head of state

See also: head-of-state

English

Noun

head of state (plural heads of state)

1. The chief public representative of a nation having duties, privileges and responsibilities varying greatly depending on the constitutional rules; a monarch in a monarchy, and often styled president in a republic, but variations such as collegiality exist.

Translations

the chief public representative of a nation

• Afrikaans: staatshoof
• Albanian: kreu i shtetit
• Arabic: رَأْس الدَوْلَة‎‎ m (raʾs ad-dawla)
• Armenian: պետության գլուխն (petutʿyan gluxn)
• Azerbaijani: dövlət başçısı
• Basque: estatuburu
• Belarusian: кіраўнік дзяржавы m (kiraŭnik dzjaržavy)
• Bulgarian: държавен глава m (dǎržaven glava)
• Catalan: cap d'estat m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 國家元首 (zh), 国家元首 (zh) (guójiā yuánshǒu), 元首 (zh) (yuánshǒu), 政府首腦 (zh), 政府首脑 (zh) (zhèngfǔ shǒunǎo)

• Czech: hlava státu m, f
• Danish: statsoverhoved (da) n
• Dutch: staatshoofd (nl) n
• Esperanto: ŝtatestro
• Estonian: riigipea
• Finnish: valtionpäämies (fi)
• French: chef d'État (fr) m
• Galician: xefe de estado m
• Georgian: სახელმწიფოს მეთაური (saxelmc̣ipos metauri)
• German: Staatsoberhaupt (de) n, Staatschef (de) m
• Greek: επικεφαλής του κράτους m (epikefalís tou krátous)
• Hebrew: ראש מדינה‎‎ m (rosh m'diná)
• Hungarian: államfő (hu)
• Indonesian: kepala negara (id)
• Irish: ceann stáit m
• Italian: capo di stato
• Japanese: 国家元首 (こっかげんしゅ, kokkagenshu), 元首 (ja) (げんしゅ, genshu)

• Khmer: ប្រមុខរដ្ឋ (prɑmuk roat)
• Korean: 국가원수 (gukgawonsu)
• Latvian: valsts vadītājs m
• Lithuanian: valstybės vadovas m
• Luxembourgish: Staatschef m
• Macedonian: шефот на државата m (šefot na državata)
• Malay: ketua negara
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: statsoverhode (no) n

  Nynorsk: statsoverhovud n

• Persian: رئیس کشور‎‎ (ra'is kešvar)
• Polish: głowa państwa (pl) m, f
• Portuguese: chefe de estado m, f
• Romanian: șef de stat m
• Russian: глава́ госуда́рства m, f (glavá gosudárstva)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шеф државе m, поглавар државе m, поглавар државни m

  Roman: šef države m, poglavar države m, poglavar državni m

• Slovak: hlava štátu m, f
• Slovene: vodja države m
• Southern Altai: эл башчы (el başçı)
• Spanish: jefe de estado m, mandatario m
• Swedish: statschef (sv) c, statsöverhuvud (sv) n
• Thai: ประมุขแห่งรัฐ (bprà-múk hàeng rát)
• Turkish: devlet başkanı (tr)
• Ukrainian: голова́ держа́ви m, f (holová deržávy)
• Vietnamese: nguyên thủ quốc gia, quốc trưởng (vi)

See also

• head of government