committee

Etymology
From, or else revival of , past participle of , from , from +. The OED3 prefers the first etymology.

Pronunciation

 * group of persons


 * person in charge of another

Noun

 * 1) A body of one or more persons convened for the accomplishment of some specific purpose, typically with formal protocols.
 * 2)  A guardian; someone in charge of another person deemed to be unable to look after themselves.
 * 1)  A guardian; someone in charge of another person deemed to be unable to look after themselves.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: komitee
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: لَجْنَة
 * Armenian:, ,
 * Azerbaijani: komitə, komissiya
 * Belarusian: камітэ́т, камі́сія
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 委員會
 * Hokkien: 委員會
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: komité, komite
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian: komitee,
 * Faroese: nevnd
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: ,
 * Friulian: comitât
 * Georgian: კომიტეტი, კომისია
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: וְעָדָה
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:, ,
 * Ingrian: komitetta
 * Interlingua: committee
 * Irish: coiste
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: комитет, комиссия
 * Khmer: ,
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:, , ,
 * Kyrgyz:, комиссия
 * Lao:
 * Latin: consilium
 * Latvian: komiteja, komisija
 * Lisu: ꓗꓳ-ꓟꓲ-ꓔꓲ
 * Lithuanian:, komisija
 * Lombard: (comità, comitat)
 * Macedonian: комите́т
 * Malay:, panitia, komite, ,
 * Malayalam: ,
 * Malaysian Sign Language: jawatankuasa
 * Maori: komiti
 * Marathi: समिती
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: ,
 * Norman: conmité
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ,
 * Nynorsk: komité, komite
 * Ottoman Turkish: انجمن
 * Pashto: کمیټه
 * Persian:
 * Piedmontese: comità
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: comataidh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: комѝте̄т, о̀дбор, ча̑снӣштво
 * Roman:, ,
 * Slovak: výbor, komisia
 * Slovene: komite, odbor
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Tajik: комитет,
 * Thai: คณะกรรมการ
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: komitet, komissiýa
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Urdu: مَجْلِس,, کَمیٹی
 * Uyghur: كومىتېت
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese: (委班)
 * Volapük:
 * Yiddish: קאָמיטעט