Chuvash

//t͡ʃʊˈvɑːʃ// adj, name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Someone from, or pertaining to Chuvashia
  2. 2
    the Turkic language spoken by the Chuvash wordnet
  3. 3
    a member of a people of Turkic speech living in the Volga region in eastern Russia wordnet
Adjective
  1. 1
    From, or pertaining to, Chuvashia not-comparable
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    An agglutinative language of the Bolgar branch of the Turkic language family and is spoken west of the Ural mountains in central Russia. Chuvash is the native language of the Chuvash people and an official language of Chuvashia. It is spoken by about two million people.

Example

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""Paradigm shift" is called "csirkenyak" in Chuvash."

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian чуваш (čuvaš), see there for more.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.