tiger
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Alternative forms
Etymology 1
From Средњи Енглески tygre, in part from Lua грешка in Модул:etymology at line 156: Стари Енглески (ang) is not set as an ancestor of Енглески (en) in Модул:languages/data/2. The ancestor of Енглески is Early Modern English (en-ear) (an etymology-only language whose regular parent is Енглески (en)).. (pl.), in part from Anglo-Norman tigre, both from Латински tigris, from Антички Грчки τίγρις (tígris), from Lua грешка in Модул:languages at line 1625: bad argument #1 to 'find' (string expected, got nil). (compare Avestan 𐬙𐬌𐬔𐬭𐬌 (tigri, “arrow”), 𐬙𐬌𐬖𐬭𐬀 (tiγra, “pointed”)). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”). Compare English stick.
Pronunciation
- enPR: tī'gər, IPA(кључ): /ˈtaɪɡɚ/
- (CA, Inland North, New England, some speakers) IPA(кључ): [ˈtʌɪɡɚ]
- (RP) IPA(кључ): /ˈtaɪɡə/
Audio (US): (file) - Риме: -aɪɡə(ɹ)
- Homophone: taiga (non-rhotic)
Noun
tiger (plural tigers, feminine tigress)
- Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, →OCLC, book II, canto IX, stanza 14, page 311:
- For with ſuch puiſſance and impetuous maine / Thoſe Champions broke on them, that forſt the fly, / Like ſcattered Sheepe, whenas the Shepherds ſwaine / A Lyon and a Tigre doth eſpye, / With greedy pace forth ruſhing from the foreſt nye.
- (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.
- (South Africa, dated but still used) A leopard.
- 1907, Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, Jock of the Bushveld, Longmans, published 1976, →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.
- 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.
- (obsolete) A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress.
- (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.
- (figurative) A ferocious, bloodthirsty and audacious person.
- A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.
- A tiger moth in the family Arctiidae.
- A tiger beetle.
- Any of the three Australian species of black-and-yellow striped dragonflies of the genus Ictinogomphus.
- A tiger butterfly in tribe Danaini, especially subtribe Danaina
Usage notes
In heraldry, many writers use spellings such as tyger or tygre to distinguish the mythological beast from the natural tiger (also blazoned Bengal tiger), which also occurs in heraldry.
Derived terms
- American tiger
- Amur tiger
- Asian Tiger
- Australian tiger
- Bali tiger
- Bengal tiger
- blind tiger
- buck the tiger
- Caspian tiger
- double-nosed Andean tiger hound
- fight the tiger
- have a tiger by the tail
- have the tiger by the tail
- hot tiger
- Hualapai tiger
- Hyrcanian tiger
- Javan tiger
- lady or tiger
- liger
- man-tiger
- Mexican tiger
- paper tiger
- park a tiger
- Queensland tiger
- red tiger
- ride the tiger
- ruby tiger
- saber-toothed tiger
- sabertooth tiger
- sabre-toothed tiger
- scarlet tiger
- she-tiger
- Siberian tiger
- Sumatran tiger
- swamp tiger
- Tasmanian tiger
- tiger balm
- tiger barb
- tiger beetle
- tiger bench
- tiger blood
- tiger bread
- tiger cage
- tiger cat
- tiger chair
- tiger civet
- tiger country
- tiger economy
- tigereye
- tiger flower
- tiger-foot
- tiger grass
- tiger heron
- tiger in one's tank
- tigerish
- tiger juice
- tiger kidnap
- tigerlike
- tiger lily
- tiger-lily
- tigerly
- tiger meat
- tiger mom
- tiger mosquito
- tiger moth
- tiger mother
- tiger mum
- tiger nut
- tiger-nut
- tiger of a different stripe
- tiger paw
- tiger pear
- tiger pit
- tiger prawn
- tiger quoll
- tiger salamander
- tiger sauce
- tiger's claw
- tiger's eye
- tiger shark
- tiger's milk
- tiger snake
- tiger stripe
- tiger stripes
- tiger swallowtail
- tiger sweat
- tiger tail
- tiger team
- tiger tiger
- tiger toast
- tiger wolf
- tiger wood
- tigon
- tigress
- Turan tiger
- weretiger
- white tiger
Related terms
Descendants
Translations
Lua грешка: Error in process_translation; see Lua logs. |
References
tiger in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Etymology 2
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.
Noun
tiger (plural tigers)
- 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.
Anagrams
Cornish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
tiger m (plural tigres or tigri)
Danish
Etymology
From Немачки Tiger, from Латински tigris.
Pronunciation
Noun
tiger c (singular definite tigeren, plural indefinite tigere or tigre)
Declension
Derived terms
References
Middle Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Стари Француски tigre, from Латински tigris.
Noun
tiger m
Inflection
Овај noun захтева inflection-table template.
Descendants
Further reading
- “tiger”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek[1], 2000
- “tiger”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek[2], 1929
Middle English
Noun
tiger
- Alternative form of tygre
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Noun
- a tiger (Panthera tigris)
Derived terms
References
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Noun
tiger m (definite singular tigeren, indefinite plural tigrar, definite plural tigrane)
- a tiger (Panthera tigris)
Derived terms
References
Old English
Etymology
From Lua грешка in Модул:etymology at line 156: Proto-West Germanic (gmw-pro) is not set as an ancestor of Стари Енглески (ang) in Модул:languages/data/3/a. Стари Енглески (ang) has no ancestors...
Pronunciation
Noun
tiger m (nominative plural tigras)
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
- Средњи Енглески: tygre (partially from Old French)
Slovene
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Panthera_tigris6.jpg/220px-Panthera_tigris6.jpg)
Etymology
Ultimately from Антички Грчки τίγρις (tígris), from Lua грешка in Модул:languages at line 1625: bad argument #1 to 'find' (string expected, got nil). (compare Avestan 𐬙𐬌𐬔𐬭𐬌 (tigri, “arrow”), 𐬙𐬌𐬖𐬭𐬀 (tiγra, “pointed”)).
Pronunciation
- Lua грешка in Модул:IPA at line 94: Must now supply a table of arguments to format_IPA_full(); first argument should be that table, not a language object.
Noun
tígər m anim (female equivalent tīgrica)
Inflection
Derived terms
Further reading
Pronunciation
Noun
tiger c
- tiger (animal)
- Script error: The function "source_t" does not exist.
- Lua грешка in Модул:languages/errorGetBy at line 16: Please specify a language or etymology language code in the first parameter; the value "<strong class="error"><span class="scribunto-error" id="mw-scribunto-error-51fddb02">Script error: The function "first_lang" does not exist.</span></strong>" is not valid (see Wiktionary:List of languages)..
Declension
Declension of tiger | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | tiger | tigern | tigrar | tigrarna |
Genitive | tigers | tigerns | tigrars | tigrarnas |
Verb
tiger
- презента индикатива of tiga
References
- tiger in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- tiger in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- tiger in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
West Frisian
Etymology
Noun
tiger c (plural tigers, diminutive tigerke)
Further reading
- “tiger”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal[3] (in Холандски), 2011
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