chic

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• Received-Pronunciation: shēk
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ʃiːk/
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• General-American: /ʃik/
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• rhymes with -iːk
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• homophone: sheik
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• homophone: sheikh (one pronunciation)
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• CMU ARPABET: SH IY1 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from French chic (“elegant”), which in turn is probably borrowed from German Schick (“elegant appearance; tasteful presentation”). The word is akin to Dutch schielijk (“hasty”), schikken (“to arrange”) and Old English sċēon (“to happen”).

Borrowed from Yucatec Maya chiʼik (“coati; buffoon”).

42 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: أَنِيق (ʔanīq) — elegant, stylish — see also elegant, stylish
• Bulgarian: елегантен (eleganten) — elegant, stylish — see also elegant, stylish
• Bulgarian: моден (moden) — elegant, stylish — see also elegant, stylish
• Chinese Mandarin: 優美 /优美 (yōuměi) — elegant, stylish — see also elegant, stylish
• Danish: chic — elegant, stylish — see also elegant, stylish
• Danish: elegant — elegant, stylish — see also elegant, stylish
• Dutch: chic — elegant, stylish — see also elegant, stylish
• Dutch: chique — elegant, stylish — see also elegant, stylish
• Finnish: tyylikäs — elegant, stylish — see also elegant, stylish
• Finnish: elegantti — elegant, stylish — see also elegant, stylish
• French: chic — elegant, stylish — see also elegant, stylish
• German: schick — elegant, stylish — see also elegant, stylish
• German: chic — elegant, stylish — see also elegant, stylish
• Hungarian: sikkes — elegant, stylish — see also elegant, stylish
• Ido: chika — elegant, stylish — see also elegant, stylish
• Japanese: シックな (shikku na) — elegant, stylish — see also elegant, stylish
• Japanese: 素敵な (suteki na) — elegant, stylish — see also elegant, stylish
• Japanese: 洒落た (shareta) — elegant, stylish — see also elegant, stylish
• Korean: 멋있다 (meositda) — elegant, stylish — see also elegant, stylish
• Māori: tōrire — elegant, stylish — see also elegant, stylish
• Persian: شیک (šik) — elegant, stylish — see also elegant, stylish
• Plautdietsch: schekjlich (nds) — elegant, stylish — see also elegant, stylish
• Polish: szykowny — elegant, stylish — see also elegant, stylish
• Polish: elegancki — elegant, stylish — see also elegant, stylish
• Polish: wytworny — elegant, stylish — see also elegant, stylish
• Portuguese: chique — elegant, stylish — see also elegant, stylish
• Russian: шика́рный (šikárnyj) — elegant, stylish — see also elegant, stylish
• Spanish: chic — elegant, stylish — see also elegant, stylish
• Swedish: chic — elegant, stylish — see also elegant, stylish
• Swedish: stilfull — elegant, stylish — see also elegant, stylish
• Swedish: elegant — elegant, stylish — see also elegant, stylish
• Turkish: şık — elegant, stylish — see also elegant, stylish
• Bulgarian: елегантност (elegantnost) — good form, style
• Bulgarian: изисканост (iziskanost) — good form, style
• Bulgarian: шик (šik) — good form, style
• Dutch: sjiek — good form, style
• German: Chic — good form, style
• Hungarian: sikk — good form, style
• Italian: chic — good form, style
• Japanese: 洒落 (share) — good form, style
• Russian: шик (šik) — good form, style
• Spanish: chic — good form, style