service

Etymology 1
From, from (🇨🇬), from the verb , from  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), from , ultimately from , possibly from. Displaced native 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) An act of being of assistance to someone.
 * 2) The state of being subordinate to or employed by an individual or group.
 * 3) Work as a member of the military.
 * 4)   The practice of providing assistance as economic activity.
 * 5) A department in a company, organization, or institution.
 * 6)  A function that is provided by one program or machine for another.
 * 7) The military.
 * 8) A set of dishes or utensils.
 * 9)  The act of initially starting, or serving, the ball in play in tennis, volleyball, and other games.
 * 10) A religious rite or ritual.
 * 11)  The serving, or delivery, of a summons or writ.
 * 12) * 1668 July 3, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Houſtoun” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 548:
 * He Suſpends on theſe Reaſons, that Thomas Rue had granted a general Diſcharge to Adam Muſhet, who was his Conjunct, and correus debendi, after the alleadged Service, which Diſcharged Muſhet, and conſequently Houstoun his Partner.
 * 1)  A taxi shared among unrelated passengers, each of whom pays part of the fare; often, it has a fixed route between cities.
 * 2) A musical composition for use in churches.
 * 3)  Profession of respect; acknowledgment of duty owed.
 * 4)  The materials used for serving a rope, etc., such as spun yarn and small lines.
 * 5) Access to resources such as hotel rooms and Web-based videos without transfer of the resources' ownership.
 * 1) A set of dishes or utensils.
 * 2)  The act of initially starting, or serving, the ball in play in tennis, volleyball, and other games.
 * 3) A religious rite or ritual.
 * 4)  The serving, or delivery, of a summons or writ.
 * 5) * 1668 July 3, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Houſtoun” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 548:
 * He Suſpends on theſe Reaſons, that Thomas Rue had granted a general Diſcharge to Adam Muſhet, who was his Conjunct, and correus debendi, after the alleadged Service, which Diſcharged Muſhet, and conſequently Houstoun his Partner.
 * 1)  A taxi shared among unrelated passengers, each of whom pays part of the fare; often, it has a fixed route between cities.
 * 2) A musical composition for use in churches.
 * 3)  Profession of respect; acknowledgment of duty owed.
 * 4)  The materials used for serving a rope, etc., such as spun yarn and small lines.
 * 5) Access to resources such as hotel rooms and Web-based videos without transfer of the resources' ownership.
 * 1)  A taxi shared among unrelated passengers, each of whom pays part of the fare; often, it has a fixed route between cities.
 * 2) A musical composition for use in churches.
 * 3)  Profession of respect; acknowledgment of duty owed.
 * 4)  The materials used for serving a rope, etc., such as spun yarn and small lines.
 * 5) Access to resources such as hotel rooms and Web-based videos without transfer of the resources' ownership.
 * 1)  The materials used for serving a rope, etc., such as spun yarn and small lines.
 * 2) Access to resources such as hotel rooms and Web-based videos without transfer of the resources' ownership.

Usage notes
In British English, the indefinite article "a" is often used with “good service”, as in "A good service is operating on all London Underground lines", whereas this is not used in American English.

Translations

 * Azerbaijani: minnət, qulluq
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Danish:
 * Estonian: teene
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German: ,
 * Gothic: 𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌱𐌰𐌷𐍄𐌹
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: λατρεία
 * Haitian Creole: sèvis
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Latin: servitium
 * Middle English: servise
 * Old English: þeġnung
 * Plautdietsch: Deenst
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: seirbheis
 * Sicilian: sèrbiri
 * Tocharian B: lāṃs, spaktāṃ


