tigre

See also: Tigre, tigré, Tigré, and tîgre

English

Noun

tigre (plural tigres)

1. Obsolete form of tiger.

Anagrams

• Tiger, greit, tiger

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Asturian

Noun

tigre m (plural tigres)

1. tiger (the mammal Panthera tigris)

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Basque

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

tigre ?

1. tiger

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin tīgris, from Ancient Greek τίγρις (tígris).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈti.ɣɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈti.ɣɾe]

Noun

tigre m (plural tigres)

1. tiger

Derived terms

• tigressa

Further reading

• “tigre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “tigre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “tigre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “tigre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ti‧gre

Noun

tigre

1. a tiger (Panthera tigris); a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia
2. the viper's bowstring hemp ()

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:tigre.

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Danish

Alternative forms

• tigere

Noun

tigre c

1. (deprecated template usage) indefinite plural of tiger

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiɡʁ/

• audio:

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Noun

tigre m (plural tigres, feminine tigresse)

1. tiger

Further reading

• “tigre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Galician

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin tīgris

Noun

tigre m (plural tigres)

1. tiger

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Interlingua

Noun

tigre

1. tiger

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Italian

Noun

tigre f (plural tigri)

1. tiger (male)
2. tigress (female)

Derived terms

• tigre del Bengala
• tigre di carta
• tigre della Siberia

Related terms

• tigrato
• tigrotto

Anagrams

• greti, tergi

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Leonese

Etymology

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

Noun

tigre m (plural tigres)

1. tiger

References

• AEDLL

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Middle English

Noun

tigre (plural tigres)

1. tiger

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Middle French

Noun

tigre m (plural tigres)

1. tiger

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• tigere, tigrer

Noun

tigre m

1. indefinite plural of tiger

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Occitan

Noun

tigre m (plural tigres)

1. tiger

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Old French

Noun

tigre oblique singular, m (oblique plural tigres, nominative singular tigres, nominative plural tigre)

1. tiger

Noun

tigre oblique singular, f (oblique plural tigres, nominative singular tigre, nominative plural tigres)

1. tigress

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Portuguese

tigre

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin tīgris (“tiger”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek τίγρις (tígris, “tiger”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.ɡɾe/
• IPA^(key): /ˈti.ɣɾɨ/
• Homophone: Tigre
• Hyphenation: ti‧gre

Noun

tigre m (plural s, feminine tigresa, feminine plural tigresas)

1. tiger

Derived terms

• tigre asiático

Related terms

• tigrino

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin tīgris, from Ancient Greek τίγρις (tígris).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiɡɾe/ [ˈt̪i.ɣ̞ɾe]

Noun

tigre m (plural tigres, feminine tigresa, feminine plural tigresas)

1. tiger
2. (Latin America) jaguar
3. angry or fierce person
4. an energic or expert male lover

Hypernyms

• felino
• félido
• panterino

Derived terms

• hijo de tigre
• leche de tigre
• ojo de tigre
• tiburón tigre
• tigre asiático
• tigre de Java
• tigrecito
• tigresa
• tigrillo

 

Descendants

• → Cebuano: tigre
• → San Juan Atzingo Popoloca: cotigre
• → Tagalog: tigre
• → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: tigre
• → Zoogocho Zapotec: tigr

Further reading

• Template:R:DRAE 2001

Anagrams

• grite, grité

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Tagalog

Noun

tigre (plural, mga tigre)

1. tiger

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Tetelcingo Nahuatl

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tigre.

Noun

tigre

1. Tiger (Panthera tigris).
   • 1964, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, “Ini nonca yulcötl itucö tigre”, in Yulcöme‎^[1], México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 5:

     Inu tigre lalebis piero icaca hua lalebis cuesijqui.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)