despotism

Etymology
From ; equivalent to.

Noun

 * 1) Government by a despot or despots: rule by a singular authority, either a single person or a tight-knit group, which rules with absolute power, especially in a cruel and oppressive way.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: ,
 * Armenian: ,
 * Asturian: despotismu
 * Azerbaijani: despotizm, ,
 * Basque: despotismo
 * Belarusian: дэспаты́зм
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: despotisme
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Czech: despotismus,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: დესპოტიზმი
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: harðstjórn
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish: forlámhas, smachtúlacht, tíorántacht
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 独裁主義, ,
 * Kazakh: деспотизм
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:, ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Latin: despotismus
 * Latvian: despotisms
 * Lithuanian: despotizmas
 * Macedonian: деспоти́зам
 * Malay: despotisme
 * Mingrelian: დესპოტიზმი
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: despoti
 * Nynorsk: despoti
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਧੱਕੇਸ਼ਾਹੀ
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: деспотѝзам
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: despotizmus
 * Slovene: despotizem
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: despoti,
 * Tajik: истибдод, зулм
 * Thai: ระบบใช้อำนาจเด็ดขาด
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: деспоти́зм
 * Urdu: اِسْتِبْدَاد
 * Uzbek:, ,
 * Volapük:

Etymology
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