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English

Etymology

From Russian ?????? (tajgá), from South Siberian Turkic (Altai region, for example the Altay or Shor language), or alternatively Yakut ????? (tayga, “untraversable forest”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ta???/, /ta???a/
• Rhymes: -a???

Noun

taiga (plural taigas)

1. A subarctic zone of evergreen coniferous forests situated south of the tundras and north of the steppes in the Northern Hemisphere.
   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 197:

     The mountains run from the Arctic Island of Novaya Zemlya southwards, dividing the endless wastes of the Siberian taiga and the steppes from the Russian platform in the west.

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 871:

     Like the taiga, he was everywhere, and mysterious—a heroic being with unearthly gifts.

Translations

Further reading

• taiga on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Anagrams

• agait, agita

Dutch

Etymology

Ultimately from Russian ?????? (tajgá), from Turkic or Yakut ????? (tayga). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?i?.?a?/
• Hyphenation: tai?ga

Noun

taiga f (plural taiga's)

1. taiga (subarctic evergreen coniferous forest) [from 19th c.]

Estonian

Noun

taiga

1. partitive singular of taig
2. illative singular of taig

Finnish

Noun

taiga

1. taiga

Declension

Italian

Etymology

From Russian ?????? (tajgá).

Noun

taiga f (plural taighe)

1. taiga

Japanese

Romanization

taiga

1. R?maji transcription of ???
2. R?maji transcription of ???

Latvian

Noun

taiga f (4th declension)

1. taiga
2. boreal forest

Declension

Portuguese

Noun

taiga f (plural taigas)

1. taiga (subarctic zone of coniferous forest)

Romanian

Etymology

From Russian ????? (tajga)

Noun

taiga f (plural taigale)

1. taiga

Declension

English

Etymology

From the Irish first name Tadhg, and thus probably cognate to Teagan and Tegan.

Noun

taig (plural taigs)

1. (Britain, especially Scotland and Northern Ireland, derogatory) A Catholic.

Anagrams

• Gita, gait

Estonian

Etymology

Borrowed from Finnish taika.

Noun

taig (genitive taia, partitive taiga)

1. a pagan ritual or spell

Declension

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• tig

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta??/

Noun

taig n

1. dative singular of tech

Mutation