tiger

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English[edit]

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A tiger.

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Etymology 1[edit]

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.

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tiger (plural tigers, feminine tigress)

  1. Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.
    1. A male tiger.
  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. (obsolete) A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Charles Dickens to this entry?)
    • 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.
  4. (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.
  5. (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.
  6. (figuratively) A ferocious, bloodthirsty and audacious person.
    • 1588-93, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus
      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.
  7. (US, colloquial) A kind of growl or screech, after cheering.
    three cheers and a tiger
  8. A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.
  9. A tiger moth in the family Arctiidae.
  10. A tiger beetle.
  11. A tiger butterfly in tribe Danaini, especially subtribe Danaina
  12. 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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for tiger in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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  • → Welsh: teigr
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Etymology 2[edit]

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.

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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.

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Cornish[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From English tiger.

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

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tiger m (plural tigres or tigri)

  1. tiger

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Danish[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From German Tiger, from Latin tigris.

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

  1. tiger

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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

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Middle Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Old French tigre, from Latin tigris.

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tiger m

  1. tiger

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Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Latin tigris.

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

  1. a tiger, Panthera tigris

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Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Latin tigris.

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

  1. a tiger, Panthera tigris

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Old English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin tigris.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈti.ɡer/, [ˈti.ɣer]

Noun[edit]

tiger m (nominative plural tigras)

  1. tiger

Declension[edit]

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

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Slovene[edit]

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Tiger

Etymology[edit]

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

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tígər m anim (female equivalent tīgrica)

  1. tiger

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Masculine anim., hard o-stem
nom. sing. tíger
gen. sing. tígra
singular dual plural
nominative tíger tígra tígri
accusative tígra tígra tígre
genitive tígra tígrov tígrov
dative tígru tígroma tígrom
locative tígru tígrih tígrih
instrumental tígrom tígroma tígri

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Swedish[edit]

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tiger c

  1. tiger (animal)

Declension[edit]

Declension of tiger 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative tiger tigern tigrar tigrarna
Genitive tigers tigerns tigrars tigrarnas

Verb[edit]

tiger

  1. present tense of tiga.

West Frisian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun[edit]

tiger c (plural tigers, diminutive tigerke)

  1. tiger

Further reading[edit]

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