three

Translingual




Signal flag for the digit 3

Etymology

From English three.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈtri], like tree^[1]

Noun

three

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

ICAO/NATO radiotelephonic clear codes
code	Alfa	Bravo	Charlie	Delta	Echo	Foxtrot	Golf	Hotel	India	Juliett	Kilo	Lima	Mike
	November	Oscar	Papa	Quebec	Romeo	Sierra	Tango	Uniform	Victor	Whiskey	Xray	Yankee	Zulu
	zero	one	two	three (tree)	four (fower)	five (fife)	six	seven	eight	nine (niner)	hundred	thousand	decimal

ICAO/NATO vs ITU/IMO radiotelephonic clear codes for digits
ICAO/NATO	zero	one	two	three (tree)	four (fower)	five (fife)	six	seven	eight	nine (niner)
ITU/IMO	nadazero	unaone	bissotwo	terrathree	kartefour	pantafive	soxisix	setteseven	oktoeight	novenine

References

^ 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, 2001 October, archived from the original on 31 March 2019, page §5.2.1.4.3.1

English

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three

Wikipedia

**English numbers ^(edit)**
	30
← 2	3	4 →
Cardinal: three Ordinal: third Latinate ordinal: tertiary Reverse order ordinal: third to last, third from last, last but two Latinate reverse order ordinal: antepenultimate Adverbial: three times, thrice Multiplier: threefold Latinate multiplier: triple Distributive: triply Group collective: trio, threesome Multipart collective: triplet Greek or Latinate collective: triad Greek collective prefix: tri- Latinate collective prefix: tri- Fractional: third Latinate fractional prefix: trient- Elemental: triplet Greek prefix: trito- Number of musicians: trio, triplet Number of years: triennium

Alternative forms

thre, threy, thrie (all obsolete)

Etymology

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 (erekʻ), Latin trēs, Latvian trīs, Lithuanian trỹs, Greek τρεῖς (treîs), Old Church Slavonic трьѥ (trĭje), and others.

Pronunciation

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Rhymes: -iː

Numeral

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 Lamoreaux, Robert Lamoreaux, “A Spy is Born Part II”, in Totally Spies!, season 2, episode 1, spoken by Clover (Jennifer Hale as Samantha “Sam” and Andrea Taylor), Marathon Media, via Teletoon:
  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, spoken by Joker thugs, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, via Rocksteady Studios:
  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

(numerical value): leash, tether (dialectal)

Related terms

third, thrice, triple

Translations

cardinal number 3

Aari: makkán
Abaza: хпа (xpa)
Abkhaz: хԥа (xpa), хҧа (xpa) (old spelling)
Acehnese: lhèë
Adyghe: щы (śə)
Afrikaans: drie (af)
Aghwan: 𐕀𐔼𐔱 (xib)
Ainu: レ (re)
Aiton: please add this translation if you can
Akaha: tirai
Akan: abiɛsa, abiesã
Akkadian: 𒐈 (šalāšat)
Aklanon: tatlo
Albanian: tre (sq) m, tri (sq) f
Aleut:
Atka: qankus

Attu: qankun

Eastern: qaankun
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)

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) (erekʻ)
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
Bookan: tiga
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
Carpathian Rusyn: три (try)
Catalan: tres (ca)
Cebuano: tulo
Cemuhî: cié
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
Champenois: tro
Chechen: кхоъ (qoʔ)
Chepang: सुम् (sum)
Cherokee: ᏦᎢ (tsoi)
Chichewa: tatu
Chickasaw: tochchí'na
Chinese:
Cantonese: 三 (yue) (saam¹)

Dungan: сан (san)

Eastern Min: 三 (săng)

Hakka: 三 (sāng)

Hokkien: (Xiamen) 三 (zh-min-nan) (sā̃, sām)

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

Teochew: 三 (sam¹)

Wu: 三
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)
Defaka: táátó
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)
Forest Enets: нэху
Forest Nenets: няхаԓ (nyaxał)
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΄ (numeral)
Ancient: τρεῖς (treîs), γ΄ (numeral)
Greenlandic: pingasut (kl)
Guaraní: mbohapy
Gujarati: ત્રણ (traṇ)
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
Ibani: tɛ́rɛ́
Icelandic: þrír (is) m, þrjár (is) f, þrjú (is) n
Icelandic Sign Language: 3@Side-PalmBackFingerUp
Ido: tri (io)
Igbo: atọ (ig)
Ilocano: tallo
Indonesian: tiga (id)
Ingrian: kolt
Ingush: кхоъ (qoʔ)
Interlingua: tres (ia)
Iquito: sɨɨsaramajɨtáami
Iranun: talu, 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 (kbd) (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)
Khmer: បី (km) (bəy) (numeral: ៣ (3))
Kinaray-a: tatlo
Kirike: tɛ́rɛ́
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 (ŋəjoq)
Kumyk: уьч (üç)
Kuna: pa
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: سێ (sê)

Northern Kurdish: sê (ku)
Kyrgyz: үч (ky) (üc)
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
Lingala: mísáto
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)
Lü: ᦉᦱᧄ (ṡaam) (numeral: ᧓)
Luo: adek
Lushootseed: łixw
Luxembourgish: dräi (lb)
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
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
Mòcheno: drai
Mon: ပိ
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: гурав (mn) (gurav)

