ambassador

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• UK: /æmˈbæs.ə.də(ɹ)/
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• US: /æmˈbæs.ə.dɚ/
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• US: /æmˈbæs.əˌdɔɹ/
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• CMU ARPABET: AE0 M B AE1 S AH0 D ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English ambassadore, from Anglo-Norman ambassadeur, from Old Italian ambassadore, from Old Occitan ambaisador (“ambassador”), derivative of ambaissa (“service, mission, errand”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *ambahtaz (“servant”), from Gaulish ambaxtos, from Proto-Celtic *ambaxtos, from Proto-Indo-European *h2m̥bhi-h2eǵ- (“drive around”), from *h2m̥bhi- (“around”) + *h2eǵ- (“to drive”). Displaced native Old English ǣrendraca.

245 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: ambassadeur — diplomat of the highest rank
• Arabic: سَفِير (safīr) — diplomat of the highest rank
• Arabic: سَفِيرَة (safīra) — diplomat of the highest rank
• Arabic: سفير (safīr) — diplomat of the highest rank
• Armenian: դեսպան (despan) — diplomat of the highest rank
• Asturian: embaxador — diplomat of the highest rank
• Asturian: embaxadora — diplomat of the highest rank
• Bulgarian: пра́теник (prátenik) — diplomat of the highest rank
• Bulgarian: пра́теница (prátenica) — diplomat of the highest rank
• Catalan: ambaixador — diplomat of the highest rank
• Chinese Cantonese: 大使 (daai6 si3) — diplomat of the highest rank
• Chinese Mandarin: 大使 (dàshǐ) — diplomat of the highest rank
• Coptic: ⲡⲣⲉⲥⲃⲉⲩⲧⲏⲥ (presbeutēs) — diplomat of the highest rank
• Czech: velvyslanec — diplomat of the highest rank
• Czech: velvyslankyně — diplomat of the highest rank
• Danish: ambassadør — diplomat of the highest rank
• Dutch: ambassadeur — diplomat of the highest rank
• Finnish: suurlähettiläs — diplomat of the highest rank
• French: ambassadeur — diplomat of the highest rank
• French: ambassadrice — diplomat of the highest rank
• Galician: embaixador — diplomat of the highest rank
• Galician: embaixadora — diplomat of the highest rank
• German: Botschafter — diplomat of the highest rank
• Greek: πρέσβης (présvis) — diplomat of the highest rank
• Ancient Greek: πρεσβεύς (presbeús) — diplomat of the highest rank
• Ancient Greek: πρεσβευτής (presbeutḗs) — diplomat of the highest rank
• Gujarati: રાજદૂત (rājdūt) — diplomat of the highest rank
• Hebrew: שַׁגְרִיר (shagrír) — diplomat of the highest rank
• Hebrew: שגרירה (shagrira) — diplomat of the highest rank
• Hindi: दूत (dūt) — diplomat of the highest rank
• Hindi: राजदूत (rājdūt) — diplomat of the highest rank
• Hungarian: nagykövet — diplomat of the highest rank
• Icelandic: sendiherra — diplomat of the highest rank
• Icelandic: ambassadör — diplomat of the highest rank
• Indonesian: duta — diplomat of the highest rank
• Irish: ambasadóir — diplomat of the highest rank
• Italian: ambasciatore — diplomat of the highest rank
• Italian: ambasciatrice — diplomat of the highest rank
• Japanese: 大使 (taishi) — diplomat of the highest rank
• Khmer: ឯកអគ្គរដ្ឋទូត (ʼaekʼakkĕəʼrŏətthaʼtuut) — diplomat of the highest rank
• Khmer: ទូត (tuut) — diplomat of the highest rank
• Korean: 대사 (daesa) — diplomat of the highest rank
• Central Kurdish: بالیۆز (balyoz) — diplomat of the highest rank
• Northern Kurdish: sefîr — diplomat of the highest rank
• Northern Kurdish: ambasador — diplomat of the highest rank
• Kyrgyz: элчи (elci) — diplomat of the highest rank
• Latin: lēgātus — diplomat of the highest rank
• Latin: ambasiātor — diplomat of the highest rank
• Macedonian: амбаса́дор (ambasádor) — diplomat of the highest rank
• Macedonian: амбасадорка (ambasadorka) — diplomat of the highest rank
• Malay: duta — diplomat of the highest rank
• Malay: دوتا — diplomat of the highest rank
• Maltese: ambaxxatur — diplomat of the highest rank
• Navajo: naalchiʼí — diplomat of the highest rank
• Norman: ambassadeu — diplomat of the highest rank
• Norwegian Bokmål: ambassadør — diplomat of the highest rank
• Norwegian Nynorsk: ambassadør — diplomat of the highest rank
• Occitan: ambaissador — diplomat of the highest rank
• Occitan: ambaissairitz — diplomat of the highest rank
