permission

permission

English

Alternative forms

• permistion, permixtion (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English permision, permission, permissioun, permyssion, from Middle French permission, from Latin permissiō. Mostly replaced native English leave, from Old English lēaf (“permission”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pərmĭ'shən, IPA^(key): /pəˈmɪʃən/
• (General American) enPR: pərmĭ'shən, IPA^(key): /pɚˈmɪʃən/

• Audio (GA)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪʃən
• Hyphenation: per‧mis‧sion

Noun

permission (countable and uncountable, plural permissions)

1. authorisation; consent (especially formal consent from someone in authority)

   Sire, do I have your permission to execute this traitor?

2. The act of permitting.
3. (computing) Flags or access control lists pertaining to a file that dictate who can access it, and how.

   I used the "chmod" command to change the file's permission.

Antonyms

• prohibition

Derived terms

Derived terms

• permissible
• permissioning
• permissive
• planning permission

Related terms

• permit

Translations

authorisation

Albanian: leje (sq) f Arabic: تَصْرِيح‎ m (taṣrīḥ), سَمَاح‎ m (samāḥ), إِجَازَة‎ f (ʾijāza), رُخْصَة‎ f (ruḵṣa), رُخُصَة‎ f (ruḵuṣa), إِذْن‎ (ar) m (ʾiḏn) Armenian: թույլտվություն (hy) (tʿuyltvutʿyun) Avar: изну (iznu) Azerbaijani: icazə (az), izin (az), müsaidə Bashkir: рөхсәт (röxsät) Belarusian: дазво́л m (dazvól) Bengali: অনুমতি (bn) (ônumôti), ইজাজত (bn) (ijazôt) Bulgarian: разреше́ние (bg) n (razrešénie), позволе́ние (bg) n (pozvolénie) Burmese: အခွင့် (my) (a.hkwang.) Catalan: permís (ca) m, autorització (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 許可／许可 (zh) (xǔkě), 授權／授权 (zh) (shòuquán), 允許／允许 (zh) (yúnxǚ) Czech: povolení (cs) n Danish: tilladelse (da) c, lov (da) c Dutch: toestemming (nl) f, toelating (nl) f, permissie (nl) f, verlof (nl) n Esperanto: permeso (eo) Estonian: luba Faroese: loyvi n Finnish: oikeus (fi), lupa (fi) French: permission (fr) f, permis (fr) m Georgian: ნებართვა (nebartva) German: Erlaubnis (de) f, Gestattung (de) f, Genehmigung (de) f Greek: άδεια (el) f (ádeia), έγκριση (el) f (égkrisi) Hebrew: הֶתֵּר‎ m (hetér) Hindi: अनुमति (hi) f (anumti), इजाज़त f (ijāzat) Hungarian: engedély (hu) Icelandic: leyfi (is) f Ido: darfo (io) Indonesian: izin (id), keizinan (id), perkenan (id), permisi (id) Italian: permesso (it) m Japanese: 許可 (ja) (きょか, kyoka) Kazakh: рұқсат (rūqsat) Khmer: អធិក្រឹតិ (km) (ʼaʼthikrət), អនុញ្ញាត (km) (ʼaʼnuññaat) Korean: 허가(許可) (ko) (heoga) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: îcaze (ku), izin (ku), destûr (ku) Kyrgyz: уруксат (ky) (uruksat) Lao: ການອະນຸຍາດ (kān ʼa nu nyāt), ອະນຸຍາດ (ʼa nu nyāt) Latin: permissio f, concessus m Latvian: atļauja f Lithuanian: leidimas m Macedonian: дозвола (dozvola) Malay: kebenaran (ms), izin (ms), keizinan (ms), perkenan Malayalam: അനുമതി (ml) (anumati) Mongolian: Cyrillic: зөвшөөрөл (mn) (zövšööröl) Ngazidja Comorian: idhini class 9 Norwegian: Bokmål: tillatelse (no) m, permisjon m Old English: lēaf (ang) f Pashto: اجازت‎ (ps) m (ejāzat), اجازه‎ (ps) f (ejāza), اذن‎ (ps) m (ezn), رخصت‎ (ps) m (roxsat) Persian: اجازه‎ (fa) (ejâze), رخصت‎ (fa) (roxsat), اذن‎ (fa) (ezn) Polish: pozwolenie (pl) n, dozwolenie n, zezwolenie (pl) n Portuguese: permissão (pt) f Romanian: permisiune (ro) f Russian: разреше́ние (ru) n (razrešénije), позволе́ние (ru) n (pozvolénije) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: до̏звола f Roman: dȍzvola (sh) f Slovak: povolenie n Slovene: dovoljênje (sl) n Spanish: permiso (es) m, venia, beneplácito (es) Swahili: idhini (sw) Swedish: tillåtelse (sv) c, tillstånd (sv) n, medgivande (sv) c, lov (sv) c or n Tabasaran: ихтияр (iꭓtijar) Tajik: иҷозат (tg) (ijozat), рухсат (ruxsat), изн (izn) Tamil: அனுமதி (ta) (aṉumati) Tatar: рөхсәт (tt) (röxsät) Telugu: అనుమతి (te) (anumati) Thai: การอนุญาต (th) (gaan-à-nú-yâat), อนุญาต (th) (à-nú-yâat) Tocharian B: plāki Turkish: izin (tr), müsaade (tr), ruhsat (tr) Turkmen: rugsat Ukrainian: до́звіл (uk) m (dózvil), дозволя́ння n (dozvoljánnja) Urdu: اجازت‎ (ur) f (ijāzat) Uyghur: ئىجازەت‎ (ijazet), رۇخسەت‎ (ruxset) Uzbek: ijozat (uz), ruxsat (uz), izn (uz) Vietnamese: sự cho phép (vi) Welsh: caniatâd m

