anarchy

English

Etymology

From New Latin anarchia, from Ancient Greek ἀναρχία (anarkhía).

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈæ.nə.ki/
(US) enPR: ănʹär-kē, IPA^(key): /ˈæn.ɑɹ.ki/

Noun

anarchy (countable and uncountable, plural anarchies)

(uncountable) The state of a society being without authorities or an authoritative governing body.
(uncountable) Anarchism; the political theory that a community is best organized by the voluntary cooperation of individuals, rather than by a government, which is regarded as being coercive by nature.
(countable) A chaotic and confusing absence of any form of political authority or government.
Confusion in general; disorder.

Synonyms

see Thesaurus:disorder

Antonyms

(all senses): nonanarchy (rare)
(disorder): order

Derived terms

anarchic
anarchical
anarchically
anarchism
anarchist
anarcho-

Translations

absence of any form of political authority or government

Arabic: فَوْضَى‎ f (fawḍā)
Armenian: անիշխանություն (hy) (anišxanutʿyun)
Asturian: anarquía f
Basque: anarkia
Belarusian: ана́рхія f (anárxija)
Bulgarian: ана́рхия (bg) f (anárhija), безвла́стие (bg) n (bezvlástie)
Catalan: anarquia (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 無政府狀態, 无政府状态 (wúzhèngfǔ zhuàngtài)
Czech: anarchie (cs) f, bezvládí n
Danish: anarki (da) n
Dutch: anarchie (nl) f, regeringsloosheid f
Esperanto: anarkio, anarĥio
Estonian: anarhia
Faroese: stjórnarloysi n
Finnish: anarkia (fi)
French: anarchie (fr) f
Galician: anarquía (gl) f
Georgian: ანარქია (anarkia)
German: Anarchie (de) f
Greek: αναρχία (el) f (anarchía)
Hebrew: אנרכיה‎ (he) f (anárkhia)
Hindi: अराजकता (hi) f (arājakatā)
Hungarian: anarchia (hu)
Icelandic: stjórnleysi (is) n
Irish: anlathas m, ainriail f
Italian: anarchia (it) f

Japanese: 無政府状態 (むせいふじょうたい, museifu jōtai)
Khmer: អនាធិបតេយ្យ (km) (a’naatʰippa’tay)
Korean: 무정부 상태 (mujeongbu sangtae) (無政府狀態)
Latin: anarchia f
Lithuanian: anarchija (lt) f
Macedonian: анархија f (anarhija)
Maori: turekoretanga
Norman: anarchie f (Jersey)
Norwegian: anarki (no) n
Persian: آنارشی‎ (fa) (ânârši)
Polish: anarchia (pl)
Portuguese: anarquia (pt) f
Romanian: anarhie (ro)
Russian: ана́рхия (ru) f (anárxija), безвла́стие (ru) n (bezvlástije)
Samogitian: anarkėjė f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ана̀рхија f, бѐспра̄вље n, беза́коње n, бѐзвла̄шће n
Roman: anàrhija (sh) f, bèsprāvlje (sh) n, bezákonje (sh) n, bèzvlāšće (sh) n
Sinhalese: අරාජික (arājika)
Spanish: anarquía (es) f
Swedish: anarki (sv) c
Tagalog: anarkiya (tl)
Thai: อนาธิปไตย (à-naa-tí-bpà-dtai)
Turkish: anarşi (tr)
Ukrainian: ана́рхія (uk) f (anárxija)
Vietnamese: tình trạng vô chính phủ

political disorder and confusion

Bulgarian: ана́рхия (bg) f (anárhija), безре́дие (bg) n (bezrédie)
Catalan: anarquia (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 無政府狀態, 无政府状态 (wúzhèngfǔ zhuàngtài)
Czech: anarchie (cs) f, bezvládí n, zmatek (cs) m
Danish: anarki (da) n
Dutch: anarchie (nl) f
Estonian: anarhia
Finnish: anarkia (fi)
French: anarchie (fr) f
Georgian: ანარქია (anarkia)
German: Anarchie (de) f
Greek: αναρχία (el) f (anarchía)
Icelandic: stjórnleysi (is) n
Irish: anlathas m, ainriail f
Italian: anarchia (it) f
Japanese: 跳梁跋扈 (chōryōbakko)

Khmer: អនាធិបតេយ្យ (km) (a’naatʰippa’tay)
Latin: anarchia f
Macedonian: анархија f (anarhija)
Norman: anarchie f (Jersey)
Norwegian: anarki (no) n, vanstyre n
Persian: هرج و مرج‎ (fa)
Polish: anarchia (pl), bezprawie (pl) n, swawola n
Portuguese: anarquia (pt) f
Romanian: anarhie (ro)
Russian: ана́рхия (ru) f (anárxija), безвла́стие (ru) n (bezvlástije)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ана̀рхија f
Roman: anàrhija (sh) f
Spanish: anarquía (es) f
Swedish: anarki (sv) c
Thai: อนาธิปไตย (à-naa-tí-bpà-dtai)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

Azerbaijani: ^{(please verify)} anarxiya
Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} anarkio, ^{(please verify)} anarĥio

Kyrgyz: ^{(please verify)} анархия (ky) (anarhiya)