UNICEF

See also: Unicef and U.N.I.C.E.F.

English

Alternative forms

• Unicef (Britain, Australia, New Zealand)
• U.N.I.C.E.F.

Etymology

Acronym of its original name, United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund. Now officially United Nations Children's Fund.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈju.niˌsɛf/

Proper noun

UNICEF

1. An agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide.
   • 1951, “Contributions to the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF)—H. R. 2785”, in Survey of Activities of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Eighty-first Congress (January 3, 1949–January 2, 1951), Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, section I (Strengthening United States Participation in International Organizations), page 16:

     The UNICEF was established in December 1946 by resolution of the United Nations General Assembly. […] To present an adequate picture of the problem which the Committee on Foreign Affairs faced during the Eighty-first Congress in connection with the UNICEF, the background of congressional action in the Eightieth Congress is necessary.

Usage notes

• Formerly used with the (i.e., as the UNICEF).

Translations

United Nations agency

• Arabic: يونيسيف (ar) m (yúnisef, yunisēf)
• Armenian: ՅՈՒՆԻՍԵՖ (YUNISEF)
• Bulgarian: УНИЦЕФ m (UNICEF)
• Georgian: იუნისეფი (iunisepi)
• German: UNICEF (de) f
• Hindi: यूनिसेफ़ (yūnisef)
• Japanese: UNICEF (ja) (Yunisefu), ユニセフ (Yunisefu)
• Korean: 유니세프 (Yunisepeu)
• Macedonian: УНИЦЕФ m (UNICEF), Уницеф m (Unicef)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: یونیسِف (yunisef)

• Polish: UNICEF (pl) m
• Portuguese: UNICEF f
• Russian: ЮНИСЕ́Ф (ru) m (JuNISJéF)
• Ukrainian: ЮНІСЕ́Ф m (JuNISÉF)
• Urdu: یُونِیسِف (yūnīsif)

Japanese

Etymology

Borrowed from English UNICEF.

Proper noun

UNICEF(ユニセフ) • (Yunisefu) 

1. Synonym of 国際連合児童基金 (Kokusai Rengō Jidō Kikin, “United Nations Children's Emergency Fund”); the UNICEF