commissariat

commissariat

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French commissariat.

Noun

commissariat (plural commissariats)

1. A supply of food.
   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 79:

     We gave such dinner-parties as our commissariat allowed; the menu was simplicity itself - " blanket " for every course, cunningly disguised as soup, entree, and, I was going to say, joint.

2. The department of an army that supplies provisions for the troops.
3. (historical) A department of the government of the Soviet Union in the early period of its existence.
4. A territorial and governmental unit of Colombia at some points in its history.

Translations

a department of the government of the Soviet Union

Armenian: կոմիսարիատ (hy) (komisariat) Azerbaijani: komissarlıq Belarusian: камісарыя́т m (kamisaryját) Crimean Tatar: komissarlıq, komissariat Dutch: commissariaat (nl) n Estonian: komissariaat Finnish: komissariaatti French: commissariat (fr) m Georgian: კომისარიატი (ḳomisariaṭi) German: Kommissariat (de) n Hungarian: népbiztosság Indonesian: komisariat (id) Italian: commissariato (it) m Kazakh: комиссариат (komissariat) Kyrgyz: комиссариат (komissariat) Latvian: komisariāts m Lithuanian: komisariatas m Romanian: comisariat (ro) n Russian: комиссариа́т (ru) m (komissariát) Tajik: комиссариат (komissariat) Tatar: комиссариат (qomissariat) Turkmen: komissariat Ukrainian: комісаріа́т m (komisariát) Uzbek: komissarlik (uz), komissariat (uz)

Anagrams

• marcatissimo

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.mi.sa.ʁja/

• Audio

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Noun

commissariat m (plural commissariats)

1. a commissionership
2. a police station

Synonyms

(police station): commissariat de police, poste, (slang) comico

Further reading

• “commissariat”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.