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Secretary General
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secretary-general secretary general
English
Alternative forms
en secretary general secretary-general
Etymology
en fr secrétaire général, hence the unusual order of adjective following noun (i.e., postpositive).
Pronunciation
en
Noun
Secretary General Secretaries General
The chief administrator of an international body such as NATO or the United Nations.
The secretary of a non-Communist political party, governmental entity, or other NGO in many countries.
Synonyms
en First Secretary
en General Secretary
en SG
Translations
chief administrator of an international body
Albanian: sq sekretar i përgjithshëm m
Arabic: ar أَمِين عَامّ m
Armenian: hy գլխավոր քարտուղար
Azerbaijani: az baş katib
Belarusian: be генера́льны сакрата́р m, be генэра́льны сакрата́р m, be генса́к m
Bengali: bn মহাসচিব
Bulgarian: bg генера́лен секрета́р m
Burmese: my အထွေထွေအတွင်းရေးမှူးချုပ်
Catalan: ca secretari general m
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 秘書長 mìshūzhǎng, cmn 書記長 shūjìcháng
Czech: cs generální tajemník m
Danish: da generalsekretær c
Dutch: nl secretaris-generaal m
Faroese: fo aðalskrivari m, fo aðalritari m
Finnish: fi pääsihteeri
French: fr secrétaire général m, fr premier secrétaire m
Georgian: ka გენერალური მდივანი
German: de Generalsekretär m, de Generalsekretärin f
Greek: el γενικός γραμματέας m f
Hebrew: he מַזְכִּיר כְּלָלִי m mazkír klalí, he מַזְכָּ״ל m abbreviation
Hindi: hi महासचिव m
Hungarian: hu főtitkár
Icelandic: is aðalritari m
Indonesian: id sekretaris jenderal
Irish: ga Ard-Rúnaí m
Italian: it segretario generale m
Japanese: ja 総書記 そうしょき, sōshoki, ja 書記長 しょきちょう, shokichō, ja 事務総長 じむそうちょう, jimu sōchō
Kazakh: kk бас хатшы
Khmer: km អគ្គលេខាធិការ
Korean: ko 사무총장(事務總長), ko 서기장(書記長), ko 총비서(總祕書) North Korea, ko 총서기(總書記) China
Kyrgyz: ky башкы катчы, ky генералдык секретар
Lao: lo ເລຂາທິການ
Latvian: lv ģenerālsekretārs m
Lithuanian: lt generalinis sekretorius m
Macedonian: mk генерален секрета́р
Malay: ms setiausaha agung
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: mn ерөнхий нарийн бичгийн дарга
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb generalsekretær m
Nynorsk: nn generalsekretær m
Pashto: ps سرمنشي m sarmonší
Persian:
Iranian Persian: fa-ira دَبیرْکُلّ, fa-ira دَبیرِ کُلّ
Polish: pl sekretarz generalny m
Portuguese: pt secretário-geral m
Romanian: ro secretar general m
Russian: ru генера́льный секрета́рь m, ru генсе́к m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh главни тајник m, sh генерални секретар m
Latin: sh glavni tajnik m, sh generalni sekretar m
Slovak: sk generálny tajomník m
Slovene: sl generalni sekretar m
Swahili: sw katibu mkuu cV
Swedish: sv generalsekreterare c
Tajik: tg дабири куллӣ, tg дабири кулл
Thai: th เลขาธิการ
Turkish: tr genel sekreter
Turkmen: tk baş sekretar
Ukrainian: uk генера́льний секрета́р m, uk генсе́к m
Urdu: ur سَیکْرِٹْری جَنْرَل m, ur جَنْرَل سَیکْرِٹْری m
Uyghur: ug باش كاتىپ
Uzbek: uz bosh kotib
Vietnamese: vi tổng thư kí (vi 總書記)
Welsh: cy ysgrifennydd cyffredinol
Anagrams
en aaceeeeglnrrrsty General Secretary general secretary
en terms where the adjective follows the noun