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Chennai
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English
Etymology
en :bor ta:சென்னை + 1
Pronunciation
en RP /ˈt͡ʃɛnaɪ/
en Indic /t͡ʃenːaɪ/ [ˈt͡ʃenːai̯]
en En-Chennai.ogg
ta Ta-சென்னை.ogg
en Chennai pronunciation by Eshwer.ogg
en ɛnaɪ 2
en aɪ 2
en American and British English
Proper noun
en Q1352en caplc s/Tamil Nadu c/India, formerly known as Madras.
en Randeep Ramesh Speed limits rise as India falls in love with the car w:The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/dec/05/india.randeepramesh 2007-12-05 The £4bn expressways form a diamond linking Delhi with the country's three other largest cities, Mumbai, Chennai and Calcutta, marking the beginning of more than £35bn of road projects. https://web.archive.org/web/20210224002552/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/dec/05/india.randeepramesh
en Q15116en district s/Tamil Nadu c/India containing most of metro Chennai.
Synonyms
en Chenappapatam, en Chennapatnam, en Chennapattanamu, en Chinapatam, en Chinapatana, en Madras former names
Derived terms
en Chennaiite
Translations
state capital of Tamil Nadu, India
Arabic: ar تْشِينَاي m tšināy
Armenian: hy Չեննայ
Assamese: as চেন্নাই
Azerbaijani: az Çennai
Bengali: bn চেন্নাই
Bulgarian: bg Чена́й
Burmese: my ချန်နိုင်း
Catalan: ca Txennai, ca Chennai
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 金奈 Jīnnài Mainland China, cmn 清奈 Qīngnài Taiwan, cmn 真奈 Zhēnnài Malaysia, Singapore
Dutch: nl Chennai
Farefare: gur Sennai
Finnish: fi Chennai
French: fr Chennai
Georgian: ka ჩენაი
German: de Chennai
Greek: el Τσεννάι f
Gujarati: gu ચેન્નઈ
Hebrew: he צ'נאי
Hindi: hi चेन्नई
Japanese: ja チェンナイ Chennai
Kannada: kn ಚೆನ್ನೈ
Korean: ko ^첸나이
Latvian: lv Čenaja
Lithuanian: lt Čenajus
Malayalam: ml ചെന്നൈ
Marathi: mr चेन्नई
Nepali: ne चेन्नई
Polish: pl Chennai
Portuguese: pt Chennai f, pt Madras f, pt Madrasta f
Punjabi: pa ਚੇਨਈ
Russian: ru Ченна́и
Sanskrit: sa चेन्नै f cennai, sa चेन्नैनगरम् n cennai-nagaram
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh Ченај m
Latin: sh Čenaj m
Swedish: sv Chennai
Tamil: ta சென்னை
Telugu: te చెన్నై, te చెన్నపట్నం, te చెన్నపట్టణము
Thai: th เจนไน jeen-nai
Urdu: ur چنّئی canna'ī m
Anagrams
en acehinn enchain inhance
Portuguese
Proper noun
f
pt caplc s/Tamil Nadu c/India Chennai
pt Madras Madrasta