# Tigre
## English
### Alternative forms

* Təgre, Tigrē, Tegrē

### Etymology

From Tigre ትግሬ (təgre).

### Proper noun

Tigre
* A Semitic language of northern Eritrea, closely related to Tigrinya.

#### Translations
### Noun

Tigre pl (plural only)
* A group of agricultural Tigrinya-speaking people in northern Ethiopia.
* A group of nomadic Tigre-speaking people in northern Eritrea.

#### Translations
### Further reading

* Wiktionary's coverage of Tigre terms
* Ethnologue entry for Tigre, tig ⁠

### Anagrams

* Tiger, greit, tiger

## Afar
### Etymology

From Tigre ትግሬ (təgre).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tiɡˈre/ [tɪɡˈɾɛ]
* Hyphenation: Tig‧re

### Noun

Tigré f (singulative Tigréyta m or Tigreytá f)
* (collective) Tigre people

#### Declension
### References

* Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

## French
### Etymology

From Latin Tigris, from Ancient Greek Τίγρις (Tígris), from Old Persian 𐎫𐎡𐎥𐎼𐎠 (Tigrā), from Akkadian 𒀀𒇉𒈦𒄘𒃼 (Idiglat), from Sumerian 𒀀𒇉𒈦𒄘𒃼 (Idigna, literally “fast as an arrow”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tiɡʁ/

### Proper noun

Tigre m
* Tigris (river)

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* Tigres, Tigris

### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Tigris.

### Proper noun

Tigre m
* Tigris (a river in Asia)
** a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Xeral Historia [General Story], translation of General Estoria (in Old Spanish); republished as Ramón Martínez López, editor, General Estoria: versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, 1963, page 5:O terçeyro rrio he Tigre, et vay contra os de Asiria.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
** 1373 January 20, Fernán Martís, “Dos xij rrios Principaes que ſom em tr̃ra de Aſya” (chapter 367), in Cronica Troiana [Trojan Chronicle], translation of Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure, pages 145r–145v:Outroſi en aq̃la mẽeſma partida doriente. ſon vĩjnt ⁊ dous Rios prinçipaeſ. Et disẽll̃s aſi Cangus. Sogonto. Tiriantreſ. Eys. Camete. et eſte he onoueno. Et a eſte rrio vẽem tãtas marauillas q̃ntas nõ uẽem a / outr$^o$ Rrio q̃ en eſte mũdo ſeia. Suſa. Cardaça. yrapes. Eriſoris. diapagias. Paccalus. Alibocra, Ariscus, Eleuſer. Auſonis. Tigris. Eriſus. Jordam.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Descendants

* Galician: Tigris
* Portuguese: Tigre, Tígris

### References

* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “Tigr”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* Tígris

### Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Tigre, from Latin Tigris, from Ancient Greek Τίγρις (Tígris), from Old Persian 𐎫𐎡𐎥𐎼𐎠 (Tigrā), from Akkadian 𒀀𒇉𒈦𒄘𒃼 ($^{ÍD}$Idiqlat), from Sumerian 𒀀𒇉𒈦𒄘𒃼 ($^{ÍD}$Idigna, $^{ÍD}$Idigina, literally “fast as an arrow”).

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃi.ɡɾi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃi.ɡɾi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃi.ɡɾe/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈti.ɡɾɨ/ [ˈti.ɣɾɨ]
* Homophone: tigre
* Hyphenation: Ti‧gre

### Proper noun

Tigre m
* Tigris (a river in the Middle East)

### See also

* Eufrates
* Mesopotâmia