state (polity or community) · country (the territory of a nation; a sovereign state or a region once independent and still distinct in institutions, language, etc) · aggregated real estate, property, farmstead
çekim: çoğul държа́ви
köken: Inherited from Old Church Slavonic дръжава (drŭžava), from Proto-Slavic *dьržava. Morphologically equivalent to държа́ (dǎržá, “to hold, to seize”) + -ава (-ava).