tyger
English
Etymology
From Middle English tigre, from Old English tīgras (pl) and influenced by Old French tigre, both from Latin tigris, from Ancient Greek τίγρις (tígris), possibly of Iranian origin.
Noun
tyger (plural tygers)
- (obsolete) A tiger.
- [1669, Nievhoff, John, John Ogilby, transl., An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, OCLC 561227535, page 240:
- Near to Cinyuen, in the Province of Junnan, is the Mountain Nilo, where is great abundance of Tygers and Leopards.]
- 1794, William Blake, "The Tyger", Songs Of Experience
- Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
- In the forests of the night,
- What immortal hand or eye
- Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
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- (heraldry) Alternative form of tiger
Swedish
Noun
tyger
- indefinite plural of tyg.