Shere Khan

Shere Khan ˈʃɪər_ˈkɑːn (शेर ख़ान; شیر خان) is a fictional Bengal tiger and the main antagonist of Rudyard Kiplings Jungle Book and its adaptations. It is a translation of English denomination of the bengal tiger: Royal Tiger into Hindi language, where shere means tiger and khan is the mongol word for king and the name of the Indian Moghul ruler family. According to The Kipling Society, the word shere (or shir) translates as tiger, and khan is a title of distinction, used together to show that he is chief among tigers. Other sources indicate Shere may mean tiger or lion in Azerbaijani, Persian, Kurdish, Hindi-Urdu, and Punjabi, and that khan translates as king, or leader, in a number of languages influenced by the Mongols, including Pashto and Hindi-Urdu.

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