tigris

From Latin tigris, from Ancient Greek τίγρις (tígris, “tiger”), probably of Iranian origin.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtiɡriʃ]

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• Hyphenation: tig‧ris
• Rhymes: -iʃ

tigris (plural tigrisek)

1. tiger (Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family)

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	tigris	tigrisek
accusative	tigrist	tigriseket
dative	tigrisnek	tigriseknek
instrumental	tigrissel	tigrisekkel
causal-final	tigrisért	tigrisekért
translative	tigrissé	tigrisekké
terminative	tigrisig	tigrisekig
essive-formal	tigrisként	tigrisekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	tigrisben	tigrisekben
superessive	tigrisen	tigriseken
adessive	tigrisnél	tigriseknél
illative	tigrisbe	tigrisekbe
sublative	tigrisre	tigrisekre
allative	tigrishez	tigrisekhez
elative	tigrisből	tigrisekből
delative	tigrisről	tigrisekről
ablative	tigristől	tigrisektől
non-attributive possessive - singular	tigrisé	tigriseké
non-attributive possessive - plural	tigriséi	tigrisekéi

Possessive forms of tigris
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	tigrisem	tigriseim
2nd person sing.	tigrised	tigriseid
3rd person sing.	tigrise	tigrisei
1st person plural	tigrisünk	tigriseink
2nd person plural	tigrisetek	tigriseitek
3rd person plural	tigrisük	tigriseik

• tigris in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Ultimately from Latin tigris.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiɡ.ris/
• Hyphenation: tig‧ris

tigris m animal (female equivalent tigrisëca)

1. tiger (Panthera tigris)

• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “tigris”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[1]

From Ancient Greek τίγρις (tígris, “tiger”), probably of Iranian origin.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈti.ɡris/, [ˈt̪ɪɡrɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈti.ɡris/, [ˈt̪iːɡris]

tigris m (genitive tigris or tigridis); third declension

1. tiger
2. (poetic) tigress
3. a tiger skin

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im, -in or -em, ablative singular in -ī or imparisyllabic non-i-stem; two different stems).

• Tigris

• “tigris”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tigris”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tigris in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• tigris in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “tigris”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[2]
• “tigris”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “tigris”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly