three

međunarodno

Etymology

From Engleski three.

Pronunciation

• MFA^(ključ): /tɹiː/

Numeral

three

1. (international standards) NATO & ICAO phonetic alphabet code for the numeral 3.

   Sinonim: terrathree (ITU/IMO)

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Engleski

Engleski brojevi ^(edit)

	30
←  2	3	4  →
Cardinal: three     Ordinal: third     Adverbial: thrice     Multiplier: triple, threefold     Distributive: triply

Alternative forms

• thre, threy, thrie (all obsolete)

Etymology

PIE reč
*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. Dubleti of trey.

Cognate with Nemački drei, Albanski tre, Armenian երեք (erekʿ), Latinski trēs, Latvian trīs, Lithuanian trỹs, Grčki τρεῖς (treîs), Old Church Slavonic trьѥ (trĭje), and others.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: thrē MFA^(ključ): /θɹiː/, [θɾ̪̊iː], [θɾ̪̊ɪi]
• (UK, th-fronting) enPR: frē MFA^(ključ): /fɹiː/
• (Ireland) MFA^(ključ): /θɹiː/, [θɾ̪̊iː], [t̪ɾ̪̊iː]
• (General American) enPR: thrē MFA^(ključ): /θɹiː/, [θɾ̪̊i]

• Audio (US)

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• Rime: -iː
• Homophones: tree (with th-stopping), free (with th-fronting)

Numeral

three

1. A numerical value after two and before four. Represented in Arabic digits as 3; this many dots (•••).
   • Šablon:RQ:Grey Riders

     Venters began to count them—one—two—three—four—on up to sixteen.

   • 2003 april 7, Jennifer Hale as Samantha “Sam” and Andrea Taylor as Clover, “A Spy is Born Part II”, in Totally Spies!, season 2, episode 1, written by Michelle and Robert Lamoreaux, Teletoon, Marathon Media:

   • 2011 oktobar 18, Batman: Arkham City, written by Paul Dini; Paul Crocker; Sefton Hill, Rocksteady Studios, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment:

2. Describing a set or group with three elements.

Synonyms

• (numerical value): leash, tether (dialectal)

Related terms

• third, thrice, triple

Translations

cardinal number 3

describing set or group with three components

• Bashkir: өsәү (ösäw)
• Catalan: trio (ca) m
• Dutch: trits (nl) c
• French: trio (fr) m
• Latgalian: treji m, trejis f
• Lithuanian: trejeri (lt) m, trejerios f
• Macedonian: trojka f (trojka)
• Romanian: triplu (ro) m or n, triplă f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: tróйka (ru) f (trójka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: trójka f

  Roman: trójka (sh) f

• Spanish: trío (es) m
• Walloon: troejhinne (wa) f

See also

• Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages

Noun

three (plural threes)

1. The digit/figure 3.
2. Anything measuring three units, as length.

   Put all the threes in a separate container.

3. 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.

4. The playing card featuring three pips.
5. Three o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
   • 1926, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Land of Mist‎^[2]:

6. (basketball) Skraćenica od three-pointer.

Derived terms

• Three Bridges
• Three Cocks
• threefold
• Three Oaks
• threepence
• three-phase
• Three Rivers
• threesome
• three stops short of Dagenham
• three-up
• three-way
• three-wheel
• three-wheeler
• thruppence

 

Translations

digit/figure 3

• Amharic: ሶስት (sost), ሦስት (am) (śost)
• Armenian: երեք (hy) (erekʿ)
• Asturian: tres (ast) m
• Basque: hiru (eu)
• Belarusian: tróйka 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)
• Latin: tribus (la)
• Lithuanian: trejetas (lt) m
• Macedonian: trojka f (trojka)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Pennsylvania German: drei
• Polish: trójka (pl) f
• Portuguese: três (pt) m
• Romanian: trei (ro) m
• Russian: tróйka (ru) f (trójka)
• Scottish Gaelic: trì
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: trójka 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: trі́йka (uk) f (tríjka)
• Vietnamese: số ba

anything measuring three units

• Finnish: kolmonen (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

person who is three years old

• Finnish: kolmivuotias; kolmonen (fi) (colloquial)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Swedish: treåring (sv) c

playing card

• Finnish: kolmonen (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Swedish: trea (sv) c

basketball: abbreviation of three-pointer

• Finnish: kolmonen (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

See also

Playing cards in Engleski · playing cards (layout · text)
ace	deuce, two	three	four	five	six	seven
eight	nine	ten	jack, knave	queen	king	joker

Symbols of number three in various numeral systems

• Amharic numerals: ፫
• Arabic numerals: 3
• Assyro-Babylonian numerals: 𒁹𒁹𒁹
• Bengali numerals: ৩
• Chinese numerals: 叄, 三
• Eastern Arabic numerals: ٣‎
• Gujarati numerals: ૩
• Gurmukhi numerals: ੩
• Hindi numerals: ३

• Kannada numerals: ೩
• Khmer numerals: ៣
• Lao numerals: ໓
• Limbu numerals: ᥉
• Malayalam numerals: ൩
• Mongolian numerals: ᠓
• Myanmar numerals: ၃
• Oriya numerals: ୩
• Persian numerals: ۳‎
• Roman numerals: III
• Tamil numerals: ௩
• Telugu numerals: ౩
• Thai numerals: ๓
• Tibetan numerals: ༣

Anagrams

• Ehret, Ether, Reeth, ether, rethe, theer, there ^{(alphagram eehrt)}

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Manx

Numeral

three

1. Alternative spelling of tree.

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Scots

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

• MFA^(ključ): /θriː/
• (South Scots) MFA^(ključ): /θrəi/
• (Shetland) MFA^(ključ): /triː/

Numeral

cardinal number

3	Prethodni:	twa
	Sledeći:	fower

three

1. three

Related terms

• threty