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

Related terms

• Всероссийская чрезвычайная комиссия (Vserossijskaja črezvyčajnaja komissija)
• ВЧК (VČK)
• Чека́ (Čeká)
• ЧК (ČK)

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)