immigrant

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/

Noun

immigrant (plural immigrants)

1. A non-native person who comes to a country from another country to permanently settle there.
   • 1964, Kennedy, John F., A Nation of Immigrants‎, Revised and Enlarged edition, Harper & Row, LCCN 64-7830, OCLC 899031989, 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.

   • 2019 July 15, Greg Afinogenov, “The Jewish Case for Open Borders”, in Jewish Currents‎, 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
• economic immigrant
• Euroimmigrant
• illegal immigrant
• landed 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) (nergałtʿyal) Azerbaijani: immiqrant, mühacir (az) Belarusian: імігра́нт m (imihránt), імігра́нтка f (imihrántka), перасяле́нец m (pjerasjaljénjec), перасяле́нка f (pjerasjaljénka) Bengali: অভিবাসী (ôbhibasī) 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 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 (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 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

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /im.miˈɡɾant/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /im.miˈɡɾan/

Noun

immigrant m (plural immigrants)

1. immigrant

Adjective

immigrant (masculine and feminine plural immigrants)

1. immigrant

Verb

immigrant

1. present participle of immigrar

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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

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Dutch

Etymology

From immigreren +‎ -ant.

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: im‧migrant

Noun

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

1. immigrant

Related terms

• immigreren, immigratie

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French

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

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.

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Latin

Verb

immigrant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of immigrō

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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).

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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.

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Swedish

Noun

immigrant c

1. an immigrant

Declension

Declension of immigrant
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	immigrant	immigranten	immigranter	immigranterna
Genitive	immigrants	immigrantens	immigranters	immigranternas

See also

• emigrant
• immigration
• immigrera
• migration