diplomat

See also: Diplomat, diplomát, and diplômât

English

Etymology

From French diplomate, a back-formation from diplomatique (“diplomatic”), ultimately from Ancient Greek δίπλωμα (díplōma, “double-folded document”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɪ.plə.mæt/

Noun

diplomat (plural diplomats)

1. A person, such as an ambassador, who is accredited to represent a government officially in its relations with other governments or international organisations
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2. (figuratively) Someone who uses skill and tact in dealing with other people

Synonyms

• diplomatist

Related terms

• diplomacy
• diplomatic

Derived terms

• diplomat cream

Translations

person who is accredited to represent a government

• Albanian: diplomat (sq) m
• Arabic: دِبْلُومَاسِيّ m (diblūmāsiyy)
• Armenian: դիվանագետ (hy) (divanaget)
• Asturian: diplomáticu m
• Azerbaijani: diplomat
• Belarusian: дыплама́т m (dyplamát)
• Bengali: কূটনীতিজ্ঞ (kuṭnitijno)
• Bulgarian: диплома́т m (diplomát)
• Burmese: သံတမန် (my) (samta.man), သံ (my) (sam)
• Catalan: diplomàtic m, diplomàtica f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 外交官 (zh) (wàijiāoguān), 外交家 (zh) (wàijiāojiā)

• Czech: diplomat (cs) m, diplomatka f
• Danish: diplomat c
• Dutch: diplomaat (nl) m
• Esperanto: diplomato, diplomatiisto
• Estonian: diplomaat (et)
• Finnish: diplomaatti (fi)
• French: diplomate (fr) m or f
• Galician: diplomático (gl) m
• Georgian: დიპლომატი (diṗlomaṭi)
• German: Diplomat (de) m, Diplomatin (de) f
• Hebrew: דִּיפְּלוֹמָט (he) m (diplomát), דיפלומטית f (diplomatít)
• Hindi: कूटनीतिज्ञ m (kūṭnītijña), राजनयिक m (rājanyik), राजदूत (hi) m (rājdūt)
• Hungarian: küldött (hu)
• Icelandic: diplómat (is) m, diplómati m
• Irish: taidhleoir m
• Italian: diplomatico (it) m, diplomatica (it) f
• Japanese: 外交官 (がいこうかん, gaikōkan), 外交家 (がいこうか, gaikōka)
• Kazakh: дипломат (diplomat)
• Khmer: ឌីប្លូម៉ាត (diiploumaat), ទូត (km) (tuut), អ្នកការទូត (km) (nĕək kaa tuut)
• Korean: 외교관 (ko) (oegyogwan) (外交官 (ko))
• Kyrgyz: дипломат (ky) (diplomat)
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• Lao: ນັກການທູດ (nak kān thūt), ທູດ (thūt)
• Latvian: diplomāts m
• Lithuanian: diplomatas m, diplomatė f
• Macedonian: дипломат m (diplomat)
• Malay: diplomat
• Mongolian: дипломатч (mn) (diplomatč)
• Norman: diplomate m or f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: diplomat m

  Nynorsk: diplomat m

• Persian: دیپلمات (fa) (diplomat)
• Polish: dyplomata (pl) m, dyplomatka (pl) f
• Portuguese: diplomata m or f
• Romanian: diplomat (ro) m
• Russian: диплома́т (ru) m (diplomát), диплома́тка (ru) f (diplomátka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дипломат m

  Roman: diplomat (sh) m

• Slovak: diplomat m
• Slovene: diplomat m
• Spanish: diplomático (es) m, diplomática (es) f
• Swahili: mwanadiplomasia (sw)
• Swedish: diplomat (sv) c
• Tagalog: palatalastas
• Tajik: дипломат (diplomat)
• Thai: นักการทูต (nák-gaan-tûut), ทูต (th) (tûut)
• Turkish: diplomat (tr)
• Turkmen: diplomat
• Ukrainian: диплома́т m (dyplomát)
• Uzbek: diplomat (uz)
• Vietnamese: nhà ngoại giao (家外交)
• Welsh: diplomydd m

someone who uses skill and tact in dealing with other people

• Danish: diplomat c
• Dutch: diplomaat (nl) m
• Esperanto: diplomato
• Finnish: diplomaatti (fi)
• French: diplomate (fr) m or f
• German: Diplomat (de) m, Diplomatin (de) f
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• Italian: diplomatico (it)
• Portuguese: diplomata m or f
• Russian: диплома́т (ru) m (diplomát), диплома́тка (ru) f (diplomátka)
• Spanish: diplomático (es) m
• Swedish: diplomat (sv) c

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• Kurdish:
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• Malayalam: (nayathanthrajnjan) ^{(please verify)} നയതന്ത്രജ്ഞന് (nayatantrajñaṉ)

See also

• chargé d'affaires
• consul
• envoy
• high commissioner

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdɪplomat]

Noun

1. A diplomat

Further reading

• Template:R:PSJC
• Template:R:SSJC

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Danish

Etymology

From French diplomate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diplomaːt/, [d̥ipʰˈl̥oˈmæːˀd̥]

Noun

diplomat c (singular definite diplomaten, plural indefinite diplomater)

1. diplomat

Inflection

Declension of diplomat

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	diplomat	diplomaten	diplomater	diplomaterne
genitive	diplomats	diplomatens	diplomaters	diplomaternes

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French diplomate

Noun

diplomat m (definite singular diplomaten, indefinite plural diplomater, definite plural diplomatene)

1. a diplomat

Related terms

• diplomati
• diplomatisk

References

• “diplomat” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French diplomate

Noun

diplomat m (definite singular diplomaten, indefinite plural diplomatar, definite plural diplomatane)

1. a diplomat

Related terms

• diplomati
• diplomatisk

References

• “diplomat” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diplǒmat/
• Hyphenation: di‧plo‧mat

Noun

diplòmat m (Cyrillic spelling дипло̀мат)

1. diplomat

Declension

Declension of diplomat

	singular	plural
nominative	diplomat	diplomati
genitive	diplomata	diplomata
dative	diplomatu	diplomatima
accusative	diplomata	diplomate
vocative	diplomate	diplomati
locative	diplomatu	diplomatima
instrumental	diplomatom	diplomatima