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Cheremiss

Meaning of "Cheremiss" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF CHEREMISS

ˌtʃɛərəˈmɪs


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CHEREMISS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cheremiss is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CHEREMISS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Mari people

The Mari, are a Finno-Ugric ethnic group, who have traditionally lived along the Volga and Kama rivers in Russia. Almost half of Maris today live in the Mari El republic, with significant populations in the Bashkortostan and Tatarstan republics. In the past, the Mari have also been known as the Cheremis in Russian and the Çirmeş in Tatar. The Mari people consists of three different groups: the Meadow Mari, who live along the left bank of the Volga, the Mountain Mari, who live along the right bank of the Volga, and Eastern Mari, who live in the Bashkortostan republic. In the 2002 Russian census, 604,298 people identified themselves as "Mari," with 18,515 of those specifying that they were Mountain Mari and 56,119 as Eastern Mari. Almost 60% of Mari lived in rural areas.

Definition of Cheremiss in the English dictionary

The definition of Cheremiss in the dictionary is -miss, -mis. a member of an Ugrian people of the Volga region, esp of the Mari El Republic. Other definition of Cheremiss is Also called: Mari. the language of this people, belonging to the Finno-Ugric family.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CHEREMISS

Amis · amiss · Artemis · camis · Cheremis · commis · demiss · dermis · dismiss · emys · epidermis · epididymis · kermis · kirmess · miss · premise · promise · remiss · submiss · Themis

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CHEREMISS

Cher · cheralite · Cherbourg · Cheremis · Cherenkov · Cherenkov radiation · Cheribon · cherimoya · cherimoyer · cherish · cherishable · cherished · cherisher · cherishingly · cherishment · Chernenko · Chernigov · Chernobyl · Chernovtsy

WORDS THAT END LIKE CHEREMISS

air miss · give something a miss · hit and miss · hit-and-miss · hit or miss · junior miss · koumiss · kumiss · near miss · premiss · take amiss · take something amiss

Synonyms and antonyms of Cheremiss in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Cheremiss» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CHEREMISS

Find out the translation of Cheremiss to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of Cheremiss from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Cheremiss» in English.
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Translator English - Chinese

Cheremiss
1,325 millions of speakers
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Cheremiss
570 millions of speakers
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English

Cheremiss
510 millions of speakers
hi

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Cheremiss
380 millions of speakers
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Cheremiss
280 millions of speakers
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Cheremiss
278 millions of speakers
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Cheremiss
270 millions of speakers
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Cheremiss
260 millions of speakers
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Cheremiss
220 millions of speakers
ms

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Cheremiss
190 millions of speakers
de

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Tscheremissen
180 millions of speakers
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Cheremiss
130 millions of speakers
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Cheremiss
85 millions of speakers
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Cheremiss
85 millions of speakers
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Cheremiss
80 millions of speakers
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Cheremiss
75 millions of speakers
mr

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Cheremiss
75 millions of speakers
tr

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Cheremiss
70 millions of speakers
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Cheremiss
65 millions of speakers
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Cheremiss
50 millions of speakers
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Cheremiss
40 millions of speakers
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Cheremiss
30 millions of speakers
el

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Cheremiss
15 millions of speakers
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Cheremiss
14 millions of speakers
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Cheremiss
10 millions of speakers
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Cheremiss
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CHEREMISS»

Discover the use of Cheremiss in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Cheremiss and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Mainz Meeting: Proceedings of the Seventh International ...
this view was based on the fact that the ethnonym Cheremiss occurred in Russian chronicles as early as the 12th century. Hence researchers automatically considered the population named Cheremiss in the sources to be the predecessors of ...
Lars Johanson, 1998
2
Languages of the USSR
There are on the whole more points of affinity between Mordvin and, say, Finnish than between Cheremiss and Finnish. Cheremiss, which was the mother-tongue of nearly half a million persons in 1939, has two dialects—the Lower (koz'la ...
W. K. Matthews, 2013
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland
Cheremiss. To the north of the country of the Mordvin, and on the left border of the river Volga, live tribes belonging to the Cheremiss group. They form a connecting link between the Mordvin and Perm populations, both geographically and ...
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1889
4
Essays
sixteen years ago about a hundred tunes of a Volga-people, called Cheremiss, were published in Russia. Later, in Vienna, Professor Lach also published several dozen Cheremiss tunes collected from prisoners of war. A considerable number ...
B‰la Bart¢k, Benjamin Suchoff, 1976
5
Exploring the Caucasus in the 21st Century: Essays on ...
Budenz must have felt personally offended by Bálint de Szentkatolna because the Székely linguist questioned Budenz' study of Cheremiss. Gábor, who had checked Budenz' Cheremiss language study, on his request, with Cheremiss ...
Françoise Companjen, László Károly Marácz, Lia Versteegh, 2010
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Rude and Barbarous Kingdom: Russia in the Accounts of ...
There are divers other Tatars that border upon Russia, as the Nogais, the Cheremiss, the Mordvinians, the Circassians, and the Shalcans,“ which all differ in name more than in regimen or other condition from the Krym Tatar, except the  ...
Lloyd E. Berry, Robert O. Crummey, 2012
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Aftermath: A Supplement to The Golden Bough
Ordinary mortals are forbidden to set foot within a sacred grove. They think that such a sacrilegious intruder would be killed by the spirit of the grove.1 The Cheremiss of Russia have many sacred groves, some of which cover large areas of the ...
James George Frazer, 2013
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Ivan the Terrible
The Cheremiss tribesmen living nearby were suitably impressed by the speed with which the Russians were able to build a fortress so close to Kazan. Here on the right bank of the Volga many tribesmen of many diflerent origins were living ...
Robert Payne, Nikita Romanoff, 2002
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Portrait of a Russian Province: Economy, Society, and ...
Then, we can calculate that Tatars constituted 11 percent of the population of those particular districts; Mordvinians 6 percent of theirs; Cheremiss, 3 percent. Thus, in the southern districts, tending toward the east, these various groups made ...
Catherine Evtuhov, 2011
10
Death, Mourning, and Burial: A Cross-Cultural Reader
Among the Cheremiss, some groups believe that the deceased dies only once, but others – for example, the Cheremiss of Vyatka – say that a man may die seven times and pass from one world to another and that he is then changed into a ...
Antonius C. G. M. Robben, 2009
REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Cheremiss [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/cheremiss>. Apr 2024 ».
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