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Etymology
From Middle English provynce, from Old French *province, from Latin prōvincia (“territory brought under Roman domination; official duty, office, charge, province”), from Proto-Indo-European *prōw- (“right judge, master”). Cognate with Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌾𐌰 (frauja, “lord, master”), Old English frēa (“ruler, lord, king, master”). See also frow.
Pronunciation
Noun
province (plural provinces)
- A subdivision of government usually one step below the national level.
- A territorial area within a country.
- A jurisdiction; a (literal or figurative) area of authority.
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Translations
A subdivision of government usually one step below the national level
- Arabic: ولاية (ar) (wilaaya) f
- Armenian: նահանգ (hy) (nahang)
- Belarusian: вобласць (be) (vóblasc’) f
- Bulgarian: провинция (bg) (provincija) f , област (bg) (oblast) f
- Catalan: província f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 省份 (cmn) (shěngfèn), 省 (cmn) (shěng), (Japanese prefecture) 縣 (cmn), 县 (cmn) (xiàn), (state) 州 (cmn) (zhōu)
- Czech: provincie (cs) f
- Dutch: provincie (nl) f
- Esperanto: provinco
- Finnish: provinssi (fi), maakunta (fi), lääni (fi)
- French: province (fr) f, (state) état (fr) m
- Georgian: მხარე (ka) (mxare)
- German: Provinz (de) f, Land (de) n
- Greek: επαρχία (el) (eparchía) f
- Guaraní: okára (gn)
- Hebrew: פרובינציה (he) (províntsya)
- Interlingua: provincia
- Italian: provincia (it) f
- Japanese: (prefecture) 県 (ja) (けん, ken), (region) 地方 (ja) (ちほう, chihō), (state, province) 州 (ja) (しゅう, shū), (Chinese province) 省 (ja) (しょう, shō)
- Khmer: ខេត្ត (kait)
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- Korean: 성 (ko) (seong, 省)
- Kurdish: parêzgeh (ku) f, wîlayet (ku) f, eyalet (ku) f, mihafize (ku) f
- Latin: provincia (la)
- Lojban: gugypau (jbo)
- Macedonian: покраина (mk) (pokráina) f, провинција (mk) (províncija) f
- Norwegian: provins (no) m
- Persian: استان (fa)
- Russian: (Russian oblast) область (ru) (óblast’) f , (Russian krai) край (ru) (kraj) m , (province) провинция (ru) (províncija) , (state) штат (ru) (štat) m , (prefecture) префектура (ru) (prefektúra) f
- Serbo-Croatian: паланка (sh) (palanka), област (sh) (oblast)
- Slovak: oblasť (sk) f
- Spanish: provincia (es) f
- Swahili: mkoa (sw), jimbo (sw), jimbo (sw)
- Swedish: provins (sv) c, län (sv) n, landskap (sv) n
- Tagalog: probinsiya (tl), lalawigan (tl)
- Tetum: provínsia
- Thai: จังหวัด (th)
- Turkish: il (tr)
- Ukrainian: область (uk) (óblast’) f
- Vietnamese: tỉnh (vi)
- Volapük: provin (vo), (older word, obsolete) plovin (vo)
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Proper noun
the province
- (UK) Northern Ireland
