tiger

See also Tiger

English

Wikipedia

A tiger.

Alternative forms

• tigre (obsolete)
• tyger (dated)

Etymology

From Old French tigre, from (accusative form of) Latin tigris, from Ancient Greek τίγρις, possibly of Iranian origin.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈtaɪɡə/

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• Rhymes: -aɪɡə(r)

Noun

tiger (plural tigers)

1. Panthera tigris, a large carnivorous animal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.
2. A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress
   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. XVII, The Beginnings

     The doom of Fate was, Be thou a Dandy! Have thy eye-glasses, opera-glasses, thy Long-Acre cabs with white-breeched tiger, thy yawning impassivities, pococurantisms; fix thyself in Dandyhood, undeliverable; it is thy doom.

3. (South Africa, dated but still used) A leopard.
   • 1907, Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, Jock of the Bushveld, Longmans 1976 ed., ISBN 0582161231, page 251:

     Jim remarked irrelevantly that tigers were 'schelms' and it was his conviction that there were a great many in the kloofs round about.

4. (US, slang) A person who is very athletic during intercourse.

Synonyms

• Panthera tigris

Derived terms

Asian Tiger (business) Bali tiger Bengal tiger Sumatran tiger

Siberian tiger Tasmanian tiger blind tiger paper tiger

tiger beetle tiger cat tiger lily tiger moth

tiger shark tiger snake tigereye tigerish tigerlike

Related terms

• tigress
• tigrine
• Tigger

Hypernyms

• felid

Translations

The mammal Panthera tigris

Afrikaans: tier (af) Albanian: tigri (sq) Amuzgo: kítziaⁿ Arabic: نِمْر (ar) (nimr) m., بَبرٌ (ar) (babr) m. Egyptian Arabic: نمر (nimr) m. Aramaic: Syriac: ܛܝܓܪܝܣ m. (Ṭīgrīs) Hebrew: טיגריס (he) m. (Ṭīgrīs) Armenian: վագր (hy) (vagr) Azeri: pələng (az) Basque: tigre (eu) Belarusian: тыгр (be) (tyhr) m. Bengali: বাঘ (bn) (bagh) Binisayâ: tigre Bulgarian: тигър (bg) (tígǎr) m. Burmese: ကျား (my) (kya:) Catalan: tigre (ca) m. Chechen: цӀоькъалом (ċöķalom) Cherokee: ᏢᏓᏥ ᏧᎶᎸᏗ (chr) (tlvdatsi tsulolvdi) Chinese: 虎 (cmn) (hǔ) Czech: tygr (cs) m. Danish: tiger (da) c. Dutch: tijger (nl) m. Esperanto: tigro (eo) Estonian: tiiger (et) Faroese: tikari (fo) m. Finnish: tiikeri (fi) French: tigre (fr) m. Georgian: ვეფხვი (ka) (vep’xvi) German: Tiger (de) m. Middle High German: tigertier n. Old High German: tigirtior n., tigritior n. Greek: τίγρη (el) (tígrē) m. and f. Ancient Greek: τίγρις (tígris) m. and f. Greenlandic: tiigeri (kl) Guaraní: jaguarete (gn) Hebrew: טיגריס (he) (tigris) m. Hindi: बाघ (hi) (bāgh) m., व्याघ्र (hi) (vyāghra) m., शेर (hi) (śer) m. Hungarian: tigris (hu) Indonesian: harimau (id), macan (id) Acehnese: rimuëng Sundanese: lodaya (su) Interlingua: tigre (ia) Irish: tíogar (ga) m. Italian: tigre (it) f. Japanese: 虎 (ja), トラ (ja), とら (ja) (torá) Kannada: ಹುಲಿ (kn) (huli) Kazakh: жолбарыс (kk) (jolbarıs) Khmer: ខ្លាធំ (km) (khlā-thum) Korean: 호랑이 (ko) (horang-i), 범 (ko) (beom) Kurdish: پڵنگ (ku) Kyrgyz: жолборс (ky) (çolbors) Lao: ເສືອ (lo) (syya) Latin: tīgris (la) m. and f.

