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 and the only island city-state in the world.

   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

• Arabic: دولة مدينة (dawla madīna)
• Armenian: քաղաք-պետություն (kʻaġakʻ-petutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: şəhər-dövlət
• Belarusian: Горад-дзяржава (Hórad-dzjaržava)
• Bengali: নগররাষ্ট্র (nogroraśṭro)
• Burmese: မြို့ပြနိုင်ငံ (mrui.pra.nuingngam)
• Catalan: ciutat estat f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 城邦 (sing⁴ bong¹), 城國 / 城国 (sing⁴ gwok³), 市國 / 市国 (si⁵ gwok³), 城市國家 / 城市国家 (sing⁴ si⁵ gwok³ gaa¹), 都市國家 / 都市国家 (dou¹ si⁵ gwok³ gaa¹)

  Eastern Min: 城邦 (siàng-băng), 城國 / 城国 (siàng-guók), 市國 / 市国 (chê-guók), 城市國家 / 城市国家 (siàng-chê guók-gă), 都市國家 / 都市国家 (dŭ-chê guók-gă)

  Hakka: 城邦 (sàng-pâng), 城國 / 城国 (sàng-koet), 市國 / 市国 (sṳ-koet), 城市國家 / 城市国家 (sàng-sṳ koet-kâ), 都市國家 / 都市国家 (tû-sṳ koet-kâ)

  Hokkien: 城邦 (siâⁿ-pang), 城國 / 城国 (siâⁿ-kok), 市國 / 市国 (chhī-kok), 城市國家 / 城市国家 (siâⁿ-chhī kok-ka), 都市國家 / 都市国家 (to͘-chhǐ kok-ka)

  Mandarin: 城邦 (zh) (chéngbāng), 城國 / 城国 (chéngguó), 市國 / 市国 (zh) (shìguó), 城市國家 / 城市国家 (chéngshì guójiā), 都市國家 / 都市国家 (zh) (dūshì guójiā)

• Czech: městský stát
• Danish: bystat
• Dutch: stadstaat (nl) m, burgerij (nl) f
• Esperanto: Urboŝtato
• Estonian: linnriik
• Finnish: kaupunkivaltio (fi)
• French: cité-État (fr) f
• Galician: cidade estado f
• Georgian: ქალაქ-სახელმწიფო (kalak-saxelmc̣ipo)
• German: Stadtstaat (de) m
• Greek: πόλη κράτος (el) f (póli krátos), πόλη (el) f (póli)

  Ancient: πόλις f (pólis)

• Hebrew: עיר־מדינה ('ír-m'diná)
• Hindi: नगर-राज्य (nagar-rājya)
• Hungarian: városállam (hu)
• Icelandic: Borgríki
• Indonesian: negara kota (id)
• Italian: città-stato (it) f or f pl
• Japanese: 都市国家 (ja) (としこっか, toshikokka), 市国 (しこく, shikoku)
• Kazakh: қала-мемлекет (qala-memleket)
• Korean: 도시국가(都市國家) (dosigukga), 시국(市國) (ko) (siguk)
• Latin: cīvitās (la) f, urbs-civitas f
• Latvian: pilsētvalsts f
• Lithuanian: miestas-valstybė
• 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, cidade-Estado f
• Romanian: oraş-stat n
• Russian: го́род-госуда́рство (ru) m (górod-gosudárstvo)
• Scots: ceety-state
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гра̑д-др̀жава

  Roman: grad-država m

• Slovak: mestský štát
• Slovene: mestna država
• Spanish: ciudad estado m
• Swahili: dola-mji
• Swedish: stadsstat (sv) c
• Tamil: நகர அரசு (nakara aracu)
• Thai: นครรัฐ (th) (ná-kɔɔn-rát)
• Turkish: şehir devleti (tr), site devlet
• Ukrainian: мі́сто-держа́ва n (místo-deržáva)
• Uzbek: shahar davlat
• Vietnamese: thành bang (城邦)
• Volapük: zifatat
• Welsh: dinas-wladwriaeth
• Yoruba: ìlú

Further reading

• city-state on Wikipedia.Wikipedia