act of permitting

Armenian: թույլտվություն (hy) (tʿuyltvutʿyun) Bulgarian: позволе́ние (bg) n (pozvolénie) Chinese: Mandarin: 授權／授权 (zh) (shòuquán), 允許／允许 (zh) (yúnxǚ) Finnish: lupa (fi) Georgian: ნებართვის მიცემა (nebartvis micema) Greek: άδεια (el) f (ádeia) Hungarian: megengedés, engedélyezés (hu) Italian: permesso (it) Japanese: 許可 (ja) (きょか, kyoka) Malayalam: അനുവാദം (ml) (anuvādaṃ) Polish: pozwolenie (pl) n, dozwolenie n, zezwolenie (pl) n Portuguese: permissão (pt) f Romanian: permitere (ro) f Russian: разреше́ние (ru) n (razrešénije) Slovene: dovoljênje (sl) n Swahili: idhini (sw) Swedish: tillåtelse (sv) Telugu: అనుమతి (te) (anumati) Turkish: izin (tr), müsaade (tr) Ukrainian: до́звіл (uk) m (dózvil), дозволя́ння c (dozvoljánnja)

in computing

Finnish: oikeudet (fi), käyttöoikeudet Greek: άδεια (el) f (ádeia), δικαίωμα (el) n (dikaíoma) Portuguese: permissão (pt) f Spanish: permiso (es) m Swedish: rättigheter (sv)

Verb

permission (third-person singular simple present permissions, present participle permissioning, simple past and past participle permissioned)

1. (transitive) To grant or obtain authorization for.
   • 2003, Mary Ellen Lepionka, Writing and Developing Your College Textbook‎, page 190:

     Photographs also must be permissioned and credited, although a corpus of copyright-free images does exist online.

See also

• clearance

Further reading

• File system permissions on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• impression

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin permissiō, permissiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛʁ.mi.sjɔ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

permission f (plural permissions)

1. permission

Related terms

• permettre

Further reading

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