attaché

See also: attache and Attaché

English

Alternative forms

• attache

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French attaché (literally “attached”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈtæʃeɪ/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌætæˈʃeɪ/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -eɪ

Noun

attaché (plural attachés)

1. A diplomatic officer, usually one who plays a specific role.

   Little did anyone suspect that the military attaché was one of the world's craftiest spies.

   • 1915, Commerce Reports, volume 2, number 115, page 784:

     One of the commercial attachés of the Department of Commerce in South America transmits the name and address of an engineer who desires to receive full information relative to an automotor for an interurban railway.

Derived terms

• attaché case
• military attaché

Translations

diplomatic officer

• Albanian: atashe (sq)
• Arabic: مُلْحَق m (mulḥaq)
• Armenian: կցորդ (hy) (kcʿord)
• Azerbaijani: attaşe
• Belarusian: аташэ́ m (atašé)
• Bulgarian: аташе́ m (atašé)
• Catalan: agregat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 隨員／随员 (zh) (suíyuán)

• Czech: atašé (cs) m, přidělenec m
• Danish: attaché c
• Dutch: attaché (nl) m
• Estonian: atašee
• Finnish: attasea (fi)
• French: attaché (fr) m
• Georgian: ატაშე (aṭaše)
• German: Attaché (de) m, Gesandtschaftsbeamter m
• Hebrew: נספח m (nispakh)
• Hindi: अताशे (atāśe)
• Hungarian: attasé (hu)
• Icelandic: sendiráðsritari m
• Ido: atasheo (io)
• Indonesian: atase (id)
• Italian: addetto diplomatico m
• Japanese: アタッシェ (ja) (atasshe)
• Kazakh: атташе (attaşe)
• Khmer: អនុព័ន្ធ (a’nu’poan)
• Korean: 주재관 (jujaegwan), 아타셰 (atasye)
• Kyrgyz: атташе (ky) (attaşe)
• Latvian: atašejs m
• Lithuanian: atašė
• Macedonian: аташе m (ataše)
• Malay: atase
• Maltese: attaxè m or f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: attaché m

• Persian: آتاشه (fa) (âtâše)
• Polish: attaché (pl) m
• Portuguese: adido (pt) m
• Romanian: ataşat (ro) m
• Russian: атташе́ (ru) m (attašé)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: аташе m

  Roman: ataše (sh) m

• Slovak: atašé (sk) m, pridelenec m
• Slovene: ataše m
• Spanish: agregado (es) m, agregada f
• Swahili: mwambata
• Swedish: attaché (sv) c
• Tajik: атташе (attaše)
• Turkish: ataşe (tr)
• Turkmen: attaşe (tk)
• Ukrainian: аташе́ (uk) m (atašé)
• Uzbek: attashe (uz)
• Vietnamese: tuỳ viên (vi)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ta.ʃe/

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Adjective

attaché (feminine attachée, masculine plural attachés, feminine plural attachées)

1. attached, attached to, bound, committed, connected, devoted, fastened, fixed, joined-up, secured, strapped, tethered, tie-on, tied, wired

   Synonyms: fixé (“fixed”), lié (“linked”)

Derived terms

• attaché-case
• rattaché

 

Noun

attaché m (plural attachés, feminine attachée)

1. attaché, attache (employment of civil servant in several administrations)

   Un attaché à la Bibliothèque nationale. ― An attaché to the National Library.

   Un attaché au cabinet d’un ministre. ― An attaché to the office of a minister.

   • 1937 March, Georges Simenon, chapter II, in Le Blanc à lunettes [The Bespectacled White Man], Paris: Éditions Gallimard:

     Mon mari est attaché militaire à l’ambassade anglaise d’Ankara.

     My husband is military attaché to the British Embassy in Ankara.

Derived terms

• attaché de presse

Participle

attaché (feminine attachée, masculine plural attachés, feminine plural attachées)

1. past participle of attacher

Descendants

• → English: attaché
• → German: Attaché
• → Polish: attaché
• → Russian: атташе́ (attašé)
  • → Georgian: ატაშე (aṭaše)
  • → Kazakh: атташе (attaşe)
• → Serbo-Croatian: ataše
• → Swedish: attaché
• → Turkish: ataşe

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• achetât, tacheta

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French attaché.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.taˈʂɛ/

• Audio 1

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• Audio 2

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• Rhymes: -aʂɛ
• Syllabification: a‧tta‧ché

Noun

attaché m pers (indeclinable)

1. (diplomacy, politics) attaché (diplomatic officer, usually one who plays a specific role)

Related terms

nouns

• ataszat

 

Further reading

• attaché in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• attaché in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• attaché in PWN's encyclopedia

Swedish

Etymology

From French attaché.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eː

Noun

attaché c

1. attaché

Declension

Declension of attaché
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	attaché	attachén	attachéer	attachéerna
Genitive	attachés	attachéns	attachéers	attachéernas