dossier

See also: Dossier

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French dossier.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdɔs.jeɪ/, /ˈdɑs.jeɪ/, /ˈdɔ.si.eɪ/, /ˈdɑ.si.eɪ/, /-si.ɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdɒs.i.eɪ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

dossier (plural dossiers)

1. 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^[1]:

     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

collection of papers and/or other sources

• Arabic: مِلَفّ m (milaff)

  Hijazi Arabic: دوسيه m (dōsē)

• Armenian: դոսյե (hy) (dosye)
• Belarusian: дасье́ n (dasʹjé)
• Bulgarian: досие́ (bg) n (dosié)
• Catalan: dossier (ca) m, expedient (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 卷宗 (zh) (juànzōng), 檔案 / 档案 (zh) (dàng'àn)

• Czech: spis (cs) m, fascikl m, akta (cs) pl
• Danish: dossier (da) n
• Dutch: dossier (nl) n, map (nl) f, folder (nl) m
• Estonian: toimik
• Finnish: kansio (fi); asiakirjat (fi) pl, paperit (fi) pl
• French: dossier (fr) m
• Galician: arquivo (gl) m
• Georgian: დოსიე (dosie)
• German: Dossier (de) n, Akte (de) f
• Greek: ντοσιέ (el) n or n pl (ntosié)
• Hindi: प्रलेख m (pralekh), पत्र (hi) m (patra)
• Hungarian: dosszié (hu), akta (hu)
• Ido: dosiero (io)
• Indonesian: dosir (id)
• Japanese: 一件書類 (いっけんしょるい, ikken shorui)
• Korean: 일건서류(一件書類) (ko) (ilgeonseoryu)
• Macedonian: досие́ n (dosié)
• Persian: دوسیه (fa) (dosye)
• Polish: akta (pl) nvir, dokumentacja (pl) f, dossier (pl) n
• Portuguese: dossiê (pt) m, pasta (pt) f
• Romanian: dosar (ro) n
• Russian: досье́ (ru) n (dosʹjé), де́ло (ru) n (délo), па́пка (ru) f (pápka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: досје m

  Latin: dosje (sh) m

• Slovak: spis m
• Slovene: dosje m
• Spanish: dosier m, expediente (es) m, archivo (es) m, dossier m
• Swedish: dossier (sv), dossié (sv) c
• Turkish: dosya (tr)
• Ukrainian: досьє́ n (dosʹjé)
• Welsh: coflen f, dossier m

Anagrams

• Dosreis

Dutch

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French dossier.

Pronunciation

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /dɔˈʃeː/
• (Belgium) IPA^(key): /dɔˈsiːr/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: dos‧sier

Noun

dossier n (plural dossiers, diminutive dossiertje n)

1. dossier
2. file, physical collection of documentation

Derived terms

• dossierbeheerder
• dossierkennis
• dossiertijger
• dossiervreter
• medisch dossier
• projectdossier
• strafdossier

Descendants

• → Indonesian: dosir

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do.sje/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Audio (Switzerland (Valais)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

Noun

dossier m (plural dossiers)

1. back of furniture, to rest the sitter's back on
2. dossier
3. (computing) folder
4. an organizer to keep papers in, to be stored as a single unit in a filing cabinet, see folder
5. (figuratively) case, notably legal

Derived terms

• dosseret m
• doss m

Descendants

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: dosye
• → English: dossier
• → Dutch: dossier
  • → Indonesian: dosir
• → German: Dossier
• → Hijazi Arabic: دوسيه (dōsē)
• → Italian: dossier
• → Luxembourgish: Dossier
• → Portuguese: dossiê, dossier (unadapted form)
• → Romanian: dosar
  • → Hungarian: doszár
• → 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)

1. (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^(key): /dosˈsje/^*
• Rhymes: -e

Noun

dossier m (invariable)

1. dossier (collection of papers, especially legal)

Anagrams

• dissero, ordisse, rodessi

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French dossier, from Middle French dossier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔˈsjɛ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Syllabification: do‧ssier

Noun

dossier n (indeclinable)

1. dossier (collection of documents related to a person or situation)

   Synonyms: akta, dokumentacja

Further reading

• “dossier”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “dossier”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Middle French dossier

French dossierubor.

Portuguese dossier

Unadapted borrowing from French dossier.

Noun

dossier m (plural dossiers)

1. alternative spelling of dossiê

Further reading

• “dossier”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Alternative forms

• dosier

Etymology

Etymology tree

Middle French dossier

French dossierubor.

Spanish dossier

Unadapted borrowing from French dossier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /doˈsje/ [d̪oˈsje]
• Rhymes: -e

Noun

dossier m (plural dossiers or dossieres)

1. 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 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Swedish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French dossier.

Noun

dossier c

1. dossier

Declension

Declension of dossier

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	dossier	dossiers
	definite	dossiern	dossierns
plural	indefinite	dossierer	dossierers
	definite	dossiererna	dossierernas

Further reading

• “dossier”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

Anagrams

• sideros