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[edit] Etymology
Latin provincia, usually taken as pro (“‘before’”) + vincere (“‘win’”), but this doesn't fit the earliest uses of the word. [1]
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province (plural provinces)
- A subdivision of government usually one step below the national level.
- A territorial area within a country.
the province
- (British) Northern Ireland
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A subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Arabic: ولاية ar(ar) (wilaaya) f.
- Armenian: գավառ (gavaŕ), նահանգ hy(hy) (nahang)
- Belarusian: вобласць be(be) (vóblasc’) f.
- Bulgarian: провинция (provincija) f., област (oblast) f.
- Catalan: província f.
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 省份 cmn(cmn) (shěngfèn), 省 cmn(cmn) (shěng), (Japanese prefecture) 縣 cmn(cmn), 县 cmn(cmn) (xiàn), (state) 州 cmn(cmn) (zhōu)
- Dutch: provincie nl(nl) f.
- Esperanto: provinco
- Finnish: provinssi fi(fi), maakunta fi(fi), lääni fi(fi)
- French: province fr(fr) f., (state) état fr(fr) m.
- German: Provinz de(de) f., Land de(de) n.
- Greek: επαρχία el(el) (eparçía) f.
- Interlingua: provincia
- Italian: provincia it(it) f.
- Japanese: (prefecture) 県 ja(ja) (けん, ken), (region) 地方 ja(ja) (ちほう, chihō), (state, province) 州 ja(ja) (しゅう, shū), (Chinese province) 省 ja(ja) (しょう, shō)
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- Khmer: ខេត្ត (kait)
- Kurdish: parêzgeh ku(ku) f., wîlayet ku(ku) f., eyalet ku(ku) f., mihafize ku(ku) f.
- Latin: provincia la(la)
- Norwegian: provins no(no) m.
- Russian: (Russian oblast) область ru(ru) (óblast’) f., (Russian krai) край ru(ru) (kraj) m., (province) провинция ru(ru) (províncija), (state) штат ru(ru) (štat) m., (prefecture) префектура ru(ru) (prefektúra) f.
- Serbian: паланка sr(sr) (palanka), област sr(sr) (oblast)
- Slovak: oblasť sk(sk) f.
- Spanish: provincia es(es) f.
- Swahili: mkoa sw(sw), jimbo sw(sw), jimbo sw(sw)
- Swedish: provins sv(sv) c., län sv(sv) n., landskap sv(sv) n.
- Tagalog: probinsiya tl(tl)
- Turkish: il tr(tr)
- Ukrainian: область uk(uk) (óblast’) f.
- Vietnamese: tỉnh vi(vi)
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[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ “province” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001
[edit] French
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province f
- province
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province f plural
- plural of provincia
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