immigrant

See also: Immigrant

English

Etymology

From Latin immigrans, present active participle of immigrāre (“to migrate into”), from in- (“into”) +‎ migrāre (“to migrate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪmɪɡɹənt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

immigrant (plural immigrants)

1. A non-native person who comes to a country from another country to permanently settle there.

   Approximately 1.5 million Mexicans are descendants of Irish immigrants.

   • 1964, John F. Kennedy, A Nation of Immigrants‎^[1], Revised and Enlarged edition, Harper & Row, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2:

     What Alexis de Tocqueville saw in America was a society of immigrants, each of whom had begun life anew, on an equal footing. This was the secret of America: a nation of people with the fresh memory of old traditions who dared to explore new frontiers, people eager to build lives for themselves in a spacious society that did not restrict their freedom of choice and action.

   • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 178, about Eynsford:

     The village was once well known for its paper-milling, founded by Huguenot immigrants in 1648, which produced high-quality hand-made paper until 1952.

   • 2019 July 15, Greg Afinogenov, “The Jewish Case for Open Borders”, in Jewish Currents‎^[2], number Summer 2019:

     [Stephen] Miller’s uncle, a neuroscientist, has been welcomed onto the public stage for his denunciations of his nephew’s immigration policies, which the elder Miller has characterized as hypocritical: the Millers’ not-so-distant Jewish ancestors were, of course, immigrants themselves.

2. A plant or animal that establishes itself in an area where it previously did not exist.

Antonyms

• emigrant

Derived terms

• antiimmigrant
• crimmigrant
• digital immigrant
• economic immigrant
• Euroimmigrant
• illegal immigrant
• landed immigrant
• new immigrant
• undocumented immigrant

 

Translations

person who comes to a country to settle

• Afrikaans: immigrant
• Albanian: mërgimtar (sq) m, imigrant (sq) m
• Arabic: مُهَاجِر m (muhājir), مُهَاجِرَة f (muhājira)
• Armenian: ներգաղթյալ (hy) (nergaġtʻyal)
• Azerbaijani: immiqrant, mühacir (az)
• Basque: etorkin
• Belarusian: імігра́нт m (imihránt), імігра́нтка f (imihrántka), перасяле́нец m (pjerasjaljénjec), перасяле́нка f (pjerasjaljénka)
• Bengali: অভিবাসী (bn) (obhibaśi)
• Bulgarian: имигра́нт (bg) m (imigránt), имигра́нтка f (imigrántka), пресе́лник (bg) m (presélnik), пресе́лничка f (presélnička)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: immigrant (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 移民 (ji⁴ man⁴)

  Mandarin: 移民 (zh) (yímín), 移民者 (zh) (yímínzhě)

• Czech: přistěhovalec m, přistěhovalkyně (cs) f, imigrant (cs) m, imigrantka f
• Danish: indvandrer (da) c, immigrant (da) c
• Dutch: inwijkeling (nl) m, ingewekene (nl), immigrant (nl) m
• Esperanto: enmigrinto
• Estonian: immigrant (et), sisserändaja
• Finnish: siirtolainen (fi), maahanmuuttaja (fi)
• French: immigrant (fr) m, immigrante (fr) f, immigré (fr) m, immigrée (fr) f
• Galician: inmigrante m or f
• Georgian: იმიგრანტი (imigranṭi)
• German: Einwanderer (de) m, Einwanderin (de) f, Immigrant (de) m, Immigrantin (de) f
• Greek: μετανάστης (el) m (metanástis)
• Hebrew: מְהַגֵּר m (m'hagér), מְהַגֶּרֶת f (m'hagéret)
• Hindi: आप्रवासी m (āpravāsī), मुहाजिर m (muhājir) (historical or Muslim context)
• Hungarian: bevándorló (hu)
• Icelandic: innflytjandi (is) m
• Indonesian: imigran (id), pendatang (id), orang pindah
• Irish: inimirceach m
• Italian: immigrante (it) m or f
• Japanese: 移民 (ja) (いみん, imin), 移住者 (ja) (いじゅうしゃ, ijūsha)
• Kazakh: келімсек (kelımsek)
• Khmer: ជនអន្តោប្រវេសន៍ (km) (cŭən ʼɑntaoprɑveeh),​ អន្តោប្រវេសន្ត (ʼɑntaoprɑveesɑn), ជននិគម (cŭən nikum)
• Korean: 이민(移民) (ko) (imin), 이민자(移民者) (iminja), 이주자(移住者) (ijuja)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: koçber (ku), mihacir (ku)

• Kyrgyz: иммигрант (immigrant)
• Lao: ຄົນເຂົ້າເມືອງ (khon khao mư̄ang)
• Latvian: imigrants m, ieceļotājs m
• Lithuanian: imigrantas m
• Macedonian: доселеник m (doselenik), доселеничка f (doselenička), имигра́нт m (imigránt), имигра́нтка f (imigrántka), преселник m (preselnik), преселничка f (preselnička)
• Malay: pendatang (ms)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: цагаач (mn) (cagaač), нүүсэн (nüüsen), шилжсэн (mn) (šilžsen), цагаачлагч (mn) (cagaačlagč), имѝгранткиња f

