• (abbreviation):Cz.

Unadapted borrowing fromPolishCzech, fromOld PolishCzech, fromOld CzechČech, ultimately a variation and contraction ofProto-Slavic*čelověkъ(“human”).

• enPR:chĕk,IPA^(key):/t͡ʃɛk/

• Audio(US):

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• Homophones:check,cheque
• Rhymes:-ɛk

Czech (notcomparable)

1. Of, from, or pertaining to theCzech Republic (Czechia), the Czech people, culture, or language.
   • 2012 June 28, Jamie Jackson, “Wimbledon 2012: Lukas Rosol shocked by miracle win over Rafael Nadal”, inthe Guardian‎^[1]:

     A big beast of the men's field was put through the mangle then dumped out of Wimbledon as Rafael Nadal fell at around 10.06pm to Lukas Rosol, aCzech debutant who will never forget this Thursday evening in south-west London.

• Czechian
• Czechic
• Czechish

• Czech Silesia
• Czechness
• Czechoslovak

• → Burmese:ချက်(hkyak)

Czech (countable anduncountable,pluralCzechs)

1. (countable) A person from theCzech Republic (Czechia) or of Czech descent.
   • 1964,John F. Kennedy, “Immigration Policy”, inA Nation of Immigrants‎^[2], Revised and Enlarged edition,Harper & Row,→LCCN,→OCLC,page61:

     By 1963, almost 130,000Czechs had migrated to this country. They tended to gravitate to the farming communities.

Czech

2. (uncountable) ASlavic language primarily spoken in the Czech Republic.
   • 2001 December 2, Giles Milton, “'The Riddle and the Knight'”, inThe New York Times‎^[3]:

     By the time this mysterious knight died in the 1360s, his book was available in every European language, including Dutch, Gaelic,Czech, Catalan, and Walloon.

3. (nonstandard) TheCzech Republic (Czechia).
   • 2008, George Stowers,Straight Up, No Sippin': Memoirs of Life and Work Onboard Mega Cruise Ships,→ISBN, page325:

     She's fromCzech, Croatia, or somewhere over there. The ill thing is that we always come together when we're drunk, but half way through our drunken talks, she always gets mad at something and leaves.

   • 2009, Jennifer Lees-Marshment,Political Marketing: Principles and Applications, Routledge,→ISBN, page237:

     A whole array of companies and consultants are found travelling to Croatia orCzech or China, to extol the latest virtues of electioneering, perhaps via the UK Westminster Foundation for Democracy,[…]

(language):

• Early Modern Czech
• Middle Czech
• Old Czech
• Proto-Czech

• Bohemian
• Wiktionary’s coverage of Czech terms
• Appendix:Czech Swadesh list for aSwadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Czech

• ISO 639-1 codecs,ISO 639-3 codeces(SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Czech,ces ⁠
•  Czech language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed fromOld CzechČech. First attested in 1440.

• IPA^(key):(10^th–15^th CE)/t͡ʃʲɛx/
• IPA^(key):(15^th CE)/t͡ʃʲɛx/

Czech m animacy unattested

1. (attested inGreater Poland)Czech(person from Czechia)
   • c.1500,Wokabularz lubiński,Lubiń: inkunabuł Archiwum Archidiecezjalnego w Gnieźnie, sygn. Inc. 78d., page19v:

     Bohemus est aliquis de BohemiaCzech

     [Bohemus est aliquis de BohemiaCzech]

2. a malesurname

• Polish:Czech
  • → English:Czech
    • → Burmese:ချက်(hkyak)
• Silesian:Czech

• Witold Taszycki, editor (1965-1967), “Czech”, inSłownik staropolskich nazw osobowych (in Polish), volume 1, Wrocław: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, page412
• Ewa Deptuchowa, Mariusz Frodyma, Katarzyna Jasińska, Magdalena Klapper, Dorota Kołodziej, Mariusz Leńczuk, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, editors (2023), “Czech”, inRozariusze z polskimi glosami. Internetowa baza danych [Dictionaries of Polish glosses, an Internet database] (in Polish), Kraków:Pracownia Języka Staropolskiego Instytut Języka Polskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk

• IPA^(key):/ˈt͡ʂɛx/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes:-ɛx
• Syllabification:Czech

Inherited fromOld PolishCzech.

Czech m pers (female equivalentCzeszka)

1. Czech;Bohemian

Czech m pers

1. a malesurname

Czech f (indeclinable)

1. a femalesurname

• → English:Czech
  • → Burmese:ချက်(hkyak)

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

Czech pl

1. genitive ofCzechy

• Czech inWielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Czech in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• “Czech”, inInternetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland],2022