federal state (non-sovereign state) · One of the 16 federal states of Germany · One of the 9 federal states of Austria
çekim: çoğul Bundesländer · tamlayan Bundeslandes
eş: Freistaat, Stadtstaat, Land
köken: From Bund + -es- + Land, the former related to binden (“bind”). In a literal sense: 'one of several lands bound to another' or more simply 'allied country'.
state, condition · alternative letter-case form of État
çekim: çoğul états
köken: Inherited from Old French estat, borrowed from Latin status (whence also the past participle été).
aile: dans tous ses états, de son état, en état d'arrestation, en l'état, en tout état de cause, état civil, état d'âme, état de choses, état de fait, état de grâce
country, land (any broad area or territory) · alternative letter-case form of Estado (“state, a territory with a formally recognized sovereign government; administration, its government”) · state (a province, particularly a fairly autonomous one within a federation)
çekim: çoğul estados
eş: fase, etapa, curso, estadal, estado de la materia
köken: Inherited from Latin stātus (“state, status, standing”). As a unit of length, from the distance approximating the height of a grown man. Doublet of estatus. Cognate with English state.
aile: casa de estado, ciudad estado, en estado, en estado de buena esperanza, en estado interesante, estadal, estadidad, estadista, estado civil, estado de alarma
state (subdivision of a nation) · status, condition, standing · alternative letter-case form of Estado
çekim: çoğul estados
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese estado, from Latin status, from Proto-Italic *status, from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-. Doublet of status.
köken: From Literary Chinese 合眾國 (hézhòngguó), from 合 (“union”) + 眾國 (“democratic state”), which is a calque of English United States, probably coined by Elijah Coleman Bridgman before 1844. Soon rebracketed as 合衆(がっしゅう) (gasshū, “assembly of people”) and 国(こく) (koku, “state”).