תלתא

Aramaic

**Aramaic cardinal numbers**
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Cardinal : תלתא (təlāṯā) Ordinal : תליתאי (tlīṯāy)

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ṯalāṯatum.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /təˈlɑ.θɑ/
(Ashkenazi) IPA^(key): /təˈlɔ.sɔ/

Numeral

תְּלָתָא • (təlāṯā) m (feminine תְּלַת (təlaṯ))

three (3)
- a. 500 C.E., Babylonian Talmud. Shabbat, 140b:
  בַּר בֵּי רַב דְּזָבֵין אוּמְצָא — לִיזְבֵּין אוּנְקָא, דְּאִית בֵּיהּ תְּלָתָא מִינֵי בִישְׂרָא.
  Bar bēi rab̲ dəzåb̲ēn umśå – lizbēn unqå, də-it̲ bēh təlåt̲å minēi b̲iśra
  A member of the rabbi's house who buys a piece of meat – let him buy a neck, because in it are three kinds of meat.

Descendants

Classical Syriac: ܬܠܵܬ݂ܵܐ (tlāṯā)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܬܠܵܬ݂ܵܐ (tlāṯā)

References

“tlt”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
Jastrow, Marcus (1903), “תְּלָתָא”, in A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature‎^[1], London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons