English [ edit ] Alternative forms [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] From Middle French republique ( “ republic ” ) , from Latin rēspūblicā rēs ( “ thing ” ) + pūblica ( “ public ” ) ; hence literally “the public thing”.
Pronunciation [ edit ] IPA (key ) : /ɹɪˈpʌb.lɪk/ , /ɹəˈpʌb.lɪk/ Hyphenation: re‧pub‧lic republic (plural republics
A state where sovereignty rests with the people or their representatives , rather than with a monarch or emperor ; a country with no monarchy .
The United States is a republic ; the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a constitutional monarchy.
1834 , Letitia Elizabeth Landon , Francesca Carrara , volume 2, page 256:Perhaps the great charm of a republic to the young mind is, the career which it seems to lay open to all, and whose success depends upon personal gifts; while their exercise seems more independent when devoted to the people rather than to the monarch.
1910 , Emerson Hough , chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise , Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company , OCLC 639762314 “[…] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps ? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic ? [ …] ”
( archaic ) A state, which may or may not be a monarchy, in which the executive and legislative branches of government are separate.
1795 , Immanuel Kant , Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch Republicanism is the political principle of the separation of the executive power (the administration) from the legislative; despotism is that of the autonomous execution by the state of laws which it has itself decreed. [ …] Therefore, we can say: the smaller the personnel of the government (the smaller the number of rulers), the greater is their representation and the more nearly the constitution approaches to the possibility of republicanism; thus the constitution may be expected by gradual reform finally to raise itself to republicanism [ …] republics " knew this system, and they all finally and inevitably degenerated into despotism under the sovereignty of one, which is the most bearable of all forms of despotism. One of the subdivisions constituting Russia . See oblast .
The Republic of Udmurtia is west of the Permian Oblast.
Derived terms [ edit ] Translations [ edit ]
a type of state
Abkhaz: ( definite ) ареспублика ( aresṗubliḳa )
Afrikaans: republiek (af)
Ainu: レㇲプビリカ ( respubirika )
Albanian: republikë (sq) f
Amharic: ሬፑብሊክ ( republik )
Antillean Creole: répiblik
Arabic: جُمْهُورِيَّة (ar) f ( jumhūriyya )
Hijazi Arabic: جُمْهُورِيَّة f ( jumhūriyya )
Armenian: հանրապետություն (hy) ( hanrapetutʿyun )
Assamese: প্ৰজাতন্ত্ৰ ( prozatontro )
Asturian: república (ast) f
Avar: жумгьурият ( žumhurijat )
Azerbaijani: respublika (az) , cümhuriyyət
Bashkir: республика ( respublika )
Basque: errepublika
Belarusian: рэспу́бліка f ( respúblika )
Bengali: প্রজাতন্ত্র ( prôjatôntr ) , জমহুরিয়াত ( jômhuriẏat )
Breton: republik f
Bulgarian: репу́блика (bg) f ( repúblika )
Burmese: သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ (my) ( samma.ta.nuingngam )
Buryat: республика ( rjespublika ) , бүгэдэ найрамдаха улас ( bügede najramdaxa ulas )
Catalan: república (ca) f
Chechen: пачхьалкх ( pačḥalq )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 共和國 共和国 ( gung6 wo4 gwok3 )
Dungan: гунхәгуә ( gunhəguə ) , гунхәгуй ( gunhəguy ) , республика ( ri͡əspublika ) , мингуй ( minguy )
Mandarin: 共和國 (zh) , 共和国 (zh) ( gònghéguó ) , 民國 (zh) , 民国 (zh) ( mínguó )
Min Nan: 共和國 共和国 ( kiōng-hô-kok )
Wu: 共和國 共和国 ( gon hhu koq )
Coptic: ⲙⲉⲧⲙⲏϣ f ( metmēš )
Cornish: repoblek
Crimean Tatar: cumhuriyet Cyrillic: джумхуриет
Czech: republika (cs) f
Danish: republik (da) c
Dutch: republiek (nl) f
Erzya: вейсветямо ( vejsvetjamo )
Esperanto: respubliko
Estonian: vabariik (et)
Extremaduran: repúbrica f
Faroese: lýðveldi n tjóðveldi n
Finnish: tasavalta (fi)
French: république (fr) f Middle French: republique f
Friulian: republiche f
Galician: república (gl) f
Georgian: რესპუბლიკა ( resṗubliḳa )
German: Republik (de) f
Greek: δημοκρατία (el) f ( dimokratía )
Ancient: πολιτεία f ( politeía )
Greenlandic: republikki
Gujarati: ગણતંત્ર ? ( gaṇtantra )
Haitian Creole: repiblik
Hausa: jamhuriya
Hawaiian: lepupalika
Hebrew: רֶפּוּבְּלִיקָה (he) f ( repúblika )
