English
Etymology
From French émissaire , from Latin emissarius ( “ agent, scout, spy ” ) .
Pronunciation
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Noun
emissary (plural emissaries )
An agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else.
( anatomy ) A venous channel in the skull .
An underground channel by which the water of a lake escapes .
Translations
an agent sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else
Arabic: مَبْعُوث m ( mabʕūṯ )
Belarusian: эміса́р m ( emisár ) , эміса́рка f ( emisárka )
Bulgarian: емиса́р (bg) m ( emisár ) , емиса́рка f ( emisárka ) , пра́теник (bg) m ( prátenik ) , пра́теница f ( prátenica ) , пра́теничка f ( prátenička )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 使者 (zh) ( shǐzhě ) , 伻 (zh) ( bēng )
Czech: emisar (cs) m , emisař (cs) m
Dutch: afgezant (nl) m
Egyptian: (wpwtj )
Esperanto: sendito
Finnish: lähettiläs (fi)
French: émissaire (fr) m or f
German: Emissär (de) m , Emissärin (de) f , Abgesandter (de) m
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Greek: αγγελιοφόρος (el) m ( angeliofóros ) , απεσταλμένος (el) m ( apestalménos )
Japanese: 使者 (ja) ( ししゃ, shisha )
Korean: 사자(使者) (ko) ( saja )
Latin: emissarius m
Macedonian: пратеник m ( pratenik ) , пратеничка f ( pratenička )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: sendebud n
Polish: emisariusz (pl) m , emisariuszka f
Portuguese: emissário (pt) m
Russian: эмисса́р (ru) m ( emissár ) , посла́нник (ru) m ( poslánnik ) , посла́нница (ru) f ( poslánnica )
Slovak: emisár m
Swedish: sändebud (sv) n , emissarie (sv) c
Ukrainian: еміса́р m ( emisár ) , еміса́рка f ( emisárka )
a venous channel in the skull