tiger
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From Middle English tygre, in part from Old English tigras (pl.), in part from Anglo-Norman tigre, both from Latinski tigris, from Antički Grčki τίγρις (tígris), from Lua greška in Modul:languages at line 1276: attempt to index field 'type' (a nil value). (compare Avestan 𐬙𐬌𐬔𐬭𐬌 (tigri, “arrow”), 𐬙𐬌𐬖𐬭𐬀 (tiγra, “pointed”)). More at stick.
Izgovor uredi
- (General American) MFA(ključ): /ˈtaɪɡɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) MFA(ključ): /ˈtaɪɡə/
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Imenica uredi
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 960102938, book II, canto IX, stanza 14, strana 311:
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- A male tiger.
- (heraldry) A representation of a large mythological cat, used on a coat of arms.
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- (obsolete) A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress.
- (Možete li pronađite i dodajte citat od Charles Dickens na ovaj unos?)
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. XVII, The Beginnings
- 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.
- (South Africa, dated but still used) A leopard.
- 1907, Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, Jock of the Bushveld, Longmans 1976 ed., →ISBN 0582161231, 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.
- 1907, Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, Jock of the Bushveld, Longmans 1976 ed., →ISBN 0582161231, page 251:
- (US, sleng) 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.
- 2010, Jeff Wilser, The Maxims of Manhood
- (figurative) A ferocious, bloodthirsty and audacious person.
- William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus
- 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.
- As for that heinous tiger, Tamora,
- William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus
- (US, colloquial) A kind of growl or screech, after cheering.
- three cheers and a tiger
- A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.
- A tiger moth in the family Arctiidae.
- A tiger beetle.
- A tiger butterfly in tribe Danaini, especially subtribe Danaina
- A relatively small country or group of countries with a fast-growing economy.
- 2000, Jagdish Handa, Monetary Economics, Psychology Press →ISBN 9780415199254, 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 9780313357725, 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 9781107041158, 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.
- 2000, Jagdish Handa, Monetary Economics, Psychology Press →ISBN 9780415199254, page 709
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for tiger in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
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- → Welsh: teigr
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Cornish uredi
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Noun uredi
tiger m (plural tigres or tigri)
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Danish uredi
Etymology uredi
From Nemački Tiger, from Latinski tigris.
Pronunciation uredi
Noun uredi
tiger c (singular definite tigeren, plural indefinite tigere or tigre)
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Middle Dutch uredi
Etimologija uredi
Pozajmljeno od Old French tigre, od Latinski tigris.
Imenica uredi
tiger m
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- “tiger”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- “tiger”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929
Norwegian Bokmål uredi
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- “tiger” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk uredi
Etymology uredi
Noun uredi
tiger m (definite singular tigeren, indefinite plural tigrar, definite plural tigrane)
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- “tiger” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English uredi
Etymology uredi
Borrowed from Latinski tigris.
Pronunciation uredi
Noun uredi
tiger m (nominative plural tigras)
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Etymology uredi
Ultimately from Antički Grčki τίγρις (tígris), from Lua greška in Modul:languages at line 1276: attempt to index field 'type' (a nil value). (compare Avestan 𐬙𐬌𐬔𐬭𐬌 (tigri, “arrow”), 𐬙𐬌𐬖𐬭𐬀 (tiγra, “pointed”)).
Pronunciation uredi
- MFA(ključ): /ˈtìːɡər/
- Tonal orthography: tígər
Noun uredi
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- bálijski tíger
- bengálski tíger
- indonézijski tíger
- javánski tíger
- južnokitájski tíger
- káspijski tíger, pêrzijski tíger
- malézijski tíger
- sibírski tíger
- sumatránski tíger
- trinílski tíger
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Noun uredi
tiger c
- tiger, an animal
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Declension of tiger | ||||
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Nominative | tiger | tigern | tigrar | tigrarna |
Genitive | tigers | tigerns | tigrars | tigrarnas |
Verb uredi
tiger
- present tense of tiga.
West Frisian uredi
Noun uredi
tiger c (plural tigers)