tiger

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A tiger.

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

From Middle English tygre, in part from Old English tigras (pl.), in part from Anglo-Norman tigre, both from Latin tigris, from Ancient Greek τίγρις (tígris), from Iranian (compare Avestan 𐬙𐬌𐬔𐬭𐬌 (tigri, “arrow”), 𐬙𐬌𐬖𐬭𐬀 (tiγra, “pointed”)). More at stick.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -aɪɡə(ɹ)

Noun

tiger (plural tigers, feminine tigress)

  1. Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.
    1. A male tiger; as opposed to a tigress.
  2. (heraldry) A representation of a large mythological cat, used on a coat of arms.
    • 1968, Charles MacKinnon of Dunakin, The Observer's Book of Heraldry, page 69:
      The heraldic tiger is a mythical beast, quite unlike a real tiger which is described in heraldry as a Bengal tiger. The ordinary tiger has no stripes, has a horn protruding from its nose, has tusks like a boar and a tufted mane, and has a lion's tail instead of a tiger's.
  3. (South Africa, dated but still used) A leopard.
    • 1907, Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, Jock of the Bushveld, Longmans 1976 ed., →ISBN, 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. A relatively small country or group of countries with a fast-growing economy.
    • 2000, Jagdish Handa, Monetary Economics, Psychology Press →ISBN, page 709
      In this scenario, the growth rates are higher for the economic tigers than for the other economies.
    • 2009, Fabrizio Tassinari, Why Europe Fears Its Neighbors, ABC-CLIO →ISBN, page 21
      Then came the 2008 credit turmoil and ensuing economic slump, which not only belittled the huge economic and social gains of the various Baltic and Celtic '' Tigers,'' as well as of several former communist nations of Central Europe.
    • 2014, Emmanuel Akyeampong, Robert H. Bates, Nathan Nunn, James Robinson, Africa's Development in Historical Perspective, Cambridge University Press →ISBN, page 287
      Once colonial or settler rule ended, such enterprises either lost the crutches of state support or became “white elephants,” draining resources from the wider economy. This was an important factor holding back the emergence of African tigers.
  5. (obsolete) A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress.
  6. (US, slang) A person who is very athletic during sexual intercourse.
    • 2010, Jeff Wilser, The Maxims of Manhood:
      Don't […] Tell your roommate that you heard the walls shaking all night, and it sounds like he's a real tiger in the sack.
  7. (figurative) A ferocious, bloodthirsty and audacious person.
    • c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
      As for that heinous tiger, Tamora,
      No funeral rite, nor man in mournful weeds,
      No mournful bell shall ring her burial;
      But throw her forth to beasts, and birds of prey.
  8. (US, colloquial) A kind of growl or screech, after cheering.
    three cheers and a tiger
  9. A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.
  10. A tiger moth in the family Arctiidae.
  11. A tiger beetle.
  12. Any of the three Australian species of black-and-yellow striped dragonflies of the genus Ictinogomphus.
  13. A tiger butterfly in tribe Danaini, especially subtribe Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.
Translations

References

“tiger”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Usage notes

In heraldry, many writers use spellings such as tyger or tygre to distinguish the mythological beast from the natural tiger (also blazoned Bengal tiger), which also occurs in heraldry.

Hypernyms
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Volapük: tigrid
  • → Welsh: teigr

Etymology 2

From the mascot of Princeton (a tiger), which led to early cheerleaders calling out "Tiger" at the end of a cheer for the Princeton team.

Noun

tiger (plural tigers)

  1. A final shouted phrase, accompanied by a jump or outstretched arms, at the end of a cheer.
    • 1868, Punch: Or the London Charivari - Volume 55, page 231:
      He spoke with a very strong Scotch accent, and is by no means a graceful orator, but he produced througout a most favourable impression upon all his hearers, and especially upon the students, one of whom shouted as the speaker closed, 'Long Live PRESIDENT M'COSH!' and then proposed three cheers, which were given with a will, followed by the usual tiger and ' rocket.'
    • 1941, Margaret Leech, Reveille in Washington:
      . . . every blue coat in the audience sprang to his feet, with three times three and a tiger.
    • 2008, D. C. Beard, The Outdoor Handy Book: For Playground, Field, and Forest, page 413:
      One Brooklyn military company has a “tiger” composed of a provincial expression borrowed from the farmers. When drawled out by a hundred throats the phrase "I-wanter-know!" always produces a laugh.

Anagrams

Cornish

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Etymology

From English tiger.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Revived Middle Cornish) /ˈtiːɡɛr/, (Revived Late Cornish) /ˈtiːɡɐr/

Noun

tiger m (plural tigres or tigri)

  1. tiger

Danish

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Etymology

From German Tiger, from Latin tigris.

Pronunciation

Noun

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

  1. tiger

Declension

Declension of tiger
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative tiger tigeren tigere
tigre 		tigerne
tigrene
genitive tigers tigerens tigeres
tigres 		tigernes
tigrenes

Derived terms

References

Middle Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French tigre, from Latin tigris.

Noun

tiger m

  1. tiger

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Further reading

Middle English

Noun

tiger

  1. Alternative form of tygre

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

From Latin tigris.

Noun

tiger m (definite singular tigeren, indefinite plural tigere or tigre or tigrer, definite plural tigerne or tigrene)

  1. a tiger, Panthera tigris

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

From Latin tigris.

Noun

tiger m (definite singular tigeren, indefinite plural tigrar, definite plural tigrane)

  1. a tiger, Panthera tigris

Derived terms

References

Old English

Etymology

From Latin tigris.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈti.ɡer/, [ˈti.ɣer]

Noun

tiger m (nominative plural tigras)

  1. tiger

Declension

Declension of tiger (strong a-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative tiger tigras
accusative tiger tigras
genitive tigres tigra
dative tigre tigrum

Derived terms

Descendants

Slovene

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Tiger

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek τίγρις (tígris), from Iranian (compare Avestan 𐬙𐬌𐬔𐬭𐬌 (tigri, “arrow”), 𐬙𐬌𐬖𐬭𐬀 (tiγra, “pointed”)).

Pronunciation

Noun

tígər m anim (female equivalent tīgrica)

  1. tiger

Inflection

 The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Masculine anim., hard o-stem
nom. sing. tíger
gen. sing. tígra
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik) 		tíger tígra tígri
genitive
(rodȋlnik) 		tígra tígrov tígrov
dative
(dajȃlnik) 		tígru tígroma tígrom
accusative
(tožȋlnik) 		tígra tígra tígre
locative
(mẹ̑stnik) 		tígru tígrih tígrih
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik) 		tígrom tígroma tígri

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “tiger”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

tiger c

  1. tiger (animal)

Declension

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

Verb

tiger

  1. (deprecated template usage) present tense of tiga.

West Frisian

Etymology

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Noun

tiger c (plural tigers, diminutive tigerke)

  1. tiger

Further reading

  • “tiger”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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