voivodeship

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈvɔɪˌvəʊdˌʃɪp/
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• General-American: /ˈvɔɪˌvoʊdˌʃɪp/
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From voivode (“local ruler or official in parts of central and eastern Europe; administrative chief in Poland”) + -ship (suffix forming nouns indicating properties or states of being). Voivode is variously derived from a number of Slavic languages including Bulgarian войвода (vojvoda), Czech vojevoda, Polish wojewoda, Russian воево́да (vojevóda), and Serbo-Croatian vojvoda, војвода, all from Proto-Slavic *vojevoda (“army leader; duke; warlord”), from *voji (“army”) (probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyh1- (“to chase, pursue; to persecute; to suppress”)) + *-e- + *vodìti (“to conduct; to lead”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wedh- (“to lead”)). Sense 3 is a semantic loan from Polish województwo.

88 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Polish: województwo — office, position, rank, or title of a voivode
• Turkish: voyvodalık — office, position, rank, or title of a voivode
• Ottoman Turkish: ویودهلق (vayvodalık) — office, position, rank, or title of a voivode
• Afrikaans: woiwodskap — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Asturian: voivodatu — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Basque: voivoderri — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Belarusian: ваяво́дства (vajavódstva) — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Catalan: voivodat — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Chuvash: вӑйпутлӑх (văjp̬utlăh) — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Czech: vojvodství — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Danish: voivodskab — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Dutch: woiwodschap — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Estonian: vojevoodkond — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Finnish: voivodikunta — jurisdiction of a voivode
• French: voïvodie — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Friulian: voivodât — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Galician: voivodato — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Georgian: სავოევოდო (savoevodo) — jurisdiction of a voivode
• German: Woiwodschaft — jurisdiction of a voivode
• German: Wojewodschaft — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Greek: βοεβοδάτο (voevodáto) — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Hungarian: vajdaságok — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Interlingua: voivodato — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Italian: voivodato — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Kashubian: wòjewództwò — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Latin: palatinatus — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Latin: voivodatus — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Latin: vaivodatus — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Latvian: vojevodiste — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Lithuanian: vaivadija — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Malay: kevoivodaan — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Malay: کۏويۏوداءن — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Maltese: vojvodja — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Norwegian Bokmål: voivodskap — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Norwegian Nynorsk: voivodskap — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Occitan: voivodat — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Polish: województwo — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Portuguese: voivodato — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Portuguese: voivodia — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Romanian: voievodat — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Romanian: voivodat — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Russian: воево́дство (vojevódstvo) — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Serbo-Croatian: во̀јводина — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Serbo-Croatian: во̀јводство — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Serbo-Croatian: vòjvodina — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Serbo-Croatian: vòjvodstvo — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Silesian: wojewůdztwo — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Slovak: vojvodstvo — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Slovene: vọ̑jvodina — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Slovene: vojvodstvo — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Lower Sorbian: wójwodstwo — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Upper Sorbian: wójwodstwo — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Spanish: voivodato — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Spanish: voivodia — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Swedish: vojvodskap — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Tagalog: boybodato — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Tagalog: boybodiya — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Tatar: воеводство (woyıwodstwo) — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Turkish: voyvodalık — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Ottoman Turkish: ویودهلق (vayvodalık) — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Ukrainian: воєво́дство (vojevódstvo) — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Venetan: voivodato — jurisdiction of a voivode
• Afrikaans: woiwodskap — highest-level administrative subdivision of Poland
• Belarusian: ваяво́дства (vajavódstva) — highest-level administrative subdivision of Poland
• Bulgarian: войво́дство (vojvódstvo) — highest-level administrative subdivision of Poland
• Czech: vojvodství — highest-level administrative subdivision of Poland
• Dutch: woiwodschap — highest-level administrative subdivision of Poland
• Estonian: vojevoodkond — highest-level administrative subdivision of Poland
• Finnish: voivodikunta — highest-level administrative subdivision of Poland
• French: voïvodie — highest-level administrative subdivision of Poland
• German: Woiwodschaft — highest-level administrative subdivision of Poland
• Bavarian German: Woiwodschoft — highest-level administrative subdivision of Poland
• Hungarian: vajdaság — highest-level administrative subdivision of Poland
• Latvian: vojevodiste — highest-level administrative subdivision of Poland
• Lithuanian: vaivadija — highest-level administrative subdivision of Poland
• Macedonian: војводство (vojvodstvo) — highest-level administrative subdivision of Poland
• Malay: kevoivodaan — highest-level administrative subdivision of Poland
• Norwegian Bokmål: voivodskap — highest-level administrative subdivision of Poland
• Norwegian Nynorsk: voivodskap — highest-level administrative subdivision of Poland
• Polish: województwo — highest-level administrative subdivision of Poland
• Russian: воево́дство (vojevódstvo) — highest-level administrative subdivision of Poland
• Serbo-Croatian: во̀јводство — highest-level administrative subdivision of Poland
• Serbo-Croatian: vòjvodstvo — highest-level administrative subdivision of Poland
• Slovak: vojvodstvo — highest-level administrative subdivision of Poland
• Slovene: vojvodstvo — highest-level administrative subdivision of Poland
• Swedish: vojvodskap — highest-level administrative subdivision of Poland
• Turkish: voyvodalık — highest-level administrative subdivision of Poland
• Ukrainian: воєво́дство (vojevódstvo) — highest-level administrative subdivision of Poland