الْثَّالِثَ third in Arabic
الْثَّالِثَ is how you say “third” in Arabic.
Root ث ل ث th-l-th. adjective / ordinal number (active-participle pattern from the root's number-verb). ath-thālith.
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Meaning of third in Arabic
- third (ordinal number) the one that comes third, completing a set of three — built the same way as rābiʿ 'fourth', khāmis 'fifth'
- one that joins two others to make three reflects the underlying verb's sense of 'becoming third to two' or 'making two, with oneself, three'
Example sentence
حَتَّى إِذَا كَانَ يَوْمَ الْثَّالِثَ،
Until the third day came,
الْثَّالِثَ third
An ordinal adjective, 'third', matching the day-noun before it in being definite and in case so it reads as part of the same phrase. Arabic ties a describing word to its noun by echoing those features.
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How it is used
Thālith is the ordinal built on the root's number-verb ثَلَثَ, following the same pattern used for other ordinals (classical usage has a horse or rider come ثالث after the leader, then رابع 'fourth', then خامس 'fifth'). With the article it gives 'the third' (aṯ-ṯāliṯ), and it can take a following count to mean 'third of...', echoing the verb's sense of joining two others to make three.
Words from the same root
- ثَلَثَ to become the third (of a group); to take a third of property
- ثلّثهُ to make threefold, triple something; also to assert the doctrine of the Trinity
- ثُلُثٌ a third; one-third share or fraction
- ثَلَاثَةٌ three (the cardinal number)
- ثَلَاثُونَ thirty
Common questions
- How do you say "third" in Arabic?
- اَلثَّالِث (ath-thālith).
- What root does "thālith" (third) come from?
- The triliteral root ث ل ث (th-l-th), the same root behind thalāthah 'three', thuluth 'a third', and thalāthūn 'thirty'.
Related words
Definitions summarised from Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (E. W. Lane, 1863–1893).