• Odia: ଦୁତ (duta) — diplomat of the highest rank
• Old English: ǣrendraca — diplomat of the highest rank
• Iranian Persian: سَفیر (safir) — diplomat of the highest rank
• Iranian Persian: آمْباسادور (âmbâsâdur) — diplomat of the highest rank
• Iranian Persian: ایلْچی (ilči) — diplomat of the highest rank
• Polish: ambasador — diplomat of the highest rank
• Polish: ambasadorka — diplomat of the highest rank
• Portuguese: embaixador — diplomat of the highest rank
• Portuguese: embaixadora — diplomat of the highest rank
• Romanian: ambasador — diplomat of the highest rank
• Romanian: ambasadoare — diplomat of the highest rank
• Russian: посо́л (posól) — diplomat of the highest rank
• Serbo-Croatian: амба̀са̄дор — diplomat of the highest rank
• Serbo-Croatian: велепосла̀нӣк — diplomat of the highest rank
• Serbo-Croatian: велепо̀сланица — diplomat of the highest rank
• Serbo-Croatian: ambàsādor — diplomat of the highest rank
• Serbo-Croatian: veleposlànīk — diplomat of the highest rank
• Serbo-Croatian: velepòslanica — diplomat of the highest rank
• Sicilian: mmasciaturi — diplomat of the highest rank
• Slovene: veleposlanik — diplomat of the highest rank
• Slovene: ambasador — diplomat of the highest rank
• Sotho: moambasadara — diplomat of the highest rank
• Spanish: embajador — diplomat of the highest rank
• Spanish: embajadora — diplomat of the highest rank
• Swahili: balozi — diplomat of the highest rank
• Swedish: ambassadör — diplomat of the highest rank
• Tagalog: sugo — diplomat of the highest rank
• Tagalog: embahador — diplomat of the highest rank
• Thai: เอกอัครราชทูต (èek-àk-krá-râat-chá-tûut) — diplomat of the highest rank
• Turkish: büyükelçi — diplomat of the highest rank
• Turkish: elçi — diplomat of the highest rank
• Turkish: sefir — diplomat of the highest rank
• Ottoman Turkish: ایلچی (elçi) — diplomat of the highest rank
• Ottoman Turkish: سفیر (sefir) — diplomat of the highest rank
• Ukrainian: посо́л (posól) — diplomat of the highest rank
• Ukrainian: посо́лка (posólka) — diplomat of the highest rank
• Urdu: سَفِیر (safīr) — diplomat of the highest rank
• Urdu: وَزِیر (vazīr) — diplomat of the highest rank
• Vietnamese: đại sứ — diplomat of the highest rank
• Wolaytta: zakkara gudaa — diplomat of the highest rank
• Afrikaans: ambassadeur — representative
• Albanian: ambasador — representative
• Southern Altai: элчи (elči) — representative
• Amharic: አምባሳደር (ʾämbasadär) — representative
• Arabic: سَفِير (safīr) — representative
• Arabic: سَفِيرَة (safīra) — representative
• Armenian: դեսպան (despan) — representative
• Azerbaijani: səfir — representative
• Azerbaijani: elçi — representative
• Azerbaijani: سفیر — representative
• Azerbaijani: сәфир — representative
• Belarusian: пасо́л (pasól) — representative
• Belarusian: амбаса́дар (ambasádar) — representative
• Belarusian: амбаса́дарка (ambasádarka) — representative
• Bengali: রাষ্ট্রদূত (raśṭrodut) — representative
• Bulgarian: посла́ник (poslánik) — representative
• Bulgarian: посла́ничка (poslánička) — representative
• Bulgarian: посо́л (posól) — representative
• Burmese: သံအမတ်ကြီး (sam-a.matkri:) — representative
• Burmese: သံအမတ် (sam-a.mat) — representative
• Chechen: векал (vekal) — representative
• Chinese Cantonese: 大使 (daai6 si3) — representative
• Chinese: дашы (dašɨ) — representative
• Hakka Chinese: 大使 (thai-sṳ́) — representative
• Chinese: 大使 (tāi-sài) — representative
• Chinese Mandarin: 大使 (dàshǐ) — representative
• Coptic: ⲡⲣⲉⲥⲃⲉⲩⲧⲏⲥ (presbeutēs) — representative
• Czech: velvyslanec — representative
• Czech: velvyslankyně — representative
• Danish: ambassadør — representative
• Dutch: gezant — representative
• Dutch: ambassadeur — representative
• Dutch: ambassadrice — representative
• Esperanto: ambasadoro — representative
• Esperanto: ambasadorino — representative
• Estonian: suursaadik — representative
• Finnish: lähettiläs — representative
• French: ambassadeur — representative
• French: ambassadrice — representative
• Georgian: ელჩი (elči) — representative
• German: Botschafter — representative
• German: Botschafterin — representative
• Greek: πρεσβευτής (presveftís) — representative
• Greek: πρεσβευτίνα (presveftína) — representative
• Gujarati: એલચી (elacī) — representative
