Tigre

See also: tigre, tigré, and Tigré

English

Alternative forms

• Təgre, Tigrē, Tegrē

Etymology

From Tigre ትግሬ (təgre).

Proper noun

Tigre

1. A Semitic language of northern Eritrea, closely related to Tigrinya.

Translations

language

• Arabic: تِجْرِيَّة f (tijriyya), تِيجْرِيَّة f (tījriyya)
• Finnish: tigre (fi)
• German: Tigre n, Tigrē n
• Russian: тигре (ru) m (tigre)

Noun

Tigre pl (plural only)

1. A group of agricultural Tigrinya-speaking people in northern Ethiopia.
2. A group of nomadic Tigre-speaking people in northern Eritrea.

Translations

group, Tigrinya-speaking people

• Russian: тиграй (ru) (tigraj)

group, Tigre-speaking people

• Afar: Tigré f
• Russian: тигре (ru) (tigre)

Further reading

• Wiktionary's coverage of Tigre terms
• Ethnologue entry for Tigre, tig ⁠

Anagrams

• Tiger, greit, tiger

Afar

Etymology

From Tigre ትግሬ (təgre).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiɡˈre/ [tɪɡˈɾɛ]
• Hyphenation: Tig‧re

Noun

Tigré f (singulative Tigréyta m or Tigreytá f)

1. (collective) Tigre people

Declension

Declension of Tigré
absolutive	Tigré
predicative	Tigré
subjective	Tigré
genitive	Tigré
Postpositioned forms l-case Tigrél k-case Tigrék t-case Tigrét h-case Tigréh

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

French

Etymology

From Latin Tigris, from Ancient Greek Τίγρις (Tígris), from Old Persian 𐎫𐎡𐎥𐎼𐎠 (Tigrā), from Akkadian 𒀀𒇉𒈦𒄘𒃼 (Idiglat), from Sumerian 𒀀𒇉𒈦𒄘𒃼 (Idigna, literally “fast as an arrow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiɡʁ/

Proper noun

Tigre m

1. Tigris (river)

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Tigres, Tigris

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Tigris. First attested in 1300.

Proper noun

Tigre m

1. Tigris (a river in Asia)
   • 1300, Alfonso X of Castile, [Xeral Historia] [General Story], translation of General Estoria (in Old Spanish); republished as Ramón Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, 1963, page 5:

     O terçeyro rrio he Tigre, et vay contra os de Asiria.

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   • 1373 January 20, Fernán Martís, “Dos xij rrios Principaes que ſom em tr̃ra de Aſya” (chapter 367), in Cronica Troiana [Trojan Chronicle], translation of Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure, pages 145r–145v:

     Outroſi en aq̃la mẽeſma partida doriente. ſon vĩjnt ⁊ dous Rios prinçipaeſ. Et disẽll̃s aſi Cangus. Sogonto. Tiriantreſ. Eys. Camete. et eſte he onoueno. Et a eſte rrio vẽem tãtas marauillas q̃ntas nõ uẽem a / outr^o Rrio q̃ en eſte mũdo ſeia. Suſa. Cardaça. yrapes. Eriſoris. diapagias. Paccalus. Alibocra, Ariscus, Eleuſer. Auſonis. Tigris. Eriſus. Jordam.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

• Galician: Tigris
• Portuguese: Tigre, Tígris

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “Tigr”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Tígris

Etymology

Etymology tree

Sumerian 𒀀𒇉?

Sumerian 𒉌?

Sumerian 𒁺?

Sumerian 𒀀?

Sumerian 𒀀𒇉𒈦𒄘𒃼bor.

Akkadian Idiglatbor.

Old Persian 𐎫𐎡𐎥𐎼𐎠 (t-i-g-r-a)bor.

Ancient Greek Τίγρης (Tígrēs)bor.

Latin Tigrislbor.

Old Galician-Portuguese Tigre

Portuguese Tigre

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Tigre, from Latin Tigris, from Ancient Greek Τίγρις (Tígris), from Old Persian 𐎫𐎡𐎥𐎼𐎠 (Tigrā), from Akkadian 𒀀𒇉𒈦𒄘𒃼 (^ÍDIdiqlat), from Sumerian 𒀀𒇉𒈦𒄘𒃼 (^ÍDIdigna, ^ÍDIdigina, literally “fast as an arrow”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.ɡɾi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.ɡɾi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.ɡɾe/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈti.ɡɾɨ/ [ˈti.ɣɾɨ]

• Homophone: tigre
• Hyphenation: Ti‧gre

Proper noun

Tigre m

1. Tigris (a river in the Middle East)

See also

• Eufrates
• Mesopotâmia