noun
Meaning 1
A female tiger; a she-tiger.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
tigress
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Sound
Pronunciation
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noun
Meaning 2
a female tiger
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: tiger, Panthera tigris
History
Etymology
From French tigresse, corresponding to tiger + -ess.
Across languages
Translations
66 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: نِمْرَة (nimra) — female tiger
- Arabic: بَبْرَة (babra) — female tiger
- Asturian: tigresa — female tiger
- Belarusian: тыгры́ца (tyhrýca) — female tiger
- Bengali: বাঘিনি (baghini) — female tiger
- Bulgarian: тигри́ца (tigríca) — female tiger
- Burmese: ကျားမ (kya:ma.) — female tiger
- Catalan: tigressa — female tiger
- Catalan: tigra — female tiger
- Chinese Cantonese: 老虎乸 (lou5 fu2 naa2) — female tiger
- Chinese Mandarin: 母虎 (mǔhǔ) — female tiger
- Chinese Mandarin: 雌虎 (cíhǔ) — female tiger
- Czech: tygřice — female tiger
- Danish: huntiger — female tiger
- Dutch: tijgerin — female tiger
- Dzongkha: སྟག་མོ — female tiger
- Esperanto: tigrino — female tiger
- Estonian: ematiiger — female tiger
- Finnish: naarastiikeri — female tiger
- French: tigresse — female tiger
- German: Tigerin — female tiger
- German: Tigerweibchen — female tiger
- Greek: τίγρη (tígri) — female tiger
- Hindi: बाघिन (bāghin) — female tiger
- Hindi: शेरनी (śernī) — female tiger
- Ido: tigrino — female tiger
- Italian: tigre — female tiger
- Italian: tigre femmina — female tiger
- Italian: femmina della tigre — female tiger
- Japanese: 雌虎 (mesutora) — female tiger
- Kalmyk: эм ирвск (em irvsk) — female tiger
- Kazakh: өлекшін (ölekşın) — female tiger
- Khmer: មេខ្លាធំ (mei klaa thom) — female tiger
- Khmer: ខ្លាធំមេ (klaa thom mei) — female tiger
- Latvian: tīģeriene — female tiger
- Lithuanian: tigrė — female tiger
- Macedonian: тигрица (tigrica) — female tiger
- Manchu: ᠪᡳᡵᡝᠨ (biren) — female tiger
- Marathi: वाघीण (vāghīṇ) — female tiger
- Mongolian: бэрс (bers) — female tiger
- Norwegian Bokmål: hunntiger — female tiger
- Norwegian Bokmål: tigerhunn — female tiger
- Norwegian Nynorsk: tigerho — female tiger
- Norwegian Nynorsk: tigerhoe — female tiger
- Polish: tygrysica — female tiger
- Polish: tygrzyca — female tiger
- Portuguese: tigresa — female tiger
- Punjabi: ਬਾਘਣੀ (bāghṇī) — female tiger
- Punjabi: ਸ਼ੇਰਨੀ (śernī) — female tiger
- Romanian: tigroaică — female tiger
- Russian: тигри́ца (tigríca) — female tiger
- Serbo-Croatian: тигрица — female tiger
- Serbo-Croatian: tigrica — female tiger
- Sicilian: trighi — female tiger
- Slovak: tigrica — female tiger
- Slovene: tigrica — female tiger
- Spanish: tigresa — female tiger
- Swedish: tigerhona — female tiger
- Swedish: tigrinna — female tiger
- Telugu: వ్యాఘ్రి (vyāghri) — female tiger
- Tibetan: སྟག་མོ — female tiger
- Ukrainian: тигри́ця (tyhrýcja) — female tiger
- Urdu: باگھن (bāghin) — female tiger
- Urdu: شیرنی (śernī) — female tiger
- Vietnamese: hổ cái — female tiger
- Vietnamese: cọp cái — female tiger