official

Etymology
From, from , from , from ,.

Adjective

 * 1) Of or pertaining to an office or public trust.
 * 2) Derived from the proper office or officer, or from the proper authority; made or communicated by virtue of authority
 * 3) Approved by authority; authorized.
 * 4) (Of a statement) Dubious but recognized by authorities as truth and/or canon.
 * 5)  Sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; officinal.
 * 6) Discharging an office or function.
 * 7) Relating to an office; especially, to a subordinate executive officer or attendant.
 * 8) Relating to an ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction.
 * 9)  True, real, beyond doubt.
 * 10)  Listed in a national pharmacopeia.
 * 1) Discharging an office or function.
 * 2) Relating to an office; especially, to a subordinate executive officer or attendant.
 * 3) Relating to an ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction.
 * 4)  True, real, beyond doubt.
 * 5)  Listed in a national pharmacopeia.
 * 1)  Listed in a national pharmacopeia.
 * 1)  Listed in a national pharmacopeia.

Translations

 * Albanian:, zyrtare
 * Belarusian: службо́вы
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Ladino:
 * Roman: ofisial
 * Latin: officialis
 * Malayalam:
 * Marathi: कार्यालयीन
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: зва̀ничан, слу̏жбен
 * Roman: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog: tungkulanin
 * Ukrainian: службо́вий, посадо́вий
 * Urdu: معروف
 * Vietnamese: chánh thức,
 * Yiddish: אָפֿיציעל


 * Bashkir: рәсми
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Kazakh: ресми
 * Ladino:
 * Latin: ofisial
 * Latin: officialis
 * Malay: rasmi
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:


 * Albanian:, zyrtare
 * Arabic:
 * Hijazi Arabic: رَسْمي
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: рәсми
 * Belarusian:, афіцыя́льны
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: ресми
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz: ырасмый
 * Ladino:
 * Latin: ofisial
 * Macedonian: официја́лен
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: whaimana
 * Marathi:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: слу̏жбен, зва̀ничан
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: oficiálny
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik:
 * Tatar: рәсми
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: resmi
 * Ukrainian: офіці́йний, офіціа́льний
 * Uzbek:


 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese:


 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:


 * Albanian:, zyrtare
 * Arabic:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: oficiala
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: ресми
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz: ырасмый
 * Latin: official
 * Maltese: uffiċjali
 * Navajo: wááshindoon
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:

Noun

 * 1) An office holder, a person holding an official position in government, sports, or other organization.

Synonyms

 * See Thesaurus:official

Translations

 * Arabic: مَسْئُول
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: службо́вая асо́ба, чыно́ўнік, чыно́ўніца
 * Bulgarian: длъжностно́ лице́,, чино́вница
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: embedsmand, tjenestemand
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Egyptian:
 * Finnish:, , , ,
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hausa:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: cinovnikka
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Jarawa: babu
 * Korean:
 * Latin: officialis
 * Macedonian: чиновник, чиновничка
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: āpiha
 * Middle English: officer
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: (offentlig) tjenestemann
 * Ottoman Turkish: مأمور
 * Polish: oficjel, ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian: официа́льное лицо́,, , , ,
 * Slovak: úradník, funkcionár
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu:
 * Ukrainian: посадо́ва осо́ба, посадо́вець, службо́ва осо́ба,, ; урядо́ва осо́ба, урядо́вець;  чино́вник


 * Norman:


 * Belarusian: суддзя́
 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: суддя́

Etymology
From, from ; equivalent to.

Noun

 * 1) An underling of a member of the clergy, often heading a clerical court.
 * 2) A hireling or subordinate; one employed to serve, especially at an estate.

Adjective

 * 1)  Functional; serving a purpose.
 * 2)  Requisite or mandatory for a task.

Noun

 * 1) court
 * 2) chamber pot

Adjective

 * 1) ; certified or permitted by an authoritative source