import

See also: Import

English

Pronunciation

Noun

(Received Pronunciation) enPR: ĭmʹpôt, IPA^(key): /ˈɪm.pɔːt/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
(General American) enPR: ĭmʹpôrt, IPA^(key): /ˈɪm.pɔɹt/
(rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ĭmʹpōrt, IPA^(key): /ˈɪm.po(ː)ɹt/
(non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɪm.poət/

Verb

(Received Pronunciation) enPR: ĭmpôtʹ, IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpɔːt/
- Audio (UK) (file)
(General American) enPR: ĭmpôrtʹ, IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpɔɹt/
(rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ĭmpōrtʹ, IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpo(ː)ɹt/
(non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpoət/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t

Etymology 1

From Middle English importen, from Old French emporter, importer, from Latin importō (“bring in from abroad, import”, verb), from in (“in, at, on; into”) + portō (“I carry, bear; convey”).

Noun

import (countable and uncountable, plural imports)

(countable) Something brought in from an exterior source, especially for sale or trade.
(uncountable) The practice of importing.
(uncountable) Significance, importance.
It was a matter of great import.
(countable, Philippines) A foreigner playing in a sports league.

Synonyms

(significance): importancy, importance, meaning, purport, significance, tenor, weight

Antonyms

(practice of importing): export
(something brought in from a foreign country): export
insignificance

Translations

something brought in from a foreign country

Azerbaijani: idxal, import
Bulgarian: внос (bg) m (vnos)
Catalan: importació (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 進口貨／进口货 (jìnkǒuhuò), 舶來品／舶来品 (zh) (bóláipǐn), 外國貨／外国货 (zh) (wàiguóhuò)
Dutch: import (nl), invoer (nl)
Finnish: tuontitavara, importti (slang)
German: Importware (de) f, Importgut (de) n
Greek: εισαγωγή (el) f (eisagogí)
Hebrew: ייבוא‎ m (y'ivu)
Hungarian: import (hu)
Irish: iompórtáil, allmhaire f
Japanese: 輸入品 (ゆにゅうひん, yunyūhin)
Macedonian: у́воз m (úvoz)
Polish: import (pl) m
Portuguese: importados m pl
Russian: и́мпорт (ru) m (ímport)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: увоз m, импорт m
Roman: uvoz (sh) m, import (sh) m
Spanish: importación (es) f
Swedish: import (sv) c, införsel (sv) c
Turkish: ithal (tr)
Welsh: mewnforyn m

practice of importing

Arabic: اِسْتِيرَاد‎ m (istīrād)
Azerbaijani: idxal
Bulgarian: внос (bg) m (vnos)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 進口／进口 (zh) (jìnkǒu), 輸入／输入 (zh) (shūrù)
Czech: dovoz (cs) m, import (cs) m
Dutch: import (nl), invoer (nl)
Finnish: tuonti (fi), maahantuonti (fi)
French: importation (fr) f
German: Import (de) m, Einfuhr (de) f
Greek: εισαγωγή (el) f (eisagogí)
Hungarian: importálás, behozatal (hu)
Irish: allmhairiú m
Japanese: 輸入 (ja) (yunyū), 輸入 (ja) (ゆにゅう, yunyū)
Korean: 수입 (ko) (su'ip)
Macedonian: увезу́вање n (uvezúvanje), у́воз m (úvoz)
Polish: import (pl) m
Portuguese: importação (pt) f
Romanian: import (ro) n
Russian: и́мпорт (ru) m (ímport), ввоз (ru) m (vvoz)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: импорт m, увоз m
Roman: import (sh) m, uvoz (sh) m
Spanish: importación (es) f
Swedish: import (sv) c, införsel (sv) c
Turkish: ithalat (tr)
Welsh: mewnforio (cy) m

licence for import

Dutch: invoervergunning
Macedonian: уво́зница f (uvóznica)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: увозница
Roman: uvoznica (sh)

significance, importance

Bulgarian: смисъл (bg) m (smisǎl), значение (bg) n (značenie)
Dutch: belang (nl) n, gewicht (nl) n
Finnish: tärkeys (fi), merkityksellisyys (fi)
Macedonian: сми́сла f (smísla), зна́чење n (znáčenje)
Portuguese: importância (pt) f, significância (pt) f
Scottish Gaelic: susbaint f
Spanish: importancia (es) f, significado (es) m
Swedish: vikt (sv) c, betydelse (sv) c
Welsh: pwys m

Verb

import (third-person singular simple present imports, present participle importing, simple past and past participle imported)

(transitive) To bring (something) in from a foreign country, especially for sale or trade.
Antonym: export
(transitive) To load a file into a software application from another version or system.
Antonym: export
How can I import files from older versions of this application?

