tyger
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English tigre, from Old English tīgras (pl) and influenced by Old French tigre, both from Latin tigris, from Ancient Greek τίγρις (tígris), possibly of Iranian origin.
Noun[edit]
tyger (plural tygers)
- (obsolete) A tiger.
- [1669, Nievhoff, John, John Ogilby, transl., An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China[1], London: John Macock, →OCLC, page 240:
- Near to Cinyuen, in the Province of Junnan, is the Mountain Nilo, where is great abundance of Tygers and Leopards.]
- 1794, William Blake, "The Tyger", Songs Of Experience
- Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
- In the forests of the night,
- What immortal hand or eye
- Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
- (heraldry) Alternative form of tiger
Swedish[edit]
Noun[edit]
tyger
- indefinite plural of tyg.
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