Mongolian: ᠭᠤᠷᠪᠠ (ɣurba), ᠓ (3) (numeral)
Montagnais: nishtᵘ
Motu: toi
Muong: pà
Muyang: mahkər
Nama: ǃnona
Nauruan: aiju
Navajo: tááʼ
Negidal: елан, илан
Nepali: तीन (ne) (tīna)
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 Khanty: хәԯум (həłum) (Kazym)
Northern Mansi: ^{(please verify)} хурум (hurum)
Northern Ohlone: kaphan
Northern Thai: ᩈᩣ᩠ᨾ
Northern Yukaghir: йалуонь (jaluoņ)
Norwegian: tre (no), tri (no)
Nuosu: ꌕ (suo)
O'odham: vaik
Occitan: tres (oc)
Odia: ତିନି (or) (tini) (numeral: ୩ (3))
Ojibwe: niswi
Okinawan: 三 (san), 三ち (mīchi)
Okordia: táárʊ́
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/)
Oromo: sadii
Oscan: 𐌕𐌓𐌝𐌔 (trís)
Ossetian: ӕртӕ (ærtæ)
Ottoman Turkish: اوچ (üç)
Paicî: êrêcié
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)
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)
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: trzë
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 Laing: ꩬꩼၢမ်
Tai Nüa: ᥔᥣᥛᥴ (sáam)
Tajik: се (tg) (se)
Tal: ƙún
Talysh: se, سه (se) (Asalemi)
Tamil: மூன்று (ta) (mūṉṟu) (numeral: ௩ (ta))
Tangut: 𘕕 (*sọ¹)
Taos: póyuo
Tarantino: tréde
Tashelhit: krad m, krat f
Tat: sə
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 (tpi)
Tooro: -satu, isatu (abstract counting)
Tumbuka: tatu
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)
Uldeme: màkàr
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)
Võro: kolm
Votic: kõlmõd
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
Wiradjuri: Bula Ngumbaay
Wolof: ñett
Xârâcùù: bachéé
Xhosa: thathu
Yagara: burla ganar
Yagnobi: тирай (tiray)
Yakan: tellu
Yakut: үс (üs)
Yámana: matan
Yao: tatu
Yiddish: דרײַ (dray)
Yoruba: ẹ̀ta
Yucatec Maya: óox
Yup'ik: pingayun
Ywom: kùn
Zaghawa: we
Zazaki: hirê (diq)
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 (ösəw)
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

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, “In which Three Investigators Come across a Dark Soul”, 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.

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Translations

digit/figure 3

Amharic: ሶስት (sost), ሦስት (am) (śost)
Armenian: երեք (hy) (erekʻ)
Asturian: tres (ast) m
Basque: hiru (eu)
Belarusian: тро́йка f (trójka)
Bikol Central: tulo (bcl)
Catalan: tres (ca) m
Cebuano: tulo
Danish: tre (da)
Dutch: drie (nl) f
Finnish: kolmonen (fi)
French: trois (fr) m
Galician: tres (gl) m
German: Drei (de) f
Alemannic German: drüü
Hebrew: שלוש (he) f (shalósh)
Hindi: तीन (hi) m (tīn)
Hungarian: hármas (hu)
Ilocano: tallo
Italian: tre (it)
Japanese: san (ja) (san)
Latin: tribus (la)
Lithuanian: trejetas (lt) m
Macedonian: тројка f (trojka)
Pennsylvania German: drei
Polish: trójka (pl) f
Portuguese: três (pt) m
Romanian: trei (ro) m
Russian: тро́йка (ru) f (trójka)
Scottish Gaelic: trì
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: тро́јка f

Roman: trójka (sh) f
Sindhi: ٽي (sd)
Slovak: trojka (sk) f
Slovene: trojka f
Spanish: tres (es) m
Swedish: trea (sv)
Tagalog: tatlo (tl)
Tamil: மூன்று (ta) (mūṉṟu)
Tok Pisin: tri
Ukrainian: трі́йка (uk) f (tríjka)
Vietnamese: số ba

anything measuring three units

Finnish: kolmonen (fi)
Polish: trójka (pl) f

person who is three years old

Finnish: kolmivuotias; kolmonen (fi) (colloquial)
Polish: trzylatek (pl) m, trzylatka (pl) f
Swedish: treåring (sv) c

playing card

Finnish: kolmonen (fi)
Hindi: तिक्की (hi) (tikkī)
Polish: trójka (pl) f
Swedish: trea (sv) c

basketball: abbreviation of three-pointer

Finnish: kolmonen (fi)

Anagrams

Ehret, Ether, Reeth, ether, rethe, theer, there

Manx

Numeral

three

Alternative spelling of tree.

Scots

**Scots cardinal numbers**
< 2	3	4 >
Cardinal : three

Alternative forms

(South Scots) threi, shrei, hrei

Etymology

From Middle English thre, from Old English þriē, þrī, þreō, from Proto-West Germanic *þrīʀ, from Proto-Germanic *þrīz, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /θriː/
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Numeral

three

three

Related terms

threty

[1] 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, 2001 October, archived from the original on 31 March 2019, page §5.2.1.4.3.1

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three

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