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English
Etymology
From Middle French dynastie, from Late Latin dynastia, from Ancient Greek δυναστεία (dunasteía, “power, dominion”).
Pronunciation
Noun
dynasty (plural dynasties)
- A series of rulers or dynasts from one family.
- Synonyms: house, lineage
- Hapsburg dynasty; Ottoman dynasty
- (East Asian history) The polity or historical era under the rule of a certain dynasty.
- During the Ming dynasty, China was ruled by the Zhu family.
- (sports) A team or organization which has an extended period of success or dominant performance.
Derived terms
Translations
a series of rulers or dynasts from one family
- Afrikaans: dinastie
- Albanian: dinastia
- Amharic: ሥርወ መንግሥት (śərwä mängəśt)
- Arabic: سُلَالَة f (sulāla)
- Aramaic:
- Classical Syriac: ܡܠܟܘܬܐ f
- Armenian: դինաստիա (hy) (dinastia), հարստություն (hy) (harstutʻyun), տուն (hy) (tun)
- Azerbaijani: sülalə (az)
- Bashkir: династия (dinastiya)
- Basque: dinastia (eu)
- Belarusian: дына́стыя f (dynástyja)
- Bengali: রাজবংশ (bn) (rajboṅśo)
- Breton: tierniezh f
- Bulgarian: дина́стия (bg) f (dinástija)
- Burmese: မင်းဆက် (my) (mang:hcak)
- Catalan: dinastia (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 王朝 (zh) (wángcháo), 朝 (zh) (cháo), 王家 (zh) (wángjiā)
- Czech: dynastie (cs) f
- Danish: dynasti n
- Dutch: dynastie (nl) f, heersersfamilie f, heersersgeslacht n
- Esperanto: dinastio
- Estonian: dünastia
- Faroese: valdsharraætt f
- Finnish: dynastia (fi)
- French: dynastie (fr) f
- Galician: dinastía f
- Georgian: დინასტია (dinasṭia)
- German: Dynastie (de) f, Herrschergeschlecht n, Herrscherhaus (de) f, Herrscherhaus (de) n
- Greek: δυναστεία (el) f (dynasteía)
- Ancient: δῠνᾰστείᾱ f (dunasteíā)
- Gujarati: રાજવંશ m (rājvãś)
- Hebrew: שושלת (he) f (shoshélet)
- Hindi: राजकुल (hi) m (rājkul), राजवंश (hi) m (rājvañś), ख़ानदान m (xāndān)
- Hungarian: dinasztia (hu), uralkodóház (hu)
- Icelandic: konungsætt (is) f, keisaraætt f
- Ido: dinastio (io)
- Indonesian: wangsa (id), ahala (id), dinasti (id)
- Irish: ríshliocht m, ríora m
- Italian: dinastia (it) f
- Japanese: 王朝 (ja) (おうちょう, ōchō), 王家 (ja) (おうけ, ōke)
- Javanese: wangsa (jv)
- Kannada: ರಾಜವಂಶ (kn) (rājavaṃśa)
- Kazakh: әулет (äulet), династия (dinastiä)
- Khmer: រាជវង្ស (riəc vŭəng), ខត្តិវង្ស (khattevŭəng), រាជ្យ (km) (riəc), វង្ស (km) (vŭəng)
- Korean: 왕조(王朝) (wangjo) (general), 왕가(王家) (wangga) (general), 황가(皇家) (hwangga) (imperial Chinese), 가(家) (ko) (ga)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: خانەدان (xanedan)
- Northern Kurdish: xanedan (ku)
- Kyrgyz: династия (ky) (dinastiya), сулале (sulale)
- Lao: ລາຊະວົງ (lā sa wong), ວົງ (wong)
- Latin: dynastia f
- Latvian: dinastija (lv) f
- Lithuanian: dinastija f
- Luxembourgish: Dynastie f
- Macedonian: династија f (dinastija)
- Malay: dinasti
- Malayalam: രാജവംശം (ml) (rājavaṁśaṁ)
- Maltese: dinastija f
- Marathi: राजवंश (rājvauśa)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: угсаа (mn) (ugsaa)
- Nepali: राजवंश (rājavaṅśa)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: dynasti n
- Nynorsk: dynasti n
- Occitan: dinastia (oc) f
- Odia: ରାଜବଂଶୀୟ (rājabaṁśiya)
- Pashto: سلاله f (solāla), خاندان (ps) m (xānadān)
- Persian: سلسله (fa) (selsele), دودمان (fa) (dudmân)
- Polish: dynastia (pl) f
- Portuguese: dinastia (pt) f
- Punjabi: ਰਾਜਵੰਸ਼ (rājvãś)
- Romanian: dinastie (ro) f
- Russian: дина́стия (ru) f (dinástija)
- Sanskrit: राजवंश (sa) m (rājavaṃśa)
- Scots: deenasty
- Scottish Gaelic: rìgh-shliochd m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: дина́стија f
- Roman: dinástija (sh) f
- Sinhalese: රාජවංශය (rājawaṁśaya)
- Slovak: dynastia f
- Slovene: dinastíja (sl) f
- Spanish: dinastía (es) f
- Swahili: nasaba (sw)
- Swedish: dynasti (sv) c
- Tagalog: halari, dinastiya
- Tajik: сулола (sulola)
- Tamil: வம்சம் (ta) (vamcam), ராஜவம்சம் (rājavamcam)
- Telugu: వంశం (te) (vaṁśaṁ)
- Thai: ราชวงศ์ (th) (râat-chá-wong), วงศ์ (th) (wong)
- Tibetan: རྒྱལ་རབས། (rgyal rabs)
- Turkish: hanedan (tr)
- Turkmen: dinastiýa, nebere
- Ukrainian: дина́стія f (dynástija)
- Urdu: خاندان m (xāndān)
- Uyghur: سۇلالە (sulale)
- Uzbek: sulola (uz), dinastiya (uz)
- Vietnamese: triều đại (vi) (朝代), vương triều (vi) (王朝)
- Welsh: brenhinllin f
- West Frisian: dynasty
- Yiddish: דינאַסטיע f (dinastye)
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era or polity under a certain dynasty, especially in East Asian history