chien

Inherited from Middle French chien, from Old French chien, from Latin canis, canem (“dog”).

See cognates in regional languages in France : Bourguignon chein, Catalan ca, Corsican cane, cani, Franco-Provençal shin, tsin, Gallo chien, cun, qhun Norman quien, tchian, Occitan can, chin, Picard quien, tchien.

See cognates in Romance languages outside France : Aromanian cãni, Galician can, Italian cane, Lombard can, Portuguese cão, Romanian câine, Sardinian cane, Sicilian cani, Spanish can.

• (Belgium, France) IPA^(key): /ʃjɛ̃/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /ʃjẽ/

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• Rhymes: -jɛ̃

chien m (plural chiens, feminine chienne)

1. dog

   Synonyms: clebs, cabot

2. cock, hammer (of a firearm)

chien (feminine chienne, masculine plural chiens, feminine plural chiennes)

1. (Louisiana) greedy, stingy

• Haitian Creole: chyen

• “chien”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• “chien” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “chien” in Dico en ligne Le Robert.

• chine, Chine, chiné
• niche, niché

chien

1. Rōmaji transcription of ちえん

From Old French chien, from Latin canis, canem.

chien m (plural chiens)

1. dog (animal)

• French: chien

From Latin canis, canem.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʃjɛn/
• Rhymes: -en

chien oblique singular, m (oblique plural chiens, nominative singular chiens, nominative plural chien)

1. dog (Canis lupus familiaris)

chien

1. before

Felipe Arroyo de la Cuesta (1861) Grammar of the Mutsun language, spoken at the Mission of San Juan Bautista, Alta California (Shea’s Library of American Linguistics)‎^[1], volume IV, Cramoisy Press.