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flamingo
English
Etymology
From Portuguese flamingo, from Spanish flamengo (“flame colored”), from Provençal flama (“flame”), from Latin flamma (“flame”).
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /fl??m???o?/
- Rhymes: -?????
Noun
flamingo (plural flamingos or flamingoes)
- A wading bird of the family Phoenicopteridae.
- A deep pink color tinged with orange, like that of a flamingo.
Synonyms
- (bird): phenicopter
Translations
Adjective
flamingo (not comparable)
- Of a deep pink color tinged with orange, like that of a flamingo.
Translations
See also
- (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine (Category: en:Reds)
Danish
Noun
flamingo c (singular definite flamingoen, plural indefinite flamingoer)
- flamingo (bird)
Declension
References
- “flamingo” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese flamingo, from Spanish flamengo, from Old Occitan flamenc. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fla??m??.?o?/
- Hyphenation: fla?min?go
Noun
flamingo m (plural flamingo's, diminutive flamingootje n)
- flamingo, bird of the family Phoenicopteridae
- Synonym: zeegans
- (Suriname) scarlet ibis, Eudocimus ruber
- Synonym: rode ibis
Descendants
- Afrikaans: flamink
Esperanto
Etymology
flamo (“flame”) +? -ingo (“socket”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fla?min?o/
- Hyphenation: fla?min?go
Noun
flamingo (accusative singular flamingon, plural flamingoj, accusative plural flamingojn)
- gas burner
See also
- flamengo (“flamingo”)
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fl?mi??o/, [?fl?mi??o?]
- Rhymes: -?mi??o
- Syllabification: fla?min?go
Noun
flamingo
- flamingo
- (specifically) greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus)
Declension
Malay
Noun
flamingo (plural flamingo-flamingo, informal 1st possessive flamingoku, impolite 2nd possessive flamingomu, 3rd possessive flamingonya)
- flamingo
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Portuguese flamingo
Noun
flamingo m (definite singular flamingoen, indefinite plural flamingoer, definite plural flamingoene)
- a flamingo
References
- “flamingo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Portuguese flamingo
Noun
flamingo m (definite singular flamingoen, indefinite plural flamingoar, definite plural flamingoane)
- a flamingo
References
- “flamingo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- flamengo
Etymology
Borrowed from English flamingo, from Portuguese and Spanish flamengo (“flame colored”), from Old Occitan flamenc (“flame colored”), from Latin flamma (“flame”) (compare Portuguese chama, flama).
Pronunciation
- (Portugal, Brazil) IPA(key): /fl?.?m?.?u/
- Hyphenation: fla?min?go
Noun
flamingo m (plural flamingos)
- flamingo (bird)
Related terms
- chama
- flamejante
See also
- flamengo
Romanian
Alternative forms
- flaming (rare)
Etymology
Borrowed from German Flamingo, from Spanish flamengo or Portuguese flamengo (“flame colored”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fla?min.?o/
Noun
flamingo m (plural flamingi)
- flamingo (bird)
Declension
Derived terms
- flamingo andin
- flamingo chilian
- flamingo minor
- flamingo roz
Paronyms
- flamenco
See also
- fenicopteriform
References
- flamingo in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Spanish
Noun
flamingo m (plural flamingos)
- flamingo
Sranan Tongo
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch flamingo. (The bird that in English is known as flamingo is known instead as segansi.)
Noun
flamingo
- scarlet ibis, Eudocimus ruber
- Synonym: korikori
Swedish
Noun
flamingo c
- flamingo (bird)
Declension
flamingo From the web:
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tiger
English
Alternative forms
- tigre (obsolete)
- tyger (dated)
Etymology 1
From Middle English tygre, in part from Old English tigras (pl.), in part from Anglo-Norman tigre, both from Latin tigris, from Ancient Greek ?????? (tígris), from Iranian (compare Avestan ????????????????????? (tigri, “arrow”), ????????????????????? (ti?ra, “pointed”)). More at stick.
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: t?'g?r, IPA(key): /?ta???/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?ta???/
- Rhymes: -a???(?)
Noun
tiger (plural tigers, feminine tigress)
- Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.
- A male tiger.
- (heraldry) A representation of a large mythological cat, used on a coat of arms.
- (obsolete) A servant in livery, who rides with his master or mistress.
- We arranged that I should come here alone in the London coach; and that he, leaving his tiger and cab behind him, should come on , and arrive here as soon as possible this afternoo
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. XVII, The Beginnings
- The doom of Fate was, Be thou a Dandy! Have thy eye-glasses, opera-glasses, thy Long-Acre cabs with white-breeched tiger, thy yawning impassivities, pococurantisms; fix thyself in Dandyhood, undeliverable; it is thy doom.
- (South Africa, dated but still used) A leopard.
