liger

See also: Liger

English

A liger.

Five ligers lying down.

Etymology

Blend of lion +‎ tiger

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -aɪɡə(r)

Noun

liger (plural ligers)

An animal born to a male lion and a tigress.

Hyponyms

ligress

Translations

animal born to a male lion and a tigress

Arabic: أَسَد بَبْرِيّ‎ m (ʾasad babriyy)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 獅虎, 狮虎 (shīhǔ)
Danish: liger (da) c
Dutch: lijger (nl) m
Finnish: liikeri
French: tigron (fr) m, tiglon (fr) m
German: Liger (de) m
Japanese: ライガー (ja) (raigā)

Korean: 라이거 (raigeo)
Mongolian: барслан (barslan)
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

Anagrams

Rigel, elrig, girle

Latin

Verb

liger

first-person singular present passive subjunctive of ligō

Romansch

Etymology 1

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)

(Puter, Vallader) light (of weight)
(Puter, Vallader) easy

Synonyms

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

Etymology 2

From Latin legō, legere.

Verb

liger

(Sutsilvan, Surmiran) to read

Alternative forms

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

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