country (territory of a nation) · state, province (political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy) · land (real estate or landed property)
köken: From Middle High German lant, from Old High German lant, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”). Compare Dutch, English, and Danish land, Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳 (land).
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
fief, fiefdom · a county, a political subdivision of the Swedish state roughly corresponding to a British county
çekim: çoğul läns · tamlayan läns
köken: From Old Swedish län, from Middle Low German lēn and from late Old Norse lén, whence also Danish len, Norwegian len, Icelandic lén, Faroese len. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *laihną "loan, fief".
countryside (part of a country that is remote from the capital and major cultural centres) · backwater (backward place) · province (subdivision of government usually one step below the national level)
çekim: çoğul prowincje · tamlayan prowincji
eş: peryferie, zadupie, wygwizdów, tam gdzie wrony zawracają, tam gdzie psy dupami szczekają, region
köken: Etymology tree Latin prōvincialbor. Polish prowincja Learned borrowing from Latin prōvincia.
province (an official regional government unit between the state and the municipalities in Finland) · A translation for a similar administrative unit in another country, especially Sweden (län), Norway (fylke) or Russia (oblast). · A land area or a house in private ownership, especially if it is large.
çekim: çoğul läänit · tamlayan läänin
köken: Borrowed from Late Old Swedish län (“province, fief”).
office, official duty, command, formal responsibility given to a magistrate · a task, responsibility, burden · the office of ruling over, or government of, an administrative region (province) of the Roman Republic or Empire
çekim: çoğul prōvinciae · tamlayan prōvinciae
köken: Perhaps a nominalization of *prō-vinc-ios, adjective formed on *prō-vinciō, see vinciō.
aile: Prōvincia, prōvinciālis, prōvinciātim
Abeuntes ambo hic tum senes me filiis relinquont quasi magistrum. ― O Geta, provinciam
Valerio Potito Volsci provincia evenerat.
Nec minore populi consensu quam senatus provincia Etruria extra sortem Fabio decreta est.