English
Etymology
Borrowed from Tamil சென்னை (ceṉṉai).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃɛnaɪ/
- Rhymes: -ɛnaɪ
- Rhymes: -aɪ
Proper noun
Chennai
- The capital and largest city of Tamil Nadu, India, formerly known as Madras.
2007 December 5, Randeep Ramesh, “Speed limits rise as India falls in love with the car”, in The Guardian[1]:The £4bn expressways form a diamond linking Delhi with the country's three other largest cities, Mumbai, Chennai and Calcutta, marking the beginning of more than £35bn of road projects.
- Chennai (a district of Tamil Nadu, India, containing most of metro Chennai).
Synonyms
Translations
state capital of Tamil Nadu, India
- Arabic: تْشِينَاي m (tšināy)
- Armenian: Չեննայ (Čʻennay)
- Assamese: চেন্নাই (sennai)
- Bengali: চেন্নাই (bn) (cennai)
- Bulgarian: Чена́й (Čenáj)
- Burmese: ချန်နိုင်း (hkyannuing:)
- Catalan: Txennai, Chennai
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 金奈 (zh) (Jīnnài) (Mainland China), 清奈 (Qīngnài) (Taiwan), 真奈 (Zhēnnài) (Malaysia, Singapore)
- Dutch: Chennai (nl)
- Farefare: Sennai
- Finnish: Chennai
- French: Chennai (fr)
- German: Chennai (de)
- Greek: Τσεννάι (el) f (Tsennái)
- Gujarati: ચેન્નઈ (cennaī)
- Hebrew: צ׳נאי
- Hindi: चेन्नई (hi) (cennaī)
- Japanese: チェンナイ (Chennai)
- Kannada: ಚೆನ್ನೈ (kn) (cennai)
- Korean: 첸나이 (Chennai)
- Latvian: Čenaja
- Lithuanian: Čenajus
- Marathi: चेन्नई (cennaī)
- Nepali: चेन्नई (cennaī)
- Polish: Chennai (pl)
- Portuguese: Chennai f, Madras f, Madrasta f
- Punjabi: ਚੇਨਈ (cenaī)
- Russian: Ченна́и (Čennái)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Ченај m
- Roman: Čenaj m
- Swedish: Chennai
- Tamil: சென்னை (ta) (ceṉṉai)
- Telugu: చెన్నై (cennai), చెన్నపట్నం (cennapaṭnaṁ), చెన్నపట్టణము (cennapaṭṭaṇamu)
- Thai: เจนไน (jayn-nai)
- Urdu: چنّئی m (canna'ī)
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Anagrams
Portuguese
Proper noun
Chennai f
- Chennai (the capital and largest city of Tamil Nadu, India)
- Synonyms: Madras, Madrasta