• Gujarati: રાજદૂત (rājdūt) — representative
• Hebrew: שַׁגְרִיר (shagrír) — representative
• Hindi: दूत (dūt) — representative
• Hindi: राजदूत (rājdūt) — representative
• Hindi: एलची (elcī) — representative
• Hindi: सफीर (saphīr) — representative
• Hindi: नुमाइंदा (numāindā) — representative
• Hindi: प्रतिनिधि (pratinidhi) — representative
• Hungarian: nagykövet — representative
• Icelandic: sendiherra — representative
• Ido: ambasadisto — representative
• Indonesian: duta besar — representative
• Indonesian: duta — representative
• Irish: ambasadóir — representative
• Italian: ambasciatore — representative
• Japanese: 大使 (taishi) — representative
• Kannada: ರಾಯಭಾರಿ (rāyabhāri) — representative
• Kazakh: елші (elşı) — representative
• Khmer: ឯកអគ្គរដ្ឋទូត (ʼaekʼakkĕəʼrŏətthaʼtuut) — representative
• Khmer: ទូត (tuut) — representative
• Korean: 대사 (daesa) — representative
• Northern Kurdish: balyoz — representative
• Northern Kurdish: sefîr — representative
• Northern Kurdish: ambasador — representative
• Kyrgyz: элчи (elci) — representative
• Lao: ທູດ (thūt) — representative
• Latin: legatus — representative
• Latvian: vēstnieks — representative
• Latvian: vēstniece — representative
• Lithuanian: ambasadorius — representative
• Lithuanian: ambasadorė — representative
• Macedonian: амбаса́дор (ambasádor) — representative
• Macedonian: амбасадорка (ambasadorka) — representative
• Malay: duta — representative
• Malay: duta besar — representative
• Māori: māngai — representative
• Māori: māngai kāwanatanga — representative
• Marathi: राजदूत (rājdūt) — representative
• Mongolian: элчин сайд (elčin sajd) — representative
• Moore: tẽn-taag lɛta — representative
• Norwegian Bokmål: ambassadør — representative
• Odia: ରାଷ୍ଟ୍ରଦୂତ (rāṣṭraduta) — representative
• Old East Slavic: посълъ (posŭlŭ) — representative
• Old English: ǣrendraca — representative
• Pashto: سفير (safír) — representative
• Pashto: ايلچي (ilčí) — representative
• Iranian Persian: سَفیر (safir) — representative
• Polish: ambasador — representative
• Polish: ambasadorka — representative
• Portuguese: embaixador — representative
• Portuguese: representante — representative
• Romanian: ambasador — representative
• Romanian: reprezentant — representative
• Russian: посо́л (posól) — representative
• Serbo-Croatian: амба̀са̄дор — representative
• Serbo-Croatian: велепосла̀нӣк — representative
• Serbo-Croatian: велепо̀сланица — representative
• Serbo-Croatian: изасла̀нӣк — representative
• Serbo-Croatian: ambàsādor — representative
• Serbo-Croatian: veleposlànīk — representative
• Serbo-Croatian: velepòslanica — representative
• Serbo-Croatian: izaslànīk — representative
• Shor: элчи (elçi) — representative
• Sicilian: mmasciaturi — representative
• Sinhalese: තානාපති (tānāpati) — representative
• Slovak: veľvyslanec — representative
• Slovak: veľvyslankyňa — representative
• Slovene: veleposlanik — representative
• Slovene: ambasador — representative
• Slovene: veleposlanica — representative
• Slovene: ambasadorka — representative
• Spanish: embajador — representative
• Spanish: embajadora — representative
• Swahili: balozi — representative
• Swedish: ambassadör — representative
• Tajik: сафир (safir) — representative
• Tajik: элчӣ (elči) — representative
• Tatar: илче (ilçe) — representative
• Thai: ทูต (tûut) — representative
• Tibetan: གཞུང་ཚབ (gzhung tshab) — representative
• Tigrinya: ኣምባስደር (ʾambasdär) — representative
• Turkish: elçi — representative
• Turkish: büyükelçi — representative
• Turkish: sefir — representative
• Ottoman Turkish: ایلچی (elçi) — representative
• Ottoman Turkish: سفیر (sefir) — representative
• Turkmen: ilçi — representative
• Turkmen: илчи — representative
• Tuvan: элчин (elçin) — representative
• Ukrainian: посо́л (posól) — representative
• Ukrainian: посо́лка (posólka) — representative
• Urdu: سَفِیر (safīr) — representative
• Urdu: ایلْچی (elcī) — representative
• Urdu: نُمائِنْدَہ (numāinda) — representative
• Uyghur: ئەلچى (elchi) — representative
• Uzbek: elchi — representative
• Uzbek: әлчи — representative
• Vietnamese: đại sứ — representative
• Welsh: llysgennad — representative
• Yiddish: אַמבאַסאַדאָר (ambasador) — representative
• Zhuang: dasij — representative