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ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:
- tiger (n.)
- O.E. tigras (pl.), also in part from O.Fr. tigre (mid-12c.), both from L. tigris "tiger," from Gk. tigris, possibly from an Iranian source. The meaning "shriek or howl at the end of a cheer" is recorded from 1845, American English. Tiger's-eye "yellowish-brown quartz" is recorded from 1891.
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