chauvinism

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈʃəʊ.vɪ.nɪ.zəm/
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• US: /ˈʃoʊ.vɪˌnɪzəm/
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• Australian: /ˈʃəʊ.və.nɪ.zəm/
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Borrowed from French chauvinisme (“idealistic devotion to Napoleon”), named for Nicolas Chauvin, a legendary and excessively patriotic soldier of the French First Republic. The figure of Chauvin became especially famous as a character in the play La Cocarde Tricolore by the Cogniard brothers.

86 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: shovinizëm — excessive patriotism
• Arabic: شُوفِينِيَّة (šūfīniyya) — excessive patriotism
• Armenian: շովինիզմ (šovinizm) — excessive patriotism
• Azerbaijani: şovinizm — excessive patriotism
• Belarusian: шавіні́зм (šavinízm) — excessive patriotism
• Bulgarian: шовини́зъм (šovinízǎm) — excessive patriotism
• Catalan: xovinisme — excessive patriotism
• Chinese Mandarin: 沙文主義 /沙文主义 (shāwénzhǔyì) — excessive patriotism
• Chinese Mandarin: 盲目的愛國心 /盲目的爱国心 (mángmù de àiguóxīn) — excessive patriotism
• Crimean Tatar: şovinizm — excessive patriotism
• Czech: šovinismus — excessive patriotism
• Czech: šovinizmus — excessive patriotism
• Danish: chauvinisme — excessive patriotism
• Dutch: chauvinisme — excessive patriotism
• Esperanto: ŝovinismo — excessive patriotism
• Estonian: marurahvuslus — excessive patriotism
• Estonian: šovinism — excessive patriotism
• Faroese: tjóðskaparreyp — excessive patriotism
• Finnish: kiihkokansallisuus — excessive patriotism
• Finnish: kansalliskiihko — excessive patriotism
• French: chauvinisme — excessive patriotism
• Georgian: შოვინიზმი (šovinizmi) — excessive patriotism
• German: Chauvinismus — excessive patriotism
• German: Hurrapatriotismus — excessive patriotism
• German: Hurra-Patriotismus — excessive patriotism
• Greek: σωβινισμός (sovinismós) — excessive patriotism
• Greek: υπερεθνικοφροσύνη (yperethnikofrosýni) — excessive patriotism
• Greek: υπερεθνικισμός (yperethnikismós) — excessive patriotism
• Hebrew: שׁוֹבִינִיזְם (shovinizm) — excessive patriotism
• Hindi: अंध-देशभक्ति (andh-deśbhakti) — excessive patriotism
• Hungarian: sovinizmus — excessive patriotism
• Hungarian: magyarkodás — excessive patriotism
• Hungarian: mélymagyarkodás — excessive patriotism
• Indonesian: sauvinisme — excessive patriotism
• Italian: sciovinismo — excessive patriotism
• Japanese: ショービニズム (shōbinizumu) — excessive patriotism
• Kazakh: шовинизм (şovinizm) — excessive patriotism
• Korean: 쇼비니즘 (syobinijeum) — excessive patriotism
• Kyrgyz: шовинизм (şovinizm) — excessive patriotism
• Latvian: šovinisms — excessive patriotism
• Lithuanian: šovinizmas — excessive patriotism
• Macedonian: шовини́зам (šovinízam) — excessive patriotism
• Malay: cauvinisme — excessive patriotism
• Norwegian Bokmål: sjåvinisme — excessive patriotism
• Norwegian Nynorsk: sjåvinisme — excessive patriotism
• Persian: شوونیسم (šowvanism) — excessive patriotism
• Polish: szowinizm — excessive patriotism
• Portuguese: chauvinismo — excessive patriotism
• Romanian: șovinism — excessive patriotism
• Russian: шовини́зм (šovinízm) — excessive patriotism
• Serbo-Croatian: шовинизам — excessive patriotism
• Serbo-Croatian: šovinizam — excessive patriotism
• Slovak: šovinizmus — excessive patriotism
• Slovene: šovinizem — excessive patriotism
• Spanish: chovinismo — excessive patriotism
• Spanish: patrioterismo — excessive patriotism
• Swedish: chauvinism — excessive patriotism
• Thai: ลัทธิคลั่งชาติ — excessive patriotism
• Turkish: şovenizm — excessive patriotism
• Ottoman Turkish: شوونیزم (šovenizm) — excessive patriotism
• Ukrainian: шовіні́зм (šovinízm) — excessive patriotism
• Uzbek: shovinizm — excessive patriotism
• Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa sô-vanh — excessive patriotism
• Arabic: شُوفِينِّيَّة (šufinniyya) — unwarranted bias
• Chinese Mandarin: 沙文主義 /沙文主义 (shāwénzhǔyì) — unwarranted bias
• Czech: šovinismus — unwarranted bias
• Czech: šovinizmus — unwarranted bias
• Estonian: šovinism — unwarranted bias
• Finnish: sovinismi — unwarranted bias
• Finnish: šovinismi — unwarranted bias
• French: chauvinisme — unwarranted bias
• Georgian: შოვინიზმი (šovinizmi) — unwarranted bias
• German: Chauvinismus — unwarranted bias
• Greek: σωβινισμός (sovinismós) — unwarranted bias
• Hebrew: שׁוֹבִינִיזְם (shovinizm) — unwarranted bias
• Hungarian: sovinizmus — unwarranted bias
• Hungarian: elfogultság — unwarranted bias
• Irish: seobhaineachas — unwarranted bias
• Polish: szowinizm — unwarranted bias
• Portuguese: chauvinismo — unwarranted bias
• Romanian: șovinism — unwarranted bias
• Russian: шовини́зм (šovinízm) — unwarranted bias
• Serbo-Croatian: шовинизам — unwarranted bias
• Serbo-Croatian: šovinizam — unwarranted bias
• Spanish: chovinismo — unwarranted bias
• Swedish: chauvinism — unwarranted bias