Tigre

• Təgre, Tigrē, Tegrē

From Tigre ትግሬ (təgre).

Tigre

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

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.

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

• Tiger, greit, tiger

From Tigre ትግሬ (təgre).

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

Tigré f (singulative Tigréyta m or Tigreytá f)

1. (collective) Tigre people

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

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”).

• IPA^(key): /tiɡʁ/

Tigre m

1. Tigris (river)

• Tigres, Tigris

Learned borrowing from Latin Tigris.

Tigre m

1. Tigris (a river in Asia)
   • a. 1284, 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)

• Galician: Tigris
• Portuguese: Tigre, Tígris

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

• Tígris

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”).

• Homophone: tigre
• Hyphenation: Ti‧gre

Tigre m

1. Tigris (a river in the Middle East)

• Eufrates
• Mesopotâmia