ث-ل-ث
Tha-Lam-Tha
5 words from this root family
About this root
Tha-Lam-Tha (ث-ل-ث) has 5 words in the Fahm dictionary: thalātha (three), thalāthūn (thirty), ath-thālith (third), ath-thulāthāʾ (Tuesday), and 1 more.
In the Quran, words built on this root occur 32 times in 28 verses, across 20 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:196. The form ثَلَاثَة (three) accounts for 13 of them.
Themes: Numbers, Basics, Numbers Tens, Numbers Ordinals, Time, Numbers Practical
Words from this root
| Word | Meaning | Type | In the Quran | Taught in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
ثَلَاثَة thalātha | three | numeral, A1 | 13× | Numbers 0-9 |
ثَلَاثُون thalāthūn | thirty | numeral, A1 | Numbers 10-1000 | |
الثَّالِث ath-thālith | third | adjective, A1 | Numbers 10-1000 | |
الثُّلَاثَاء ath-thulāthāʾ | Tuesday | noun, A1 | Days of the Week | |
ثُلُث thuluth | third (fraction) | noun, A2 | 6× | Practical Number Words |
“In the Quran” counts every occurrence of that dictionary form, in any of its senses.
In the Quran
قَالَ رَبِّ ٱجْعَل لِّىٓ ءَايَةً ۖ قَالَ ءَايَتُكَ أَلَّا تُكَلِّمَ ٱلنَّاسَ ثَلَـٰثَةَ أَيَّامٍ إِلَّا رَمْزًا ۗ وَٱذْكُر رَّبَّكَ كَثِيرًا وَسَبِّحْ بِٱلْعَشِىِّ وَٱلْإِبْكَـٰرِHe said: My Lord! Appoint a token for me. (The angel) said: The token unto thee (shall be) that thou shalt not speak unto mankind three days except by signs. Remember thy Lord much, and praise (Him) in the early hours of night and morning.
وَإِنْ خِفْتُمْ أَلَّا تُقْسِطُوا۟ فِى ٱلْيَتَـٰمَىٰ فَٱنكِحُوا۟ مَا طَابَ لَكُم مِّنَ ٱلنِّسَآءِ مَثْنَىٰ وَثُلَـٰثَ وَرُبَـٰعَ ۖ فَإِنْ خِفْتُمْ أَلَّا تَعْدِلُوا۟ فَوَٰحِدَةً أَوْ مَا مَلَكَتْ أَيْمَـٰنُكُمْ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ أَدْنَىٰٓ أَلَّا تَعُولُوا۟And if ye fear that ye will not deal fairly by the orphans, marry of the women, who seem good to you, two or three or four; and if ye fear that ye cannot do justice (to so many) then one (only) or (the captives) that your right hands possess. Thus it is more likely that ye will not do injustice.
لَّقَدْ كَفَرَ ٱلَّذِينَ قَالُوٓا۟ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ ثَالِثُ ثَلَـٰثَةٍ ۘ وَمَا مِنْ إِلَـٰهٍ إِلَّآ إِلَـٰهٌ وَٰحِدٌ ۚ وَإِن لَّمْ يَنتَهُوا۟ عَمَّا يَقُولُونَ لَيَمَسَّنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ مِنْهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌThey surely disbelieve who say: Lo! Allah is the third of three; when there is no God save the One Allah. If they desist not from so saying a painful doom will fall on those of them who disbelieve.
Arabic text: Tanzil Quran Text (Uthmani 1.1), CC BY 3.0, tanzil.net. English: Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), public domain, via Project Gutenberg. Counts and verse choice: Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology data (corpus.quran.com).
Word cards with examples
thirty
third
Tuesday
Named after the number three (thalātha) as it is the third day
third (fraction)
Arabic fractions follow the pattern فُعُل for basic fractions: ثُلُث (1/3), رُبُع (1/4), خُمُس (1/5), سُدُس (1/6), سُبُع (1/7), ثُمُن (1/8), تُسُع (1/9), عُشْر (1/10).