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: innvandrer (no) m, immigrant (no) m

  Nynorsk: innvandrar m, immigrant m

• Occitan: immigrant m, immigranta f
• Pashto: مهاجر (ps) m (mohāǰér)
• Persian: مهاجر (fa) (mohâjer)
• Plautdietsch: Immigraunt m
• Polish: imigrant (pl) m, imigrantka (pl) f
• Portuguese: imigrante (pt) m or f
• Romanian: imigrant (ro) m, imigrantă (ro) f
• Russian: иммигра́нт (ru) m (immigránt), иммигра́нтка (ru) f (immigrántka), переселе́нец (ru) m (pereselénec), переселе́нка (ru) f (pereselénka)
• Scottish Gaelic: in-imriche m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: досељѐнӣк m, досељѐница f, имѝгрант m, имѝгранткиња f

  Roman: doseljènīk (sh) m, doseljènica (sh) f, imìgrant (sh) m, imìgrantkinja f

• Slovak: prisťahovalec m, prisťahovalkyňa f, imigrant m, imigrantka f
• Slovene: priseljenec m, priseljenka f, imigrant m, imigrantka f
• Spanish: inmigrante (es) m or f
• Swedish: invandrare (sv) c, immigrant (sv) c
• Tagalog: manunuludbayan
• Tajik: муҳоҷир (muhojir)
• Thai: ผู้อพยพ (pûu-òp-pá-yóp)
• Tibetan: གཞིས་ཆགས་ལ་ཡོང་པའི་མི (gzhis chags la yong pa'i mi)
• Turkish: göçmen (tr), muhacir (tr)
• Turkmen: immigrant
• Ukrainian: іммігра́нт m (immihránt), іммігра́нтка f (immihrántka), переселе́нець m (pereselénecʹ), переселе́нка f (pereselénka)
• Urdu: مہاجر m (muhājir)
• Uyghur: كۆچمەن (köchmen)
• Uzbek: immigrant (uz), muhojir (uz)
• Vietnamese: dân nhập cư, nhập cư (vi)
• Volapük: (♂♀) nütevan, (♂) hinütevan, (♀) jinütevan, (collective ♂♀) nütevanef, (collective ♂) hinütevanef, (collective ♀) jinütevanef
• Welsh: mewnfudwr (cy)
• Yiddish: אימיגראַנט m (imigrant), אײַנוואַנדערער m (aynvanderer), אײַנגעוואַנדערטער m (ayngevanderter)

plant or animal

• Japanese: 帰化植物 (きかしょくぶつ, kika shokubutsu) (plant), 外来動物 (がいらいどうぶつ, gairai dōbutsu) (animal)

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• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} inmigrante (es)

Adjective

immigrant (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to immigrants or the act of immigrating.

See also

• expatriate

Anagrams

• Marmiting

Aragonese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /immiˈɡɾan/
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: im‧mi‧grant

Noun

immigrant m

1. immigrant

Adjective

immigrant

1. immigrant

References

• Diccionario ortografico de l'aragonés (Seguntes la PO de l'EFA)

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [im.miˈɣɾan]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [im.miˈɣɾant]

Noun

immigrant m (plural immigrants)

1. immigrant

Adjective

immigrant m or f (masculine and feminine plural immigrants)

1. immigrant

Verb

immigrant

1. gerund of immigrar

Danish

Noun

immigrant c (singular definite immigranten, plural indefinite immigranter)

1. immigrant

   Synonym: indvandrer

Declension

Declension of immigrant

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	immigrant	immigranten	immigranter	immigranterne
genitive	immigrants	immigrantens	immigranters	immigranternes

Further reading

• “immigrant” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

From immigreren +‎ -ant.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: im‧migrant

Noun

immigrant m (plural immigranten, diminutive immigrantje n, feminine immigrante)

1. immigrant

Related terms

• immigreren, immigratie

Further reading

• “immigrant” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

French

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Participle

immigrant

1. present participle of immigrer

Noun

immigrant m (plural immigrants)

1. immigrant

Adjective

immigrant (feminine immigrante, masculine plural immigrants, feminine plural immigrantes)

1. (relational) immigrant

Further reading

• “immigrant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Verb

immigrant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of immigrō

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin immigrans.

Noun

immigrant m (definite singular immigranten, indefinite plural immigranter, definite plural immigrantene)

1. an immigrant

Synonyms

• innvandrer

References

• “immigrant” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “immigrant” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin immigrans.

Noun

immigrant m (definite singular immigranten, indefinite plural immigrantar, definite plural immigrantane)

1. an immigrant

Synonyms

• innvandrar

References

• “immigrant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Noun

immigrant c

1. an immigrant

   Synonym: invandrare

   Antonyms: emigrant, utvandrare

Declension

Declension of immigrant

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	immigrant	immigrants
	definite	immigranten	immigrantens
plural	indefinite	immigranter	immigranters
	definite	immigranterna	immigranternas

Related terms

• immigration
• immigrera

See also

• asylsökande (“asylum seeker”)
• migration

References

• immigrant in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• immigrant in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• immigrant in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)