Tigrinya

See also: tigrinya

English

Alternative forms

• Tigrigna, Tigriña, Tigrinia, Tigrinian, Tigrinyan, Təgrəñña, Tégréñña, Tegreñña

Etymology

From Tigrinya ትግርኛ (təgrəñña). The spelling Tigrigna came via Italian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɪˈɡɹiːnjə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Tigrinya

1. A Semitic language of Eritrea and Ethiopia. It is written in the Ge'ez alphabet.

Related terms

• Tigray
• Tigrayan
• Tigray Region
• Tigray-Tigrinya

Translations

language

• Amharic: ትግርኛ (am) (təgrəñña)
• Arabic: التِّغْرِينِيَّة f (at-tiḡrīniyya)
• Belarusian: тыгры́нья f (tyhrýnʹja)
• Bulgarian: тигри́ня f (tigrínja)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 提格利尼亞語 / 提格利尼亚语 (zh) (tígélìníyàyǔ), 蒂格里亞語 / 蒂格里亚语 (dìgélǐyàyǔ), 提格雷尼亚语 (tígéléiníyàyǔ)

• Faroese: tigrinja f
• Finnish: tigrinja (fi)
• French: tigrigna (fr) m
• German: Tigrinya (de) n, Tigrinisch (de) n
• Hebrew: טיגריניה m (tigrínya)
• Hindi: तिग्रीन्या भाषा f (tigrīnyā bhāṣā), तिग्रीन्या (tigrīnyā)
• Hungarian: tigrinya (hu) sg
• Italian: tigrigna f
• Japanese: ティグリニャ語 (ja) (tigurinyago)
• Korean: 티그리냐어 (tigeurinya'eo)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tigrinja

  Nynorsk: tigrinja

• Portuguese: tigrinya m, tigrinha m, tigrínia (pt) m
• Russian: тигри́нья (ru) f (tigrínʹja)
• Slovak: tigriňa f
• Spanish: tigriña (es) f
• Swedish: tigrinska (sv) c
• Talysh: tigrinija zyvon
• Tigre: please add this translation if you can
• Tigrinya: ትግርኛ (təgrəñña), ትግርኛ ፊደል (təgrəñña fidäl)
• Ukrainian: тигри́нья f (tyhrýnʹja)

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Tigrinya terms
• Tigray-Tigrinya people on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Tigrinya edition of Wiktionary
• ISO 639-1 code ti, ISO 639-3 code tir (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Tigrinya, tir ⁠