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tchaouch

tchaouch is the obsolete spelling of chiaus.

Meaning of chiaus

Noun

chiaus (plural chiauses)

  1. (historical) An Ottoman Empire court official; an attendant, messenger, herald, interpreter.
  2. (historical) An Ottoman Empire çavuş (“sergeant”).

Origin of tchaouch

Attested 1741.

Questions about tchaouch

What is tchaouch the obsolete spelling of?
Tchaouch is the obsolete spelling of chiaus.

Words near tchaouch in the dictionary

  1. Tchaikowskian
  2. Tchaikowsky
  3. Tchaman
  4. Tchambuli
  5. Tchang-king
  6. tchaouch
  7. tchaous
  8. Tchaush
  9. tchaviche
  10. Tchebychev distance
  11. Tchebychev distances

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tchaouch (page history and authors); chiaus (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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