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==English==
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===Etymology===
From the adjective {{m|en|politic}}, by analogy with Aristotle’s {{m|grc|[[τά]] [[πολῑτῐκᾱ́]]||affairs of state}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/ˈpɒl.ɪ.tɪks/|/ˈpɒl.ə.tɪks/|a=RP}}
** {{audio|en|En-uk-politics.ogg|a=UK}}
* {{IPA|en|/ˈpɑ.lɪˌtɪks/|/ˈpɑ.ləˌtɪks/|a=GenAm}}
** {{audio|en|en-us-politics.ogg|a=US}}
* {{hyphenation|en|pol|i|tics}}

===Noun===
{{en-noun|~|politics}}

# {{lb|en|countable}} A [[methodology]] and activities associated with running a [[government]], an organization, or a movement.
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1996|author=Jan Jindy Pettman|title=Worlding Women: A feminist international politics|pages=ix-x
|passage=There are by now many feminisms (Tong, 1989; Humm, 1992). [...] They are in shifting alliance or contest with postmodern critiques, which at times seem to threaten the very category 'women' and its possibilities for a feminist '''politics'''.}}
# {{lb|en|countable}} The [[profession]] of conducting political affairs.
#: {{ux|en|He made a career out of '''politics'''.}}
# {{lb|en| treated as a plural noun}} One's political stands and opinions.
#: {{ux|en|Their '''politics''' are clear from the bumper stickers on their cars.}}
# {{lb|en|uncountable}} Political maneuvers or [[diplomacy]] between people, groups, or organizations, especially involving power, standing, influence or conflict.
#* {{quote-av|en|actor=w:Ian McDiarmid|role=Senator Palpatine|title={{w|Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace}}|writer=w:George Lucas|year=1999|passage=There is no stability; only '''politics'''. The Republic is not what it once was. The Senate is full of greedy, squabbling delegates. There is no interest in the common good.}}
# {{lb|en|in the singular|informal}} [[real-world|Real-world]] [[belief]]s and [[social issue]]s [[irrelevant]] to the [[topic]] [[at hand]].
#: {{ux|en|We're trying to talk about comic books, don't mention '''politics'''.}}

