immigrate

English

Etymology

From Latin immigratus, past participle of immigro (“remove, move into”).

Pronunciation

enPR: ĭʹmĭ.grāt'
(Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɪmɪɡɹeɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Homophone: emigrate (pin–pen merger)

Verb

immigrate (third-person singular simple present immigrates, present participle immigrating, simple past and past participle immigrated)

(intransitive) To move into a foreign country to stay permanently.

Antonyms

emigrate

Derived terms

Related terms

migrate

Translations

to move into a foreign country or area

Arabic: هَاجَرَ (ar) (hājara)
Armenian: ներգաղթել (hy) (nergaġtʻel)
Bulgarian: емигрирам (emigriram), преселвам се (preselvam se)
Burmese: please add this translation if you can
Catalan: immigrar (ca)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 移民 (ji⁴ man⁴)

Mandarin: 移民 (zh) (yímín), 移居 (zh) (yíjū)
Danish: immigrere, indvandre
Dutch: immigreren (nl)
Esperanto: enmigri
Finnish: muuttaa maahan
French: immigrer (fr)
German: einwandern (de), immigrieren (de)
Hebrew: להגר (lehagér)
Ido: enmigrar (io)
Italian: immigrare (it)
Japanese: 移住する (ja) (いじゅうする, ijū suru), 移民する (ja) (いみんする, imin suru)
Khmer: ធ្វើអន្តោប្រវេសន៍ (thvəə ʼɑntaoprɑveeh)
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian: immigrere
Polish: imigrować (pl)
Portuguese: imigrar (pt)
Russian: иммигри́ровать (ru) impf or pf (immigrírovatʹ), переселя́ться (ru) impf (pereseljátʹsja), пересели́ться (ru) pf (pereselítʹsja)
Scottish Gaelic: dèan in-imrich
Serbo-Croatian: imigrirati (sh), имигрирати
Spanish: inmigrar (es)
Swedish: immigrera (sv), invandra (sv)
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: göçmek (tr), göç etmek (tr)
Vietnamese: nhập cư (vi)
Yiddish: אײַנוואַנדערן (aynvandern)

Italian

Adjective

immigrate f pl

feminine plural of immigrato

Noun

immigrate f

plural of immigrata

Verb

immigrate

inflection of immigrare:

Latin

Verb

immigrāte

second-person plural present active imperative of immigrō