ثلث

ثَلَثَ

To take a third share of a people's property; to remove a third portion from property. It can also be used of killing a third of a group.

A Form I transitive use, with the object being property or a group whose third is taken or removed.

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ثَلَثَ

To become the third of a group, or to make a group three by joining it.

A Form I numerical construction; the subject may become third, or may make two others three with itself.

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ثَلَثَ

To increase a number by one so that it reaches thirty, or another analogous numerical total.

A specialized numerical use extended through the series of number verbs.

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ثَلَثَ

To turn over or cultivate the ground three times.

Used of land prepared by three successive turnings.

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ثَلَثَ

To come third in a race.

Used of a horse or person finishing third.

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يَثْلِثُ

In the idiom لَا يَثْنِي وَلَا يَثْلِثُ, to be unable to rise for a third attempt.

An idiomatic expression describing an old man who cannot rise repeatedly.

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ثَلَّثَ

To make something three, divide it into three parts, or designate it as three.

Form II causative or factitive usage; the division may be into thirds, and the same formation supplies the verbal noun تَثْلِيث.

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ثَلَّثَ

To assert or adopt the doctrine of the Trinity.

A theological use of the Form II verb.

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ثَلَّثَ

To count three items in a succession, especially to recognize a third successor after two.

An idiomatic political or historical use, often contrasted with refusing to count a fourth.

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ثَلَّثَ

To remain three nights, or to perform a saying or action three times.

The construction may be used with a person, a period of residence, or repeated speech and action.

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ثَلَّثَ

To tie or bind three teats of a she-camel.

A specialized pastoral construction referring to fastening the teats with a cord or similar binding.

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ثَلَّثَ

Of dates or grapes, to reach a stage in which a third has ripened.

Used when approximately one third has become ripe or entered the relevant ripening state.

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تَثْلِيث

Watering seed-produce on the third day, or watering it again after one intervening day.

A specialized agricultural interval expression.

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ثَلَّثَ

To make a thing triangular or trilateral.

Used of giving an object three sides or angles.

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مُثَلَّثَة

To make a letter three-pointed or give it three diacritical dots.

A technical orthographic use, especially in distinguishing ثاء from similarly shaped letters.

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مُثَلَّث

A particular electuary or confection of aromatics or perfumes.

A conventional name for the preparation, not merely a general description of something threefold.

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أَثْلَثَ

For a party to become three, or to become thirty in the analogous numerical pattern.

Form IV intransitive numerical usage, describing the resulting number of a group.

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أَثْلَثَتْ

Of a female animal, to bear her third young one.

Used especially of a camel or other female animal and the order of its offspring.

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أَثْلَثَ

Of a grape-vine, to have one third of its fruit remaining after two thirds have been eaten.

A specialized resultative use describing the remaining proportion of fruit.

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ثِلْث

The third young one or offspring of a she-camel or other female animal.

A nominal designation of birth order; the source notes that the expression is not formed simply by calling the she-camel ثِلْث.

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ثِلْث

A three-day watering interval for palm-trees.

A specialized agricultural term for watering once every three days or after omitting one day.

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حُمَّى الثِّلْث

A tertian fever that attacks on one day, remits on the next, and returns on the third.

A medical expression based on the three-day recurrence pattern.

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ثَلْثَان

A vessel whose contents reach one third of its capacity.

Used of a vessel containing grain, drink, wine, or a similar measured substance.

• Lane · entry 27449

ثِلْثَان

A tree known as عِنَبُ الثَّعْلَبِ.

A lexicalized plant name with no necessary numerical meaning in ordinary use.

• Lane · entry 27450

ذُو ثُلَاث

A camel's girth, or related abdominal structure, described by the expression ذُو ثُلَاث.

A specialized and partly variant expression applied to the girth, belly, or associated membranes of a lean female camel.

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ذُو ثُلَاث

A garment made from the wool of three sheep.

