Chekist

English

Etymology

From Russian чеки́ст (čekíst) from Чека́ (Čeká) +‎ -ист (-ist).

Noun

Chekist (plural Chekists)

1. (historical) An 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) A national security official of the KGB, FSB or any of the state security intelligence agencies of the Soviet Union or Russian Federation.

Alternative forms

• Tchekist

Translations

agent of the Cheka

• Armenian: չեկիստ (hy) (čʻekist)
• Belarusian: чэкі́ст m (čekíst), чэкі́стка f (čekístka)
• Czech: čekista m anim, čekistka f
• Estonian: tšekist
• Finnish: tšekisti
• French: tchékiste (fr) m or f
• Georgian: ჩეკისტი (čeḳisṭi)
• German: Tschekist m, Tschekistin f
• Italian: cekista m or f
• Polish: czekista (pl) m, czekistka f
• Portuguese: tchekista m or f
• Russian: чеки́ст (ru) m (čekíst), чеки́стка (ru) f (čekístka)
• Slovak: čekist m, čekistka f
• Spanish: chequista m or f
• Ukrainian: чекі́ст m (čekíst), чекі́стка f (čekístka)
• Yiddish: טשעקיסט m (tshekist)

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