Talk:Tigris

message: This etymological discussion is simply wrong in so many ways:
:The Greek name tigris comes from the Old Persian word for "tiger" and means "the fast one". It might also be argued to come from Kurdish too. In Kurdish "Tir" means arrow. This means that the river is quick and fast like an arrow.Tîj-Tûj means sharp, pointing and cutting. Since the letter "j" doesn't exist in Greek Tîj-Tûj became Tig later Tigr.In Greek at the end of words -is sonex is used (Tîj-Tijr-Tig-Tigr-Tigris). 
First of all, the Persian for "tiger" is babr, not tigr or anything like it.  The Greek word "tigris" meaning "tiger" may be related to Persian words within the same family as "*tigr", but that is not the Persian meaning of the words.
Second, the Kurdish (and Farsi) word for "arrow", tir, comes from Middle Persian tigr -- which also means "arrow".
Third, the word tij (or rather tiz) "sharp" is certainly related to tigr, but they belong to the same word family -- they are not the same word.
I'll try to come up with something better.
the word is probably come from tigris,both means TIZ[sharp] and also flooding river[toghian in persian],which is also adjective of tiger[ i mean toghianger] ,both tiger and tigris and tiz and tigh and tir are from the same origins,the word for tiger in old persian has been tigris and the new word "babr" is from 'turko mongolian" root. reference , book:IRANVICH by DR bahram frahvashi.,even the word  arvand is synonym of tigris, Spitman 21:01, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Etymology

message: The Sumerian names for the Tigris and Euphrates appear to have a word correspondence in sound and meaning to words in Malayo-Polynesian, a language spoken by an ancient seafaring people who sailed the Pacific and Indian oceans, and even settled the island of Madagascar near Africa.  In some Malayo-Polynesian languages spoken in the Philippines and Indonesia, the word siglat, which means "swift," "fast" or "rapid," appears similar to the Sumerian name Idigna and the Akkadian name Idiglat for the Tigris.  The Malayo-Polynesian word burakan, which means "wave," "wavy," or "surf" appears similar to the Sumerian name Buranun and Akkadian name Pu-rat-tu for the Euphrates. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Batobalani (talk • contribs) 03:24, 13 June 2006.
:This is a fringe theory that violates Wikipedia's rules on no original research, verifiability and reliable sources. That is why it was removed from the article. If you want it included in the article, you will have to make sure that it meets the criteria set out in the policies and guidelines above. — Gareth Hughes 09:26, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Malayo-Polynesian seafarers

message: PLEASE I WANT TO KNOW WHICH WAY THE TIGRIS AND EUPHRATES RIVERS FLOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE ANSWER ME!!!!!!!!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.68.104.185 (talk) 13:13, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  WHICH WAY DO THE TIGRIS AND EUPHRATES RIVERS FLOW? 

message: This whole bit at the end of the "Management and Water Quality" section needs a reference. Madritor (talk) 13:09, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Cadavers being dumped in river" 

message: 92.29.90.118 seems to have made an edit adding a huge picture which takes all the room. 88.159.72.240 (talk) 20:21, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. Looks like vandalism as Assyria is not an existing state. Zoeperkoe (talk) 20:56, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Huge picture... page broken for me 

message: I have reinstated part of this section (deleted 6 July 2010 because it was "mostly unsourced and irrelevant for actual river"). Wrt "mostly unsourced", I left out an unsourced bit and added a link to the Kumarbi Cycle. As for "irrelevant for actual river", Wikipedia contains many natural physical features, and in many cases, with associated religious, legendary or mythological status. This is an encyclopaedia, not a geographers' reference book. The Lesser Merlin (talk) 13:55, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Religion and mythology 

message: Just like the Euphrates article, it's ridiculous that the Kurdish name should be given such disregard given the river's course through the centre of Kurdistan.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by ZanLJackson (talk • contribs) 13:48, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added Kurdish name to infobox 

message: What are the advantages and disadvantages of flooding to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.73.187.65 (talk) 23:25, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  tigris and eurphates rivers 

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