Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

tiger

UK /ˈtaɪɡə/ · US /ˈtaɪɡɚ/ noun, proper noun

Forms tigers tigre tyger tygre

  1. noun Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.
  2. noun A male tiger; as opposed to a tigress.
  3. noun (inexact) A sabre-toothed tiger (any felid in the subfamily †Machairodontinae).
  4. noun (inexact) A Tasmanian tiger, †Thylacinus cynocephalus
  5. noun (obsolete) A jaguar.
  6. noun A tiger moth in the family Arctiidae.
  7. noun A tiger beetle.
  8. noun Any of the three Australian species of black-and-yellow striped dragonflies of the genus Ictinogomphus.
  9. noun A final shouted phrase, accompanied by a jump or outstretched arms, at the end of a cheer.
  10. proper noun The third of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
  11. proper noun A town in Georgia.
  12. proper noun An unincorporated community in Washington.
  13. proper noun A popular given name for a pet.
  14. noun (soccer) Someone connected with Hull City Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.

Synonyms

Panthera tigris

Etymology

From Middle English tygre, in part from Old English tigras (pl.), in part from Anglo-Norman tigre, both from Latin tigris, from Ancient Greek τίγρις (tígris), from Iranian (compare Avestan 𐬙𐬌𐬔𐬭𐬌 (tigri, “arrow”), 𐬙𐬌𐬖𐬭𐬀 (tiγra, “pointed”)). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”). Compare English stick.

From the mascot of Princeton (a tiger), which led to early cheerleaders calling out "Tiger" at the end of a cheer for the Princeton team.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A very large and powerful carnivore (Felis tigris) native of Southern Asia and the East Indies. Its back and sides are tawny or rufous yellow, transversely striped with black, the tail is ringed with black, the throat and belly are nearly white. When full grown, it equals or exceeds the lion in size and strength. Called also royal tiger, and Bengal tiger.
  2. noun Fig.: A ferocious, bloodthirsty person.

Etymology [OE. tigre, F. tigre, L. tigris, Gr. ti`gris; probably of Persian origin; cf. Zend tighra pointed, tighri an arrow, Per. tir; perhaps akin to E. stick, v.t.; -- probably so named from its quickness.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “tiger”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “tiger” (best matches first).

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