prime minister

See also: prime-minister and Prime Minister

English

Etymology

Latin primus + minister

Noun

prime minister (plural prime ministers)

1. In a parliamentary democracy, the chief member of the cabinet and head of the government; often the leader of the majority party.

   This is a list of all prime ministers since Churchill.

   Yesterday we had a visit from the Prime Minister / prime minister. (See usage notes below.)

Usage notes

• When referring to a particular prime minister, prime minister is capitalised according to some style guides, but it should only be capitalised when used before a person's name according to others:

  A The Prime Minister issued a statement today.

  B The prime minister issued a statement today.

  B Prime Minister Johnson issued a statement today.

• When referring to a prime minister by title and name together, British usage is “the Prime Minister, Tony Blair” or “Tony Blair, the Prime Minister”, while North American usage is “Prime Minister John Doe” or “John Doe, (the) prime minister of Noland” or “John Doe, the prime minister”.

Synonyms

• premier

Derived terms

• deputy prime minister
• prime ministerial
• prime ministership

Translations

chief member of the cabinet and head of the government

• Afrikaans: eerste minister
• Albanian: kryeministër (sq) m, kryeministri (sq) m (definite)
• Arabic: رَئِيس اَلْوُزَرَاء m (raʔīs al-wuzarāʔ)
• Armenian: վարչապետ (hy) (varčʻapet)
• Asturian: primer ministru m
• Azerbaijani: baş nazir
• Basque: lehen ministro
• Belarusian: прэм'е́р-міні́стр m (premʺjér-minístr), прэм'е́р m (premʺjér)
• Bengali: প্রধানমন্ত্রী (prodhanomontri)
• Bulgarian: мини́стър-председа́тел m (minístǎr-predsedátel), премие́р m (premiér)
• Burmese: ဝန်ကြီးချုပ် (my) (wankri:hkyup)
• Buryat: юрэнхы һайд (jurenxy hajd)
• Catalan: primer ministre m
• Chichewa: nduna yaikulu
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 首相 (sau² soeng³) (of the UK, Japan, etc.), 總理／总理 (zh) (zǒnglǐ), 总理 (zh) (zung2 lei5) (of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, etc.)

  Mandarin: 首相 (zh) (shǒuxiàng) (of the UK, Japan, etc.), 總理／总理 (zh) (zǒnglǐ), 总理 (zh) (zǒnglǐ) (of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, etc.)

  Min Nan: 首相 (zh-min-nan) (siú-siòng) (of the UK, Japan, etc.), 總理／总理 (zh-min-nan), 总理 (chóng-lí) (of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, etc.)

• Czech: premiér (cs) m, ministerský předseda (cs) m
• Danish: statsminister (da) c, premierminister c
• Dutch: eerste minister (nl) m, premier (nl) m, minister-president (nl) m
• Esperanto: ĉefministro, ministroprezidanto, premiero
• Estonian: peaminister (et)
• Faroese: forsætisráðharri m
• Finnish: pääministeri (fi)
• French: premier ministre (fr) m
• Galician: primeiro ministro m
• Georgian: პრემიერ-მინისტრი (ṗremier-minisṭri), პრემიერი (ṗremieri)
• German: Premierminister (de) m, Premierministerin (de) f
• Greek: πρωθυπουργός (el) m (prothypourgós)

  Ancient: τριστάτης m (tristátēs)

• Greenlandic: ministeriuneq
• Gujarati: વડાપ્રધાન (vaḍāpradhān)
• Hausa: firaminista (ha)
• Hebrew: רֹאשׁ־מֶמְשָׁלָה (he) m (rosh-memshalá)
• Hindi: प्रधान मंत्री (hi) m (pradhān mantrī), वज़ीर-ए-आज़म m (vazīr-e-āzam)
• Hungarian: miniszterelnök (hu)
• Icelandic: forsætisráðherra m
• Indonesian: perdana menteri (id)
• Interlingua: prime ministro
• Irish: príomh-aire m
• Italian: primo ministro m
• Japanese: 首相 (ja) (しゅしょう, shushō)
• Kazakh: премьер-министр (premer-ministr)
• Khmer: នាយករដ្ឋមន្ត្រី (niəyŭəkrŏətmŭəntrəy)
• Korean: 총리 (ko) (chongni) (總理), 수상 (ko) (susang) (首相 (ko)), 각하 (ko) (gakha) (閣下 (ko)) (honorific)
• Kyrgyz: баш-министр (baş-ministr), премьер-министр (premyer-ministr)
• Lao: ນາຍົກລັດຖະມົນຕີ (nā nyok lat tha mon tī)
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• Latvian: premjerministrs m, premjerministre f
• Lithuanian: premjeras m, premjerė f, ministras pirmininkas m, ministrė pirmininkė f
• Macedonian: премие́р m (premiér)
• Malay: perdana menteri
• Maltese: prim m, prim ministru m
• Manx: ard-vinishter m
• Maori: pirimia
• Marathi: प्रधान मंत्री m (pradhān mantrī)
• Mongolian: ерөнхий сайд (jörönxii sajd)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: statsminister (no) m

  Nynorsk: statsminister m

• Occitan: primièr ministre m
• Pashto: لومړی وزير m (lumṛay wazír)
• Persian: نخست وزیر (fa) (noxost vazir), وزیر اعظم (vazir-e a'zam)
• Polish: premier (pl) m
• Portuguese: primeiro ministro m, premiê (pt) m or f, premier (pt) m or f
• Romanian: prim-ministru (ro) m, premier (ro) m
• Russian: премье́р-мини́стр (ru) m (premʹjér-minístr), премье́р (ru) m (premʹjér)
• Samogitian: mėnėstros pėrmėninks m
• Sanskrit: प्रधान मंत्री m (pradhāna maṃtrī)
• Scots: prime meinster
• Scottish Gaelic: prìomhair m
• Semai: perdane menteri
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: премијер m

  Roman: premijer (sh) m

• Shan: ဝုၼ်ႇၵျီးၶျုၵ်ႈ (wùn kjíi khjūk)
• Slovak: predseda vlády m, predsedkyňa vlády f, premiér m, premiérka f
• Slovene: premier m, premierka f
• Spanish: primer ministro m, presidente de Gobierno m, primera ministra f
• Swahili: waziri mkuu
• Swedish: premiärminister (sv) c, statsminister (sv) c
• Tagalog: punong ministro
• Tajik: сарвазир (sarvazir), нахуствазир (naxustvazir)
• Tatar: премьер-министр (prem’yer-ministr)
• Telugu: ప్రధాని (pradhāni), ప్రధాన మంత్రి (pradhāna mantri)
• Thai: นายกรัฐมนตรี (th) (naa-yók-rát-tà-mon-dtrii), อัครมหาเสนาบดี (th) (àk-krá-má-hǎa-sěe-naa-bɔɔ-dii)
• Tongan: palemia
• Turkish: başbakan (tr)
• Turkmen: premýer-ministr
• Ukrainian: прем'є́р-міні́стр (uk) m (premʺjér-minístr), прем'є́р (uk) m (premʺjér)
• Urdu: وزیر اعظم m (vazīr-e-āzam)
• Uyghur: باش ۋەزىر (bash wezir), باش مىنىستر (bash ministr)
• Uzbek: bosh ministr, bosh vazir
• Vietnamese: thủ tướng (vi)
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• Walloon: prumî minisse (wa) m, prumire minisse f
• Welsh: prif weinidog m
• Yiddish: פּרעמיער m (premyer), פּרעמיערשע f (premyershe)

See also

• Wikipedia article on prime ministers
• head of government