embassy
English dictionary entry
Meanings
noun
- The function or duty of an ambassador.
- An organization or group of officials who permanently represent a sovereign state in a second sovereign state or with respect to an international organization such as the United Nations.
- A temporary mission representing a sovereign state.
- The official residence of such a group, or of an ambassador.
- A written account as to an embassy.
Pronunciation
/ˈɛmbəsi/
En-us-embassy.ogg
Word forms
embassy
embassies
ambassy
Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Celtic *ambaxtos
Gaulish ambaxtosder.
Old Occitan ambaissadabor.
Old Italian ambasciatader.
Old French ambascee
Middle French ambasseebor.
English ambassy
English embassy
Modern variant of obsolete ambassy, from Middle French ambassee (“mission, embassy”), from Old French ambascee (also enbassee (“message for a high official, official mission”)) from Old Italian ambasciata, from Old Occitan ambaissada (“embassy”), derived from ambaissa (“message”), from Late Latin ambactia (“service rendered”) (attested also as ambascia, from Proto-Germanic *ambahtiją (“service”), *ambahtaz (“follower, servant”), from Gaulish ambaxtos (“dependant, vassal”, literally “one who is sent around”), from Proto-Celtic *ambaxtos (“servant”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi-h₂eǵ- (“drive around”); compare Latin ambactus, Old Irish amus, amsach (“mercenary, servant”), Welsh amaeth (“tenant farm”)). Doublet of ambassade.
Translations
Afrikaans: ambassade
Albanian: ambasadë
Southern Altai: элчилик
Amharic: ኤምባሲ
Arabic: سِفَارَة
Arabic: سفارة
Arabic: سَفارة
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܝܼܙܓܲܕܘܼܬܵܐ
Armenian: դեսպանատուն
Asturian: embaxada
Avar: посольство
Azerbaijani: səfirlik
Azerbaijani: elçilik
Belarusian: амбаса́да
Belarusian: пасо́льства
Bengali: দূতাবাস
Bulgarian: посо́лство
Bulgarian: амбаса́да
Burmese: သံ
Burmese: သံရုံး
Carpathian Rusyn: посо́лство
Carpathian Rusyn: амбаса́да
Catalan: ambaixada
Chechen: векалалла
Chinese Cantonese: 大使館 /大使馆
Chinese Mandarin: 大使館 /大使馆
Czech: velvyslanectví
Czech: ambasáda
Danish: ambassade
Dutch: ambassade
Esperanto: ambasadorejo
Esperanto: ambasado
Estonian: suursaatkond
Estonian: saatkond
Faroese: sendistova
Finnish: suurlähetystö
French: ambassade
Galician: embaixada
Gallurese: imbasciada
Georgian: საელჩო
German: Botschaft
Greek: πρεσβεία
Ancient Greek: πρεσβεία
Greenlandic: ambassade
Gujarati: દૂતાવાસ
Hawaiian: ʻemepake
Hebrew: שַׁגְרִירוּת
Hindi: दूतावास
Hindi: राजदूतावास
Hindi: प्रतिनिधिमंडल
Hindi: सिफ़ारत
Hindi: सिफारत
Hindi: सिफ़ारतख़ाना
Hindi: सिफारतखाना
Hindi: एलचीगरी
Hungarian: nagykövetség
Icelandic: sendiráð
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