===Verb===
{{head|en|verb form}}

# {{infl of|en|politic||s-verb-form}}

====Derived terms====
{{der4|en|a week is a long time in politics|agri-politics|all politics are local|dog whistle politics|dog-whistle politics|gesture politics|high politics|identity politics|low politics|ostrich politics|palace-politics|parish pump politics|party politics|play politics|power politics|respectability politics|rubber stamp politics|office politics
|all politics is local
|geopolitics
|necropolitics
|palace politics
|petropolitics
|politic
|political
|politician| machine politics|politics of envy
|politicize|aeropolitics|antipolitics|astropolitics|biopolitics|bolitics|cosmopolitics|cyberpolitics|domopolitics|econopolitics|ecopolitics|ethnopolitics|Europolitics|exopolitics|genopolitics|infrapolitics|macropolitics|megapolitics|metapolitics|micropolitics|narcopolitics|neuropolitics|parapolitics|politard|politologist|politology|politonym|politrickery|politricks|psychopolitics|schizopolitics|sociopolitics|superpolitics|technopolitics|telepolitics
|retail politics
|sexual politics
|wedge politics}}
====Related terms====
{{rel-top3|Terms etymologically related to ''politics''}}
* {{l|en|police}}
* {{l|en|policy}}
* {{l|en|polity}}
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====Translations====
{{trans-top|a methodology and activities associated with running a government}}
* Abkhaz: {{t|ab|аполитика}}
* Afrikaans: {{t+|af|politiek}}
* Albanian: {{t+|sq|politikë|f}}
* Amharic: {{t|am|ፖለቲካ}}
* Arabic: {{t+|ar|سِيَاسَة|f}}
*: Egyptian Arabic: {{t|arz|سياسة|f|tr=siyāsa}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|քաղաքականություն}}
* Assamese: {{t|as|ৰাজনীতি}}
* Asturian: {{t|ast|política|f}}
* Azerbaijani:
*: Abjad: {{t|az|سیاست|tr=siāsæt}}
*: Roman: {{t+|az|siyasət}}, {{t+|az|politika}}
* Bashkir: {{t|ba|сәйәсәт}}, {{t|ba|политика}}
* Basque: {{t+|eu|politika}}
* Belarusian: {{t+|be|палі́тыка|f}}
* Bengali: {{t+|bn|রাজনীতি}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|поли́тика|f}}
* Burmese: {{t+|my|နိုင်ငံရေး}}
* Buryat: {{t|bua|улас түрэ}}
* Carpathian Rusyn: {{t|rue|полі́тіка|f}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|política|f}}
* Chechen: {{t|ce|политика}}
* Chinese:
*: Cantonese: {{t|yue|政治}}
*: Dungan: {{t|dng|җынҗы}}
*: Eastern Min: {{t|cdo|政治}}
*: Hakka: {{t|hak|政治|tr=chṳn-chhṳ}}
*: Hokkien: {{t+|nan-hbl|政治|tr=chèng-tī}}
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|政治|tr=zhèngzhì}}
*: Wu: {{t|wuu|政治}}
* Cornish: {{t|kw|politegieth|f}}
* Crimean Tatar: {{t|crh|siyaset}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|politika|f}}
* Danish: {{t+|da|politik|c}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|politiek|f}}
* Esperanto: {{t|eo|politiko}}
* Estonian: {{t+|et|poliitika}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|politiikka}}
* French: {{t+|fr|politique|f}}
* Gagauz: {{t|gag|politika}}
* Galician: {{t+|gl|política|f}}
* Georgian: {{t|ka|პოლიტიკა}}
* German: {{t+|de|Politik|f}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|πολιτική|f}}
*: Ancient: {{t|grc|πολιτική|f}}
* Greenlandic: {{t|kl|politikki}}
* Gujarati: {{t|gu|રાજકારણ}}
* Haitian Creole: {{t|ht|politik}}
* Hausa: {{t+|ha|siyasa}}
* Hebrew: {{t+|he|פּוֹלִיטִיקָה|f|tr=polítika}}
* Hindi: {{t+|hi|राजनीति|f}}, {{t+|hi|सियासत|f}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|politika}}
* Icelandic: {{t+|is|stjórnmál|n-p}}
* Indonesian: {{t+|id|politik}}, {{t+|id|siasat}}, {{t+|id|siasah}}
* Interlingua: {{t|ia|politica|f}}
* Irish: {{t|ga|polaitíocht}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|politica|f}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|政治|tr=せいじ, seiji}}
* Jarai: {{t|jra|kơđi čar}}
* Javanese: {{t|jv|naya}}, {{t+|jv|pulitik}}
* Kalmyk: {{t|xal|төршл}}
* Kannada: {{t+|kn|ರಾಜಕೀಯ}}
* Karachay-Balkar: {{t|krc|политика}}, {{t|krc|сиясат}}
* Kazakh: {{t+|kk|саясат}}
* Khmer: {{t+|km|នយោបាយ}}
* Korean: {{t+|ko|정치(政治)}}
* Kumyk: {{t|kum|сиясат}}
* Kurdish:
*: Northern Kurdish: {{t+|kmr|ramyarî}}, {{t+|kmr|siyaset}}, {{t+|kmr|rêzanî}}, {{t+|kmr|polîtîka}}
* Kyrgyz: {{t+|ky|саясат}}, {{t|ky|политика}}
* Lao: {{t+|lo|ການເມືອງ}}
* Latin: {{t|la|cīvīlitās|f}}
* Latvian: {{t|lv|politika|f}}
* Lithuanian: {{t+|lt|politika|f}}
* Macedonian: {{t+|mk|политика|f}}
* Malay: {{t+|ms|politik}}, {{t+|ms|siasah}}
* Malayalam: {{t+|ml|രാഷ്ട്രീയം}}
* Maltese: {{t|mt|politika|f}}
* Manchu: {{t|mnc|ᡩᠠᠰᠠᠨ}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|tōrangapū}}
* Marathi: {{t|mr|राजकारण}}
* Moksha: {{t|mdf|политиксь}}, {{t|mdf|политика}}
* Mongolian:
*: Cyrillic: {{t|mn|улс төр}}
* Moroccan Amazigh: {{t|zgh|ⵜⴰⵙⵔⵜⵉⵜ|f}}
* Nepali: {{t+|ne|राजनीति}}
* Norman: {{t|nrf|politique|f}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{t+|nb|politikk|m}}
*: Nynorsk: {{t+|no|politikk|m}}
* Odia: {{t+|or|ରାଜନୀତି}}
* Okinawan: {{t|ryu|政治|tr=しーじ, shiiji}}
* Oromo: {{t|om|siyaasa}}
* Ossetian: {{t|os|политикӕ}}
* Pashto: {{t+|ps|سياست|m|tr=seyāsat}}
* Persian:
*: Dari: {{t+|prs|سِیَاسَت}}
*: Iranian Persian: {{t+|fa-ira|سِیاسَت}}, {{t|fa-ira|پُلیتیک}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|polityka|f}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|política|f}}
* Punjabi: {{t+|pa|ਸਿਆਸਤ}}, {{t|pa|ਰਾਜਨੀਤੀ}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|politică|f}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|поли́тика|f}}
* Scottish Gaelic: {{t|gd|sluagh-iùl|m}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Cyrillic: {{t|sh|полѝтика|f}}
*: Roman: {{t+|sh|polìtika|f}}
* Sinhalese: {{t|si|රාජනීතිය}}
* Slovak: {{t|sk|politika|f}}
* Slovene: {{t+|sl|politika|f}}
* Somali: {{t|so|siyaasadda}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|política|f}}
* Swahili: {{t+|sw|siasa}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|politik|c}}
* Tagalog: {{t+|tl|politika}}
* Tajik: {{t+|tg|сиёсат}}, {{t|tg|политика}}
* Tamil: {{t+|ta|அரசியல்}}
* Tatar: {{t+|tt|сәясәт}}, {{t|tt|политика}}
* Telugu: {{t+|te|రాజకీయాలు}}
* Tetum: {{t|tet|polítika}}
* Thai: {{t+|th|การเมือง}}
* Tibetan: {{t|bo|སྲིད་དོན}}, {{t|bo|ཆབ་སྲིད}}
* Tigrinya: {{t|ti|ፖለቲካ}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|politika}}, {{t+|tr|siyaset}}
* Turkmen: {{t+|tk|syýasat}}, {{t|tk|politika}}
* Ukrainian: {{t+|uk|полі́тика|f}}
* Urdu: {{t|ur|سِیاسَت|f}}, {{t|ur|راج نِیتی|f}},
* Uyghur: {{t+|ug|سىياسەت}}
* Uzbek: {{t+|uz|siyosat}}, {{t+|uz|politika}}
* Vietnamese: {{t+|vi|chính trị}} ({{t|vi|政治}})
* Welsh: {{t+|cy|gwleidyddiaeth|f}}
* Yakut: {{t|sah|бэлиитикэ}}, {{t|sah|политика}}
* Yiddish: {{t|yi|פּאָליטיק|f}}
* Yoruba: {{t|yo|ìṣèlú}}
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===Further reading===
* {{R:Webster 1913}}
* {{R:Century 1911}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=ciilopst|colpitis|psilotic}}

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