bureaucrat

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈbjʊəɹəkɹæt/
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• General-American: /ˈbjʊɹəkɹæt/
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• CMU ARPABET: B Y UH1 R AH0 K R AE2 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: B Y UH1 R OW0 K R AE2 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *péh2wr̥ Proto-Hellenic *pāwər Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr) Proto-Indo-European *-rós Proto-Hellenic *-rós Ancient Greek -ρός (-rós) Ancient Greek πῠρρός (pŭrrhós)bor. Latin burrus Latin burra Old French *bure Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -lus Latin -ellus Old French -el Old French burel French bureau Proto-Indo-European *kret- Ancient Greek κρᾰ́τος (krắtos) Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh2 Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek -κρᾰτῐ́ᾱ (-krătĭ́ā)lbor. French -cratie French bureaucratie French bureaucratebor. English bureaucrat From French bureaucrate, equivalent to bureau + -crat.

66 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: burokrat — an official in a bureaucracy
• Arabic: بِيرُوقْرَاطِيّ (bīruqrāṭiyy) — an official in a bureaucracy
• Armenian: բյուրոկրատ (byurokrat) — an official in a bureaucracy
• Asturian: burócrata — an official in a bureaucracy
• Azerbaijani: bürokrat — an official in a bureaucracy
• Belarusian: бюракра́т (bjurakrát) — an official in a bureaucracy
• Belarusian: бюракра́тка (bjurakrátka) — an official in a bureaucracy
• Bulgarian: бюрокра́т (bjurokrát) — an official in a bureaucracy
• Catalan: buròcrata — an official in a bureaucracy
• Chinese Cantonese: 官僚 (gun1 liu4) — an official in a bureaucracy
• Chinese Mandarin: 官僚 (guānliáo) — an official in a bureaucracy
• Czech: byrokrat — an official in a bureaucracy
• Czech: byrokratka — an official in a bureaucracy
• Danish: bureaukrat — an official in a bureaucracy
• Dutch: bureaucraat — an official in a bureaucracy
• Esperanto: burokrato — an official in a bureaucracy
• Estonian: bürokraat — an official in a bureaucracy
• Finnish: byrokraatti — an official in a bureaucracy
• French: bureaucrate — an official in a bureaucracy
• Galician: burócrata — an official in a bureaucracy
• Georgian: ბიუროკრატი (biuroḳraṭi) — an official in a bureaucracy
• German: Bürokrat — an official in a bureaucracy
• German: Bürokratin — an official in a bureaucracy
• Greek: γραφειοκράτης (grafeiokrátis) — an official in a bureaucracy
• Hindi: नौकरशाह (naukraśāh) — an official in a bureaucracy
• Hindi: अफ़सर (afsar) — an official in a bureaucracy
• Hindi: अफसर (aphsar) — an official in a bureaucracy
• Hungarian: bürokrata — an official in a bureaucracy
• Icelandic: kerfiskarl — an official in a bureaucracy
• Indonesian: birokrat — an official in a bureaucracy
• Irish: maorlathaí — an official in a bureaucracy
• Italian: burocrate — an official in a bureaucracy
• Japanese: 官僚 (kanryō) — an official in a bureaucracy
• Kazakh: шенеуніксымақ (şeneunıksymaq) — an official in a bureaucracy
• Kazakh: бюрократ (bürokrat) — an official in a bureaucracy
• Korean: 관료 (gwallyo) — an official in a bureaucracy
• Kyrgyz: бюрократ (byurokrat) — an official in a bureaucracy
• Latvian: birokrāts — an official in a bureaucracy
• Lithuanian: biurokratas — an official in a bureaucracy
• Macedonian: бирокра́т (birokrát) — an official in a bureaucracy
• Macedonian: чиновник (činovnik) — an official in a bureaucracy
• Malay: birokrat — an official in a bureaucracy
• Norwegian Bokmål: byråkrat — an official in a bureaucracy
• Persian: بوروکرات (burokrât) — an official in a bureaucracy
• Polish: biurokrata — an official in a bureaucracy
• Portuguese: burocrata — an official in a bureaucracy
• Romanian: birocrat — an official in a bureaucracy
• Romanian: birocrată — an official in a bureaucracy
• Russian: бюрокра́т (bjurokrát) — an official in a bureaucracy
• Serbo-Croatian: биро̀крат — an official in a bureaucracy
• Serbo-Croatian: biròkrat — an official in a bureaucracy
• Slovak: byrokrat — an official in a bureaucracy
• Slovak: byrokratka — an official in a bureaucracy
• Slovene: birokrat — an official in a bureaucracy
• Spanish: burócrata — an official in a bureaucracy
• Swedish: byråkrat — an official in a bureaucracy
• Tajik: бюрократ (byurokrat) — an official in a bureaucracy
• Turkish: bürokrat — an official in a bureaucracy
• Turkmen: býurokrat — an official in a bureaucracy
• Ukrainian: бюрокра́т (bjurokrát) — an official in a bureaucracy
• Ukrainian: бюрокра́тка (bjurokrátka) — an official in a bureaucracy
• Urdu: ضابِطَہ پَرَسْت (zābitā parast) — an official in a bureaucracy
• Uyghur: بيۇروكرات (byurokrat) — an official in a bureaucracy
• Uzbek: byurokrat — an official in a bureaucracy
• Vietnamese: kẻ quan liêu — an official in a bureaucracy
• Yiddish: ביוראָקראַט (byurokrat) — an official in a bureaucracy