tigress

English

Etymology

From French tigresse, corresponding to tiger +‎ -ess.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪ.ɡɹɪs/, /ˈtaɪ.ɡɹəs/
Audio (Southern England) (file)

Noun

tigress (plural tigresses, masculine tiger)

A female tiger; a she-tiger.

Derived terms

tigresslike

Translations

female tiger

Arabic: نِمْرَة f (nimra), بَبْرَة f (babra)
Asturian: tigresa (ast) f
Belarusian: тыгры́ца f (tyhrýca)
Bengali: বাঘিনি (bn) (baghini)
Bulgarian: тигри́ца f (tigríca)
Burmese: ကျားမ (my) (kya:ma.)
Catalan: tigressa (ca) f, (nonstandard) tigra
Chinese:
Cantonese: 老虎乸 (yue) (lou⁵ fu² naa²)

Mandarin: 母虎 (mǔhǔ), 雌虎 (cíhǔ)
Czech: tygřice f
Danish: huntiger c
Dutch: tijgerin (nl) f
Esperanto: tigrino
Estonian: ematiiger
Finnish: naarastiikeri
French: tigresse (fr) f
German: Tigerin (de) f, Tigerweibchen n
Greek: τίγρη (el) f (tígri)
Hindi: बाघिन f (bāghin), शेरनी f (śernī)
Ido: tigrino
Italian: tigre femmina f, femmina della tigre f
Japanese: 雌虎 (めすとら, mesutora)
Kalmyk: эм ирвск (em irvsk)
Kazakh: өлекшін (ölekşın)
Khmer: មេខ្លាធំ (mei klaa tʰom), ខ្លាធំមេ (klaa tʰom mei)
Latvian: tīģeriene f
Lithuanian: tigrė f
Macedonian: тигрица f (tigrica)
Manchu: ᠪᡳᡵᡝᠨ (biren)
Mongolian: бэрс (mn) (bers)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: hunntiger m, tigerhunn m

Nynorsk: tigerho f, tigerhoe f
Polish: tygrysica (pl) f, tygrzyca f
Portuguese: tigresa (pt) f
Punjabi: ਬਾਘਣੀ f (bāghṇī), ਸ਼ੇਰਨੀ f (śernī)
Romanian: tigroaică (ro) f
Russian: тигри́ца (ru) f (tigríca)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: тигрица f

Roman: tigrica (sh) f
Slovak: tigrica f
Slovene: tigrica f
Spanish: tigresa (es) f
Swedish: tigerhona c, tigrinna (sv) c
Telugu: వ్యాఘ్రి (te) (vyāghri)
Ukrainian: тигри́ця (uk) f (tyhrýcja)
Urdu: باگھن f (bāghin), شیرنی f (śernī)
Vietnamese: hổ cái, cọp cái

Anagrams

Griests, Stigers, striges

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