municipality

English

Etymology

From French municipalité (Edmund Burke).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈmjʊu.nɪs.ɪ.pæl.It.ɪi/ X-SAMPA: /"mju:.nIs.I.p{l.It.Ii/

Noun

Wikipedia municipality (plural municipalities)

1. A district with a government that typically encloses no other governed districts; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village.

Related terms

• municipal

Translations

a district with a government that typically encloses no other governed distrcits

• Arabic: بلدية (ar) (baladiyya) f
• Azeri: bələdiyyə (az)
• Basque: udalerri (eu)
• Catalan: municipi (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 直轄市 (cmn), 直辖市 (cmn) (zhíxiáshì)

• Czech: obec (cs) f
• Danish: kommune c
• Dutch: gemeente (nl)
• Faroese: kommuna (fo) f
• Finnish: kunta (fi)
• German: Gemeinde (de) f, Munizipalität (de) f
• Greek: δήμος (el) (dímos) m 
• Icelandic: sveitarfélag (is)
• Irish: bardasacht (ga) f, cathair bhardais (ga) f
• Japanese: 自治体 (ja) (jichitai)
• Jèrriais: meunicipalité f

• Khmer: ក្រុង (km) (krong)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: شاره‌وانی (ku) (shArawAni)

• Luxembourgish: Gemeng (lb) f, Municipalitéit (lb) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kommune (nb) m

  Nynorsk: kommune (nn) m

• Polish: gmina (pl) f
• Portuguese: município (pt) m, comuna (pt) f
• Romanian: municipalitate (ro) f
• Russian: муниципалите́т (ru) (munitsipalitét) m 
• Serbo-Croatian: ȍpćina (sh) f
• Spanish: municipio (es)
• Swahili: manispaa (sw)
• Swedish: kommun (sv) c
• Turkish: belediye (tr)

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Translations to be checked

• Icelandic: Sveitarfélag