Etymology
Old English þreo, from Germanic *þrijiz, from PIE *treyes. Cognate to German drei, French trois, Greek τρεις, Russian три.
Cardinal number
three
- One plus two. The typical number of parts in most monocot flower. Ordinal: third.
Translations
- Albanian: tre m, tri f
- 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)
- 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
- Marshallese: jilu
- Nahuatl: yei
- Norwegian: tre
- 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
- The digit/figure 3.
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