liger

See also: Liger

English

A liger.

Five ligers lying down.

Etymology

Blend of lion +‎ tiger

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪɡɚ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɪɡə(ɹ)

Noun

liger (plural ligers)

1. An animal born to a male lion and a tigress.
   • 1985, Hartson & Dawson, The Ultimate Irrelevant Encyclopedia, page 66:

     Tigons, ligers and a zeedonk have also been created by miscegenating mammals.

Hyponyms

• ligress

Translations

animal born to a male lion and a tigress

• Arabic: أَسَد بَبْرِيّ m (ʔasad babriyy)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 獅虎 / 狮虎 (zh) (shīhǔ)

• Danish: liger (da) c
• Dutch: lijger (nl) m
• Finnish: liikeri (fi)
• French: tigron (fr) m, tiglon (fr) m, ligre (fr) m
• German: Liger (de) m
• Japanese: ライガー (ja) (raigā)
• Korean: 라이거 (raigeo)
• Mongolian: барслан (barslan)
• Polish: lygrys m
• Portuguese: ligre (pt) m
• Russian: лигр (ru) m (ligr)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: лагар m

  Latin: lagar m

• Spanish: ligre (es) m
• Welsh: lleigr m

See also

• tigon

References

• “liger”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Rigel, e-girl, egirl, elrig, girle

Latin

Verb

liger

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of ligō

Romansch

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French legier, from Vulgar Latin *leviārius, from Classical Latin levis (“light; not heavy”). Compare French léger.

Adjective

liger m (feminine singular ligera, masculine plural ligers, feminine plural ligeras)

1. (Puter, Vallader) light (of weight)
2. (Puter, Vallader) easy

Synonyms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) lev
• (Sutsilvan) leav
• (Vallader) leiv

Etymology 2

From Latin legō, legere.

Verb

liger

1. (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) to read

Alternative forms

• leger (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Vallader)
• ler (Puter)

Swedish

Noun

liger c

1. a liger (cat born to a male lion and a tigress)

Declension

Declension of liger

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	liger	ligers
	definite	ligern	ligerns
plural	indefinite	ligrar	ligrars
	definite	ligrarna	ligrarnas

See also

• liliger
• tigon

Zoogocho Zapotec

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish ligero.

Adjective

liger

1. light (not heavy)
2. swift, quick-acting (of a person)

Adverb

liger

1. quick

References

• Long C., Rebecca, Cruz M., Sofronio (2000) Diccionario zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 38)‎^[2] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 249