чекист

Russian

Etymology

From Чека́ (Čeká) +‎ -и́ст (-íst).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [t͡ɕɪˈkʲist]
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Noun

чеки́ст • (čekíst) m anim (genitive чеки́ста, nominative plural чеки́сты, genitive plural чеки́стов, feminine чеки́стка)

  1. (historical) Chekist; 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) KGB man, FSB agent; a national security official employed by any of the state security intelligence agencies of the Soviet Union or Russian Federation

Declension
Declension of чеки́ст (anim masc-form hard-stem accent-a) 
singular plural
nominative чеки́ст
čekíst		 чеки́сты
čekísty
genitive чеки́ста
čekísta		 чеки́стов
čekístov
dative чеки́сту
čekístu		 чеки́стам
čekístam
accusative чеки́ста
čekísta		 чеки́стов
čekístov
instrumental чеки́стом
čekístom		 чеки́стами
čekístami
prepositional чеки́сте
čekíste		 чеки́стах
čekístax

Descendants
  • → Czech: čekista
  • → English: Chekist
  • → Estonian: tšekist
  • → Finnish: tšekisti
  • → French: tchékiste
  • → German: Tschekist
  • → Italian: cekista
  • → Polish: czekista
  • → Portuguese: tchekista
  • → Spanish: chequista
  • → Ukrainian: чекі́ст (čekíst)
  • → Yiddish: טשעקיסט (tshekist)
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