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.

• 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)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

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”).

• IPA^(key): /tiɡʁ/

Tigre m

1. Tigris (river)

• Tígris

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