ثلاثة

From Proto-Semitic *ṯalāṯatum.

• IPA^(key): /θa.laː.θa/

ثَلَاثَة • (ṯalāṯa) f (masculine ثَلَاث (ṯalāṯ))

1. three

   رَأَيْتُ ثَلَاثَةَ رِجَالٍ وَثَلَاثَ نِسَاءٍ ― raʔaytu ṯalāṯata rijālin waṯalāṯa nisāʔin ― I saw three men and three women.

   رَأَيْتُ رِجَالًا ثَلَاثَةً وَنِسَاءً ثَلَاثًا ― raʔaytu rijālan ṯalāṯatan wanisāʔan ṯalāṯan ― I saw three men and three women.

   رَأَيْتُ رِجَالًا ثَلَاثًا وَنِسَاءً ثَلَاثَةً ― raʔaytu rijālan ṯalāṯan wanisāʔan ṯalāṯatan ― I saw three men and three women.

• Excepting "one" and "two", all the cardinal numbers may precede or succeed the modified noun or substantive. Prepositive use is more usual, however.
• The cardinal numbers "three" to "nine" exhibit polarity: they differ in gender from the modified noun or substantive. Polarity is also possible even when the number is postposed.

• Egyptian Arabic: تلاتة (talāta)
• Maltese: tlieta
• Moroccan Arabic: تلاتة (tlāta)
• South Levantine Arabic: تلاتة (talāte)

ثلاثة • (salāsat or salāsa) (Classical Persian)

1. Archaic form of ثلاثه (salâse)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “ثلاثة”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “ثلاثة”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press

From Arabic ثَلَاثَة (ṯalāṯa).

• IPA^(key): /ta.laː.ta/, /θa.laː.θa/

ثلاثة • (talāta or ṯalāṯa) n

1. three