Chicago

English

The Chicago skyline

Etymology

From French Chécagou, a transcription of Miami [Term?] or Potawatomi shikaakwa (“wild onion, leek; striped skunk”). Compare Ojibwe zhigaagawanzh / zhigaagawinzh (“onion, leek”), zhigaag (“striped skunk”).

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ʃɪˈkɑː.ɡəʊ/
(US) IPA^(key): /ʃɪˈkɑ.ɡoʊ/, /ʃɪˈkɔ.ɡoʊ/[1]
- (Chicago) IPA^(key): /ʃəˈkɑː.ɡo/[2][3], /ʃəˈkɔː.ɡo/[4]
Audio (US) (file)
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Proper noun

Chicago

A large city, the county seat of Cook County, in northeastern Illinois, United States, located on Lake Michigan.
Synonyms: (slang) Chi, (US, slang) Chiraq, (informal) Chi-Town, (US, informal) Hogtown, (vulgar, derogatory) Shitcago, (informal) The Windy City
- 1953, Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March, New York: Viking Press, OCLC 279587, page 3:
  I am an American, Chicago born—Chicago, that somber city—and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent.

Usage notes

In Chicago-related contexts, the word Chicago is often used to refer to certain attributes conventionally associated with the city, such as being tough and hearty, bustling and diverse, or ruthless and corrupt.[5][6][7]

Derived terms

Chi
Chicagoan
Chicago blues
Chicago Boy
Chicago dog
Chicagoese
Chicagoesque
Chicago Heights
Chicagoland
Chicago lightning
Chicago overcoat
Chicago Protocol
Chicagorilla
Chicago school
Chicago-style
Chicago-style hot dog
Chicago typewriter
Chimpcago
Chiraq
Chisox
Chi-Town
East Chicago
Shitcago

Translations

large US city

Afrikaans: Chicago
Arabic: شِيكَاغُو‎ f (šīkāḡū)
Hijazi Arabic: شكاقو‎ f (šikāgu), شيكاقو‎ f (šīkāgu)
Aramaic: ܫܝܩܓܘ‎
Armenian: Չիկագո (Čʿikago)
Azerbaijani: Çikaqo
Belarusian: Чыка́га m (Čykáha)
Bengali: শিকাগো (śikago)
Bulgarian: Чика́го n (Čikágo)
Burmese: ရှီကာဂို (hrikagui)
Cherokee: ᏏᎧᎪ (sikago)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 芝加哥 (zi¹ gaa¹ go¹)
Mandarin: 芝加哥 (zh) (Zhījiāgē)
Min Nan: 芝加哥 (Chi-ka-ko)
Czech: Chicago (cs) n
Dutch: Chicago (nl)
Esperanto: Ĉikago, Ŝikago
Farefare: Sikago
Finnish: Chicago (fi)
French: Chicago (fr) f
Galician: Chicago (gl) m
Georgian: ჩიკაგო (čiḳago)
German: Chicago (de) n, (dated) Chikago n
Greek: Σικάγο (el) n (Sikágo)
Hebrew: שיקגו‎ (Shiqago)
Hindi: शिकागो (śikāgo)
Indonesian: Chicago
Irish: Chicago, Siceagó
Italian: Chicago (it) f
Japanese: シカゴ (Shikago)
Korean: 시카고 (ko) (sikago)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: شیکاگۆ‎ (şîkago)
Latin: Sicagum
Latvian: Čikāga f
Lithuanian: Čikaga f
Luhya: Chicago
Macedonian: Чика́го n (Čikágo)
Malay: Chicago
Malayalam: ഷിക്കാഗോ (ṣikkāgō)
Marathi: शिकागो (śikāgo)
Marshallese: Jikako
Navajo: Shikááʼgóó
Occitan: Chicago
Ojibwe: Zhigaagong
Persian: شیکاگو‎ (šikâgo)
Polish: Chicago (pl) n
Portuguese: Chicago f
Potawatomi: Éshegago
Punjabi: ਸ਼ਿਕਾਗੋ (śikāgo)
Russian: Чика́го (ru) m (Čikágo)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Чика̑го m
Roman: Čikȃgo (sh) m
Sicilian: Chicagu f
Spanish: Chicago (es) f
Swahili: chichago (sw)
Swedish: Chicago n
Tamil: சிகாகோ (cikākō)
Tatar: Chicago
Telugu: చికాగో (cikāgō)
Thai: ชิคาโก (chíkaagoh)
Turkish: Şikago, Chicago
Ukrainian: Чика́го (Čykáho), Чика́ґо (Čykágo)
Vietnamese: Si-ca-gô
Yiddish: שיקאַגאָ‎ (shikago), שיקאַגע‎ f (shikage)
Yoruba: Ṣìkágò

References

Krapp, George Philip (1925) The English Language in America‎, volume II, New York: Century Co. for the Modern Language Association of America, OCLC 2223337, page 49.
“Dialects Of Illinois, Chicago samples 3 and 6”, in (please provide the title of the work)‎, accessed 21 August 2012, archived from the original on 2012-08-21
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's pronunciation of the city's name
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's pronunciation of the city's name
“Welcome Back, Amphitheatre”, in Chicago Tribune, December 7, 1987, page 20: “And, in a uniquely Chicago way, it was host for a perpetual, cosmopolitan feast of sights, sounds and smells.”
Vincent M. Lizzo (April 22, 1994), “City of Rain”, in Chicago Reader‎: “Some of our real police-type deputies set up a deal on him and took him down in just two days. A very Chicago kind of crime, complete with a moral: the police don't tolerate outsiders messing on their turf.”
Elizabeth Canning Blackwell (2004) Frommer's Portable Chicago‎, 4th edition, →ISBN, page 81: “Heavy, filling and very Chicago, Mr. Beef really hops during lunchtime, when dusty construction workers and suit-wearing businessmen crowd in for their meaty fix.”

