トラ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of トラ – see the following entry.

【虎とら】S [noun] a tiger (The mammal Panthera tigris) [interjection] (World War II, dated) clipping of 突撃雷撃 (totsugeki raigeki, “lightning attack”), used by Japanese soldiers to warn about an imminent attack.

(This term, トラ (tora), is the katakana spelling of the above term.)