embassy

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• /ˈɛmbəsi/
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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.

149 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: ambassade — organization representing a foreign state
• Albanian: ambasadë — organization representing a foreign state
• Southern Altai: элчилик (elčilik) — organization representing a foreign state
• Amharic: ኤምባሲ (ʾembasi) — organization representing a foreign state
• Arabic: سِفَارَة (sifāra) — organization representing a foreign state
• Arabic: سفارة (sefāra) — organization representing a foreign state
• Arabic: سَفارة (safāra) — organization representing a foreign state
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܝܼܙܓܲܕܘܼܬܵܐ (īzgadūtā) — organization representing a foreign state
• Armenian: դեսպանատուն (despanatun) — organization representing a foreign state
• Asturian: embaxada — organization representing a foreign state
• Avar: посольство (posoljstwo) — organization representing a foreign state
• Azerbaijani: səfirlik — organization representing a foreign state
• Azerbaijani: elçilik — organization representing a foreign state
• Belarusian: амбаса́да (ambasáda) — organization representing a foreign state
• Belarusian: пасо́льства (pasólʹstva) — organization representing a foreign state
• Bengali: দূতাবাস (dutabaś) — organization representing a foreign state
• Bulgarian: посо́лство (posólstvo) — organization representing a foreign state
• Bulgarian: амбаса́да (ambasáda) — organization representing a foreign state
• Burmese: သံ (sam) — organization representing a foreign state
• Burmese: သံရုံး (sam-rum:) — organization representing a foreign state
• Carpathian Rusyn: посо́лство (posólstvo) — organization representing a foreign state
• Carpathian Rusyn: амбаса́да (ambasáda) — organization representing a foreign state
• Catalan: ambaixada — organization representing a foreign state
• Chechen: векалалла (vekalalla) — organization representing a foreign state
• Chinese Cantonese: 大使館 /大使馆 (daai6 si3 gun2 / daai6 si5 gun2) — organization representing a foreign state
• Chinese Mandarin: 大使館 /大使馆 (dàshǐguǎn) — organization representing a foreign state
• Czech: velvyslanectví — organization representing a foreign state
• Czech: ambasáda — organization representing a foreign state
• Danish: ambassade — organization representing a foreign state
• Dutch: ambassade — organization representing a foreign state
• Esperanto: ambasadorejo — organization representing a foreign state
• Esperanto: ambasado — organization representing a foreign state
• Estonian: suursaatkond — organization representing a foreign state
• Estonian: saatkond — organization representing a foreign state
• Faroese: sendistova — organization representing a foreign state
• Finnish: suurlähetystö — organization representing a foreign state
• French: ambassade — organization representing a foreign state
• Galician: embaixada — organization representing a foreign state
• Gallurese: imbasciada — organization representing a foreign state
• Georgian: საელჩო (saelčo) — organization representing a foreign state
• German: Botschaft — organization representing a foreign state
• Greek: πρεσβεία (presveía) — organization representing a foreign state
• Ancient Greek: πρεσβεία (presbeía) — organization representing a foreign state
• Greenlandic: ambassade — organization representing a foreign state
• Gujarati: દૂતાવાસ (dūtāvās) — organization representing a foreign state
• Hawaiian: ʻemepake — organization representing a foreign state
• Hebrew: שַׁגְרִירוּת (shagrirút) — organization representing a foreign state
• Hindi: दूतावास (dūtāvās) — organization representing a foreign state
• Hindi: राजदूतावास (rājdūtāvās) — organization representing a foreign state
• Hindi: प्रतिनिधिमंडल (pratinidhimaṇḍal) — organization representing a foreign state
• Hindi: सिफ़ारत (sifārat) — organization representing a foreign state
• Hindi: सिफारत (siphārat) — organization representing a foreign state
• Hindi: सिफ़ारतख़ाना (sifāratxānā) — organization representing a foreign state
• Hindi: सिफारतखाना (siphāratkhānā) — organization representing a foreign state
• Hindi: एलचीगरी (elcīgarī) — organization representing a foreign state
• Hungarian: nagykövetség — organization representing a foreign state
• Icelandic: sendiráð — organization representing a foreign state
• Ido: ambasado — organization representing a foreign state
• Indonesian: kedutaan besar — organization representing a foreign state
• Indonesian: kedutaan — organization representing a foreign state
• Irish: ambasáid — organization representing a foreign state
• Italian: ambasciata — organization representing a foreign state
• Japanese: 大使館 (taishikan) — organization representing a foreign state
• Kannada: ರಾಯಭಾರ (rāyabhāra) — organization representing a foreign state
• Kazakh: елшілік (elşılık) — organization representing a foreign state
• Khmer: ស្ថានទូត (sthaan tuut) — organization representing a foreign state
• Khmer: រដ្ឋទូត (rŏətthaʼtuut) — organization representing a foreign state
• Korean: 대사관 (daesagwan) — organization representing a foreign state
• Northern Kurdish: sefaret — organization representing a foreign state
• Northern Kurdish: balyozxane — organization representing a foreign state
• Northern Kurdish: ambasad — organization representing a foreign state
• Northern Kurdish: konsolosxane — organization representing a foreign state
