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A political entity (a state) associated with a common national identity (historically, culturally, or ethnically; as with a nation) and a sovereign territorial unit.
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Topics: government, politics
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Any independent political state; a country.
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Usage: broadly, proscribed
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Compound of nation + state. Coined c. 1890s under the influence of European languages; compare German Nationalstaat (from 1840s), Italian Stato-nazione (from 1860s).
Across languages
Translations
59 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Afrikaans:
nasiestaat
— polity
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Albanian:
shteti komb
— polity
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Arabic:
دَوْلَة قَوْمِيَّة
— polity
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Armenian:
ազգ պետություն
(azg petutʻyun)
— polity
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Azerbaijani:
milli dövlət
— polity
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Basque:
nazio-estatu
— polity
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Belarusian:
нацыянальная дзяржава
(nacyjanalʹnaja dzjaržava)
— polity
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Bengali:
জাতিরাষ্ট্র
(jatiraśṭro)
— polity
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Bulgarian:
национална държава
(nacionalna dǎržava)
— polity
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Catalan:
estat nació
— polity
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Chinese Mandarin:
民族國家 /民族国家
(mínzú guójiā)
— polity
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Czech:
národní stát
— polity
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Danish:
nationalstat
— polity
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Dutch:
natiestaat
— polity
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Esperanto:
nacio-ŝtato
— polity
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Estonian:
rahvusriik
— polity
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Finnish:
kansallisvaltio
— polity
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French:
État-nation
— polity
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Galician:
estado-nación
— polity
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Georgian:
ერი-სახელმწიფო
(eri-saxelmc̣ipo)
— polity
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German:
Nationalstaat
— polity
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Greek:
εθνικό κράτος
(ethnikó krátos)
— polity
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Hebrew:
מדינת לאום
(m'dinát lóm)
— polity
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Hindi:
राष्ट्र-राज्य
(rāṣṭra-rājya)
— polity
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Hungarian:
nemzetállam
— polity
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Icelandic:
þjóðríki
— polity
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Indonesian:
negara-bangsa
— polity
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Irish:
náisiúnstát
— polity
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Italian:
Stato-nazione
— polity
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Japanese:
国民国家
(kokumin-kokka)
— polity
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Javanese:
ꦤꦒꦫꦶ-ꦧꦁꦱ
(nagari-bangsa)
— polity
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Kazakh:
ұлттық мемлекет
(ūlttyq memleket)
— polity
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Korean:
국민 국가
(gungmin gukga)
— polity
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Latvian:
nacionāla valsts
— polity
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Lithuanian:
tautos valstybė
— polity
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Macedonian:
национална држава
(nacionalna država)
— polity
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Malay:
negara bangsa
— polity
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Norwegian Bokmål:
nasjonalstat
— polity
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
nasjonalstat
— polity
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Persian:
دولت ملی
(dowlat melli)
— polity
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Polish:
państwo narodowe
— polity
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Portuguese:
estado-nação
— polity
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Punjabi:
ਕੌਮੀ ਰਾਜ
(kaumī rāj)
— polity
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Romanian:
stat național
— polity
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Russian:
национа́льное госуда́рство
(nacionálʹnoje gosudárstvo)
— polity
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Russian:
госуда́рство-на́ция
(gosudárstvo-nácija)
— polity
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Serbo-Croatian:
национална држава
— polity
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Serbo-Croatian:
nacionalna država
— polity
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Slovak:
národný štát
— polity
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Slovene:
nacionalna država
— polity
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Spanish:
estado-nación
— polity
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Swedish:
nationalstat
— polity
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Tamil:
தேசிய அரசு
(tēciya aracu)
— polity
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Thai:
รัฐชาติ
(rát-châat)
— polity
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Turkish:
ulus devlet
— polity
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Ukrainian:
націона́льна держа́ва
(nacionálʹna deržáva)
— polity
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Urdu:
قومی ریاست
(qaumi riyāsat)
— polity
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Vietnamese:
quốc gia dân tộc
— polity
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Welsh:
cenedl-wladwriaeth
— polity
