English
Etymology
From Middle English confederacion, confideracion and Middle French confédération, from Old French confederacion, from Latin cōnfoederātiō. Doublet of confederacy.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kənfɛdəˈɹeɪʃən/
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
confederation (plural confederations)
- A union or alliance of states or political organizations.
- Synonyms: alliance, confederacy, federation, league
- The act of forming an alliance.
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
union or alliance
- Afrikaans: konfederasie
- Albanian: konfederatë (sq) f
- Arabic: كُونْفِدِرَالِيَّة f (kūnfidirāliyya)
- Armenian: համադաշնություն (hy) (hamadašnutʻyun)
- Azerbaijani: konfedarasiya
- Arabic: حكومت اجتماعيه (hökumæt-i-ijtimā'yie), حكومت مجتمعه (hökumæt-i-mujtæmæ)
- Belarusian: канфедэра́цыя f (kanfjederácyja), канфэдэра́цыя f (kanfederácyja)
- Bengali: মিত্রসংঘ (mitrośoṅgho)
- Bulgarian: конфедера́ция f (konfederácija)
- Burmese: ကွန်ဖက်ဒရေးရှင်း (kwanhpakda.re:hrang:)
- Catalan: confederació (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 邦聯 / 邦联 (zh) (bānglián)
- Czech: konfederace f
- Danish: konføderation c
- Dutch: statenbond m, confederatie (nl) f
- Estonian: konföderatsioon
- Finnish: liitto (fi); valtioliitto (fi) (between states), konfederaatio (fi)
- French: confédération (fr) f
- Galician: confederación (gl) f
- Georgian: კონფედერაცია (ḳonpederacia)
- German: Bund (de) m, Bündnis (de) n, Konföderation (de) f, Eidgenossenschaft (de) f, Staatenbund (de) m, Staatenbündnis n
- Greek: συνομοσπονδία (el) f (synomospondía), κοινόν n (koinón), ένωση (el) f (énosi)
- Haitian Creole: konfederasyon
- Hebrew: קוֹנְפֶדֶרַצְיָה (he) (konfederátsya)
- Hindi: परिसंघ m (parisaṅgh)
- Hungarian: konföderáció (hu), államszövetség (hu)
- Icelandic: sviss n
- Ido: federuro (io)
- Indonesian: konfederasi (id)
- Irish: cónaidhm m
- Italian: confederazione (it) f
- Japanese: 国家連合 (こっかれんごう, kokka rengō), コンフェデレーション (konfederēshon)
- Kazakh: конфедерация (konfederasiä)
- Khmer: សហពន្ធន៍ (saʼhaʼpŏən)
- Korean: 국가 연합(國家聯合) (gukga yeonhap)
- Kyrgyz: конфедерация (konfederatsiya)
- Latvian: konfederācija f
- Lithuanian: konfederacija f
- Macedonian: конфедерација f (konfederacija)
- Malay: konfederasi
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: konføderasjon m
- Nynorsk: konføderasjon m
- Ottoman Turkish: عهدلشمه (âhdleşme), معاهده (muâhede), معاقدت (mu'aqadet), مواثقت (muâśaqat), متفقین (muttefiqîn)
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: کُنْفِدِراسْیون (fa) (konfederâsyon)
- Polish: konfederacja (pl) f
- Portuguese: confederação (pt) f
- Romanian: confederație (ro) f
- Russian: конфедера́ция (ru) f (konfederácija)
- Scottish Gaelic: co-fhlaitheas m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: конфедера́ција f
- Roman: konfederácija (sh) f
- Slovak: konfederácia f
- Slovene: konfederacija f
- Spanish: confederación (es) f
- Swedish: konfederation (sv) c
- Tagalog: kalaguman
- Tajik: конфедерасия (konfederasiya)
- Thai: สมาพันธ์ (sà-maa-pan), สมาพันธรัฐ (sà-maa-pan-tá-rát)
- Turkish: konfederasyon (tr)
- Ukrainian: конфедера́ція f (konfederácija)
- Uzbek: konfederatsiya (uz)
- Vietnamese: bang liên (vi) (邦聯)
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