city state

English

Alternative forms

• city-state

Etymology

From city +‎ state, a calque of German Stadtstaat.

Noun

city state (plural city states)

1. A sovereign city, as in Ancient Greece, often part of a league of such cities.

   Singapore is the world's most populous city state.

   The Vatican City State, a sovereign city-state, has a large number of embassies across the world.

Synonyms

• polis (Greek contexts); civitas (uncommon)

Translations

sovereign city

• Armenian: քաղաք-պետություն (kʿałakʿ-petutʿyun)
• Azerbaijani: şəhər-dövlət
• Bengali: নগররাষ্ট্র (nogroraśṭro)
• Burmese: မြို့ပြနိုင်ငံ (mrui.pra.nuingngam)
• Catalan: ciutat estat f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 城邦 (zh) (chéngbāng)

  Min Dong: 城邦 (siàng-băng)

• Dutch: stadstaat (nl) m, burgerij (nl) f
• Finnish: kaupunkivaltio (fi)
• French: cité-État (fr) f
• Galician: cidade estado f
• Georgian: ქალაქ-სახელმწიფო (kalak-saxelmc̣ipo)
• German: Stadtstaat (de) m
• Greek: πόλη (el) f (póli)

  Ancient: πόλις f (pólis)

• Hungarian: városállam (hu)
• Indonesian: negara kota (id)
• Italian: città-stato (it) f or f pl
• Japanese: 都市国家 (ja) (としこっか, toshikokka)
• Kazakh: қала-мемлекет (qala-memleket)
• Korean: 도시 국가(都市國家) (dosi gukga)
• Latin: cīvitās (la) f, urbs-civitas f
• Latvian: pilsētvalsts f
• Macedonian: град-држава m (grad-država)
• Malay:

  Jawi: نݢارا کوتا‎

  Rumi: negara kota

• Mongolian: хот улс (xot uls)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bystat m

  Nynorsk: bystat m

• Persian: دولت‌شهر‎ (fa) (dowlat-šahr)
• Polish: miasto-państwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: cidade-estado (pt) f
• Romanian: oraş-stat n
• Russian: го́род-госуда́рство (ru) m (górod-gosudárstvo)
• Scots: ceety-state
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гра̑д-др̀жава

  Roman: grad-država m

• Spanish: ciudad estado m
• Swedish: stadsstat (sv) c
• Tamil: நகர அரசு (nakara aracu)
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: thành bang (城邦)
• Volapük: zifatat
• Yoruba: ìlú

Further reading

• city-state on Wikipedia.Wikipedia