Latvian: tīģeris (lv) m. Lithuanian: tigras (lt) m. Luxembourgish: Tiger (lb) m. Macedonian: тигар (mk) (tígar) m. Malay: harimau (ms) Malayalam: പുലി (ml) (puli), വ്യാഘ്രം (ml) (vyaaghram) Manchu: tasha Mongolian: бар (mn) (bar) Navajo: náshdóítsoh noodǫ́zígíí Norwegian: tiger (no) m. Ossetian: тигр (tigr) Pali: byaggha m. Pashto: پړانګ (ps) (pṛāng) Persian: ببر (fa) (babr) Polish: tygrys (pl) m. Portuguese: tigre (pt) m. Rohingya: bag Romanian: tigru (ro) m. Russian: тигр (ru) (tigr) m. Sanskrit: व्याघ्र (sa) (vyāghra) m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: тигар (sh) m. Roman: tigar (sh) m. Sinhalese: කොටියා (si) (koṭiyā) Slovak: tiger (sk) m. Slovene: tiger (sl) m. Spanish: tigre (es) m. Swahili: chui-milia (sw) Swedish: tiger (sv) c. Tagalog: tigres (tl) Tajik: бабр (tg) (babr) Tamazight: aghilas m. Tamil: புலி (ta) (puli) Tatar: юлбарыс (tt) (yulbarıs) Telugu: పులి (te) (puli) Thai: เสือ (th) (seua) Tibetan: སྟག (stag) Tupinambá: îagûara, îagûareté Turkish: kaplan (tr) Turkmen: gaplaň (tk) Ukrainian: тигр (uk) (tyhr) m. Urdu: شیر (ur) (śer) m. Uyghur: يولۋاس (ug), بارس (ug) Uzbek: yolbars (uz) Vietnamese: con hổ (vi), con cọp (vi) Volapük: (male or female) tigrid (vo), (male) hitigrid (vo), (female) jitigrid (vo), (male or female offspring, young) tigridül (vo), (male offspring, young) hitigridül (vo), (female offspring, young) jitigridül (vo), (older term) tiaf (vo) Welsh: teigr (cy) m. West Frisian: tiger (fy) c. Xhosa: ingwe (xh) Yiddish: טיגער (yi) (tiger) m. Zulu: ingwe (zu)

Anagrams

• Tigre

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Danish

Wikipedia ^da

Etymology

From German Tiger, from Latin tigris.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tiːər/, [ˈtˢiːɐ]
• Homophone: tier

Noun

tiger c. (singular definite tigeren, plural indefinite tigere or tigre)

1. tiger

Inflection

    Inflection of tiger

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	tiger	tigeren	tigere tigre	tigerne tigrene
genitive	tigers	tigerens	tigeres tigres	tigernes tigrenes

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Norwegian

Etymology

From Latin tigris.

Noun

tiger

1. tiger, Panthera tigris

Inflection

    Inflection of tiger

	indefinite singular	definite singular	indefinite plural	definite plural
Bokmål m	tiger	tigeren	tigere/tigre/tigrer	tigerne/tigrene
Nynorsk m	tiger	tigeren	tigrar	tigrane

References

• “tiger” in The Bokmål Dictionary / The Nynorsk Dictionary – Dokumentasjonsprosjektet.

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Slovene

Wikipedia ^sl

Tiger

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek τίγρις (tígris).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈtiɡər/

Noun

tíger m. (dual tigra, plural tigri) animate

1. tiger

Declension

declension of tiger

	singular (ednina)	dual (dvojina)	plural (množina)
nominative (imenovalnik)	tiger	tigra	tigri
genitive (rodilnik)	tigra	tigrov	tigrov
dative (dajalnik)	tigru	tigroma	tigrom
accusative (tožilnik)	tigra	tigra	tigre
locative (mestnik)	tigru	tigrih	tigrih
instrumental (orodnik)	tigrom	tigroma	tigri

Derived terms

• balijski tiger
• bengalski tiger
• indonezijski tiger
• javanski tiger
• južnokitajski tiger
• kaspijski tiger, perzijski tiger
• malezijski tiger
• sibirski tiger
• sumatranski tiger
• trinilski tiger

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Swedish

Pronunciation

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Noun

tiger c.

1. tiger, an animal

Declension

Declension of tiger

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	tiger	tigern	tigrar	tigrarna
genitive	tigers	tigerns	tigrars	tigrarnas

Verb

tiger

1. present tense of tiga.