different between apparat vs apparatchik

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ???????? (apparát, “apparatus, apparat”). Doublet of apparatus.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??t

Noun

apparat (plural apparats)

1. The Soviet machinery of state bureaucratic administration, or a similar communistic structure.
   • 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 184:

     The second thing to absorb was that, behind all the spontaneity and eroticism and generalized “festival of the oppressed” merrymaking, a grim-faced Communist apparat was making preparations for an end to the revels and a serious seizure of the state.

Related terms

• apparatchik
• apparatus

Danish

Etymology

German Apparat (“device, apparatus”), from Latin appar?tus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aparat/, [?b???????d?], /ap?rat/, [?b???????d?]

Noun

apparat n (singular definite apparatet, plural indefinite apparater)

1. instrument, apparatus, appliance, machine
2. device
3. radio or TV set
4. camera
5. telephone, handset, extension
6. machinery

Inflection

Further reading

• “apparat” in Den Danske Ordbog
• apparat on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin apparatus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.pa.?a/

Noun

apparat m (plural apparats)

1. pomp, ceremony

Derived terms

• apparat critique

Further reading

• “apparat” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

apparat

1. third-person singular present active indicative of appar?

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from French apparat, from Latin apparatus.

Noun

apparat n (definite singular apparatet, indefinite plural apparat or apparater, definite plural apparata or apparatene)

1. mechanical or electrical device, appliance or instrument
2. apparatus

Derived terms

• fjernsynsapparat
• forstørrelsesapparat
• fotoapparat
• kassaapparat, kasseapparat

References

• “apparat” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from French apparat, from Latin apparatus.

Noun

apparat n (definite singular apparatet, indefinite plural apparat, definite plural apparata)

1. mechanical or electrical device, appliance or instrument
2. apparatus

Derived terms

• fjernsynsapparat
• fotoapparat
• kassaapparat, kasseapparat

References

• “apparat” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French apparat, from Latin apparatus.

Pronunciation

Noun

apparat c

1. apparatus; complex machine or instrument, often run by electricity
2. apparatus; a bureaucratic organization, especially within the area of politics
3. short for TV-apparat or radioapparat: TV set or radio receiver

Declension

Derived terms

• (bureaucratic organization): partiapparat

English

Etymology

From Russian ??????????? (apparát?ik, “operator, apparatchik”), from ???????? (apparát, “apparat, apparatus (of state)”) + suffix -??? (-?ik).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ap???at??k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /æp???æt???k/

Noun

apparatchik (plural apparatchiks or apparatchiki)

1. (historical) A member of the Soviet apparat; a Communist bureaucrat or agent. [from 20th c.]
2. A blindly loyal bureaucrat. [from 20th c.]

Translations

Further reading

• apparatchik on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Noun

apparatchik m (plural apparatchiks)

1. apparatchik

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• aparatchik

Noun

apparatchik m (plural apparatchiks)

1. (historical) apparatchik (Communist bureaucrat or agent)