tigro

See also: Ti-grơ

Esperanto

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtiɡro]
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• Rhymes: -iɡro
• Hyphenation: ti‧gro

Noun

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

1. 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”)