tigress

English

Etymology

From French tigresse, corresponding to tiger +‎ -ess.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪ.ɡɹɪs/, /ˈtaɪ.ɡɹəs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

tigress (plural tigresses)

1. A female tiger; a she-tiger.
   • 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, part II, number 12, New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, March 1927, →OCLC, page 1164, column 1:

     So-al was a mighty fine-looking girl, built like a tigress as to strength and sinuosity, but withal sweet and womanly.

   • 2006 June 10, Stephen Holden, “Fabled Feline Charms, in Fine Working Order”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Indestructibly seductive at 79, this greatest and wittiest of all singing tigresses has lasted even longer on the stage than the original glamorous grandmother, Marlene Dietrich.

Derived terms

• tigresslike

Translations

female tiger

• Arabic: نِمْرَة f (nimra), بَبْرَة f (babra)
• Asturian: tigresa (ast) f
• Belarusian: тыгры́ца f (tyhrýca)
• Bengali: বাঘিনি (bn) (baghini)
• Bulgarian: тигри́ца f (tigríca)
• Burmese: ကျားမ (my) (kya:ma.)
• Catalan: tigressa (ca) f, (nonstandard) tigra
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 老虎乸 (yue) (lou⁵ fu² naa²)

  Mandarin: 母虎 (zh) (mǔhǔ), 雌虎 (zh) (cíhǔ)

• Czech: tygřice f
• Danish: huntiger c
• Dutch: tijgerin (nl) f
• Esperanto: tigrino
• Estonian: ematiiger
• Finnish: naarastiikeri
• French: tigresse (fr) f
• German: Tigerin (de) f, Tigerweibchen n
• Greek: τίγρη (el) f (tígri)
• Hindi: बाघिन f (bāghin), शेरनी f (śernī)
• Ido: tigrino
• Italian: tigre femmina f, femmina della tigre f
• Japanese: 雌虎 (めすとら, mesutora)
• Kalmyk: эм ирвск (em irvsk)
• Kazakh: өлекшін (ölekşın)
• Khmer: មេខ្លាធំ (mei klaa tʰom), ខ្លាធំមេ (klaa tʰom mei)
• Latvian: tīģeriene f
• Lithuanian: tigrė f
• Macedonian: тигрица f (tigrica)
• Manchu: ᠪᡳᡵᡝᠨ (biren)
• Marathi: वाघीण f (vāghīṇ)
• Mongolian: бэрс (mn) (bers)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hunntiger m, tigerhunn m

  Nynorsk: tigerho f, tigerhoe f

• Polish: tygrysica (pl) f, tygrzyca f
• Portuguese: tigresa (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਬਾਘਣੀ f (bāghṇī), ਸ਼ੇਰਨੀ f (śernī)
• Romanian: tigroaică (ro) f
• Russian: тигри́ца (ru) f (tigríca)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тигрица f

  Roman: tigrica (sh) f

• Slovak: tigrica f
• Slovene: tigrica f
• Spanish: tigresa (es) f
• Swedish: tigerhona c, tigrinna (sv) c
• Telugu: వ్యాఘ్రి (te) (vyāghri)
• Tibetan: སྟག་མོ (stag mo)
• Ukrainian: тигри́ця (uk) f (tyhrýcja)
• Urdu: باگھن f (bāghin), شیرنی f (śernī)
• Vietnamese: hổ cái, cọp cái

Further reading

• “tigress”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “tigress”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Griests, Stigers, striges