chinovnik

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian чиновник (činovnik).

Noun

chinovnik (plural chinovniks)

1. A bureaucrat in the Tsarist Russian government.
   • 1998, Nikolai Bukharin, How It All Began: The Prison Novel, page 50:

     Ivan Antonych was probably the only one of the Russian chinovniks in Byeltsy who spoke with the Jewish representatives in a humane way and did not show any favoritism toward the Russian element.

Translations

Translations

• Hungarian: csinovnyik (hu)
• Russian: чиновник (ru) (činovnik)
• Uzbek: chinovnik (uz)