Catalan

Proper noun

Chicago m

Chicago (a large city in Illinois, United States)

Czech

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈʃɪkaːɡo], IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃɪkaːɡo]
Rhymes: -aːɡo

Proper noun

Chicago n

Chicago (a large city in Illinois, United States)

Declension

Declension of Chicago

	singular
nominative	Chicago
genitive	Chicaga
dative	Chicagu
accusative	Chicago
vocative	Chicago
locative	Chicagu
instrumental	Chicagem

Derived terms

chicagský

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English Chicago.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌʃiˈkaː.ɡoː/, /ˌtʃiˈkaː.ɡoː/
Hyphenation: Chi‧ca‧go

Proper noun

Chicago n

Chicago (a large city in Illinois, United States)

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʃi.ka.ɡo/
Audio (file)

Proper noun

Chicago f

Chicago (a large city in Illinois, United States)

German

Alternative forms

Chikago

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʃiˈkaːɡo/, (by hypercorrection also) /tʃiˈkaːɡo/

Proper noun

Chicago n (proper noun, genitive Chicagos or (optionally with an article) Chicago)

Chicago (a major city in Illinois, United States)

Hungarian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃikaːɡoː]
Hyphenation: Chi‧ca‧go
Rhymes: -ɡoː

Proper noun

Chicago

Chicago (a large city in Illinois, United States)

Declension

Inflection of Chicago
	singular	plural
nominative	Chicago	—
accusative	Chicagót	—
dative	Chicagónak	—
instrumental	Chicagóval	—
causal-final	Chicagóért	—
translative	Chicagóvá	—
terminative	Chicagóig	—
essive-formal	Chicagóként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Chicagóban	—
superessive	Chicagón	—
adessive	Chicagónál	—
illative	Chicagóba	—
sublative	Chicagóra	—
allative	Chicagóhoz	—
elative	Chicagóból	—
delative	Chicagóról	—
ablative	Chicagótól	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Chicagóé	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Chicagóéi	—

Possessive forms of Chicago
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Chicagóm	—
2nd person sing.	Chicagód	—
3rd person sing.	Chicagója	—
1st person plural	Chicagónk	—
2nd person plural	Chicagótok	—
3rd person plural	Chicagójuk	—

Derived terms

chicagói

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English, from Miami or Potawatomi shikaakwa (“wild onion, leek; striped skunk”), via the French transcription Chécagou.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiˈka.ɡo/, (careful style) ^*/ʃiˈka.ɡo/[1]
Rhymes: -aɡo
Hyphenation: Chi‧cà‧go

Proper noun

Chicago f

Chicago (a large city in Illinois)

References

Chicago in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English Chicago.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʃiˈka.ɡu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʃiˈka.ɡo/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʃiˈka.ɡu/ [ʃiˈka.ɣu]

Rhymes: -aɡu
Hyphenation: Chi‧ca‧go

Proper noun

Chicago

Chicago (a large city in Illinois, United States)

Slovak

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈʃikaːɡo]

Proper noun

Chicago n (genitive singular Chicaga, declension pattern of mesto)

Chicago (a city in Illinois, United States)

References

Chicago in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiˈkaɡo/ [t͡ʃiˈka.ɣ̞o]
- Syllabification: Chi‧ca‧go
IPA^(key): (less common, imitating English pronunciation) /ʃiˈkaɡo/ [ʃiˈka.ɣ̞o]
Rhymes: -aɡo

Proper noun

Chicago ?

Chicago (a large city in Illinois, United States)

Tatar

Proper noun

Chicago

Chicago (a large city in Illinois, United States)

Declension

declension of Chicago

Nominative	Chicago
Genitive	Chicagonıñ
Dative	Chicagoga
Accusative	Chicagonı
Locative	Chicagoda
Ablative	Chicagodan

References

[1] Krapp, George Philip (1925) The English Language in America‎, volume II, New York: Century Co. for the Modern Language Association of America, OCLC 2223337, page 49.

[2] “Dialects Of Illinois, Chicago samples 3 and 6”, in (please provide the title of the work)‎, accessed 21 August 2012, archived from the original on 2012-08-21

[3] Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's pronunciation of the city's name

[4] Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's pronunciation of the city's name

[5] “Welcome Back, Amphitheatre”, in Chicago Tribune, December 7, 1987, page 20: “And, in a uniquely Chicago way, it was host for a perpetual, cosmopolitan feast of sights, sounds and smells.”

[6] Vincent M. Lizzo (April 22, 1994), “City of Rain”, in Chicago Reader‎: “Some of our real police-type deputies set up a deal on him and took him down in just two days. A very Chicago kind of crime, complete with a moral: the police don't tolerate outsiders messing on their turf.”

[7] Elizabeth Canning Blackwell (2004) Frommer's Portable Chicago‎, 4th edition, →ISBN, page 81: “Heavy, filling and very Chicago, Mr. Beef really hops during lunchtime, when dusty construction workers and suit-wearing businessmen crowd in for their meaty fix.”

[8] Chicago in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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