tigro

See also: Ti-grơ

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from French tigre, Russian тигр (tigr), German Tiger, Italian tigre and English tiger.

Pronunciation

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IPA^(key): /ˈtiɡro/
Hyphenation: ti‧gro
Rhymes: -iɡro

Noun

tigro (accusative singular tigron, plural tigroj, accusative plural tigrojn)

tiger
La ĉasistoj spuris kaj mortigis la hommanĝan tigron.

The hunters tracked and slew the man-eating tiger.

Hypernyms

pantero (“a panther”)

Hyponyms

virtigro (“male tiger”) (idiomatic)
tigrido (“tiger cub”)
tigrino (“tigress, female tiger”)

Meronyms

tigraĵo (“tiger meat”)

Holonyms

tigraro (“a streak of tigers”)

Derived terms

tigra (“tigrine”)
tigrostria (“tiger-striped”)

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