# niche
## English
### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* (General Australian, Canada, Ireland, UK) IPA: /niːʃ/
** Audio (London):(file)
** Audio (Queensland):(file)
** Rhymes: -iːʃ
* (US) IPA: /niʃ/, /nɪʃ/, /nɪt͡ʃ/
** Audio (US):(file)
** Audio (California):(file)
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** Rhymes: -ɪtʃ

### Noun

niche (plural niches)
* (architecture) A cavity, hollow, or recess, generally within the thickness of a wall, for a statue, bust, or other erect ornament.
    Synonym: nook
** 1641, John Evelyn, edited by William Bray, John Evelyn's Diary, volume 1, London: Henry Colburn, published 1850, page 34:On the margin of this long tract, are abundance of shrines and images, defended from the injuries of the weather by niches of stone wherein they are placed.
* Any similar position, literal or figurative.
* Specifically, a cremation niche; a columbarium.
* (ecology) A function within an ecological system to which an organism is especially suited.
* (by extension) Any position of opportunity for which one is well-suited, such as a particular market in business.
    Synonyms: specialty, specialization
** 2022 April 5, Elizabeth Wetmore, “How Far Will Parents Go to Protect Their Sons?”, in The New York Times‎:Whitney, mother of Xavier, is a real estate titan who, along with her British husband, has found her niche selling luxurious underground bunkers to wealthy clients looking for a safe space to hunker down in the event of a climate apocalypse.
* (Islam) An arrow woven into a prayer rug pointing in the direction of qibla.

#### Derived terms

* fundamental niche
* niche market, niche marketing

#### Translations

Armenian: որմնախորշ (hy) (ormnaxorš)
Breton: logell (br) f, kustod m
Bulgarian: ниша f (niša)
Catalan: nínxol (ca) m
Czech: výklenek (cs) m
Danish: niche c
Esperanto: niĉo (eo)
Dutch: nis (nl) f
Egyptian: (bbt f), (wmwt f), (jtrt f)
Finnish: syvennys (fi), rako (fi), nissi (fi)
French: niche (fr) f
German: Nische (de) f, Mauernische (de) f, Wandnische (de) f, Mauerrücksprung m
Hebrew: גומחה f, נישה (he) f
Hungarian: fülke (hu), falfülke (hu), szoborfülke (hu), falmélyedés (hu)
Indonesian: ceruk (id), cekung (id)
Irish: cuasán m, almóir m
Italian: nicchia (it) f, edicola (it) f
Japanese: 壁龕 (ja) (へきがん, hekigan)
Macedonian: ни́ша f (níša)
Maltese: niċċa f
Maori: mokotawhā
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nisje m
Persian: طاقچه (fa)
Piedmontese: nicia f
Polish: nisza (pl) f
Portuguese: nicho (pt) m
Romanian: nișă (ro) f, firidă (ro) f
Russian: ни́ша (ru) f (níša)
Slovak: výklenok m
Slovene: niša (sl)
Spanish: hornacina (es)
Swedish: nisch (sv) c
Ukrainian: ні́ша f (níša)
Welsh: cloer m :
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### Verb

niche (third-person singular simple present niches, present participle niching, simple past and past participle niched)
* (transitive) To place in a niche.
    a niched vase
* (transitive, marketing) To specialize in a niche, or particular narrow section of the market.
** 2002, Frederick Betz, Executive Strategy, page 92:Product differentiation will be mostly limited to market niching and fashion.

### Adjective

niche (comparative more niche or nicher, superlative most niche or nichest)
* Pertaining to or intended for a market niche; having specific appeal; obscure.
    niche products
    niche audience
** 2016, BookLover, How to Become A Massive YouTube Celebrity‎:You can go even more niche if you like though and choose 'crocheting' or 'bird sewing patterns' but the 'more niche' you go, the more you narrow your audience.

#### Translations
### See also

* niché

### Anagrams

* Chien, chine, chiné

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from French niche, from Middle French niche, from Old French niche.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /niʃ/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ni‧che

### Noun

niche f (plural niches, diminutive nicheje n)
* (especially in ecology and business) a niche

#### See also

* nis

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /niʃ/
* Audio:(file)

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle French niche, from Old French niche, deverbal of nichier (“make a nest”), from an unattested verb *nīdicāre, from Latin nīdus (“nest”).

#### Noun

niche f (plural niches)
* niche
* kennel (house or shelter for a dog)

##### Descendants

* → Danish: niche
* → Dutch: niche
* → English: niche
* → Macedonian: ни́ша (níša)
* → Russian: ни́ша (níša)

##### See also

* chenil

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

niche
* inflection of nicher:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “niche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* chien, chine, Chine, chiné

## Norman
### Etymology

From Old French niche, from nichier (“make a nest”), from Latin nīdus (“nest”).

### Noun

niche f (plural niches)
* (Jersey) kennel

#### Synonyms

* câniche

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnit͡ʃe/ [ˈni.t͡ʃe]
* Rhymes: -itʃe
* Syllabification: ni‧che

### Noun

niche m (plural niches)
* (Venezuela, slang, offensive) low-class

### Further reading

* “niche”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10