different between girlfriend vs tiger

English

Alternative forms

• girl friend, girl-friend

Etymology

girl +? friend

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???lf??nd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????lf??nd/
• Hyphenation: girl?friend

Noun

girlfriend (plural girlfriends)

1. A female partner in an unmarried romantic relationship.

   Coordinate terms: boyfriend, fiancée, lover, partner, significant other, sweetheart, wife, lady friend
2. A female friend.

   Synonym: (slang) chickfriend

   Coordinate terms: buddy, friend, pal, BFF

Usage notes

• The term is used to refer to any girl or woman in a romantic relationship with another person.
• An adult woman in such a non-marital relationship is sometimes referred to instead as a significant other or partner, especially if the two partners are living together. Because girlfriend and partner mean different things to different people, the distinctions between the terms are subjective, and which term is used in a relationship will ultimately be determined by personal preference.
• The use of girlfriend for a female non-romantic friend of another female is limited in geographic distribution and sometimes preferred by older generations of speakers.
• Sometimes used as a term of address among men, particularly gay men.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Hindi: ??????????? (garlfre??)
• ? Japanese: ??????? (g?rufurendo)
• ? Korean: ???? (geolpeurendeu)
• ? Russian: ????????? (gjorlfr??nd)
• ? Urdu: ??? ?????? (garl fren?)

Translations

Anagrams

• friend girl, friendgirl

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)

1. Panthera tigris, a large predatory mammal of the cat family, indigenous to Asia.
   1. A male tiger.
2. (heraldry) A representation of a large mythological cat, used on a coat of arms.
3. (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.

4. (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.

5. (US, slang) A person who is very athletic during sexual intercourse.
6. (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.

7. (US, colloquial) A kind of growl or screech, after cheering.

   three cheers and a tiger

8. A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar.
9. A tiger moth in the family Arctiidae.
10. A tiger beetle.
11. A tiger butterfly in tribe Danaini, especially subtribe Danaina
12. 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.

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)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. 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

1. 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

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. 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

1. tiger (animal)

Declension

Verb

tiger

1. present tense of tiga.

West Frisian

Etymology

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Noun

tiger c (plural tigers, diminutive tigerke)

1. tiger

Further reading

• “tiger”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011