A conventional garment description using ثُلَاث in a non-numerical lexicalized expression.

• Lane · entry 27452

ثَلُوث

A she-camel that fills three milking vessels at one milking.

A pastoral descriptor for the maximum stated quantity yielded at one milking.

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ثَلُوث

A she-camel with three functioning teats, or with one teat dried up, cut off, or otherwise rendered unusable.

The sources record several closely related applications concerning the number or condition of the teats.

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ثَلَاثَةَ عَشَر

Thirteen.

A compound cardinal numeral with dialectal variation in the pronunciation of the second component.

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الثَّلَاثَاء

Tuesday, the third day of the week.

The form is conventionally altered from the ordinary ordinal or numeral to distinguish the weekday name.

• Lane · entry 27458

ثُلَاثِيّ

Relating to three things; threefold.

A relational adjective derived from the numeral.

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ثُلَاثِيّ

Three cubits in length or height.

Applied to a garment, piece of cloth, or boy.

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ثُلَاثِيّ

A word composed of three letters, whether only the radicals or the radicals with augmentative material.

A technical grammatical and lexicological designation.

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ثَلَاثُون

The thirtieth.

An ordinal use of the tens numeral ثَلَاثُونَ in addition to its cardinal meaning thirty.

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ثَلَاثَاوِيّ

One who fasts alone on Tuesday.

A relational noun formed from the weekday name.

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ثَالِثَةُ الأَثَافِي

The projecting third support of a cooking tripod, a projecting part of a mountain to which two stones are joined.

A fixed expression referring to the third support among the three stones supporting a cooking-pot.

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ثَالِثَ عَشَر

Thirteenth.

A compound ordinal construction, with masculine and feminine forms and dialectal variation in declension.

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الثَّالُوث

The Trinity.

A lexicalized theological noun.

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مَثْلَث

A lute chord composed of three twists; according to another explanation, the third chord.

A technical musical term with recorded variation in whether the reference is to the number of twists or ordinal position.

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مُثْلِث

A she-camel or other female animal bringing forth her third young one.

A participial noun describing the animal by the order of its offspring.

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مُثَلَّث

A triangular or trilateral thing; a triangle.

Used of a thing having three angles or corners, including a three-sided piece of land.

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مُثَلَّث

A thing composed of three layers, folds, strata, or distinct fascicles.

The formation can describe things composed of three parts and, by analogy, similar formations with other numbers.

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مُثَلَّث

In lexicology, a word or verb whose relevant letter may bear any of the three vowels.

A technical grammatical designation for forms written or pronounced with three possible vowelings.

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مُثَلَّثَة

Three-pointed or marked with three diacritical points.

A technical orthographic adjective, especially in reference to a letter such as ثاء.

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مُثَلَّث

Wine or grape juice cooked until two thirds have evaporated.

A conventional culinary or beverage term defined by the amount removed through cooking.

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مُثَلَّث

A particular electuary or aromatic confection.

A lexicalized name for the preparation.

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مُثَلِّث

A calumniator who slanders one person to another in a way said to destroy three people: himself, his fellow, and the ruler.

A figurative conventional noun based on the three persons affected by the slander.

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مَثْلُوث

Property or another thing from which a third part has been taken.

The passive participle can also be applied to a verse or poetic measure from which a third has been removed.

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مَثْلُوث

In prosody, a verse or metre from which two of six feet have been removed.

A specialized metrical use; terminology distinguishes it from a form in which two thirds have been removed.

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مَثْلُوث

A rope composed of three strands twisted or woven together.

The same naming pattern may extend to ropes of several other numbers of strands.

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مَثْلُوث

A garment woven from wool, camel hair, and goat hair.

A conventional textile designation based on its three materials.

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مَثْلُوث

A leathern water-bag made from three skins.

A conventional description of the bag's construction.

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أَرْضٌ مَثْلُوثَة

Land turned over three times for sowing or cultivation.

A passive participial description of repeatedly prepared ground.

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