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love_triangle

love triangle

English

Noun

love triangle ‎(plural love triangles)

A situation in which two people vie for the love of a third.
- 1961 Dec. 12, The Times, p.5 col. F:
  La Battaglia di Legnano is a patriotic melodrama with a love triangle theme included.

Related terms

love polygon

Translations

situation in which two people vie for the love of a third

Afrikaans: liefdesdriehoek, driehoeksverhouding
Arabic: مُثَلَّث حُبّ m ‎(muṯallaṯ ḥubb)
Bulgarian: любовен триъгълник m ‎(ljubóven triǎ̀gǎlnik)
Catalan: triangle amorós m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 三角戀, 三角恋 ‎(sānjiǎoliàn)
Czech: milostný trojúhelník m
Dutch: driehoeksverhouding f
Esperanto: amotriangulo
Estonian: armukolmnurk
Finnish: kolmiodraama
French: triangle amoureux (fr) m
Galician: triángulo amoroso m
Georgian: სასიყვარულო სამკუთხედი ‎(sasiq̇varulo samḳutxedi)
German: Dreiecksverhältnis n
Greek: ερωτικό τρίγωνο n ‎(erotikó trígono)

Hebrew: משולש אהבה
Hungarian: szerelmi háromszög
Italian: triangolo amoroso
Japanese: 三角関係 ‎(さんかくかんけい, sankaku kankei)
Korean: 삼각관계 (ko) ‎(samgakgwangye (三角關係))
Polish: trójkąt miłosny f
Portuguese: triângulo amoroso m
Russian: любо́вный треуго́льник m ‎(ljubóvnyj treugólʹnik)
Scottish Gaelic: triantan gaoil m
Serbo-Croatian: ljubavni trougao
Spanish: triángulo amoroso m
Telugu: ముక్కోణ ప్రేమ ‎(mukkōṇa prēma)
Thai: ความรักสามเส้า ‎(kwaam rák săam-sâo)
Turkish: aşk üçgeni
Vietnamese: tình tay ba

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