servis

Servis is a term used in various languages to denote service or a service-related concept. In Turkish, Azerbaijani, Indonesian, and Malay contexts, servis commonly refers to organized provision of services, including transportation shuttles (for example, a school or workplace servis), vehicle maintenance, or after-sales support. In everyday use it can denote a service department or a service center within a company. In Russian and many post-Soviet languages, the word is transliterated as servis and broadly covers the meaning of service, including customer service, service industries, and technical maintenance.

Etymology and cognates: The word originates from the French service, which in turn derives from Latin servitium or from related roots related to performing work for others. Through historical contact with French and other European languages, many languages adopted a cognate form such as servis or service.

Usage notes: Servis spans multiple domains. In public transport discourse, it often describes scheduled offerings (buses, shuttles) that connect locations or institutions. In retail and manufacturing, it can refer to after-sales support, repairs, and routine maintenance. In information technology, servis-equivalents appear in some languages to describe software services or Web services, though English typically uses the term service.

See also: Service, customer service, public transportation, vehicle maintenance, IT services.