чекіст

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Ukrainian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Russian чеки́ст (čekíst).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [t͡ʃeˈkʲist]
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Noun

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чекі́ст (čekístm pers (genitive чекі́ста, nominative plural чекі́сти, genitive plural чекі́стів, feminine чекі́стка, relational adjective чекі́стський)

  1. (historical) Chekist (agent of the Cheka, the Soviet Russian secret police from 1917 to 1922, replacing the Okhrana secret police of Tsarist Russia; succeeded by the OGPU and NKVD)
  2. (by extension, metonymically) Chekist (KGB man, FSB agent; a national security official employed by any of the state security intelligence agencies of the Soviet Union or Russian Federation)

Declension

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References

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  1. ^ Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “чекіст”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka

Further reading

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