordinal: third.

Translations

• Albanian: tre m, tri f
• Apache (Western): táági
• Arabic: ثلاثة (θalaːθa)
• Aymara: quimsa
• Basque: hiru
• Bosnian: tri
• Breton: tri m, teir f
• Catalan: tres
• Cornish: tri m, teyr f
• Chinese: 三
• Czech: tři
• Dutch: drie
• Esperanto: tri
• Estonian: kolm
• Fijian: tolu (Vosa Vaka Viti)
• Finnish: kolme (Suomi)
• French: trois
• Frisian: trije
• German: drei
• Greek: τρείς (tris), τρία (tria)
• Guarani: mbohapy
• Hebrew: שלוש f (Used in counting)
• Hindi: तीन
• Hungarian: három
• Icelandic: þrír m, þrjár f, þrjú n
• Indonesian: tiga
• Ido: tri
• Interlingua: tres
• Italian: tre
• Japanese: 三 (さん, san; み, mi), 三つ (みっつ, mittsu)
• Kalaallisut: pingasut
• Korean: 셋 (set)/세 (se)/석 (seok); 삼 (三; sam)
• Latin: tres
• Lingua Franca Nova: tre
• Lojban: ci
• Manchu: ilan
• Maricopa: xmokk
• Marshallese: jilu
• Nahuatl: yei
• Norwegian: tre
• O'odham: vaik
• Old English: þrie, þreo
• Persian: سِه (se)
• Polish: trzy
• Portuguese: três
• Romanian: trei
• Russian: три
• Slovak: tri, traja
• Slovio: tri
• Spanish: tres
• Swedish: tre (Svenska)
• Filipino: tatlo
• Thai: สาม
• Tok Pisin: tripela
• Tupinambá: mosapyr
• Turkish: üç
• Vietnamese: ba
• Welsh: tri m, tair f

Noun

three

1. The digit/figure 3.

Translations

• Finnish: kolmonen
• French: trois m
• German: Drei f
• Hebrew: שלוש f
• Polish: trójka f
• Romanian: trei m
• Slovak: trojka f
• Spanish: número tres m
• Swedish: trea
• Tok Pisin: tri
• Vietnamese: số ba