voivodeship

English

WOTD – 11 November 2021

Etymology

From voivode (“local ruler or official in parts of central and eastern Europe; administrative chief in Poland”) +‎ -ship (suffix forming nouns indicating properties or states of being). Voivode is variously derived from a number of Slavic languages including Bulgarian войвода (vojvoda), Czech vojevoda, Polish wojewoda, Russian воево́да (vojevóda), and Serbo-Croatian vojvoda, војвода, all from Proto-Slavic *vojevoda (“army leader; duke; warlord”), from *voji (“army”) (probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁- (“to chase, pursue; to persecute; to suppress”)) + *-e- + *vodìti (“to conduct; to lead”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wedʰ- (“to lead”)). Sense 3 is a semantic loan from Polish województwo.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈvɔɪˌvəʊdˌʃɪp/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvɔɪˌvoʊdˌʃɪp/
• Hyphenation: voi‧vode‧ship

Noun

voivodeship (countable and uncountable, plural voivodeships)

1. (countable, uncountable) The office, position, rank, or title of a voivode (“a local ruler or official in various parts of central and eastern Europe; an administrative chief in modern Poland”).
2. (countable, uncountable) The jurisdiction of a voivode, comparable to a countship or a county.

   Synonym: voivodate

3. (countable) The highest-level administrative subdivision of Poland, comparable to a province or state.

Alternative forms

• vaivodeship, waiwodeship

Translations

office, position, rank, or title of a voivode

• Ottoman Turkish: ویوده‌لق (vayvodalık)
• Turkish: voyvodalık (tr)

jurisdiction of a voivode

• Afrikaans: woiwodskap
• Asturian: voivodatu m
• Basque: voivoderri
• Belarusian: ваяво́дства n (vajavódstva)
• Catalan: voivodat m
• Chuvash: вӑйпутлӑх (văjp̬utlăh)
• Czech: vojvodství n
• Danish: voivodskab n
• Dutch: woiwodschap (nl) f
• Estonian: vojevoodkond
• Finnish: voivodikunta
• French: voïvodie (fr) f
• Friulian: voivodât f
• Galician: voivodato m
• Georgian: სავოევოდო (savoevodo)
• German: Woiwodschaft (de) f, Wojewodschaft (de) f
• Greek: βοεβοδάτο (el) n (voevodáto)
• Hungarian: vajdaságok
• Interlingua: voivodato
• Italian: voivodato m
• Kashubian: wòjewództwò n
• Latin: palatinatus m, voivodatus, vaivodatus
• Latvian: vojevodiste f
• Lithuanian: vaivadija f
• Maltese: vojvodja
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: voivodskap

  Nynorsk: voivodskap

• Occitan: voivodat
• Ottoman Turkish: ویوده‌لق (vayvodalık)
• Polish: województwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: voivodato m, voivodia f
• Romanian: voievodat (ro) n, voivodat (ro) n
• Russian: воево́дство (ru) n (vojevódstvo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: во̀јводина f, во̀јводство

  Roman: vòjvodina f, vòjvodstvo (sh) n

• Silesian: wojewůdztwo n
• Slovak: vojvodstvo n
• Slovene: vọ̑jvodina (sl) f, vojvodstvo n
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: wójwodstwo

  Upper Sorbian: wójwodstwo

• Spanish: voivodato (es) m, voivodia f
• Swedish: vojvodskap (sv)
• Tagalog: boybodato, boybodiya
• Tatar: воеводство (woyewodstwo)
• Turkish: voyvodalık (tr)
• Ukrainian: воєво́дство (uk) n (vojevódstvo)
• Venetan: voivodato

highest-level administrative subdivision of Poland

• Afrikaans: woiwodskap
• Belarusian: ваяво́дства n (vajavódstva)
• Bulgarian: войво́дство n (vojvódstvo)
• Czech: vojvodství n
• Dutch: woiwodschap (nl) f
• Estonian: vojevoodkond
• Finnish: voivodikunta
• French: voïvodie (fr) f
• German: Woiwodschaft (de) f
• Hungarian: vajdaság (hu)
• Latvian: vojevodiste f
• Lithuanian: vaivadija f
• Macedonian: војводство n (vojvodstvo)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: voivodskap

  Nynorsk: voivodskap

• Polish: województwo (pl) n
• Russian: воево́дство (ru) n (vojevódstvo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: во̀јводство n

  Roman: vòjvodstvo (sh) n

• Slovak: vojvodstvo n
• Slovene: vojvodstvo n
• Swedish: vojvodskap (sv)
• Turkish: voyvodalık (tr)
• Ukrainian: воєво́дство (uk) n (vojevódstvo)

Further reading

• voivodeship on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• voivodeships of Poland on Wikipedia.Wikipedia