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• Tigré
  Tigré

  noun

  a Semitic language spoken in northern Ethiopia.
• Tigre
  Tigre

  noun

  an autonomous region of N Ethiopia, bordering on Eritrea: formerly a separate kingdom. Capital: Mekele. Pop: 4 334 996 (2005 est)

Tigré

American  

[tee-grey] / tiˈgreɪ /

noun

1. a Semitic language spoken in northern Ethiopia.

2. a member of a nomadic, Tigrinya-speaking people of northern Ethiopia.

3. a member of an agricultural, Tigré-speaking people of northern Ethiopia.

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Tigre British  

/ ˈtiːɡreɪ /

noun

1. an autonomous region of N Ethiopia, bordering on Eritrea: formerly a separate kingdom. Capital: Mekele. Pop: 4 334 996 (2005 est)

2. a language of NE Ethiopia, belonging to the SE Semitic subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic family

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Example Sentences

Cholera had been making havoc in Tigré; we were not surprised, therefore, to hear that it had spread over other provinces, and that several cases had already broken out at Kourata.

From Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia with Some Account of the Late Emperor the Late Emperor Theodore, His Country and People by Blanc, Dr. Henri

In Godjam, Walkait, Shoa, and Tigré, the rebellion broke out almost simultaneously.

From Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia with Some Account of the Late Emperor the Late Emperor Theodore, His Country and People by Blanc, Dr. Henri

Gobazé, however, shortly afterwards heard that in Tigré, Dejatch Kassa, who for some months had abandoned his cause, had made himself very powerful, and marched upon Adowa.

From Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia with Some Account of the Late Emperor the Late Emperor Theodore, His Country and People by Blanc, Dr. Henri

I mentioned in my letter of two days since, that the news from the front was, that the King of Tigré, with an army of 7000 men, was inclined to make himself unpleasant.

From March to Magdala by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

The reports about the King of Tigré are, to a certain extent, founded on fact.

From March to Magdala by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)