Hindi: गणराज्य (hi) m ( gaṇrājya ) , गणतंत्र (hi) m ( gaṇtantra ) , जम्हूरियत f ( jamhūriyat ) ( rare, Muslim context )
Hungarian: köztársaság (hu)
Icelandic: lýðveldi n
Ido: republiko (io)
Indonesian: republik (id)
Irish: poblacht f
Italian: repubblica (it) f
Japanese: 共和国 (ja) ( きょうわこく, kyōwakoku )
Kalmyk: республик ( respublik )
Kannada: ಗಣರಾಜ್ಯ (kn) ( gaṇarājya )
Karelian: tažavalda
Kashubian: repùblika f
Kazakh: республика (kk) ( respwblïka ) , жұмхұрият ( jumxurïyat ) ( dated )
Khakas: республика ( respublika )
Khmer: សាធារណរដ្ឋ ( saathiərĕəʼnaʼrŏət )
Korean: 공화국(共和國) (ko) ( gonghwaguk )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: جمھوریەت ( cimhuryet )
Northern Kurdish: komar (ku) , cimhûriyet (ku) , republîk (ku) , respublîk (ku)
Kyrgyz: республика (ky) ( respublika ) , жумурият ( jumuriyat ) ( dated )
Ladino:
Hebrew: ריפובליקה f
Latin: repúvlika f repúblika f
Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ( sā thā la na lat )
Latin: rēspūblica f
Latvian: republika f
Lithuanian: respublika (lt) f
Livvi: tazavaldu
Low German:
German Low German: Republik f Republiek f
Lü: ᦷᦂᧂᧈᦷᦆᧉᦷᦅᧉ ( k̇ong1 xo2 ko2 )
Macedonian: република f ( republika )
Malagasy: repoblika (mg)
Malay: republik
Malayalam: ഗണതന്ത്രം ( gaṇatantraṃ )
Maltese: repubblika f
Manchu: ᡤᡠᠩᡥᡝᡬᠣ ( gungheg'o ) , ᡳᡵᡤᡝᠨ ( irgen gurun )
Maori: ripapurika tūwehe
Marathi: प्रजासत्ताक ? ( prajāsattāk )
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: бүгд найрамдах улс ( bügd nairamdakh uls )
Mongolian: ᠪᠦᠭᠦᠳᠡ ( bügüde nayiramdaqu ulus )
Neapolitan: repubbreca f
Nepali: गणतन्त्र (ne) ( gaṇatantra )
Nivkh: рэспублиӄа ( respubliqa )
Norman: républyique f ( Jersey )
North Frisian: republiik
Northern Sami: dásseváldi
Northern Sotho: repabliki
Norwegian:
Bokmål: republikk (no) m
Nynorsk: republikk (nn) m
Occitan: republica (oc) f
Okinawan: 共和国 ( きょーわくく, kyōwakuku )
Oriya: ଗଣରାଜ୍ୟ (or) ( gôṇôrajyô )
Ossetian: республикӕ ( respublikæ )
Pashto: جمهوريت (ps) m ( jamhuryat ) , ولسي حکومت m ( wolësi hokumat ) , ولسمشریزه ( ? )
Persian: جمهوری (fa) ( jomhuri )
Piedmontese: repùblica f
Plautdietsch: Republikj f
Polish: republika (pl) f rzeczpospolita (pl) f ( special cases )
Portuguese: república (pt) f
Punjabi: ਗਣਰਾਜ ? ( gaṇrāj )
Quechua: ripuwlika
Romanian: republică (ro) f
Russian: респу́блика (ru) f ( respúblika )
Rusyn: респу́бліка f ( respúblika ) (Carpathian), репу́блика f ( repúblyka ) (Pannonian)
Rwanda-Rundi: repubulika republika
Samogitian: respoblėka f
Sanskrit: गणतन्त्र m ( gaṇatantra )
Saterland Frisian: Republik
Scottish Gaelic: poblachd (gd) f comh-fhlaitheachd f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: репу̀блика f
Roman: repùblika (sh) f
Sicilian: ripùbblica f ripùbbrica f
Silesian: republika f
Sinhalese: ජනරජය ? ( janarajaya )
Slovak: republika f
Slovene: republika (sl) f
Solon: uḡeri holēsolara gurung irḡeng gurung rēspublik
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: republika f
Upper Sorbian: republika f
Sotho: rephaboliki (st)
Southern Altai: республика ( respublika )
Spanish: república (es) f
Swahili: jamhuri (sw)
Swedish: republik (sv) c
Tagalog: kamadlaan republika
Tajik: ҷумҳурият (tg) ( jumhuriyat )
Tamil: குடியரசு (ta) ( kuṭiyaracu )
Tatar: җөмһүрият ( cömhüriyat ) , республика ( respublika )
Telugu: గణతంత్ర ( gaṇatantra )
Thai: สาธารณรัฐ (th) ( sǎa-taa-rá-ná-rát )
Tibetan: སྤྱི་མཐུན་རྒྱལ་ཁབ ( spyi mthun rgyal khab )
Tigrinya: ሪፓብሊክ f ( ripablik )
Tsonga: riphabliki
Tswana: rephaboliki
Turkish: cumhuriyet (tr)
Turkmen: respublika
Tuvan: республика ( respublika )
Udmurt: элькун ( elʹkun )
Ukrainian: респу́бліка (uk) f ( respúblika )
Urdu: جمہوریہ f ( jamhūriya ) , جمہوریت f ( jamhūriyat )
Uyghur: جۇمھۇرىيەت ( jumhuriyet )
Uzbek: respublika (uz) , jumhuriyat (uz) ( dated )
Venda: riphabuḽiki
Venetian: repùblica f
Vietnamese: cộng hòa (vi) (共和
Volapük: repüblik (vo)
Walloon: republike ?
Welsh: gweriniaeth (cy) f
West Frisian: republyk c
Western Panjabi: لوکراج
Yakut: өрөспүүбүлүкэ ( öröspüübülüke ) , республика ( respublika )
Yiddish: רעפּובליק f ( republik )
Zhuang: gunghozgoz
one of the kinds of parts constituting Russia
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See also [ edit ] Further reading [ edit ] Romanian [ edit ] Pronunciation [ edit ] republic
first-person singular present indicative / subjunctive republica 
republic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 