Chechen

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)

1. A member of a Nakh people of the northern Caucasus, now mostly Sunni Muslim and resident in the Russian republic of Chechnya.
2. (inexact) Synonym of Chechnyan: a resident of Chechnya.

Translations

A member of the Chechen people

• Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: չեչեն (čʿečʿen)
• Avar: please add this translation if you can
• Bats: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: чече́нец m (čečénec)
• Catalan: txetxè (ca) m, txetxena (ca) f
• Chechen: нохчий (noχčī), нохчо pl (noχčo)
• Danish: tjetjener c
• Esperanto: ĉeĉeno
• Estonian: tšetšeeni keel
• Finnish: tšetšeeni (fi)
• French: Tchétchène (fr) m or f
• Georgian: ჩეჩენი (čečeni)
• German: Tschetschene m, Tschetschenin f
• Hungarian: csecsen (hu)
• Ingush: please add this translation if you can

• Irish: Seisniach m
• Italian: ceceno (it) m, cecena f
• Kazakh: шешен (şeşen)
• Laz: please add this translation if you can
• Mingrelian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tsjetsjener (no) m

  Nynorsk: tsjetsjenar m

• Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
• 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

Proper noun

Chechen

1. The language of the Chechens, a member of the Nakh family.

Translations

language

• Abkhaz: Чачан Бышәа (Č̍āč̍ān Bəš°ā)
• Arabic: شِيشَان‎ m (šīšān)
• Armenian: չեչեներեն (hy) (čʿečʿeneren)
• Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can
• Breton: Tchetcheneg
• Catalan: txetxè (ca) m
• Chechen: нохчийн (noχčīn), нохчийн мотт (noχčīn mott)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 車臣語, 车臣语 (Chēchén-yǔ)

• Czech: čečenština f
• Danish: tjetjensk
• Dutch: Tsjetsjeens (nl)
• Finnish: tšetšeeni (fi)
• Flemish: Tsjetsjeens (nl)
• French: tchétchène (fr) m
• Galician: checheno (gl)
• Georgian: ჩაჩნური ენა (čačnuri ena), ჩეჩნური (čečnuri)
• German: Tschetschenisch (de) n
• Gujarati: ચેચેન (gu) (cecen)
• Hebrew: צ׳צ׳נית‎ f (chechenít)
• Hindi: चेचेन (hi) (cecen), चेचन (cecan)
• Hungarian: csecsen (hu)
• Icelandic: téténska (is), tsjétsjénska
• Ingush: нохчий мотт (noχčī mott)
• Irish: Seisnis f

• Italian: ceceno (it) m
• Japanese: チェチェン語 (ja) (Chechen-go)
• Kazakh: шешен тілі (şeşen tili)
• Korean: 체첸어 (ko) (Chechen-eo)
• Latvian: Čečenu valoda
• Marathi: चेचेन f (cecen)
• Moksha: чеченонь (čečenonʹ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tsjetsjensk m

  Nynorsk: tsjetsjensk m

• Ossetian: цӕцӕйнаг ӕвзаг (cæcæjnag ævzag)
• Persian: چچنی‎ (checheni)
• Polish: czeczeński (pl) m
• Portuguese: checheno (pt) m, tchetcheno m
• Romanian: cecenă f, limba cecenă f
• Russian: чече́нский (ru) m (čečénskij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: чеченски m, чеченски језик m

  Roman: čečenski (sh) m, čečenski jezik m

• Slovak: čečenčina
• Spanish: checheno (es) m
• Swedish: tjetjenska (sv) c
• Turkish: Çeçence (tr)
• Ukrainian: чече́нська (uk) f (čečénsʹka)
• Walloon: Tchetchene

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Chechen terms

Further reading

• ISO 639-1 code ce, ISO 639-3 code che
• Ethnologue entry for Chechen, ce

Adjective

Chechen (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to the Chechen people.
2. Of or relating to the Chechen language.
3. (inexact) Synonym of Chechnyan: of or relating to Chechnya, a Russian .

Translations

of or relating to the Chechen people

• Armenian: չեչենական (hy) (čʿečʿenakan)
• Bulgarian: чече́нски (čečénski)
• Catalan: txetxè (ca)
• Chechen: нохчийн (noχčīn)
• Czech: čečenský (cs) m
• Danish: tjetjensk
• Dutch: Tsjetsjeens (nl)
• Esperanto: ĉeĉena (eo)
• Finnish: tšetšenialainen (fi)
• Georgian: ჩეჩნური (čečnuri), ჩეჩნეთის (čečnetis)
• German: tschetschenisch (de)
• Irish: Seisniach

• Kazakh: шешен (şeşen)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tsjetsjensk

  Nynorsk: tsjetsjensk

• Polish: czeczeński (pl) m
• Portuguese: checheno (pt), tchetcheno
• Romanian: cecen
• Russian: чече́нский (ru) (čečénskij)
• Slovak: čečenský (sk) m
• Spanish: checheno (es)
• Swedish: tjetjensk (sv)
• West Frisian: Tsjetsjeensk

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Romanization

Chechen

1. Rōmaji transcription of チェチェン