# dossier
## English
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French dossier.

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ˈdɔs.jeɪ/, /ˈdɑs.jeɪ/, /ˈdɔ.si.eɪ/, /ˈdɑ.si.eɪ/, /-si.ɚ/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈdɒs.i.eɪ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Noun

dossier (plural dossiers)
* A collection of papers and/or other sources, containing detailed information about a particular person or subject, together with a synopsis of their content.
** 2004 April 15, “Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer”, in The Scotsman‎:For Lothian and Borders Police, the early-morning raid had come at the end one of biggest investigations carried out by the force, which had originally presented a dossier of evidence on the murder of Jodi Jones to the Edinburgh procurator-fiscal, William Gallagher, on 25 November last year.

#### Related terms

* dorsal
* endorse

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* Dosreis

## Dutch
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French dossier.

### Pronunciation

* (Netherlands) IPA: /dɔˈʃeː/
* (Belgium) IPA: /dɔˈsiːr/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: dos‧sier

### Noun

dossier n (plural dossiers, diminutive dossiertje n)
* dossier
* file, physical collection of documentation

#### Derived terms

* dossierbeheerder
* dossierkennis
* dossiertijger
* dossiervreter
* medisch dossier
* strafdossier

#### Descendants

* → Indonesian: dosir

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle French dossier. By surface analysis, dos (“back(side)”) +‎ -ier.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /do.sje/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

dossier m (plural dossiers)
* back of furniture, to rest the sitter's back on
* dossier
* (computing) folder
* an organizer to keep papers in, to be stored as a single unit in a filing cabinet, see folder
* (figuratively) case, notably legal

#### Derived terms

* dosseret m
* doss m

#### Descendants

* → English: dossier
* → Dutch: dossier
** → Indonesian: dosir
* → German: Dossier
* → Hijazi Arabic: دوسيه (dōsē)
* → Italian: dossier
* → Luxembourgish: Dossier
* → Portuguese: dossiê, dossier (unadapted form)
* → Romanian: dosar
* → Sicilian: dusseri, dossier
* → Spanish: dossier, dosier
* → Ottoman Turkish: دوسیه (dosya)
** Turkish: dosya

### Gallery

* Dossiers de chaises.
* Boîte destinée à contenir des documents formant un dossier.
* Symbole associé à un dossier informatique.

### Adjective

dossier (feminine dossière, masculine plural dossiers, feminine plural dossières)
* (colloquial) embarrassing

### Further reading

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

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French dossier.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dosˈsje/$^{**}$
* Rhymes: -e

### Noun

dossier m (invariable)
* dossier (collection of papers, especially legal)

### Anagrams

* dissero, ordisse, rodessi

## Polish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French dossier, from Middle French dossier.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dɔˈsjɛ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛ
* Syllabification: do‧ssier

### Noun

dossier n (indeclinable)
* dossier (collection of documents related to a person or situation)
    Synonyms: akta, dokumentacja

### Further reading

* dossier in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* dossier in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French dossier.

### Noun

dossier m (plural dossiers)
* Alternative spelling of dossiê

## Spanish
### Alternative forms

* dosier

### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French dossier.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /doˈsjeɾ/ [d̪oˈsjeɾ]
* Rhymes: -eɾ
* Syllabification: dos‧sier

### Noun

dossier m (plural dossiers or dossieres)
* dossier

#### Usage notes

* According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

### Further reading

* “dossier”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10