See theocracy on Wiktionary
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"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "government under the control of a Church",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "teokratija"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "teokratija",
"sense": "government under the control of a Church",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "теократија"
},
{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "government under the control of a Church",
"word": "teokrasi"
},
{
"code": "mt",
"lang": "Maltese",
"sense": "government under the control of a Church",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "teokrazija"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "government under the control of a Church",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "teokrati"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "government under the control of a Church",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "teokrati"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "government under the control of a Church",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "teocracia"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "te'okrâsi",
"sense": "government under the control of a Church",
"word": "تئوکراسی"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "government under the control of a Church",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "teokracja"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "government under the control of a Church",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "teocracia"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "government under the control of a Church",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "teocrație"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "teokrátija",
"sense": "government under the control of a Church",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "теокра́тия"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "government under the control of a Church",
"tags": [
"Bosnia",
"Cyrillic",
"Serbia",
"feminine"
],
"word": "теократија"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "government under the control of a Church",
"tags": [
"Croatia",
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "теокрација"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "government under the control of a Church",
"tags": [
"Bosnia",
"Roman",
"Serbia",
"feminine"
],
"word": "teokratija"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "government under the control of a Church",
"tags": [
"Croatia",
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "teokracija"
},
{
"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
"sense": "government under the control of a Church",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "teocrazzìa"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "government under the control of a Church",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "teokracia"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "government under the control of a Church",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "teokracija"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "government under the control of a Church",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "teocracia"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "government under the control of a Church",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "teokrati"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "government under the control of a Church",
"word": "teokrasya"
},
{
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "teokratiya",
"sense": "government under the control of a Church",
"word": "теократия"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "tee-waa-tí-bpà-dtai",
"sense": "government under the control of a Church",
"word": "เทวาธิปไตย"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "government under the control of a Church",
"word": "teokrasi"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "teokrátija",
"sense": "government under the control of a Church",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "теокра́тія"
},
{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "government under the control of a Church",
"word": "teokratiya"
},
{
"alt": "神權",
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "government under the control of a Church",
"word": "thần quyền"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "teokratsye",
"sense": "government under the control of a Church",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "טעאָקראַציע"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "rule by God or gods",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "teocràcia"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "rule by God or gods",
"word": "teokratia"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "rule by God or gods",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "théocratie"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "rule by God or gods",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "guðveldi"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "rule by God or gods",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "teocracia"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "tee-waa-tí-bpà-dtai",
"sense": "rule by God or gods",
"word": "เทวาธิปไตย"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"theocracy"
],
"word": "theocracy"
}
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