niche

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

• Australian, Canada, Ireland, UK: /niːʃ/
  Play
• London: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  Play
• Queensland Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  Play
• rhymes with -iːʃ
  Play
• UK: /nɪt͡ʃ/
  Play
• US: /nɪt͡ʃ/
  Play
• US: /niʃ/
  Play
• US: /nɪʃ/
  Play
• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  Play
• California: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  Play
• California: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  Play
• rhymes with -ɪtʃ
  Play
• CMU ARPABET: N IH1 CH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  Play

Unadapted borrowing from French niche, from Middle French niche, from Old French niche, from nicher (“to make a nest”) (modern French nicher), from Vulgar Latin *nīdicāre, from Latin nīdus (“nest”). Doublet of nidus and nide via Latin and nest via Proto-Indo-European; also related to nyas.

104 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Japanese: ニッチ (nitchi) — pertaining to a market niche
• Polish: niszowy — pertaining to a market niche
• Russian: нишевый (niševyj) — pertaining to a market niche
• Spanish: de nicho — pertaining to a market niche
• Spanish: nicho — pertaining to a market niche
• Vietnamese: ngách — pertaining to a market niche
• Armenian: որմնախորշ (ormnaxorš) — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Breton: logell — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Breton: kustod — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Bulgarian: ниша (niša) — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Catalan: nínxol — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Czech: výklenek — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Danish: niche — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Dutch: nis — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Egyptian: b-b-t:O1 (bbt) — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Egyptian: w-D52:Z3A-O1 (wmwt) — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Egyptian: i-t:r:t-O32 (jtrt) — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Esperanto: niĉo — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Finnish: syvennys — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Finnish: rako — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Finnish: nissi — cavity, hollow, or recess
• French: niche — cavity, hollow, or recess
• German: Nische — cavity, hollow, or recess
• German: Mauernische — cavity, hollow, or recess
• German: Wandnische — cavity, hollow, or recess
• German: Mauerrücksprung — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Hebrew: גומחה — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Hebrew: נישה — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Hungarian: fülke — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Hungarian: falfülke — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Hungarian: szoborfülke — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Hungarian: falmélyedés — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Icelandic: veggskot — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Indonesian: ceruk — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Indonesian: cekung — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Irish: cuasán — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Irish: almóir — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Italian: nicchia — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Italian: edicola — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Japanese: 壁龕 (hekigan) — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Macedonian: ни́ша (níša) — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Maltese: niċċa — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Māori: mokotawhā — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Norwegian Bokmål: nisje — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Persian: طاقچه — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Piedmontese: nicia — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Polish: nisza — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Portuguese: nicho — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Romanian: nișă — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Romanian: firidă — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Russian: ни́ша (níša) — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Slovak: výklenok — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Slovene: niša — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Spanish: hornacina — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Spanish: nicho — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Swedish: nisch — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Ottoman Turkish: حجره (hücre) — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Ukrainian: ні́ша (níša) — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Vietnamese: hốc — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Welsh: cloer — cavity, hollow, or recess
• Breton: log — ecological function of an organism
• Bulgarian: ниша (niša) — ecological function of an organism
• Catalan: nínxol — ecological function of an organism
• Chinese Mandarin: 生態位 /生态位 (shēngtàiwèi) — ecological function of an organism
• Czech: nika — ecological function of an organism
• Dutch: niche — ecological function of an organism
• Finnish: ekologinen lokero — ecological function of an organism
• Finnish: nissi — ecological function of an organism
• French: niche — ecological function of an organism
• German: ökologische Nische — ecological function of an organism
• Hebrew: נישה — ecological function of an organism
• Indonesian: relung — ecological function of an organism
• Indonesian: relung ekologi — ecological function of an organism
• Irish: nideog — ecological function of an organism
• Italian: nicchia — ecological function of an organism
• Japanese: 生態的地位 (seitaiteki chii) — ecological function of an organism
• Japanese: ニッチ (nitchi) — ecological function of an organism
• Māori: tūranga hauropi — ecological function of an organism
• Polish: nisza — ecological function of an organism
• Portuguese: nicho — ecological function of an organism
• Russian: ни́ша (níša) — ecological function of an organism
• Spanish: nicho — ecological function of an organism
• Swedish: nisch — ecological function of an organism
• Ukrainian: ні́ша (níša) — ecological function of an organism
• Vietnamese: ổ — ecological function of an organism
• Welsh: cilfach — ecological function of an organism
• Bulgarian: ниша (niša) — position of opportunity
• Danish: niche — position of opportunity
• Dutch: niche — position of opportunity
• Finnish: markkinarako — position of opportunity
• French: niche — position of opportunity
• German: Nische — position of opportunity
• German: Marktnische — position of opportunity
• German: Marktlücke — position of opportunity
• Hebrew: נישה — position of opportunity
• Japanese: ニッチ (nitchi) — position of opportunity
• Norwegian Bokmål: nisje — position of opportunity
• Polish: nisza — position of opportunity
• Portuguese: nicho — position of opportunity
• Russian: ни́ша (níša) — position of opportunity
• Spanish: nicho — position of opportunity
• Swedish: nisch — position of opportunity
• Ukrainian: ні́ша (níša) — position of opportunity
• Vietnamese: ngách — position of opportunity