tygrys
Meaning
- tiger (Panthera tigris)
- tiger (relatively small country or group of countries with a fast-growing economy)
- (colloquial) Tiger (German heavy tank)
Frequency
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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