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From state +‎ -s- +‎ -man, modelled after French homme d’État.

• IPA(key): /ˈsteɪtsmən/

statesman (plural statesmen)

1. A man who is a leader in national or international affairs.
2. A male political leader who promotes the public good or who is recognized for probity, leadership, or the qualities necessary to govern a state.
3. (dialectal, Lake District) A man who lives on a landed estate; a small landholder.

• wealsman
• elder statesman
• statesmanship
• stateswoman
• statesperson

man who is a leader in national or international affairs

• Albanian: burrë shtet m

• Arabic: رَجُل دَوْلَة m (rajul dawla)

• Armenian: պետական գործիչ (petakan gorcičʻ)

• Azerbaijani: dövlət xadimi

• Belarusian: дзяржа́ўны дзе́яч m (dzjaržáŭny dzjéjač)

• Bulgarian: държа́вник (bg) m (dǎržávnik)

• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 政治家 (zh) (zhèngzhìjiā)

• Czech: státník (cs) m

• Danish: statsmand c

• Dutch: staatsman (nl) m

• Estonian: riigitegelane

• Finnish: valtiomies (fi)

• French: homme d’État (fr) m

• Georgian: სახელმწიფო მოღვაწე (saxelmc̣ipo moɣvac̣e)

• German: Staatsmann (de) m

• Hebrew: מְדִינַאי (he) m (medinái)

• Hindi: कूटनीतिज्ञ m (kūṭnītijña), स्टेट्समैन m (sṭeṭsamain)

• Hungarian: államférfi (hu)

• Indonesian: negarawan (id)

• Italian: uomo di stato m, statista (it) m or f

• Japanese: 政治家 (ja) (せいじか, seijika)

• Kazakh: мемлекеттік қайраткер (kk) (memlekettık qairatker)

• Khmer: រដ្ឋបុរស (rŏətborɑh)

• Korean: 정치가(政治家) (ko) (jeongchiga), 정치인(政治人) (ko) (jeongchiin)

• Kyrgyz: мамлекеттик ишмер (mamlekettik işmer)

• Lao: ລັດຖະບຸລຸດ (lat tha bu lut)

• Latvian: valstsvīrs m

• Lithuanian: valstybininkas m

• Macedonian: државник m (državnik)

• Malay: negarawan

• Norwegian:
  Bokmål: statsmann m
  Nynorsk: statsmann m

• Persian: زمامدار (fa) (zamâmdâr), دُولَت‌مَرد (dowlat-mard), رَجُلِ سیاسی (rajol-e siyâsi)

• Polish: mąż stanu (pl) m

• Portuguese: estadista (pt) m or f

• Romanian: om de stat (ro) m

• Russian: госуда́рственный де́ятель (ru) m (gosudárstvennyj déjatelʹ)

• Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: др̀жа̄внӣк m
  Latin: dr̀žāvnīk (sh) m

• Slovak: štátnik m

• Slovene: državnik (sl) m

• Spanish: estadista (es)

• Swedish: statsman (sv) c

• Tagalog: palabanwa

• Tajik: давлатмард (davlatmard), давлат арбоби (davlat arbob-i), ходими давлатӣ (xodim-i davlati)

• Thai: รัฐบุรุษ (th) (rát-tà-bù-rùt)

• Turkish: devlet adamı (tr)

• Ukrainian: держа́вний дія́ч m (deržávnyj dijáč)

• Uzbek: davlat arbobi

• “statesman”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “statesman”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• “statesman”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• IPA(key): /ˈstaːtsmən/

statesman

1. statesman
   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 7-9:
     and whilke we canna zei, albeit o' 'Governere,' 'Statesman,' an alike.
     and for which we have no words but of 'Governor,' 'Statesman,' &c.

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 114