 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: خِدْمَة
 * Armenian: ,
 * Assamese: সেৱা
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: хеҙмәт
 * Belarusian: слу́жба, абслуго́ўванне, се́рвіс
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: servo
 * Estonian: teenus
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:, მომსახურება, სამსახური
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: διακονία
 * Haitian Creole: sèvis
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, , ख़िदमत
 * Hungarian:, , , , , ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: servicio
 * Irish: feidhmeannas
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , , , ,
 * Kazakh: қызмет
 * Khmer: សេវា
 * Korean:, , ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: خزمەت
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ບໍຣິການ, ບໍລິການ
 * Latin: prodessendum
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: служба
 * Malay: khidmat,, servis
 * Maori: ratonga
 * Middle English: servise
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: tjeneste
 * Nynorsk: tenest
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: þeġnung, þēnest
 * Pashto:
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish: usługiwanie,, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: seirbheis
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: слу̀жба, сѐрвӣс
 * Roman: ,
 * Sicilian: sirbizzu
 * Slovak: obsluha, služba
 * Slovene: služba
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik:
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: hyzmat
 * Ukrainian:, ,
 * Urdu: خدمت, سروس
 * Uyghur: خىزمەت
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: (服務)
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: דינסט


 * Finnish: ;
 * Indonesian:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sicilian: sirbizzu
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:


 * Azerbaijani: qulluq
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Latin: servitium
 * Middle English: servise
 * Ngazidja Comorian: urumishi
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: tjeneste
 * Nynorsk: tenest, teneste
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sicilian: siri a picciottu


 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: hərbi qulluq
 * Belarusian: слу́жба
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: teenistus
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: ,
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: seirbheis
 * Ukrainian:


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: serviis
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian: сервис
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:, aloitussyöttö
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Korean:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: seirbheis
 * Spanish:


 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 禮拜
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: servo
 * Estonian: jumalateenistus
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: λατρεία
 * Haitian Creole: sèvis
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Ingrian: kirkonmänö
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: ,
 * Malay:
 * Middle English: servise
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:,  ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: seirbheis
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tocharian B: yarpo


 * Bulgarian: връчване
 * Finnish: tuomion lukeminen
 * German:
 * Italian: ,
 * Middle English: servise
 * Sicilian: nutìfica, nutificazziuni
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish: reittitaksi
 * Hebrew:
 * Persian:
 * Turkish:


 * Finnish: kirkkomusiikkiteos


 * Galician:


 * Finnish:

Verb

 * 1)  To serve.
 * 2)  To perform maintenance.
 * 3)  To supply (media outlets) with press releases etc.
 * 4)  To inseminate through sexual intercourse.
 * 5)  To perform a sexual act upon.
 * 6)  To attack.
 * to service a target; target servicing
 * 1)  To inseminate through sexual intercourse.
 * 2)  To perform a sexual act upon.
 * 3)  To attack.
 * to service a target; target servicing
 * 1)  To attack.
 * to service a target; target servicing
 * to service a target; target servicing

Synonyms

 * , ; See also Thesaurus:serve
 * ,, ; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

Descendants

 * Hindustani
 * Hindustani
 * Hindustani
 * Hindustani

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Estonian: teenindama
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ემსახურება, მოემსახურება
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: hudumia
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: обслуго́вувати


 * Bulgarian:
 * Estonian: hooldama
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Polish: serwisować
 * Portuguese: fazer (a) manutenção
 * Russian: ,
 * Swahili: hudumia
 * Swedish: ,


 * Hungarian: ,
 * Maori: whakaekeeke

Etymology 2
Properly, the tree that bears sorb fruit, from, plural of , from , from , from. See.

Noun

 * 1)  Service tree.
 * 2)  The sorb; the fruit of this tree.

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Etymology
, borrowed from (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), from.

Noun

 * 1) service
 * 2)  service
 * 3)  cutlery
 * 4) set (collection of objects)
 * 1)  cutlery
 * 2) set (collection of objects)

Interjection

 * 1)  you're welcome

Etymology
From, (compare 🇨🇬), borrowed from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  service

Etymology
.

Noun

 * , the level of comfort offered by assistants and servants (the opposite of self-service)
 * 1) maintenance and repair