commissariat

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French commissariat.

Noun

commissariat (plural commissariats)

1. A supply of food.
   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 79:

     We gave such dinner-parties as our commissariat allowed; the menu was simplicity itself - " blanket " for every course, cunningly disguised as soup, entree, and, I was going to say, joint.

2. The department of an army that supplies provisions for the troops.
3. (historical) A department of the government of the Soviet Union in the early period of its existence.
4. A territorial and governmental unit of Colombia at some points in its history.

Translations

a department of the government of the Soviet Union

• Armenian: կոմիսարիատ (hy) (komisariat)
• Azerbaijani: komissarlıq
• Belarusian: камісарыя́т m (kamisaryját)
• Crimean Tatar: komissarlıq, komissariat
• Dutch: commissariaat (nl) n
• Estonian: komissariaat
• Finnish: komissariaatti
• French: commissariat (fr) m
• Georgian: კომისარიატი (ḳomisariaṭi)
• German: Kommissariat (de) n
• Hungarian: népbiztosság (hu)
• Indonesian: komisariat (id)
• Italian: commissariato (it) m
• Kazakh: комиссариат (komissariat)
• Kyrgyz: комиссариат (komissariat)
• Latvian: komisariāts m
• Lithuanian: komisariatas m
• Polish: komisariat (pl) m
• Romanian: comisariat (ro) n
• Russian: комиссариа́т (ru) m (komissariát)
• Tajik: комиссариат (komissariat)
• Tatar: комиссариат (qomissariat)
• Turkmen: komissariat
• Ukrainian: комісаріа́т m (komisariát)
• Uzbek: komissarlik (uz), komissariat (uz)

Anagrams

• marcatissimo

French

Etymology

From commissaire +‎ -at.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.mi.sa.ʁja/

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Noun

commissariat m (plural commissariats)

1. commissionership
2. police station

   Synonym: poste de police

Further reading

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