flóttamaður

Icelandic

Etymology

From flótti (“flight”) +‎ maður (“person”).

Noun

flóttamaður m (genitive singular flóttamanns, nominative plural flóttamenn)

1. refugee

Declension

Declension of flóttamaður (masculine irreg-stem, based on maður)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	flóttamaður	flóttamaðurinn	flóttamenn	flóttamennirnir
accusative	flóttamann	flóttamanninn	flóttamenn	flóttamennina
dative	flóttamanni	flóttamanninum	flóttamönnum	flóttamönnunum
genitive	flóttamanns	flóttamannsins	flóttamanna	flóttamannanna

Derived terms

• flóttamannaaðstoð
• flóttamannabúðir
• flóttamannahjálp
• flóttamannastraumur

Further reading

• “flóttamaður” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)