taiga

From Russian тайга́ (tajgá), from South Siberian Turkic (Altai region, for example the Altay or Shor language),[1] or alternatively Yakut тайга (tayga, “untraversable forest”).[2][3]

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪɡə/, /taɪˈɡa/
• Rhymes: -aɪɡə

taiga (plural taigas)

1. A subarctic zone of evergreen coniferous forests situated south of the tundras and north of the steppes in the Northern Hemisphere.
   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 197:

     The mountains run from the Arctic Island of Novaya Zemlya southwards, dividing the endless wastes of the Siberian taiga and the steppes from the Russian platform in the west.

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 871:

     Like the taiga, he was everywhere, and mysterious—a heroic being with unearthly gifts.

   • 2013 March 1, Nancy Langston, “Mining the Boreal North”, in American Scientist‎, volume 101, number 2, page 98:

     Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.

• agait, agita

Ultimately from Russian тайга́ (tajgá), from Turkic or Yakut тайга (tayga). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑi̯.ɡaː/

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• Hyphenation: tai‧ga

taiga f (plural taiga's)

1. taiga (subarctic evergreen coniferous forest) [from 19th c.]

taiga

1. taiga

From Russian тайга́ (tajgá).

taiga f (plural taighe)

1. taiga

taiga

1. Rōmaji transcription of たいが
2. Rōmaji transcription of タイガ

taiga f (4th declension)

1. taiga
2. boreal forest

taiga f (plural taigas)

1. taiga (subarctic zone of coniferous forest)