English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French tigresse, corresponding to tiger + -ess.
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ˈtaɪ.ɡɹɪs/, /ˈtaɪ.ɡɹəs/
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tigress (plural tigresses, masculine tiger)
- A female tiger; a she-tiger.
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Translations[edit]
female tiger
- Arabic: نِمْرَة f (nimra), بَبْرَة f (babra)
- Asturian: tigresa (ast) f
- Belarusian: тыгры́ца f (tyhrýca)
- Bengali: বাঘিনি (bn) (baghini)
- Bulgarian: тигри́ца f (tigríca)
- Burmese: ကျားမ (my) (kya:ma.)
- Catalan: tigressa (ca) f, (nonstandard) tigra
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 老虎乸 (yue) (lou5 fu2 naa2)
- Mandarin: 母虎 (mǔhǔ), 雌虎 (cíhǔ)
- Czech: tygřice f
- Danish: huntiger c
- Dutch: tijgerin (nl) f
- Esperanto: tigrino
- Estonian: ematiiger
- Finnish: naarastiikeri
- French: tigresse (fr) f
- German: Tigerin (de) f, Tigerweibchen n
- Greek: τίγρη (el) f (tígri)
- Hindi: बाघिन f (bāghin), शेरनी f (śernī)
- Ido: tigrino
- Italian: tigre femmina f, femmina della tigre f
- Japanese: 雌虎 (めすとら, mesutora)
- Kalmyk: эм ирвск (em irvsk)
- Kazakh: өлекшін (ölekşın)
- Khmer: មេខ្លាធំ (mei klaa tʰom), ខ្លាធំមេ (klaa tʰom mei)
- Latvian: tīģeriene f
- Lithuanian: tigrė f
- Macedonian: тигрица f (tigrica)
- Manchu: ᠪᡳᡵᡝᠨ (biren)
- Mongolian: бэрс (mn) (bers)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hunntiger m, tigerhunn m
- Nynorsk: tigerho f, tigerhoe f
- Polish: tygrysica (pl) f, tygrzyca f
- Portuguese: tigresa (pt) f
- Punjabi: ਬਾਘਣੀ f (bāghṇī), ਸ਼ੇਰਨੀ f (śernī)
- Romanian: tigroaică (ro) f
- Russian: тигри́ца (ru) f (tigríca)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: тигрица f
- Roman: tigrica (sh) f
- Slovak: tigrica f
- Slovene: tigrica f
- Spanish: tigresa (es) f
- Swedish: tigerhona c, tigrinna (sv) c
- Telugu: వ్యాఘ్రి (te) (vyāghri)
- Ukrainian: тигри́ця (uk) f (tyhrýcja)
- Urdu: باگھن f (bāghin), شیرنی f (śernī)
- Vietnamese: hổ cái, cọp cái
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