• Kyrgyz: элчилик (elcilik) — organization representing a foreign state
• Lao: ສະຖານທູດ (sa thān thūt) — organization representing a foreign state
• Latin: lēgātio — organization representing a foreign state
• Latvian: vēstniecība — organization representing a foreign state
• Lithuanian: ambasada — organization representing a foreign state
• Luxembourgish: Ambassade — organization representing a foreign state
• Macedonian: амбаса́да (ambasáda) — organization representing a foreign state
• Malagasy: ambasady — organization representing a foreign state
• Malay: kedutaan — organization representing a foreign state
• Malayalam: രാജപ്രതിനിധിയുടെ (rājapratinidhiyuṭe) — organization representing a foreign state
• Maltese: ambaxxata — organization representing a foreign state
• Māori: whare māngai — organization representing a foreign state
• Māori: kāinga māngai — organization representing a foreign state
• Mongolian: элчин сайдын яам (elčin sajdyn jaam) — organization representing a foreign state
• Mongolian: элчин яам (elčin jaam) — organization representing a foreign state
• Norman: ambassade — organization representing a foreign state
• Norwegian Bokmål: ambassade — organization representing a foreign state
• Ossetian: минӕварад (minævarad) — organization representing a foreign state
• Pashto: سفارت (safārat, səfārat) — organization representing a foreign state
• Pashto: سفارتخانه (sefāratxāna) — organization representing a foreign state
• Iranian Persian: سِفارَت (sefârat) — organization representing a foreign state
• Iranian Persian: سِفارَتخانِه (sefârat-xâne) — organization representing a foreign state
• Polish: ambasada — organization representing a foreign state
• Portuguese: embaixada — organization representing a foreign state
• Romanian: ambasadă — organization representing a foreign state
• Romansh: ambassada — organization representing a foreign state
• Russian: посо́льство (posólʹstvo) — organization representing a foreign state
• Northern Sami: ambassáda — organization representing a foreign state
• Campidanese Sardinian: imbasciada — organization representing a foreign state
• Campidanese Sardinian: imbassiada — organization representing a foreign state
• Sardinian: imbassiada — organization representing a foreign state
• Sassarese: imbasciada — organization representing a foreign state
• Serbo-Croatian: амбаса́да — organization representing a foreign state
• Serbo-Croatian: велепосла́нство — organization representing a foreign state
• Serbo-Croatian: ambasáda — organization representing a foreign state
• Serbo-Croatian: veleposlánstvo — organization representing a foreign state
• Sicilian: mmasciata — organization representing a foreign state
• Sindhi: سفارت (sifârat) — organization representing a foreign state
• Slovak: veľvyslanectvo — organization representing a foreign state
• Slovak: ambasáda — organization representing a foreign state
• Slovene: veleposlaništvo — organization representing a foreign state
• Upper Sorbian: wulkopósłanstwo — organization representing a foreign state
• Spanish: embajada — organization representing a foreign state
• Swahili: ubalozi — organization representing a foreign state
• Swedish: ambassad — organization representing a foreign state
• Tagalog: pasuguan — organization representing a foreign state
• Tagalog: embahada — organization representing a foreign state
• Tajik: сафорат (saforat) — organization representing a foreign state
• Tajik: сафоратхона (saforatxona) — organization representing a foreign state
• Tajik: элчихона (elčixona) — organization representing a foreign state
• Tamil: தூதரகம் (tūtarakam) — organization representing a foreign state
• Tatar: илчелек (ilçelek) — organization representing a foreign state
• Telugu: రాయబార కార్యాలయం (rāyabāra kāryālayaṁ) — organization representing a foreign state
• Telugu: రాయభారము (rāyabhāramu) — organization representing a foreign state
• Telugu: రాయబారము (rāyabāramu) — organization representing a foreign state
• Thai: สถานทูต (sà-tǎan-tûut) — organization representing a foreign state
• Thai: สถานเอกอัครราชทูต — organization representing a foreign state
• Tigrinya: ኤምባሲ (ʾembasi) — organization representing a foreign state
• Turkish: sefarethane — organization representing a foreign state
• Turkish: elçilik — organization representing a foreign state
• Turkish: sefaret — organization representing a foreign state
• Ottoman Turkish: سفارت (sefâret) — organization representing a foreign state
• Turkmen: ilçihana — organization representing a foreign state
• Turkmen: saforat — organization representing a foreign state
• Tuvan: элчин чери (elçin çeri) — organization representing a foreign state
• Ukrainian: посо́льство (posólʹstvo) — organization representing a foreign state
• Ukrainian: амбаса́да (ambasáda) — organization representing a foreign state
• Urdu: سِفارَت خانَہ (sifārat xāna) — organization representing a foreign state
• Urdu: سِفارَت (sifārat) — organization representing a foreign state
• Urdu: ایلْچی گَری (elcī garī) — organization representing a foreign state
• Uyghur: ئەلچىخانا (elchixana) — organization representing a foreign state
• Uzbek: elchixona — organization representing a foreign state
• Uzbek: saforat — organization representing a foreign state
• Vietnamese: tòa đại sứ — organization representing a foreign state
• Vietnamese: đại sứ quán — organization representing a foreign state
• Welsh: llysgenhadaeth — organization representing a foreign state
• Yiddish: אַמבאַסאַדע (ambasade) — organization representing a foreign state