apparat

See also: Apparat

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian аппара́т (apparát, apparatus, apparat); cognate to apparatus.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɑːt

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.

Danish

Etymology

German Apparat (device, apparatus), from Latin apparātus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aparat/, [ɑb̥ɑˈʁɑːˀd̥] or IPA(key): /apərat/, [ɑb̥əˈʁɑːˀd̥]

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


French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin apparatus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /apaʁa/

Noun

apparat m (plural apparats)

  1. pomp, ceremony

Derived terms

  • apparat critique

Further reading


Latin

Verb

apparat

  1. third-person singular present active indicative of apparō

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

References


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

References


Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French apparat, from Latin apparatus.

Pronunciation

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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

Declension of apparat 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative apparat apparaten apparater apparaterna
Genitive apparats apparatens apparaters apparaternas

Derived terms

  • (bureaucratic organization): partiapparat
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