dynasty

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French dynastie, from Late Latin dynastia, from Ancient Greek δυναστεία (dunasteía, “power, dominion”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪnəsti/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪnəsti/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: dy‧nas‧ty

Noun

dynasty (plural dynasties)

1. A series of rulers or dynasts from one family.

   Synonyms: house, succession

   Habsburg dynasty; Ottoman dynasty

   • 2023, Stewart Stafford, A Wager After Midnight:

     A dynasty is nothing but the successful orchestration of treachery.

   • 2025 November 5, Zohran Mamdani, “The Full Transcript of Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Speech”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     Tonight, against all odds, we have grasped it. The future is in our hands. My friends, we have toppled a political dynasty.

     (Can we archive this URL?)

2. A family considered over time, with its ancestors and descendants

   Synonyms: clan, house, lineage

   • 2016, Criss Jami, Healology:

     To the loyal and to the blood-lovers, in the good families and in the fiery dynasties, life is family and family is life. It is the same people who give advice and their vices to live well who turn out to be the ones who give resource and reason to live long.

3. (East Asian history) The polity or historical era under the rule of a certain dynasty.

   During the Ming dynasty, China was ruled by the Zhu family.

4. (sports) A team or organization which has an extended period of success or dominant performance.

Derived terms

• dynastic
• dynastical
• dynastically
• Han dynasty
• Ming dynasty
• Qing dynasty
• Satavahana dynasty
• Song dynasty
• subdynasty
• Sui dynasty
• Tang dynasty
• Yuan dynasty

Translations

a series of rulers or dynasts from one family

• Afrikaans: dinastie
• Albanian: dinastia
• Amharic: ሥርወ መንግሥት (śərwä mängəśt)
• Arabic: سُلَالَة f (sulāla)
• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܡܠܟܘܬܐ f

• Armenian: դինաստիա (hy) (dinastia), հարստություն (hy) (harstutʻyun), տուն (hy) (tun)
• Azerbaijani: sülalə (az), xanədan
• Bashkir: династия (dinastiya)
• Basque: dinastia (eu)
• Belarusian: дына́стыя f (dynástyja)
• Bengali: রাজবংশ (bn) (rajboṅśo), খানদান (bn) (khanodan)
• Breton: tierniezh f
• Bulgarian: дина́стия (bg) f (dinástija)
• Burmese: မင်းဆက် (my) (mang:hcak)
• Catalan: dinastia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 王朝 (zh) (wángcháo), 朝 (zh) (cháo), 王家 (zh) (wángjiā)

• Czech: dynastie (cs) f
• Danish: dynasti n
• Dutch: dynastie (nl) f, heersersfamilie f, heersersgeslacht n
• Esperanto: dinastio
• Estonian: dünastia
• Faroese: valdsharraætt f
• Finnish: dynastia (fi)
• French: dynastie (fr) f
• Galician: dinastía f
• Georgian: დინასტია (dinasṭia)
• German: Dynastie (de) f, Herrschergeschlecht (de) n, Herrscherhaus (de) f, Herrscherhaus (de) n
• Greek: δυναστεία (el) f (dynasteía)

  Ancient: δῠνᾰστείᾱ f (dŭnăsteíā)

• Gujarati: રાજવંશ m (rājvãś)
• Hebrew: שׁוֹשֶׁלֶת (he) f (shoshélet)
• Hindi: राजकुल (hi) m (rājkul), राजवंश (hi) m (rājvañś), ख़ानदान m (xāndān)
• Hungarian: dinasztia (hu), uralkodóház (hu)
• Icelandic: konungsætt (is) f, keisaraætt f
• Ido: dinastio (io)
• Indonesian: wangsa (id), ahala (id), dinasti (id)
• Irish: ríshliocht m, ríora m
• Italian: dinastia (it) f
• Japanese: 王朝 (ja) (おうちょう, ōchō), 王家 (ja) (おうけ, ōke)
• Javanese: wangsa (jv)
• Kannada: ರಾಜವಂಶ (kn) (rājavaṃśa)
• Kazakh: әулет (äulet), династия (dinastiä)
• Khmer: រាជវង្ស (riəc vŭəng), ខត្តិវង្ស (khattevŭəng), រាជ្យ (km) (riəc), វង្ស (km) (vŭəng)
• Korean: 왕조(王朝) (wangjo) (general), 왕가(王家) (wangga) (general), 황가(皇家) (hwangga) (imperial Chinese), 가(家) (ko) (ga)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: خانەدان (xanedan)

  Northern Kurdish: xanedan (ku)

• Kyrgyz: династия (ky) (dinastiya), сулале (sulale)
• Lao: ລາຊະວົງ (lā sa wong), ວົງ (wong)
• Latin: dynastia f
• Latvian: dinastija (lv) f
• Lithuanian: dinastija f
• Luxembourgish: Dynastie f
• Macedonian: династија f (dinastija)
• Malay: dinasti
• Malayalam: രാജവംശം (ml) (rājavaṁśaṁ)
• Maltese: dinastija f
• Marathi: राजवंश (rājvauśa)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: угсаа (mn) (ugsaa)

• Nepali: राजवंश (rājavaṅśa)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dynasti n

  Nynorsk: dynasti n

• Occitan: dinastia (oc) f
• Odia: ରାଜବଂଶୀୟ (rājabaṁśiya)
• Pashto: سلاله f (solāla), خاندان (ps) m (xānadān)
• Persian:

  Dari: سِلْسِلَه (silsila), دُودْمَان (dūdmān), خَانْدَان (xāndān), خَانَدَان (xānadān)

  Iranian Persian: سِلْسِلِه (selsele), دودْمان (dudmân), خانْدان (xândân), خانِدان (xânedân)

• Polish: dynastia (pl) f
• Portuguese: dinastia (pt) f
• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਰਾਜਵੰਸ਼ (rājvãś)

• Romanian: dinastie (ro) f
• Russian: дина́стия (ru) f (dinástija)
• Sanskrit: राजवंश (sa) m (rājavaṃśa)
• Scots: deenasty
• Scottish Gaelic: rìgh-shliochd m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дина́стија f

  Roman: dinástija (sh) f

• Sinhalese: රාජවංශය (rājawaṁśaya)
• Slovak: dynastia f
• Slovene: dinastíja (sl) f
• Spanish: dinastía (es) f
• Swahili: nasaba (sw)
• Swedish: dynasti (sv) c
• Tagalog: halari, dinastiya
• Tajik: сулола (sulola), хонадон (xonadon)
• Tamil: வம்சம் (ta) (vamcam), ராஜவம்சம் (rājavamcam)
• Telugu: వంశం (te) (vaṁśaṁ)
• Thai: ราชวงศ์ (th) (râat-chá-wong), วงศ์ (th) (wong)
• Tibetan: རྒྱལ་རབས། (rgyal rabs)
• Turkish: hanedan (tr)
• Turkmen: dinastiýa, nebere
• Ukrainian: дина́стія f (dynástija)
• Urdu: خانْدان m (xāndān), دُودْمان m (dūdmān)
• Uyghur: سۇلالە (sulale)
• Uzbek: sulola (uz), dinastiya (uz), xonadon (uz)
• Vietnamese: triều đại (vi) (朝代), vương triều (vi) (王朝)
• Welsh: brenhinllin f
• West Frisian: dynasty
• Yiddish: דינאַסטיע f (dinastye)

era or polity under a certain dynasty, especially in East Asian history

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 朝代 (zh) (cháodài), 朝 (zh) (cháo)

• French: dynastie (fr) f
• Japanese: 王朝 (ja) (おうちょう, ōchō)
• Korean: 조(朝) (ko) (jo), 나라 (ko) (nara) (only in Chinese contexts)
• Vietnamese: triều đại (vi) (朝代)