From spoke (“past participle of speak”) + -s- + man.
spokesman (plural spokesmen)
- One who speaks as the voice of another person or a group of people.
1959, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, Hearings[1]:One study of popular escapistic communications indicates that the recipients regarded the heroes and spokesmen as "trustworthy models and guides."
2019, VOA Learning English[2], archived from the original on 11 March 2019:President Moon Jae-in proposed the plan this week during a meeting with government officials, his spokesman said.
one who speaks as the voice of a group of people
- Armenian: խոսնակ (hy) (xosnak)
- Bashkir: вәкил (vəkil)
- Belarusian: прадстаўнік m (pradstaŭnik), спі́кер m (spíkjer)
- Bulgarian: говори́тел (bg) m (govorítel)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 發言人 / 发言人 (zh) (fāyánrén)
- Czech: mluvčí (cs) m
- Danish: talsmand c, talskvinde c, talsperson c
- Dutch: woordvoerder (nl) m, zegsman (nl) m
- Estonian: pressiesindaja
- Finnish: edustaja (fi), tiedottaja (fi), äänitorvi (fi), puhetorvi (fi)
- French: porte-parole (fr) m or f
- German: Sprecher (de) m, Wortführer (de) m
- Hebrew: דּוֹבֵר (he) m (dovér)
- Hungarian: szóvivő (hu)
- Igbo: asogwa
- Italian: portavoce (it) m or f
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: berdevk (ku) m or f
- Maori: wahakōrero
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: talsmann m, talsperson m
- Nynorsk: talsmann m, talsperson m
- Polish: rzecznik (pl) m
- Portuguese: porta-voz (pt) m or f
- Romanian: purtător de cuvânt (ro) m
- Russian: представи́тель (ru) m (predstavítelʹ), спи́кер (ru) m (spíker)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: портпарол m, гласногово̀рнӣк m
- Latin: portparol (sh) m, glasnogovòrnīk (sh) m
- Slovak: hovorca m, zástupca m
- Slovene: predstavnik m
- Spanish: portavoz (es) m or f, vocero (es) m
- Swahili: msemi (sw)
- Swedish: talesman (sv) c, talesperson (sv) c
- Turkish: sözcü (tr)
- Ukrainian: ре́чник m (réčnyk), спі́кер m (spíker)
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