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 (^ÍDIdiqlat), from Sumerian 𒀀𒇉𒈦𒄘𒃼 (^ÍDIdigna, ^ÍDIdigina, literally “fast as an arrow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiɡʁ/

Proper noun

Tigre m

1. Tigris (river)

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Tígris

Etymology

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