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tigres (plural)
tigri (plural)
tiger (unmutated)
diger (soft)
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Tiger China Dyghow

South China tiger (Panthera tigris amoyensis)

Tiger Eyndo-China

Indochinese tiger (Panthera tigris corbetti)

Tiger Malaya

Malayan tiger (Panthera tigris jacksoni)

Tiger Siberia

Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris altaica)

Tiger Sumatera

Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae)


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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.

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 14, page 311:

Panthera tigris
Panthera tigris#Translingual

Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.

Coordinate term: tigress

Certain other animals that resemble true tigers in appearance, pattern, colouration, etc.

(inexact) A sabre-toothed tiger (any felid in subfamily †Machairodontinae).

Thylacinus cynocephalus
Thylacinus cynocephalus#Translingual

(inexact) A Tasmanian tiger, †Thylacinus cynocephalus.

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.

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.

1968, Charles MacKinnon of Dunakin, The Observer's Book of Heraldry, page 69:

(heraldry) A representation of a large mythological cat, used on a coat of arms.

Jim remarked irrelevantly that tigers were 'schelms' and it was his conviction that there were a great many in the kloofs round about.

1907, Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, Jock of the Bushveld, Longmans, published 1976, →ISBN, page 251:

(South Africa, dated but still used) A leopard.

In this scenario, the growth rates are higher for the economic tigers than for the other economies.

2000, Jagdish Handa, Monetary Economics, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 709:

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.

2009, Fabrizio Tassinari, Why Europe Fears Its Neighbors, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 21:

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.

2014, Emmanuel Akyeampong, Robert H. Bates, Nathan Nunn, James Robinson, Africa's Development in Historical Perspective, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 287:

A relatively small country or group of countries with a fast-growing economy.

We arranged that I should come here alone in the London coach; and that he, leaving his tiger and cab behind him, should come on , and arrive here as soon as possible this afternoon

1836, “Boz” [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Sketches by “Boz,” Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-day People. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Macrone, […], →OCLC:

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.

1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. XVII, The Beginnings”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):

(obsolete) A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress.

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.

2010, Jeff Wilser, The Maxims of Manhood:

(US, slang) A person who is very athletic during sexual intercourse.

As for that heinous tiger, Tamora,
No funeral rite, nor man in mournful weeds,
No mournful bell shall ring her burial;
But throw her forth to beasts, and birds of prey.

c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

(figurative) A ferocious, bloodthirsty and audacious person.

A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.

tigers (plural)
tigre (alternative)
tyger (alternative)

→ Volapük: tigrid

→ Welsh: teigr

Inland Northern American, New England, some speakers

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 𐬙𐬌𐬔𐬭𐬌 (tigri, “arrow”), 𐬙𐬌𐬖𐬭𐬀 (tiγra, “pointed”)). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”). Compare English stick.


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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.'

1868, Punch: Or the London Charivari - Volume 55, page 231:

. . . every blue coat in the audience sprang to his feet, with three times three and a tiger.

1941, Margaret Leech, Reveille in Washington:

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.

2008, D. C. Beard, The Outdoor Handy Book: For Playground, Field, and Forest, page 413:

A final shouted phrase, accompanied by a jump or outstretched arms, at the end of a cheer.

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.


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Dutch: tijger

Limburgish: tieger

Borrowed from Old French tigre, from Latin tigris.


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tigeren (definite singular)
tigere (indefinite plural)
tigre (indefinite plural)
tigrer (indefinite plural)
tigerne (definite plural)
tigrene (definite plural)


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tigeren (definite singular)
tigrar (indefinite plural)
tigrane (definite plural)


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tigras (nominative plural)
tiger (nominative singular)
tigras (nominative plural)
tiger (accusative singular)
tigras (accusative plural)
tigres (genitive singular)
tigra (genitive plural)
tigre (dative singular)
tigrum (dative plural)

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Middle English: tygre, tygur, tygyr, tigre, tiger, teger, tegre (partially from Old French)
English: tiger (see there for further descendants)
Scots: teeger

From Proto-West Germanic *tīgr (“tiger”).


tiger

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tígər m anim (female equivalent tīgrica)

tígər (animate canonical masculine)
tīgrica (feminine)
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tíger (nominative singular)
tígra (dual nominative)
tígri (nominative plural)
tígra (genitive singular)
tígrov (dual genitive)
tígrov (genitive plural)
tígru (dative singular)
tígroma (dative dual)
tígrom (dative plural)
tígra (accusative singular)
tígra (accusative dual)
tígre (accusative plural)
tígru (locative singular)
tígrih (dual locative)
tígrih (locative plural)
tígrom (instrumental singular)
tígroma (dual instrumental)
tígri (instrumental plural)

Ultimately from Ancient Greek τίγρις (tígris), from Iranian (compare Avestan 𐬙𐬌𐬔𐬭𐬌 (tigri, “arrow”), 𐬙𐬌𐬖𐬭𐬀 (tiγra, “pointed”)).


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Tigrar har ränder

Det är lätt att blanda ihop lejon och tigrar

En björn och en tiger mot drömmarnas land, där solen som stiger alltid är varm. Tillsammans på stigen som leder dom fram.

1995, Charta 77 (lyrics and music), “Lilla björn och lilla tiger [Little bear and little tiger]”, in Tecken i tiden [Sign of the times]:

A bear and a tiger towards the land of dreams, where the sun that rises ["the rising sun" is "den uppgående solen" instead] is always warm. Together on the path that leads them forward.

tiger (indefinite nominative singular)
tigers (genitive indefinite singular)
tigern (definite nominative singular)
tigerns (definite genitive singular)
tigrar (indefinite nominative plural)
tigrars (genitive indefinite plural)
tigrarna (definite nominative plural)
tigrarnas (definite genitive plural)


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