tiger

See also: Tiger

English

Wikipedia

A tiger.

Alternative forms

• tigre (obsolete)
• tyger (dated)

Etymology

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 [script needed] (tigri, “arrow”), [script needed] (tiγra, “pointed”)). More at stick.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪɡɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪɡə/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -aɪɡə(r)

Noun

tiger (plural tigers)

1. Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.
   1. A male tiger.
2. A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of 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.

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 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.

5. (figuratively) A ferocious, bloodthirsty person.
   • Shakespeare

     As for heinous tiger, Tamora.

6. (US, colloquial) A kind of growl or screech, after cheering.

   three cheers and a tiger

7. A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Synonyms

• Panthera tigris

Derived terms

Asian Tiger (business) Bali tiger Bengal tiger Sumatran tiger Siberian tiger

Tasmanian tiger blind tiger have a tiger by the tail paper tiger tiger beetle

tiger cat tiger lily tiger moth tiger mother tiger shark

tiger snake tigereye tigerish tigerlike

Related terms

• tigress
• tigrine
• Tigger

Hypernyms

• felid

Translations

The mammal Panthera tigris

• Afrikaans: tier
• Albanian: tigri
• Amuzgo: kítziaⁿ
• Arabic: نِمْر (ar) m (nimr), بَبرٌ (ar) m (babr)

  Egyptian Arabic: نمر m (nimr)

• Aramaic:

  Syriac: ܛܝܓܪܝܣ m (Ṭīgrīs)

  Hebrew: טיגריס (he) m (Ṭīgrīs), נמר (he) m (namér)

• Armenian: վագր (hy) (vagr)
• Assamese: please add this translation if you can
• Asturian: tigre m
• Azeri: pələng (az)
• Baluchi: مزار (mazár)
• Basque: tigre (eu)
• Bau Bidayuh: rimoung
• Belarusian: тыгр m (tyhr)
• Bengali: বাঘ (bn) (bagh)
• Binisayâ: tigre
• Bulgarian: тигър (bg) m (tígǎr)
• Burmese: ကျား (my) (kya:)
• Catalan: tigre m
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⵖⵉⵍⴰⵙ m (aghilas)
• Central Melanau: rimau, rimau baleng
• Chechen: цӏоькъалом (c̣öq̇alom)
• Cherokee: ᏢᏓᏥ ᏧᎶᎸᏗ (tlvdatsi tsulolvdi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 虎 (zh) (hǔ)

• Czech: tygr (cs) m
• Danish: tiger (da) c
• Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: tijger (nl) m
• Dzongkha: please add this translation if you can
• Erzya: бабри (babri)
• Esperanto: tigro (eo)
• Estonian: tiiger
• Faroese: tikari m
• Finnish: tiikeri (fi)
• French: tigre (fr) m, tigresse (fr) f
• Galician: tigre (gl) m, tigresa f
• Georgian: ვეფხვი (vep’xvi)
• German: Tiger (de) m, Tigerin f

  Middle High German: tigertier n

  Old High German: tigirtior n, tigritior n

• Greek: τίγρη (el) m, f (tígri)

  Ancient Greek: τίγρις m, f (tígris)

• Greenlandic: tiigeri (kl)
• Guaraní: jaguarete
• Gujarati: વાઘ (gu) (vāgh)
• Hebrew: טיגריס (he) m (tigris)
• Hindi: बाघ m (bāgh), व्याघ्र m (vyāghra), शेर m (śer)
• Hungarian: tigris (hu)
• Iban: remaung
• Ido: (♂♀) tigro (io), (♂) tigrulo, (♀) tigrino
• Indonesian: harimau (id), macan (id)

  Acehnese: rimuëng

  Sundanese: lodaya

• Interlingua: tigre
• Interlingue: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: tíogar (ga) m
• Italian: tigre (it) f
• Japanese: 虎 (ja) (トラ, tora)
• Javanese: macan (jv)
• Kannada: ಹುಲಿ (kn) (huli)
• Kazakh: жолбарыс (jolbarıs)
• Khmer: ខ្លាធំ (klaa tʰom)
• Korean: 호랑이 (ko) (horang-i), 범 (ko) (beom)

• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: plling

  Sorani: پڵنگ

• Kyrgyz: жолборс (ky) (colbors)
• Lao: ເສືອ (lo) (sư̄a)
• Latin: tīgris (la) m, f
• Latvian: tīģeris m
• Lithuanian: tigras (lt) m
• Lojban: tirxu
• Luxembourgish: Tiger m
• Macedonian: тигар m (tígar)
• Malay: harimau (ms), macan, harimau belang, macan loreng
• Malayalam: പുലി (ml) (puli), വ്യാഘ്രം (ml) (vyāghraṃ)
• Manchu: ᡨᠠ‍ᡧ‍ᠠ‍ (taša)
• Marathi: वाघ m (vāgha)
• Mazanderani: پلنگ
• Mon: ကၠ (klaˀ)
• Mongolian: бар (bar)
• Navajo: náshdóítsoh noodǫ́zígíí
• Norwegian: tiger (no) m
• Ossetian: тигр (tigr)
• Pali: byaggha m
• Pashto: پړانګ (pṛāng)
• Persian: ببر (fa) (babr)
• Polish: tygrys (pl) m
• Portuguese: tigre (pt) m
• Rohingya: bag
• Romanian: tigru (ro) m
• Russian: тигр (ru) m (tigr)
• Sanskrit: व्याघ्र m (vyāghrá)
• Scots: teeger
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тигар m

  Roman: tigar (sh) m

• Shan: သိူဝ် (sʰɤ1)
• Sinhalese: කොටියා (koṭiyā)
• Slovak: tiger m
• Slovene: tiger (sl) m
• Spanish: tigre (es) m
• Swahili: chui-milia
• Swedish: tiger (sv) c
• Tagalog: tigre (tl)
• Tai Nüa: ᥔᥫᥴ (se6)
• Tajik: бабр (babr)
• 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
• Ukrainian: тигр m (tyhr)
• Urdu: شیر (ur) m (śer)
• Uyghur: يولۋاس (yolwas), بارس (bars)
• Uzbek: yolbars
• Vietnamese: con hổ, con cọp
• Volapük: (♂♀) tigrid (vo), (♂) hitigrid (vo), (♀) jitigrid (vo), (♂♀ offspring) tigridül (vo), (♂ offspring) hitigridül (vo), (♀ offspring) jitigridül (vo), (older term) tiaf
• Welsh: teigr (cy) m
• West Frisian: tiger (fy) c
• Xhosa: ingwe
• Yiddish: טיגער m (tiger)
• Zulu: ingwe

Anagrams

• Tigre

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Danish

Wikipedia ^da

Etymology

From German Tiger, from Latin tigris.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiːər/, [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	tiger	tigeren	tigere tigre	tigerne tigrene
genitive	tigers	tigerens	tigeres tigres	tigernes tigrenes

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Norwegian Bokmål

Wikipedia ^no

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

References

• “tiger” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

Etymology

From Latin tigris.

Noun

tiger m (definite singular tigeren, indefinite plural tigerar, definite plural tigerane)

1. a tiger, Panthera tigris

References

• “tiger” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Slovene

Wikipedia ^sl

Tiger

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek τίγρις (tígris), from Iranian (compare Avestan [script needed] (tigri, “arrow”), [script needed] (tiγra, “pointed”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtìːɡər/
• Tonal orthography: tígər

Noun

tíger m anim (genitive tígra, nominative plural tígri, feminine tígrica)

1. tiger

Declension

Declension of tíger (masculine anim., hard o-stem)

	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

Derived terms

• bálijski tíger
• bengálski tíger
• indonézijski tíger
• javánski tíger
• južnokitájski tíger
• káspijski tíger, pêrzijski tíger
• malézijski tíger
• sibírski tíger
• sumatránski tíger
• trinílski tíger

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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.