English

Proper noun

Taiga

1. A lake in Alaska.

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪ̯ɡa/

Noun

Taiga f ‎(genitive Taiga, no plural)

1. taiga (subarctiv zone of coniferous forest)

Japanese

Romanization

Taiga

1. rōmaji reading of たいが

English

Noun

taiga ‎(plural taigas)

1. A subarctic zone of evergreen coniferous forests situated south of the tundras and north of the steppes in the Northern Hemisphere.
   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 197:

     The mountains run from the Arctic Island of Novaya Zemlya southwards, dividing the endless wastes of the Siberian taiga and the steppes from the Russian platform in the west.

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 871:

     Like the taiga, he was everywhere, and mysterious—a heroic being with unearthly gifts.

   • 2013 March 1, Nancy Langston, “Mining the Boreal North”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, page 98:

     Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.

Translations

References

1. ↑ "taiga." Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. 2008.
2. ↑ Cyganenko, G. B. (1989), “тайга”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Kiev: Radjansʹka škola, page 418
3. ↑ Taiga in Bokmålsordboka

Anagrams

• agita

Finnish

Noun

taiga

1. taiga

Declension

Italian

Etymology

From Russian тайга́ ‎(tajgá).

Noun

taiga f ‎(plural taighe)

1. taiga

Japanese

Romanization

taiga

1. rōmaji reading of たいが
2. rōmaji reading of タイガ

Latvian

Noun

taiga f (4th declension)

1. taiga
2. boreal forest

Declension

Portuguese

Noun

taiga f (plural taigas)

1. taiga (subarctic zone of coniferous forest)