Complete Definition of "tiger"

see|Tiger
Image:Panthera tigris tigris.jpg|thumb|A tiger.
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English

Alternative spellings
tyger italbrac|dated

Etymology
From Middle English tigre < Old English tigras|tīgras (p) and influenced by Old French tigre, both < Latin tigris < Greek �ίγ�ι�, possibly of Iranian origin.
Middle Dutch: tijger

Pronunciation
audio|en-us-tiger.ogg|Audio (US)

Noun
en-noun

  1. A large carnivorous animal (Panthera tigris) of the cat family indigenous to Asia.

#* "Save the Tiger Fund", Dedicated to providing information to help preserve the remaining five subspecies of tigers. News, research, a kid's section, and a live tiger cub cam feed...http://www.savethetigerfund.org/ - 21k - 14 Apr 2006

  1. context|South African|dated|_|but still used A leopard.

#* 1976, Sir Percy Fitzpatrick: Jock of the Bushveld p.251. Longmans ISBN 0582161231. (First published 1907).
#: "Jim rearked irrelevantly that tigers were 'schelms' and it was his conviction that there were a great many in the kloofs round about."

  1. US|slang A person (especially a man) very who is very athletic during intercourse.

Scientific names
Panthera tigris

Related terms
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Bali tiger
Bengal tiger
blind tiger
paper tiger
tigerish
tiger shark
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tiger snake
tigress
tigrine
Sumatran tiger
Siberian tiger
Tasmanian tiger
Tigger
Asian Tiger (business)
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Translations
trans-top|The mammal
Afrikaans: tier
Amuzgo: kítzia�
Arabic: ARchar|��ر|����ر� (námir) m, ARchar|ببر|ب�بر� (babr) m
Aramaic:
Belarusian: ��г�а (tigra) f
Binisayâ: tigre
Bosnian: tigar#Bosnian|tigar m
Bulgarian: �иг�� (tíg�r) m
Burmese: ��� (kà)
Catalan: tigre m
Chinese: �� (l�oh�)
Croatian: tigar#Croatian|tigar m
Czech: tygr m
Danish: tiger g|Danish
Dutch: tijger m
Esperanto: tigro
Finnish: tiikeri
French: tigre m
Frisian: tiger g|Frisian
German: Tiger m
Greek: �ίγ�ι� (tígris) m|f
Guaraní: jaguarete
Hebrew: ���ר�ס (tigris) m
Hindi: बा� (b�gh) m, व�या��र (vy�ghra) m
Hungarian: tigris
Indonesian: harimau, macan
Interlingua: tigre
Irish: tíogar m
Italian: tigre m
Japanese: �, ��(��, torá)
Khmer: KMchar|����� (khl�-thum)
Kannada: ಹ�ಲಿ (huli)
Korean: ��� (horang-i)
Kurdish: KUchar|Ù¾ÚµÙ�Ú¯
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Lao: (sua khong), (sua lay)
Latin: tigris m|f
Latvian: tīģeris m
Lithuanian: tigras m
Macedonian: �ига�#Macedonian|�ига� (tigar) m
Malayalam: പ�ലി (puli), വ�യാ��ര� (vyaaghram)
Manchu: (tasha)
Norwegian: #Norwegian|tiger m
Persian: FAchar|ببر (babr)
Polish: tygrys m
Portuguese: tigre m
Romanian: tigru m
Russian: �иг� (tigr) m
Sanskrit: व�या��र� unicode|(vy�ghraḥ) g|Sanskrit
Serbian:

Sinhala: ��ට�ය� unicode|(koṭiya)
Slovak: tiger m
Slovene: tiger m
Spanish: tigre m
Swedish: tiger c
Tamil: ப�லி (puli)
Telugu: ప�లి (puli)
Thai: THchar|�สือ (seua)
Tibetan: (tag)
Tupinambá: îagûara, îagûareté
Turkish: kaplan
Ukrainian: �иг� (tyhr) m
Vietnamese: con h�, con c�p
Volapük: tiaf
Welsh: teigr m
Xhosa: ingwe
Zulu: ingwe
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Category:Mammals
Category:Articles which need Lao script
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Category:South African English


Norwegian

Noun
no-noun-irreg|m|tigeren|tigre/tigere|tigrene/tigerene

  1. #Noun|tiger mammal

Swedish

Pronunciation
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Noun
sv-noun-reg-r-c|3=tigra
infl|sv|noun|g=c

  1. #Noun|tiger, an animal

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Verb
tiger

  1. present tense of tiga#Swedish|tiga

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