migration

English

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Etymology

From Middle French migration and its source, Latin migrātiō, from the participle stem of migrāre (“to migrate”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /mʌɪˈɡɹeɪʃ(ə)n/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

migration (plural migrations)

1. moving a place to live to another place for a while
2. seasonal moving for animals, birds or fishes to breed or find a new home
3. (computing) changing a platform from an environment to another one

Derived terms

• migrate
• migratory

Related terms

• immigration
• porting

Translations

moving a place to live to another

Arabic: هجرة (ar) (híjra) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 徒動 (cmn), 徒动 (cmn) (túdòng), 遷移 (cmn), 迁移 (cmn) (qiānyí) Esperanto: migrado (eo) Finnish: muutto (fi), migraatio (fi) French: free (fr), french (fr) pl., migration (fr) German: Wohnsitzwechsel (de) m., Migration (de) f. Japanese: 移住 (ja) (いじゅう, ijū)

Macedonian: преселба (mk) (préselba) f., селидба (mk) (sélidba) f., миграција (mk) (migrácija) f., миграција (mk) (migrácija) f. Polish: migracja (pl) f. Portuguese: migração (pt) f. Romanian: migrare (ro), migrație (ro) Russian: миграция (ru) (migrácija) f., переселение (ru) (pereselénije) n. Scottish Gaelic: imrich (gd) f. Slovene: migracija (sl) f. Spanish: migración (es) f.

seasonal moving of animals, birds or fishes

Chinese: Mandarin: 回游 (cmn) (huíyóu) Finnish: muutto (fi), vaellus (fi) German: Migration (de) f., Wanderung (de) f., Vogelwanderung (de) f., Vogelzug (de) m., (partial) Vogelstrich (de) m., Tierwanderung  (de) f. Japanese: 回遊 (ja) (かいゆう, kaiyū), 移動 (ja) (いどう, idō)

Macedonian: преселба (mk) (préselba) f., миграција (mk) (migrácija) f. Portuguese: migração (pt) f. Romanian: migrație (ro) Russian: миграция (ru) (migrácija) f. Scottish Gaelic: imrich (gd) f. Spanish: migración (es) f. Volapük: bödatäv (vo)

computing: changing a platform from an environment to another one

German: Migration (de) f. Japanese: 移行 (ja) (いこう, ikō)

Russian: миграция (ru) (migrácija) f.

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• Swedish: migration

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French

Noun

migration f. (plural migrations)

1. migration (of animals)
2. migration (of people)

Related terms

• migrer

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Swedish

Noun

migration c.

1. migration

Declension

Declension of migration

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	migration	migrationen	migrationer	migrationerna
genitive	migrations	migrationens	migrationers	migrationernas