separatist

See also: Separatist

English

Etymology

From separate +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛpəɹətɪst/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: sep‧a‧ra‧tist

Noun

separatist (plural separatists)

1. Someone who advocates separation from the established Church; a member of any of various sects or schismatic movements.

   Coordinate terms: sectarian, schismatic

2. A person who advocates or seeks the splitting of one country or territory into two politically independent countries or territories.

   Antonyms: centralist, unionist, federalist

   Coordinate terms: devolutionist, autonomist, sovereigntist, souverainist

   Near-synonym: secessionist

   On rare occasions French-Canadian separatists have resorted to violence.

Derived terms

• antiseparatist
• proseparatist
• separatistic

Translations

political separatist

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: اِنْشِقَاقِيّ m (inšiqāqiyy), مُنْشَقّ m (munšaqq)
• Armenian: սեպարատիստ (hy) (separatist)
• Belarusian: сепараты́ст m (sjeparatýst), сепараты́стка f (sjeparatýstka)
• Bengali: বিচ্ছিন্নতাবাদী (bn) (bicchinnotabadi), আলাদাবাদী (aladabadi)
• Bulgarian: сепарати́ст m (separatíst), сепарати́стка f (separatístka)
• Catalan: separatista m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 獨立派 / 独立派 (zh) (dúlìpài), 分離主義者 / 分离主义者 (fēnlízhǔyìzhě), 分裂 (zh) (fēnliè)

• Czech: separatista m
• Danish: separatist (da) c, løsrivelsestilhænger c, udbryder c
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Faroese: loysingarfólk n
• Finnish: separatisti (fi)
• French: séparatiste (fr) m or f
• Galician: separatista m or f
• Georgian: სეპარატისტი (seṗaraṭisṭi)
• German: Separatist (de) m, Separatistin (de) f
• Gujarati: અલગતાવાદી (alagtāvādī)
• Hungarian: szeparatista (hu), szakadár (hu)
• Icelandic: aðskilnaðarsinni m
• Italian: separatista (it)
• Japanese: 分離主義者 (ぶんりしゅぎしゃ, bunrishugisha), 分離独立 (ぶんりどくりつ, bunri-dokuritsu)
• Korean: 분리주의자 (bullijuuija)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: pemisah (ms)
• Malayalam: വിഘടനവാദി (vighaṭanavādi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: separatist m

  Nynorsk: separatist m

• Polish: separatysta (pl) m, separatystka f
• Portuguese: separatista (pt) m or f
• Romanian: separatist (ro) m, separatistă f
• Russian: сепарати́ст (ru) m (separatíst), сепарати́стка (ru) f (separatístka)
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: separatista m
• Swedish: separatist (sv) c
• Tatar: сепаратист (separatist)
• Turkish: ayrılıkçı (tr)
• Ukrainian: сепарати́ст m (separatýst), сепарати́стка f (separatýstka)

Adjective

separatist (not comparable)

1. Advocating ecclesiastical separation.
2. Advocating or seeking the separation of one country or territory into two politically independent countries or territories.

   He is a Scottish nationalist and has a large collection of separatist literature.

Translations

advocating or seeking the separation of a country or territory

• Belarusian: сепараты́сцкі (sjeparatýscki)
• Bulgarian: сепарати́стки (separatístki)
• Catalan: separatista
• Czech: separatistický
• Danish: separatistisk
• Dutch: separatistisch (nl)
• Finnish: separatistinen (fi)
• French: séparatiste (fr)
• Galician: separatista m or f
• Georgian: სეპარატისტული (seṗaraṭisṭuli)
• German: separatistisch m
• Italian: separatista (it)
• Polish: separatystyczny (pl)
• Portuguese: separatista (pt)
• Russian: сепарати́стский (ru) (separatístskij)
• Spanish: separatista
• Swedish: separatist-, separatistisk (sv)
• Turkish: ayrılıkçı (tr)
• Ukrainian: сепарати́стський (separatýstsʹkyj)

Related terms

• separatism

Danish

Etymology

Internationalism.

Noun

separatist c (singular definite separatisten, plural indefinite separatister)

1. separatist

   Coordinate term: udbryder

Declension

Declension of separatist

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	separatist	separatisten	separatister	separatisterne
genitive	separatists	separatistens	separatisters	separatisternes

Derived terms

• separatistbevægelse

Related terms

• separatisme
• separatistisk

Further reading

• “separatist” in Den Danske Ordbog

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

separatist m (definite singular separatisten, indefinite plural separatister, definite plural separatistene)

1. a separatist

Related terms

• separatisme
• separatistisk

References

• “separatist” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /səparaˈtist/

Noun

separatist m (definite singular separatisten, indefinite plural separatistar, definite plural separatistane)

1. separatist (person who supports partition of their country)

   Separatistane møtte opp mannsterke i gatene.

   The separatists turned up in large numbers in the streets.

Related terms

• separatisme
• separatistisk

References

• “separatist” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French séparatiste. By surface analysis, separat +‎ -ist.

Adjective

separatist m or n (feminine singular separatistă, masculine plural separatiști, feminine/neuter plural separatiste)

1. separatist

Declension

Declension of separatist

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	separatist		separatistă	separatiști	separatiste
	definite	separatistul		separatista	separatiștii	separatistele
genitive- dative	indefinite	separatist		separatiste	separatiști	separatiste
	definite	separatistului		separatistei	separatiștilor	separatistelor

Swedish

Etymology

Internationalism (see English separatist).

Noun

separatist c

1. separatist

Declension

Declension of separatist

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	separatist	separatists
	definite	separatisten	separatistens
plural	indefinite	separatister	separatisters
	definite	separatisterna	separatisternas

Derived terms

• separatistgerilla
• separatistgrupp
• separatistledare
• separatistparti
• separatiströrelse

Related terms

• separatism
• separatistisk

Further reading

• “separatist”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)