nation-state

See also: nation state

English

Alternative forms

• nation state

Etymology

Compound of nation +‎ state. Coined c. 1890s under the influence of European languages; compare German Nationalstaat (from 1840s), Italian Stato-nazione (from 1860s).

Noun

nation-state (plural nation-states)

1. (politics) A political entity (a state) associated with a particular cultural entity (a nation) and a sovereign territorial unit.

   Coordinate terms: ethnostate, civilization-state

Translations

polity

• Afrikaans: nasiestaat
• Albanian: shteti komb
• Arabic: دَوْلَة قَوْمِيَّة f (dawla(t) qawmiyya)
• Armenian: ազգ պետություն (azg petutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: milli dövlət
• Basque: nazio-estatu
• Belarusian: нацыянальная дзяржава f (nacyjanalʹnaja dzjaržava)
• Bengali: জাতিরাষ্ট্র (jatiraśṭro)
• Bulgarian: национална държава f (nacionalna dǎržava)
• Catalan: estat nació m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 民族國家／民族国家 (zh) (mínzú guójiā)

• Czech: národní stát m
• Danish: nationalstat c
• Dutch: natiestaat (nl) m
• Esperanto: nacio-ŝtato
• Estonian: rahvusriik
• Finnish: kansallisvaltio (fi)
• French: État-nation (fr) m
• Galician: estado-nación m
• Georgian: ერის სახელმწიფო (eris saxelmc̣ipo)
• German: Nationalstaat (de) m
• Greek: εθνικό κράτος n (ethnikó krátos)
• Hebrew: מדינת לאום (he) m (m'dinát lóm)
• Hindi: राष्ट्र-राज्य (rāṣṭra-rājya)
• Hungarian: nemzetállam (hu)
• Icelandic: þjóðríki n
• Indonesian: negara-bangsa
• Irish: náisiúnstát m
• Italian: Stato-nazione m
• Japanese: 国民国家 (こくみん こっか, kokumin-kokka)
• Javanese: ꦤꦒꦫꦶ-ꦧꦁꦱ (nagari-bangsa)
• Kazakh: ұлттық мемлекет (ūlttyq memleket)
• Korean: 국민 국가 (gungmin gukga)
• Latvian: nacionāla valsts m
• Lithuanian: tautos valstybė f
• Macedonian: национална држава f (nacionalna država)
• Malay: negara bangsa
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nasjonalstat m

  Nynorsk: nasjonalstat m

• Persian: دولت ملی (dowlat melli)
• Polish: państwo narodowe n
• Portuguese: estado-nação m
• Punjabi: ਕੌਮੀ ਰਾਜ (kaumī rāj)
• Romanian: stat național n
• Russian: национа́льное госуда́рство n (nacionálʹnoje gosudárstvo), госуда́рство-на́ция (ru) n (gosudárstvo-nácija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: национална држава f

  Roman: nacionalna država f

• Slovak: národný štát m
• Slovene: nacionalna država f
• Spanish: estado-nación m
• Swedish: nationalstat (sv) c
• Tamil: தேசிய அரசு (tēciya aracu)
• Thai: รัฐชาติ (rát-châat)
• Turkish: ulus devlet
• Ukrainian: націона́льна держа́ва f (nacionálʹna deržáva)
• Urdu: قومی ریاست f (qaumi riyāsat)
• Vietnamese: quốc gia dân tộc
• Welsh: cenedl-wladwriaeth f