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:import.

Derived terms

importable
important
importation
importer

Translations

to bring in from a foreign country

Arabic: اِسْتَوْرَدَ‎ (istawrada)
Asturian: importar
Azerbaijani: idxal etmək
Belarusian: імпартава́ць impf or pf (impartavácʹ)
Bulgarian: внасям (bg) (vnasjam)
Catalan: importar (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 進口／进口 (zh) (jìnkǒu), 輸入／输入 (zh) (shūrù)
Czech: dovézt
Dutch: invoeren (nl), importeren (nl)
Esperanto: importi (eo)
Estonian: importima, (sisse) tooma
Finnish: tuoda (maahan)
French: importer (fr)
Galician: importar
German: importieren (de), einführen (de)
Greek: εισάγω (el) (eiságo)
Hebrew: ייבא‎ (yibé)
Hindi: please add this translation if you can
Hungarian: importál (hu)
Ido: importacar (io)
Indonesian: mengimpor (id)
Irish: iompórtáil, allmhairigh
Italian: importare (it)
Japanese: 輸入する (ゆにゅうする, yunyū-suru)
Kazakh: импорттау (importtau)
Khmer: នាំចូល (km) (nŏəm coul)
Korean: 수입하다 (ko) (su'iphada)
Latin: advectō
Latvian: importēt
Lithuanian: importúoti, įvèžti
Luxembourgish: aféieren, importéieren
Macedonian: у́везе pf (úveze), уве́зува impf (uvézuva), вне́се pf (vnése), вне́сува impf (vnésuva)
Polish: zapożyczać impf, zapożyczyć (pl) pf, importować (pl) impf, zaimportować (pl) pf
Portuguese: importar (pt)
Romanian: importa (ro)
Russian: импорти́ровать (ru) impf or pf (importírovatʹ), ввози́ть (ru) impf (vvozítʹ), ввезти́ (ru) pf (vveztí)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: увести pf, увозити impf
Roman: ùvesti (sh) pf, uvòziti (sh) impf
Slovene: uvoziti pf, uvažati impf
Spanish: importar (es)
Swedish: importera (sv), föra in (sv)
Thai: นำเข้า
Ukrainian: імпортува́ти (importuváty); уво́зити (uvózyty), вво́зити (uk) impf (vvózyty), увезти́ (uveztý), ввезти́ pf (vveztý)
Vietnamese: nhập khẩu (vi) (入口), nhập cảng (vi)
Welsh: mewnforio (cy)

to load files into a computer from another source

Bulgarian: зареждам (bg) (zareždam)
Esperanto: importi (eo)
French: importer (fr)
Macedonian: импорти́ра (importíra), вчи́тува (včítuva)
Maori: kawe mai
Polish: importować (pl) impf, zaimportować (pl) pf
Russian: импортировать (ru) (importirovatʹ)

Etymology 2

From Italian importare, and French importer, from Latin importō.

Verb

import (third-person singular simple present imports, present participle importing, simple past and past participle imported)

(intransitive) To be important; to be significant; to be of consequence.
- 1661, Thomas Salusbury
  See how much it importeth to learn to take Time by the Fore-Top.
(transitive) To be of importance to (someone or something).
- 1593, Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost:
  This Letter is mistooke: it importeth none here: It is writ to laquenetta.
- 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 6484883, (please specify the page number):
  If I endure it, what imports it you?
(transitive) To be incumbent on (someone to do something).
- 1762, David Hume, The History of England:
  It imports us to get all the aid and assistance we can.
(transitive) To be important or crucial to (that something happen).
- 1819, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Cenci:
  It much imports your house That all should be made clear.
(transitive) To mean, signify.
- 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, J[ohn] S[penser], editor, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, OCLC 931154958, (please specify the page):
  Every petition […] doth […] always import a multitude of speakers together.
(transitive, archaic) To express, to imply.

