autarky

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɔːtəki/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /-tɑː-/
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• General-American: ôʹtär'kē
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• General-American: /ˈɔˌtɑɹki/
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• homophone: autarchy
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Borrowed from Ancient Greek αὐτᾰ́ρκειᾰ (autắrkeiă, “independence, self-sufficiency, autarky; satisfaction with one’s resources, contentment”) + English -y (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting a condition, quality, or state). Αὐτᾰ́ρκειᾰ (Autắrkeiă) is derived from αὐτάρκης (autárkēs, “self-sufficient; content with what one has”) + -ειᾰ (-eiă, suffix forming feminine nouns); while αὐτάρκης (autárkēs) is from αὐτο- (auto-, prefix meaning ‘self’) + ᾰ̓ρκέω (ărkéō, “to be enough for, satisfy, suffice; (passive) to be satisfied with”) (from Proto-Indo-European *h2erk- (“to guard, protect; to hold; to lock”)) + -ης (-ēs, suffix forming third-declension adjectives).

69 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Chinese Mandarin: 自給自足 /自给自足 (zìjǐzìzú) — personal condition or state of self-sufficiency
• Chinese Mandarin: 自力更生 (zìlìgēngshēng, zìlìgèngshēng) — personal condition or state of self-sufficiency
• Finnish: omavaraisuus — personal condition or state of self-sufficiency
• Finnish: itseriittoisuus — personal condition or state of self-sufficiency
• German: Autarkie — personal condition or state of self-sufficiency
• Macedonian: само́стојност (samóstojnost) — personal condition or state of self-sufficiency
• Macedonian: авта́ркија (avtárkija) — personal condition or state of self-sufficiency
• Polish: autarkia — personal condition or state of self-sufficiency
• Welsh: hunangynhaliaeth — personal condition or state of self-sufficiency
• Albanian: autarki — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Arabic: اكتفاء ذاتي — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Armenian: ավտարկիա (avtarkia) — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Azerbaijani: avtarkiya — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Basque: autarkia — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Belarusian: аўтаркі́я (awtarkíja) — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Bulgarian: автаркия (avtarkija) — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Catalan: autarquia — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Chinese Mandarin: 自給自足 /自给自足 (zìjǐzìzú) — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Czech: autarkie — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Danish: autarki — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Dutch: autarkie — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Dutch: gesloten staatshuishouding — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Esperanto: aŭtarkio — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Estonian: autarkia — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Finnish: autarkia — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• French: autarcie — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Galician: autarquía — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Georgian: ავტარქია (avṭarkia) — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• German: Autarkie — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Greek: αυτάρκεια (aftárkeia) — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Greek: αυταρχία (aftarchía) — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Ancient Greek: αὐτάρκεια (autárkeia) — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Hebrew: אוֹטַרְקִיָּה (otárkiya) — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Hindi: आत्मनिर्भरता (ātmanirbhartā) — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Hungarian: autarkia — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Ido: autarkeso — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Indonesian: autarki — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Irish: neamhthuilleamaíocht eacnamaíochta — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Italian: autarchia — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Kazakh: автаркия (avtarkiä) — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Northern Kurdish: xwebesî — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Latvian: autarķija — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Macedonian: авта́ркија (avtárkija) — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Norwegian Bokmål: autarki — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Occitan: autarquia — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Persian: خودبسندگی — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Polish: autarchia — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Polish: autarkia — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Polish: autarkizm — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Portuguese: autarcia — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Portuguese: autarquia — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Romanian: autarhie — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Russian: авта́рки́я (avtárkíja) — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Serbo-Croatian: аута̀ркија — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Serbo-Croatian: самодо̀во̄љно̄ст — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Serbo-Croatian: autàrkija — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Serbo-Croatian: samodòvōljnōst — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Slovene: avtarkija — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Spanish: autarcía — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Spanish: autarquía — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Swedish: autarki — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Swedish: självförsörjning — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Turkish: otarşi — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Ukrainian: авта́ркі́я (avtárkíja) — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Uzbek: avtarkiya — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Venetan: autarchia — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Welsh: awtarciaeth — (policy of) national economic self-sufficiency
• Finnish: omavarainen — self-sufficient region or country which is not dependent on international trade to function economically
• Georgian: ავტარქია (avṭarkia) — self-sufficient region or country which is not dependent on international trade to function economically