Suffix to form country names when added to names of ethnic groups. · Suffix to form place of something.
köken: From Persian ـِسْتَانْ (-estân, “place of”), from Old Persian 𐎿𐎫𐎠𐎴 (s-t-a-n), from Proto-Iranian *stáHnam, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *stáHnam, from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”).
кыргыз (kırgız, “Kyrgyz”) + -стан (-stan) → Кыргызстан (Kırgızstan, “Kyrgyzstan”)
өзбек (özbek, “Uzbek”) + -стан (-stan) → Өзбекстан (Özbekstan, “Uzbekistan”)
Suffix to form country names when added to names of ethnic groups.
köken: From Persian ـِسْتَانْ (-estân, “place of”), from Old Persian 𐎿𐎫𐎠𐎴 (s-t-a-n), from Proto-Iranian *stáHnam, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *stáHnam (“position, location, place”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”).
area, region (any considerable and connected part of a space or surface) · region, area (regional subdivisions) · oblast (regional administrative unit in Russia)
çekim: çoğul alueet · tamlayan alueen
köken: From Proto-Finnic *alovëh. Equivalent to ala (“area”) + -ue. First attested in 1829 in an edition of the newspaper Oulun Wiikko-Sanomia. According to SSA, the form alue may have been adopted in the standard language as a result of Karelian influence (Karelian aloveh), being native only in the 'easternmost' of dialects; the Tavastian dialectal word aloo is probably related, however.
köken: Uncertain – usually derived from Proto-Indo-European *ḱʷeyn- (“to soil; mud; filth”). According to Pokorny, cognate with inquinō, obscēnus, cūniō and English whin.
a group of people, animals, or plants with shared origin and the same characteristic · race: a group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics · a clan
çekim: çoğul bangsa-bangsa
köken: Inherited from Malay bangsa, from Classical Malay بڠسا (bangsa), from Old Malay vaṃśa, from Sanskrit वंश (vaṃśá, “offspring, lineage, collection”). Doublet of wangsa. Cognate of Tagalog bansa (“nation”).
aile: bangsawan, berbangsa, berkebangsaan, kebangsaan, membangsa, membangsakan, sebangsa, bangsa barat, bangsa berwarna, bangsa kulit putih
bangsa India kuno; bangsa Indonesia; bangsa Mesir
Bangsa Mongol adalah masyarakat nomad yang banyak mendiami daerah Mongolia
Added to form names of places or administrative units that the person / people of the main word govern(-s).
köken: Ultimately from Latin -ia or Ancient Greek -ία (-ía), -εία (-eía); found almost exclusively in words borrowed from other languages (compare German, French -ie).
soil, earth (upper layer of the ground, transformed under the influence of plants, animals, and the weather, where plants are sown to grow) · soil (prerequisites or favorable conditions for the development of something)
çekim: çoğul augsnes · tamlayan augsnes
köken: Coined in the 1920s from aug(t) (“to grow”) + -sne, it replaced in the sense of "soil" the previously used word augtene, which survived with a more restricted usage (as "place of planting").