держава

Inherited from Old East Slavic дьржава (dĭržava) [1344], from Proto-Slavic *dьržava. Cognates include Ukrainian держа́ва (deržáva, “strength; estate; state (government), power”), Belarusian дзяржа́ва (dzjaržáva, “state (government)”), Old Church Slavonic дрьжава (drĭžava), дръжава (drŭžava), Bulgarian държа́ва (dǎržáva, “state (government)”), Macedonian држава (država, “state (government)”), Serbo-Croatian др̀жава (“possession; state (government)”), Slovene držȃva (“composition, content; state, power; possession”) (tonal orthography), Czech država (“possession; power, state”), Slovak dŕžava (“state, power”), Polish dzierżawa (“lease; (archaic) possession”).

• IPA^(key): [dʲɪrˈʐavə]

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держа́ва • (deržáva) f inan (genitive держа́вы, nominative plural держа́вы, genitive plural держа́в)

1. state, power
2. orb, globe, mound

• страна́ (straná)
• госуда́рство (gosudárstvo)
• ца́рство (cárstvo)
• импе́рия (impérija)