English
Etymology
From Russian чечен- (čečen-), the root in чече́нец (čečénec, “a Chechen man”) or чече́нский (čečénskij, “Chechen (adjective)”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtʃɛ.tʃɛn/, /ˈtʃɛ.tʃən/
- Rhymes: -ɛtʃɛn, -ɛtʃən
Noun
Chechen (plural Chechens)
- A member of a Nakh people of the northern Caucasus and resident in the Russian republic of Chechnya.
- (loosely) Synonym of Chechnyan: a resident of Chechnya.
Derived terms
Translations
A member of the Chechen people
- Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: شِيشَانِيّ m (šīšāniyy), شِيشَانِيَّة f (šīšāniyya)
- Armenian: չեչեն (čʻečʻen)
- Avar: please add this translation if you can
- Azerbaijani: çeçen
- Bats: please add this translation if you can
- Belarusian: чачэ́нец m (čačénjec), чачэ́нка f (čačénka), чэчэ́нец m (čečénjec), чэчэ́нка f (čečénka)
- Bengali: শীশানী (śiśani)
- Bulgarian: чече́нец m (čečénec), чече́нка f (čečénka)
- Catalan: txetxè (ca) m, txetxena (ca) f
- Chechen: нохчи (noxči), нохчо pl (noxčo)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 車臣人 / 车臣人 (chēchénrén)
- Czech: Čečenec m, Čečenka f
- Danish: tjetjener c
- Dutch: Tsjetsjeen m, Tsjetsjeense f
- Esperanto: ĉeĉeno
- Estonian: tšetšeeni keel
- Finnish: tšetšeeni (fi)
- French: Tchétchène (fr) m or f
- Georgian: ჩეჩენი (čečeni)
- German: Tschetschene (de) m, Tschetschenin (de) f
- Hindi: चेचेन (hi) (cecen)
- Hungarian: csecsen (hu)
- Ingush: нохчий (noxčii)
- Irish: Seisniach m
- Italian: ceceno (it) m, cecena f
- Japanese: チェチェン人 (チェチェンじん, chechenjin)
- Kazakh: шешен (şeşen)
- Korean: 체첸인 (chechenin)
- Laz: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: Чеченец m (Čečenec), Чеченка f (Čečenka)
- Marathi: चेचेन (cecen)
- Mingrelian: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: tsjetsjener (no) m
- Nynorsk: tsjetsjenar m
- Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
- Ottoman Turkish: چچن (çeçen)
- Polish: Czeczen m, Czeczenka (pl) f
- Portuguese: checheno (pt) m, tchetcheno m
- Romanian: cecen m, cecenă f
- Russian: чече́нец (ru) m (čečénec), чече́нка (ru) f (čečénka)
- Spanish: checheno (es) m
- Swedish: tjetjen (sv) c, tjetjener (sv) c pl
- Tajik: чечен (čečen)
- Tatar: чечен (çeçen)
- Turkish: Çeçen (tr)
- Ukrainian: чече́нець m (čečénecʹ), чече́нка f (čečénka)
- Uzbek: chechen (uz)
- Yiddish: טשעטשניער m (tshetshnyer), טשעטשניערין f (tshetshnyerin)
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Proper noun
Chechen
- The language of the Chechens, a member of the Nakh family.
Translations
See also
- Wiktionary’s coverage of Chechen terms
Further reading
Adjective
Chechen (not comparable)
- Of or relating to the Chechen people.
- Of or relating to the Chechen language.
- (inexact) Synonym of Chechnyan: of or relating to Chechnya, a Russian.
Derived terms
Translations
of or relating to the Chechen people
Japanese
Romanization
Chechen
- Rōmaji transcription of チェチェン