commune

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• Received-Pronunciation: kŏm'yo͞on
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɒmjuːn/
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• /kəˈmjuːn/
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From Middle English commune, comune, from Old French comune, commune, from Medieval Latin commūnia, from Latin commūne (“community, state”), from commūnis (“common”). Doublet of comune. See also community, communion, common.

From Middle English communen, comunen, from Old French comuner (formed from comun (“common”)) and comunier (“to share”) (from Latin commūnico). Doublet of communicate.

62 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: مَشَاعِيَّة (mašāʕiyya) — small community, often rural, whose members share in the ownership of property, and in the division of labour; the members of such a community
• Armenian: համայնք (hamaynkʻ) — small community, often rural, whose members share in the ownership of property, and in the division of labour; the members of such a community
• Bulgarian: кому́на (komúna) — small community, often rural, whose members share in the ownership of property, and in the division of labour; the members of such a community
• Finnish: kommuuni — small community, often rural, whose members share in the ownership of property, and in the division of labour; the members of such a community
• Greek: κοινόβιο (koinóvio) — small community, often rural, whose members share in the ownership of property, and in the division of labour; the members of such a community
• Hebrew: קבוצה \ קְבוּצָה (kvutsá) — small community, often rural, whose members share in the ownership of property, and in the division of labour; the members of such a community
• Hebrew: קיבוץ \ קִבּוּץ (kibúts) — small community, often rural, whose members share in the ownership of property, and in the division of labour; the members of such a community
• Ido: komono — small community, often rural, whose members share in the ownership of property, and in the division of labour; the members of such a community
• Indonesian: komune — small community, often rural, whose members share in the ownership of property, and in the division of labour; the members of such a community
• Khmer: ឃុំ (khum) — small community, often rural, whose members share in the ownership of property, and in the division of labour; the members of such a community
• Khmer: សង្កាត់ (sɑɑsɑngkat) — small community, often rural, whose members share in the ownership of property, and in the division of labour; the members of such a community
• Russian: общи́на (obščína) — small community, often rural, whose members share in the ownership of property, and in the division of labour; the members of such a community
• Kildin-Sami: ва̄лшэгк (vālšegk) — small community, often rural, whose members share in the ownership of property, and in the division of labour; the members of such a community
• Spanish: comuna — small community, often rural, whose members share in the ownership of property, and in the division of labour; the members of such a community
• Swedish: byalag — small community, often rural, whose members share in the ownership of property, and in the division of labour; the members of such a community
• Albanian: komunë — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies
• Armenian: կոմունա (komuna) — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies
• Bulgarian: община́ (obštiná) — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies
• Chinese Cantonese: 市镇 (si5 zan3) — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies
• Chinese Mandarin: 市镇 (shìzhèn) — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies
• Chinese Mandarin: 社 (shè) — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies
• Corsican: cumune — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies
• Corsican: cumuna — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies
• Czech: obec — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies
• Danish: kommune — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies
• Dutch: gemeente — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies
• Finnish: kunta — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies
• Franco-Provençal: comena — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies
• French: commune — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies
• German: Gemeinde — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies
• German: Kommune — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies
• Greek: κοινότητα (koinótita) — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies
• Icelandic: sveitarfélag — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies
• Indonesian: komune — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies
• Italian: comune — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies
• Italian: comuna — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies
• Khmer: សង្កាត់ (sɑɑsɑngkat) — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies
• Khmer: ឃុំ (khum) — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies
• Lithuanian: savivaldybė — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies
• Luxembourgish: Gemeng — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies
• Macedonian: општина (opština) — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies
• Malagasy: kaominina — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies
• Occitan: comuna — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies
• Persian: کمون (komun) — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies
• Persian: دهستان (dehestan) — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies
• Polish: gmina — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies
• Portuguese: freguesia — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies
• Portuguese: município — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies
• Romanian: comună — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies
• Romanian: municipiu — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies
• Russian: комму́на (kommúna) — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies
• Russian: общи́на (obščína) — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies
• Serbo-Croatian: о̏пћина — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies
• Serbo-Croatian: ȍpćina — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies
• Slovak: obec — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies
• Slovene: občina — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies
• Spanish: comuna — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies
• Spanish: municipio — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies
• Swedish: kommun — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies
• Turkish: komün — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies
• Ukrainian: громада (hromada) — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies
• Vietnamese: xã — local political division in many European countries and their former colonies