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Etymology
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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 amos, amsach (“mercenary, servant”), Welsh amaeth (“tenant farm”)). Doublet of ambassade.
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embassy (plural embassies)
- The function or duty of an ambassador.
- An organization or group of officials who permanently represent a sovereign state in a second sovereign state or with respect to an international organization such as the United Nations.
The American embassy to France is located in Paris.
- A temporary mission representing a sovereign state.
The Japanese embassy to the United States traveled to Washington, D.C., where it was received by James Buchanan, before continuing on to New York and then returning to Japan, making several stops on the way.
1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:Then go we in to know his embassy;
Which I could with a ready guess declare
Before the Frenchman speak a word of it.
- The official residence of such a group, or of an ambassador.
- (archaic) A written account as to an embassy.
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Today the term embassy generally refers to a permanent organization, housed in a permanent building or offices, maintaining ties between nations. In the past, this was more often a temporary mission (as in Japanese Embassy to the United States (1860)) – the delegation would return home following meetings with foreign officials – and this is reflected in some traditional usages and related diplomatic terms, such as Head of Mission.
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organization representing a foreign state
- Afrikaans: ambassade
- Albanian: ambasadë (sq) f
- Amharic: ኤምባሲ (ʾembasi)
- Arabic: سِفَارَة (ar) f (sifāra)
- Egyptian Arabic: سفارة f (sefāra)
- Armenian: դեսպանատուն (hy) (despanatun)
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܝܼܙܓܲܕܘܼܬܵܐ f (īzgadūtā)
- Asturian: embaxada f
- Avar: посольство (posolʲstʷo)
- Azerbaijani: səfirlik (az), elçilik
- Belarusian: амбаса́да f (ambasáda), пасо́льства n (pasólʹstva)
- Bengali: দূতাবাস (bn) (dutabaś)
- Bulgarian: посо́лство n (posólstvo), амбаса́да f (ambasáda)
- Burmese: သံ (my) (sam), သံရုံး (my) (sam-rum:)
- Carpathian Rusyn: посо́лство n (posólstvo), амбаса́да f (ambasáda)
- Catalan: ambaixada (ca) f
- Chechen: векалалла (vekalalla)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 大使館/大使馆 (daai6 si3 gun2)
- Mandarin: 大使館/大使馆 (zh) (dàshǐguǎn)
- Czech: velvyslanectví (cs) n, ambasáda (cs) f
- Danish: ambassade (da) c
- Dutch: ambassade (nl) f
- Esperanto: ambasadorejo (eo), ambasado
- Estonian: suursaatkond, saatkond
- Faroese: sendistova f
- Finnish: suurlähetystö (fi)
- French: ambassade (fr) f
- Galician: embaixada (gl) f
- Gallurese: imbasciada
- Georgian: საელჩო (saelčo)
- German: Botschaft (de) f
- Greek: πρεσβεία (el) f (presveía)
- Ancient: πρεσβεία f (presbeía)
- Greenlandic: ambassade
- Gujarati: દૂતાવાસ (dūtāvās)
- Hawaiian: ʻemepake
- Hebrew: שַׁגְרִירוּת (he) f (shagrirút)
- Hindi: दूतावास (hi) m (dūtāvās), राजदूतावास m (rājdūtāvās), प्रतिनिधिमंडल m (pratinidhimaṇḍal), सिफ़ारत f (sifārat), सिफारत (hi) (siphārat), सिफ़ारतख़ाना (sifāratxānā), सिफारतखाना (hi) m (siphāratkhānā), एलचीगरी (hi) f (elcīgarī)
- Hungarian: nagykövetség (hu)
- Icelandic: sendiráð (is) n
- Ido: ambasado (io)
- Indonesian: kedutaan besar, kedutaan (id)
- Irish: ambasáid
- Italian: ambasciata (it) f
- Japanese: 大使館 (ja) (たいしかん, taishikan)
- Kannada: ರಾಯಭಾರ (kn) (rāyabhāra)
- Kazakh: елшілік (elşılık)
- Khmer: ស្ថានទូត (km) (sthaan tuut), រដ្ឋទូត (rŏətthaʼtuut)
- Korean: 대사관(大使館) (ko) (daesagwan)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: sefaret (ku) f, balyozxane (ku) f, ambasad (ku) f, konsolosxane (ku) f
- Kyrgyz: элчилик (ky) (elcilik)
- Lao: ສະຖານທູດ (sa thān thūt)
- Latin: lēgātio (la) f
- Latvian: vēstniecība f
- Lithuanian: ambasada (lt) f
- Luxembourgish: Ambassade f
- Macedonian: амбаса́да f (ambasáda)
- Malagasy: ambasady (mg)
- Malay: kedutaan (ms)
- Malayalam: രാജപ്രതിനിധിയുടെ (rājapratinidhiyuṭe)
- Maltese: ambaxxata f
- Maori: whare māngai (the building), kāinga māngai
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: элчин сайдын яам (elčin sajdyn jaam), элчин яам (elčin jaam)
- Norman: ambassade f (Jersey)
- Northern Sami: ambassáda
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: ambassade (no) m
- Ossetian: минӕварад (minævarad)
- Ottoman Turkish: سفارت (sefaret)
- Pashto: سفارت (ps) m (safārat, səfārat), سفارتخانه f (sefāratxāna)
- Persian: سفارت (fa) (sefârat), سفارتخانه (fa) (sefârat-xâne)
- Polish: ambasada (pl) f
- Portuguese: embaixada (pt) f
- Romanian: ambasadă (ro) f
- Romansch: ambassada f
- Russian: посо́льство (ru) n (posólʹstvo)
- Sardinian:
- Campidanese: imbasciada, imbassiada
- Logudorese: imbassiada
- Sassarese: imbasciada
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: амбаса́да f, велепосла́нство n
- Roman: ambasáda (sh) f, veleposlánstvo (sh) n
- Sindhi: سفارت (sifârat)
- Slovak: veľvyslanectvo n, ambasáda f
- Slovene: veleposlaništvo (sl) n
- Sorbian:
- Upper Sorbian: wulkopósłanstwo n
- Southern Altai: элчилик (elčilik)
- Spanish: embajada (es) f
- Swahili: ubalozi
- Swedish: ambassad (sv) c
- Tagalog: pasuguan, embahada (tl)
- Tajik: сафорат (saforat), сафоратхона (saforatxona), элчихона (tg) (elčixona)
- Tamil: தூதரகம் (ta) (tūtarakam)
- Tatar: илчелек (tt) (ilçelek)
- Telugu: రాయబార కార్యాలయం (rāyabāra kāryālayaṁ) (permanent structure), రాయభారము (rāyabhāramu) (temporary mission), రాయబారము (te) (rāyabāramu) (temporary mission)
- Thai: สถานทูต (th) (sà-tǎan-tûut)
- Tigrinya: ኤምባሲ (ʾembasi)
- Turkish: sefarethane (tr), elçilik (tr)
- Turkmen: ilçihana, saforat (obsolete)
- Tuvan: элчин чери (elçin çeri)
- Ukrainian: посо́льство n (posólʹstvo), амбаса́да (uk) f (ambasáda)
- Urdu: سِفارَت خانَہ m (sifārat xāna), سِفارَت f (sifārat), ایلْچی گَری f (elcī-garī)
- Uyghur: ئەلچىخانا (elchixana)
- Uzbek: elchixona (uz), saforat (uz) (dated)
- Vietnamese: tòa đại sứ, đại sứ quán (vi) (大使館)
- Welsh: llysgenhadaeth f
- Yiddish: אַמבאַסאַדע f (ambasade)
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