tigriña
Spanish, noun
tigriña is spelled T-I-G-R-I-Ñ-A (7 letters) and appears about once in every 27 million words in written Spanish, the 187,919th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tigriña is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “Tigrinya (language)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its tilde, tigrina is a different word: “alternative form of tigriña”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Lengua semítica, descendiente del ge'ez, hablada por la población de Tigray, Etiopía”.
What does tigriña mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineTigrinya (language)
noun
- 1
femininealternative form of tigriña
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Lengua semítica, descendiente del ge'ez, hablada por la población de Tigray, Etiopía.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of tigriña
- tigrinas plural
- tigrina alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is tigriña in Spanish?
tigriña appears about once in every 27 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).