embassy

Etymology
Modern variant of obsolete, from , from (also ) from , from , derived from , from  (attested also as , from , , from , from , from ; compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬). .

Noun

 * 1) The function or duty of an ambassador.
 * 2) 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.
 * 3) A temporary mission representing a sovereign state.
 * 4) The official residence of such a group, or of an ambassador.
 * 5)  A written account as to an embassy.
 * 1) The official residence of such a group, or of an ambassador.
 * 2)  A written account as to an embassy.
 * 1)  A written account as to an embassy.

Usage notes
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 ) – the delegation would return home following meetings with foreign officials – and this is reflected in some traditional usages and related diplomatic terms, such as.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: ambassade
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: ኤምባሲ
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: سفارة
 * Armenian:
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܝܼܙܓܲܕܘܼܬܵܐ
 * Asturian: embaxada
 * Avar: посольство
 * Azerbaijani:, elçilik
 * Belarusian: амбаса́да, пасо́льства
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: посо́лство, амбаса́да
 * Burmese: ,
 * Carpathian Rusyn: посо́лство, амбаса́да
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen: векалалла
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 大使館
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:, ambasado
 * Estonian: suursaatkond, saatkond
 * Faroese: sendistova
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Gallurese: imbasciada
 * Georgian: საელჩო
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: πρεσβεία
 * Greenlandic: ambassade
 * Gujarati: દૂતાવાસ
 * Hawaiian: ʻemepake
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, राजदूतावास, प्रतिनिधिमंडल, सिफ़ारत, , सिफ़ारतख़ाना, ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: kedutaan besar,
 * Irish: ambasáid
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: елшілік
 * Khmer:, រដ្ឋទូត
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:, , ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ສະຖານທູດ
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: vēstniecība
 * Lithuanian:
 * Luxembourgish: Ambassade
 * Macedonian: амбаса́да
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: രാജപ്രതിനിധിയുടെ
 * Maltese: ambaxxata
 * Maori: whare māngai, kāinga māngai
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: элчин сайдын яам, элчин яам
 * Norman: ambassade
 * Northern Sami: ambassáda
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Ossetian: минӕварад
 * Ottoman Turkish: سفارت
 * Pashto:, سفارتخانه
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: ambassada
 * Russian:
 * Sardinian:
 * Campidanese: imbasciada, imbassiada
 * Logudorese: imbassiada
 * Sassarese: imbasciada
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: амбаса́да, велепосла́нство
 * Roman: ,
 * Sindhi: سفارت
 * Slovak: veľvyslanectvo, ambasáda
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Upper Sorbian: wulkopósłanstwo
 * Southern Altai: элчилик
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: ubalozi
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: pasuguan,
 * Tajik: сафорат, сафоратхона,
 * Tamil:
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu: రాయబార కార్యాలయం, రాయభారము ,
 * Thai:
 * Tigrinya: ኤምባሲ
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: ilçihana, saforat
 * Tuvan: элчин чери
 * Ukrainian: посо́льство,
 * Urdu: سِفارَت خانَہ, سِفارَت, ایلْچی گَری
 * Uyghur: ئەلچىخانا
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese: tòa đại sứ, (大使館)
 * Welsh: llysgenhadaeth
 * Yiddish: אַמבאַסאַדע