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Chechen

Chechen

English

Adjective

Chechen ‎(not comparable)

Of or pertaining to Chechnya

Translations

of or pertaining to Chechnya

Armenian: չեչենական (hy) ‎(čʿečʿenakan)
Bulgarian: чеченски ‎(čečénski)
Catalan: txetxè
Chechen: нохчийн ‎(noχčīn)
Czech: čečenský (cs) m
Finnish: tšetšenialainen (fi)
German: tschetschenisch (de)
Irish: Seisniach

Norwegian:

Bokmål: tsjetsjensk

Nynorsk: tsjetsjensk
Polish: czeczeński m
Portuguese: checheno (pt), tchetcheno
Romanian: cecen
Russian: чече́нский (ru) ‎(čečénskij)
Slovak: čečenský m
Swedish: tjetjensk (sv)

Noun

Chechen ‎(plural Chechens)

Someone belonging to this ethnic group.

Translations

person

Abkhaz:
Armenian: չեչեն ‎(čʿečʿen)
Avar:
Bats:
Bulgarian: чеченец m ‎(čečénec)
Catalan: txetxè m, txetxena f
Chechen: нохчий ‎(noχčī), plural: нохчо ‎(noχčo)
Finnish: tšetšeeni (fi)
Georgian: ჩეჩენი ‎(čečeni)
German: Tschetschene m, Tschetschenin f

Hungarian: csecsen (hu)
Ingush:
Irish: Seisniach m
Italian: ceceno (it) m, cecena f
Laz:
Mingrelian:
Norwegian:

Bokmål: tsjetsjener (no) m

Nynorsk: tsjetsjenar m
Ossetian:
Polish: Czeczen m, Czeczenka f
Portuguese: checheno (pt) m, tchetcheno m
Romanian: cecen m, cecenă f
Russian: чече́нец (ru) m ‎(čečénec), чече́нка (ru) f ‎(čečénka)
Swedish: tjetjen (sv) c, tjetjener (sv) c pl

Proper noun

Chechen

An ethnic group originating from Chechnya in the North Caucasus region.
A North-Central Caucasian language spoken in Chechnya.

Translations

ethnic group

Czech: Čečenec m, Čečenci
Finnish: tšetšeenit
German: Tschetschenen m pl

Portuguese: chechenos m pl, tchetchenos m pl
Romanian: ceceni m pl
Slovak: Čečenec m, Čečenci m pl

language

Abkhaz:
Arabic: شِيشَان m ‎(šīšan)
Armenian: չեչեներեն (hy) ‎(čʿečʿeneren)
Azeri:
Breton: Tchetcheneg
Catalan: txetxè 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)
German: Tschetschenisch (de) n
Gujarati: ચેચેન (gu) ‎(chechen)
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)
Korean: 체첸어 (ko) ‎(Chechen-eo)
Latvian: Čečenu valoda
Marathi: चेचेन f ‎(cecena)
Moksha: чеченонь ‎(čečenonʹ)
Norwegian:

Bokmål: tsjetsjensk m

Nynorsk: tsjetsjensk m
Ossetian: цæцæйнаг æвзаг ‎(cæcæjnag ævzag)
Persian: چچنی ‎(checheni)
Polish: czeczeński 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: чеченська (uk) f ‎(čečéns’ka)
Walloon: Tchetchene

See also

Wiktionary's coverage of Chechen terms

External links

ISO 639-1 code ce, ISO 639-3 code che

Ethnologue entry for Chechen, ce