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taiga en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /taɪˈɡɑː/ (UK)
• (US) audio
• /ˈtaɪɡə/ (UK)

Etymology

From Russian тайга́ (tajgá), from South Siberian Turkic (Altai region, for example the Altay or Shor language, cf Khakas: тағ (tağ)), or alternatively Yakut тайга (tayga, “untraversable forest”). Doublet of Tayga.

Meanings

1. A subarctic zone of evergreen coniferous forests situated south of the tundras and north of the steppes in the Northern Hemisphere.
   • 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. 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 197:
   • The taiga is anything but pristine wilderness: It is an inhabited landscape where the indigenous Sámi and their reindeer have lived ever since the ice retreated 10,000 years ago. […] 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. 2013 March 14, Nancy Langston, “Mining the Boreal North”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 13 Apr 2016, page 98:
   • Like the taiga, he was everywhere, and mysterious—a heroic being with unearthly gifts. 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 871:

Forms

Deriveds

taiga flycatcher

Synonyms

boreal forest · snow forest

Translations (62)

lt taiga (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · ja タイガ (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · cv тайга (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · he טייגה (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · no boreal barskog (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · ia taiga (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · eo boreala arbaro (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · hu tajga (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · et taiga (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · eve дөмӈэ (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · eu taiga (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · ru тайга́ (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · cmn 泰加林 (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · el τάιγκα (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · ca taigà (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · uk тайга́ (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · is barrskógabeltið (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · es taiga (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · sq tajga (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · da nåleskov (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · de Taiga (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · ka ტაიგა (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · fr taïga (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · gl taiga (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · pl tajga (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · fi taiga (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · sh тајга (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · pt taiga (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · be тайга́ (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · xal тәәһ (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · nl taiga (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · fi boreaalinen vyöhyke (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · sjd ля̄ммт (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · it taiga (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · bg тайга́ (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · izh taigaa (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · sh tajga (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · fa تایگا (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · ar تَايْغَا (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · sk tajga (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · kk тайга (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · cmn 北方針葉林 /北方针叶林 (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · nn taiga (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · ms taiga (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · ro taiga (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · sah тыа (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · eo tajgo (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · mk тајга (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · no taiga (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · sv tajga (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · gld дуэнтэ (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · sah халыҥ тыа (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · sv taiga (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · vi taiga (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · de Borealer Nadelwald (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · ko 타이가 (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · cs tajga (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · tr tayga (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · dlg ойуур (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · sah тайҕа (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · oc taiga (subarctic zone of coniferous forest) · ast taiga (subarctic zone of coniferous forest)