Chennai

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Tamil சென்னை (ceṉṉai).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɛnaɪ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnaɪ
• Rhymes: -aɪ

Proper noun

Chennai

2. 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.

4. A district of Tamil Nadu, India, containing most of metro Chennai.

Synonyms

• Chenappapatam, Chennapatnam, Chennapattanamu, Chinapatam, Chinapatana, Madras (former names)

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)

Anagrams

• enchain, inhance

Portuguese

Proper noun

Chennai f

1. Chennai (the capital and largest city of Tamil Nadu, India)

   Synonyms: Madras, Madrasta