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English
Etymology
From French nationalisme . By surface analysis , national + -ism .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈnæʃənəlɪzəm/
Audio (Southern England) (file )
Noun
nationalism (countable and uncountable , plural nationalisms )
Patriotism ; the idea of supporting one's country, people or culture.
1927 May, Quincy Wright , “Bolshevist Influences in China”, in Current History , volume XXVI, number 2, →ISSN , →OCLC , page 300 , column 1:Perhaps the explanation of the Chinese situation most generally accepted by historians is nationalism , a phenomenon which has always occurred when a people of distinctive cultural characteristics becomes aware of foreign domination. Napoleonic domination in Italy and Germany a century ago created nationalism there, as did Turkish domination in the Balkans and the Arab countries.
2017 , Meir Litvak, Constructing Nationalism in Iran :Following the 1979 Revolution, Khomeini came out against nationalism .
Support for the creation of a sovereign nation (which does not currently exist).
Basque nationalism
Kurdish nationalism
( UK , Ireland ) Support for the union of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland .
Antonyms
Hypernyms
sectionalism ; any geopolitical group pursuing its own interest
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Translations
idea of supporting one's country and culture
Albanian: nationalizëm m
Amharic: ብሔረተኝነት ( bəḥerätäñnät )
Antillean Creole: nasyonalis m
Arabic: قَوْمِيَّة (ar) f ( qawmiyya )
Armenian: ազգայնականություն (hy) ( azgaynakanutʻyun ) , նացիոնալիզմ (hy) ( nacʻionalizm )
Assamese: জাতীয়তাবাদ ( zatitabad )
Asturian: nacionalismu m
Azerbaijani: millətçilik
Bashkir: милләтселек ( millətselek )
Belarusian: нацыяналі́зм m ( nacyjanalízm )
Bengali: জাতীয়তাবাদ (bn) ( jatiẏtabad )
Bulgarian: национали́зъм (bg) m ( nacionalízǎm )
Burmese: အမျိုးသားစိတ် (my) ( a.myui:sa:cit )
Carpathian Rusyn: націоналі́зм m ( nacionalízm )
Catalan: nacionalisme (ca) m
Chechen: национализм ( nacionalizm )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 民族主義 / 民族主义 (zh) ( mínzúzhǔyì ) , 國民主義 / 国民主义 ( guómínzhǔyì )
Cornish: kenedlegieth f
Corsican: nazziunalismu m , naziunalismu m
Crimean Tatar: milletçilik
Czech: nacionalismus (cs) m
Danish: nationalisme (da) c
Dutch: nationalisme (nl) n
Erzya: раськемельчи ( raśkemeľči )
Esperanto: naciismo
Estonian: rahvuslus , natsionalism
Finnish: isänmaallisuus (fi) , kansallismielisyys (fi) , nationalismi (fi) , patriotismi (fi)
French: nationalisme (fr) m
Galician: nacionalismo (gl) m
Georgian: ნაციონალიზმი ( nacionalizmi )
German: Nationalismus (de) m
Greek: εθνικισμός (el) m ( ethnikismós ) , νασιοναλισμός (el) m ( nasionalismós )
Gujarati: રાષ્ટ્રવાદ ( rāṣṭravād )
Hebrew: לְאֻמִּיּוּת \ לאומיות (he) ( leumiyút )
Hindi: राष्ट्रवाद m ( rāṣṭravād )
Hungarian: nacionalizmus (hu) , nemzetizmus (hu)
Iban: nasionalisma
Icelandic: þjóðernishyggja f
Indonesian: kebangsaan (id) , nasionalisme (id)
Irish: náisiúnachas
Italian: nazionalismo (it) m
Japanese: 民族主義 (ja) ( みんぞくしゅぎ, minzokushugi ) , ナショナリズム (ja) ( nashonarizumu ) , 国民主義 ( こくみんしゅぎ, kokuminshugi )
Kazakh: ұлтшылдық (kk) ( ūltşyldyq )
Khmer: ជាតិនិយម (km) ( ciət niyum )
Korean: 민족주의(民族主義) (ko) ( minjokjuui ) , 국민주의(國民主義) ( gungminjuui )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: وڵات پارێزی ( wllat parêzî )
Northern Kurdish: neteweperwerî (ku) , welatperwerî (ku) , niştimanperwerî (ku) , welatparêzî (ku) , neteweparêzî (ku) , nasyonalîzm (ku) , neteweperistî (ku)
Kyrgyz: улутчулдук (ky) ( ulutculduk )
Lao: ຊາດນິຍົມ ( sāt ni nyom ) , ຊາຕິນິຍົມ ( sā ti ni nyom )
Latin: nationalismus m
Latvian: nacionālisms m
Lithuanian: nacionalizmas (lt) m
Macedonian: национали́зам m ( nacionalízam )
Malay: nasionalisme (ms)
Maltese: nazionalismu m
Marathi: राष्ट्रवाद m ( rāṣṭravād )
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: үндсэрхэг үзэл ( ündserxeg üzel )
Norman: nâtionnalisme m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nasjonalisme (no) m
Occitan: nacionalisme (oc) m
Pashto: ملتپالنه f ( melatpālǝna ) , مليت پرستي f ( milyatparasti ) , ناسيوناليزم m ( nāsionālizǝm ) , نشنليزم m ( nešnalizᶕm ) , نېشنلېزم m ( nešnalizǝm ) , قوم پرستي f ( qawmparasti )
Persian: ناسْیونالیسْم (fa) ( nâsyonâlism ) , مِلّیگَرایی ( melli-garâyi ) , مِلَّتگَرایی ( mellat-garâyi )
Polish: nacjonalizm (pl) m
Portuguese: nacionalismo (pt) m
Punjabi: ਕੌਮਪ੍ਰਸਤੀ ( kaumprastī )
Romanian: naționalism (ro) m
Russian: национали́зм (ru) m ( nacionalízm )
Scottish Gaelic: nàiseantachd f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: националѝзам m
Roman: nacionalìzam (sh) m
Slovak: nacionalizmus m
Slovene: nacionalizem m
Spanish: nacionalismo (es) m
Swahili: utaifa (sw)
Swedish: nationalism (sv) c
Tagalog: pagkamakabayan , pagkamakabansa
Tajik: миллатчигӣ ( millatčigī ) , миллатгароӣ ( millatgaroyī )
Tatar: милләтчелек (tt) ( millätçelek )
Thai: ชาตินิยม (th) ( châat-ní-yom )
Turkish: milliyetçilik (tr) , ulusçuluk (tr) , ulusçuluk (tr)
Turkmen: milletçilik
Ukrainian: націоналі́зм (uk) m ( nacionalízm )
Urdu: قَوم پَرْوَری f ( qaum parvarī )
Uyghur: مىللەتچىلىك ( milletchilik )
Uzbek: millatchilik (uz)
Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa dân tộc (主義民族 ), chủ nghĩa quốc gia , chủ nghĩa quốc tộc
Welsh: cenedlaetholdeb f
Yiddish: נאַציאָנאַליזם m ( natsyonalizm )
support for the creation of a new sovereign nation
support for the unification of Ireland
support of one nation's interests to the exclusion of others
— see jingoism
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Anagrams
Swedish
Noun
nationalism c
nationalism
Declension
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