tygrys

馃悈
Meaning

  1. tiger (Panthera tigris)
  2. tiger (relatively small country or group of countries with a fast-growing economy)
  3. (colloquial) Tiger (German heavy tank)

Frequency

C2
Hyphenated as
tyg鈥ys
Gender
鈾傦笍 Masculine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/藞t扫伞.r扫s/
Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin tigris. Sense 2 is a semantic loan from English tiger. Sense 3 is a semantic loan from German Tiger.

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