- 1907, Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, Jock of the Bushveld, Longmans 1976 ed., ?ISBN, page 251:
- Jim remarked irrelevantly that tigers were 'schelms' and it was his conviction that there were a great many in the kloofs round about.
- 1907, Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, Jock of the Bushveld, Longmans 1976 ed., ?ISBN, page 251:
- (US, slang) A person who is very athletic during sexual intercourse.
- (figuratively) A ferocious, bloodthirsty and audacious person.
- 1588-93, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus
- As for that heinous tiger, Tamora,
No funeral rite, nor man in mournful weeds,
No mournful bell shall ring her burial;
But throw her forth to beasts, and birds of prey.
- As for that heinous tiger, Tamora,
- 1588-93, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus
- (US, colloquial) A kind of growl or screech, after cheering.
- three cheers and a tiger
- A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.
- A tiger moth in the family Arctiidae.
- A tiger beetle.
- A tiger butterfly in tribe Danaini, especially subtribe Danaina
- A relatively small country or group of countries with a fast-growing economy.
- 2000, Jagdish Handa, Monetary Economics, Psychology Press ?ISBN, page 709
- In this scenario, the growth rates are higher for the economic tigers than for the other economies.
- 2009, Fabrizio Tassinari, Why Europe Fears Its Neighbors, ABC-CLIO ?ISBN, page 21
- Then came the 2008 credit turmoil and ensuing economic slump, which not only belittled the huge economic and social gains of the various Baltic and Celtic '' Tigers,'' as well as of several former communist nations of Central Europe.
- 2014, Emmanuel Akyeampong, Robert H. Bates, Nathan Nunn, James Robinson, Africa's Development in Historical Perspective, Cambridge University Press ?ISBN, page 287
- Once colonial or settler rule ended, such enterprises either lost the crutches of state support or became “white elephants,” draining resources from the wider economy. This was an important factor holding back the emergence of African tigers.
- 2000, Jagdish Handa, Monetary Economics, Psychology Press ?ISBN, page 709
Hypernyms
- felid
Hyponyms
- tiger cub
- tigress
Derived terms
Related terms
- Tigger
- tigrine
Descendants
- ? Welsh: teigr
Translations
Etymology 2
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.
Noun
tiger (plural tigers)
- A final shouted phrase, accompanied by a jump or outstretched arms, at the end of a cheer.
Anagrams
- Tigre, Tigré, greit, tigre
Cornish
Etymology
From English tiger.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Revived Middle Cornish) /?ti???r/, (Revived Late Cornish) /?ti???r/
Noun
tiger m (plural tigres or tigri)
- tiger
References
Danish
Etymology
From German Tiger, from Latin tigris.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ti??r/, [?t?i??]
- Homophone: tier
Noun
tiger c (singular definite tigeren, plural indefinite tigere or tigre)
- tiger
Declension
Derived terms
- tigerøje
References
- “tiger” in Den Danske Ordbog
Middle Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French tigre, from Latin tigris.
Noun
tiger m
- tiger
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Dutch: tijger
- Limburgish: tieger
Further reading
- “tiger”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “tiger”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN
Middle English
Noun
tiger
- Alternative form of tygre
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Latin tigris.
Noun
tiger m (definite singular tigeren, indefinite plural tigere or tigre or tigrer, definite plural tigerne or tigrene)
- a tiger, Panthera tigris
Derived terms
- sabeltanntiger
References
- “tiger” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Latin tigris.
Noun
tiger m (definite singular tigeren, indefinite plural tigrar, definite plural tigrane)
- a tiger, Panthera tigris
Derived terms
- sabeltanntiger
References
- “tiger” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
Etymology
From Latin tigris.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ti.?er/, [?ti.?er]
Noun
tiger m (nominative plural tigras)
- tiger
Declension
Derived terms
- tigris?
Descendants
- Middle English: tygre, tygur, tygyr, tigre, tiger, teger, tegre
- English: tiger (see there for further descendants)
- Scots: teeger
Slovene
Etymology
Ultimately from Ancient Greek ?????? (tígris), from Iranian (compare Avestan ????????????????????? (tigri, “arrow”), ????????????????????? (ti?ra, “pointed”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tì???r/
Noun
tíg?r m anim (female equivalent t?grica)
- tiger
Inflection
Derived terms
Further reading
- “tiger”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /¹ti???r/
Noun
tiger c
- tiger (animal)
Declension
Verb
tiger
- present tense of tiga.
West Frisian
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
tiger c (plural tigers, diminutive tigerke)
- tiger
Further reading
- “tiger”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
tiger From the web:
- what tiger
- what tigers eat
- what tigers are extinct
- what tigers are endangered
- what tiger woods net worth
- what tigers look like
- what tigers do
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