transmigration

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin trānsmigrātiō.

Noun

transmigration (countable and uncountable, plural transmigrations)

Departure from one's homeland to live in another country; migration.
A change from one state of existence to another.
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 109:
  Any great change is like cold water in winter—one shrinks from the first plunge; and a lover may be excused who shivers a little at the transmigration into a husband.
The movement of a soul from one body to another after death; metempsychosis.
- 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page 12:
  The curioſity of the lady was highly inflamed, to know the hiſtory of the parrot's tranſmigration, which ſhe intreated the bird with all her eloquence to relate; but he preſented a deaf ear to her importunity, and, like a painted nightingale, remained ſilent.
- 1776, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol I, ch 1-pt i:
  To the strength and fierceness of barbarians they [the Dacians] added a contempt for life, which was derived from a warm persuasion of the immortality and transmigration of the soul.

Related terms

Translations

departure

Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian: преселване (preselvane)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 移居 (zh) (yíjū), 移民 (zh) (yímín)
Esperanto: transmigrado
Finnish: muutto toiseen maahan
French: transmigration (fr) f
Greek: μετανάστευση (el) f (metanástefsi), αποδημία (el) f (apodimía)
Irish: imaistriú m, trasimirce f
Japanese: please add this translation if you can
Khmer: ចំណាកស្រុក (km) (cɑmnaak srok)
Latin: trānsmigrātiō f
Russian: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: migración (es) f
Swedish: transmigration (sv)
Tibetan: please add this translation if you can

movement of a soul

Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian: превъплъщение (bg) n (prevǎplǎštenie)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 轉世 / 转世 (zh) (zhuǎnshì), 輪迴 / 轮回 (zh) (lúnhuí)
Esperanto: animomigrado, metempsikozo, transmigrado
Finnish: sielunvaellus (fi)
French: transmigration (fr) f
Galician: transmigración (gl) f
Greek: μετεμψύχωση (el) f (metempsýchosi)
Ancient Greek: μετεμψύχωσις f (metempsúkhōsis), μετενσωμάτωσις f (metensōmátōsis), μεταγγισμός m (metangismós)
Irish: athchollúchas m, anamimirce f
Japanese: 転生 (ja) (てんせい, tensei), 転生 (ja) (てんしょう, tenshō)
Khmer: សង្សារ (km) (sɑngsaa)
Latin: trānsmigrātiō f, metempsȳchōsis f, metensōmatōsis f
Russian: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: transmigración (es) f
Swedish: själavandring (sv) c
Tibetan: ཕོ (pho)

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