Translations

to be important

Esperanto: gravi
French: importer (fr), compter (fr)
Spanish: importar (es)
Welsh: bod yn bwysig, bod o bwys

References

“import”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.

Czech

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈɪmport]

Noun

import m inan

import
Synonym: dovoz
Antonyms: export, vývoz

Related terms

importér
importní
importovat

Dutch

Etymology

Back-formed from importeren or borrowed from English import.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɪm.pɔrt/
Audio (file)
Hyphenation: im‧port

Noun

import m (plural importen, diminutive importje n)

Geographical import.
(Netherlands, collective) A person or people who is/are not native to a city, village or region, but moved there from outside.

Synonyms

(import): invoer

Antonyms

(import): export, uitvoer

Derived terms

importbruid
importgoederen
importhandel

Related terms

importeur

Descendants

→ Indonesian: impor
→ West Frisian: ymport

French

Noun

import m (plural imports)

Geographical import

Derived terms

importeur m

Anagrams

promit, promît, rompit, rompît

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English import.[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈimport]
Hyphenation: im‧port
Rhymes: -ort

Noun

import (plural importok)

import

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	import	importok
accusative	importot	importokat
dative	importnak	importoknak
instrumental	importtal	importokkal
causal-final	importért	importokért
translative	importtá	importokká
terminative	importig	importokig
essive-formal	importként	importokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	importban	importokban
superessive	importon	importokon
adessive	importnál	importoknál
illative	importba	importokba
sublative	importra	importokra
allative	importhoz	importokhoz
elative	importból	importokból
delative	importról	importokról
ablative	importtól	importoktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	importé	importoké
non-attributive possessive - plural	importéi	importokéi

Possessive forms of import
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	importom	importjaim
2nd person sing.	importod	importjaid
3rd person sing.	importja	importjai
1st person plural	importunk	importjaink
2nd person plural	importotok	importjaitok
3rd person plural	importjuk	importjaik

Related terms

importál
importőr

References

Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English or German.

Noun

import m (definite singular importen, indefinite plural importer, definite plural importene)

import

Related terms

importere

References

“import” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English or German.

Noun

import m (definite singular importen, indefinite plural importar, definite plural importane)

import

References

“import” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English import, from Middle English importen, from Old French emporter, importer, from Latin importō.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈim.pɔrt/
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -impɔrt
Syllabification: im‧port

Noun

import m inan

(economics) import (act of importing)
Antonym: eksport
(economics) import (something brought in from a foreign country)
Antonym: eksport

Declension

Declension of import

	singular
nominative	import
genitive	importu
dative	importowi
accusative	import
instrumental	importem
locative	imporcie
vocative	imporcie

Derived terms

adjectives

antyimportowy
importochłonny
importowy

noun

importochłonność

verbs

importować
zaimportować

Related terms

adjectives

importerski

noun

importer

Romanian

Etymology

Back-formation from importa

Noun

import n (plural importuri)

import

Declension

Declension of import

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) import	importul	(niște) importuri	importurile
genitive/dative	(unui) import	importului	(unor) importuri	importurilor
vocative	importule		importurilor

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English import, from Latin importare.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ǐmport/
Hyphenation: i‧mport

Noun

ìmport m (Cyrillic spelling ѝмпорт)

import (practice of importing)
An import (something brought in from a foreign country)

Declension

Declension of import

	singular	plural
nominative	import	importi
genitive	importa	importa
dative	importu	importima
accusative	import	importe
vocative	importe	importi
locative	importu	importima
instrumental	importom	importima

References

“import” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Swedish

Noun

import c

import

Declension

Declension of import
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	import	importen	—	—
Genitive	imports	importens	—	—

Synonyms

införsel

Antonyms

export

Related terms

importera
importförbud
importtillstånd
importtull

[1] Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

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Dutch

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French

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Hungarian

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Norwegian Bokmål

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