Other forms: tigers
A tiger is a big orange wild cat with black stripes. A Bengal tiger, tiger stripes, the tiger's roar.
It is the largest cat there is, and the stripes work as camouflage in long grass — no two patterns are alike, so individuals can be identified from photographs. Wild numbers fell to a few thousand and have risen slightly. Note paper tiger, meaning something that looks dangerous and is not; and tiger economy, for a fast-growing one.
1nountigerA large striped wild cat.
“A tiger weighs about three hundred kilos.”
tiger is an animal.
Greek tigris probably came from an Iranian word meaning arrow or sharp, from the animal's speed. The river Tigris may be named from the same source.
Middle English
tygre
English, today
tiger
Built from
From Middle English tygre. 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, from ira - (compare ae 𐬙𐬌𐬔𐬭𐬌 (“arrow”), 𐬙𐬌𐬖𐬭𐬀 (“pointed”)). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European (s)teyg- (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”). Compare English stick.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA