passport

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French passeport, from passer (“pass”) + port (“port”). Compare portpass. Equivalent too pass +‎ port.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑːspɔːt/
• IPA^(key): /ˈpæspɔɹt/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

passport (plural passports)

1. An official document normally used for international journeys, which proves the identity and nationality of the person for whom it was issued.

   You will have to bring your passport to prove who you are.

   • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 17, in Crime out of Mind‎^[1]:

     Dagobert gave him back his passport. He re-pocketed it indifferently; a talisman which had lost its potency.

2. (by extension, informal) Any document that allows entry or passage.
3. (figuratively) Something which enables someone to do or achieve something.

   The tenor's voice was his passport to the international concert circuit.

Derived terms

• biometric passport
• e-passport
• internal passport
• passportable
• passport baby
• passported
• passportification
• passporting
• passportization
• passportize
• passportless
• yellow passport

 

Descendants

• → Hindi: पासपोर्ट (pāsporṭ)
• → Urdu: پاسپورٹ

Translations

official document

• Abaza: упаспорт m (upasport), бпаспорт f (bpasport)
• Abkhaz: aтәылауаҩшәкәы (atʷʼəlawajʷŝʷkʷʼə)
• Adyghe: паспорт (pasport)
• Afrikaans: paspoort
• Albanian: pasaportë (sq) f, lejekalim (sq) m
• Amharic: ፓስፖርት (pasport)
• Arabic: جَوَاز سَفَر m (jawāz safar), إِجَازَة مُرُور f (ʾijāzat murūr), بَاسْبُور m (bāspōr)
• Aragonese: pasaporte m
• Armenian: անձնագիր (hy) (anjnagir)
• Assamese: পাৰপত্ৰ (paropotro)
• Asturian: pasaporte m
• Azerbaijani: pasport (az)
• Bambara: taamasèbèn, ߕߊߊߡߛߍߓߍߣ (taamasɛbɛn)
• Bashkir: паспорт (pasport)
• Basque: pasaporte (eu)
• Belarusian: па́шпарт m (pášpart)
• Belizean Creole: paaspoat
• Bengali: পাসপোর্ট (paśpōrṭo)
• Bislama: paspot
• Bole: paspo
• Breton: paseporzh
• Bulgarian: паспо́рт m (paspórt)
• Burmese: နိုင်ငံကူးလက်မှတ် (my) (nuingngamku:lakhmat), ပတ်စပို့ (patca.pui.)
• Buryat: паспорт (pasport)
• Catalan: passaport (ca) m
• Cebuano: pasaporte
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⵣⵔⵉⴱⵓⵔ (azribur), ⵜⵓⴼⴻⵣⵔⵉⵜ (tufezrit), ⴰⴱⴰⵙⴱⵓⵕ (abasbuṛ)
• Chechen: паспорт (pasport)
• Chichewa: chiphaso
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 護照／护照 (wu⁶ ziu³), 护照 (wu⁶ ziu³)

  Dungan: хўҗо (hwžo), гунминҗын (gunminžɨn), паспорт (pasport)

  Mandarin: 護照／护照 (zh) (hùzhào), 护照 (zh) (hùzhào)

  Min Nan: 大字 (tōa-jī), 護照／护照 (zh-min-nan), 护照 (hō͘-chiò / hō͘-chiàu)

  Wu: 護照／护照 (⁶wu-tsau), 护照 (hhu tsau)

• Chuvash: паспорт (pasport)
• Cornish: cumyas porth
• Corsican: passaportu
• Crimean Tatar: pasport
• Czech: pas (cs) m, cestovní pas m
• Danish: pas (da) n
• Dutch: paspoort (nl) n
• Dzongkha: ལམ་ཡིག (lam yig)
• Eastern Mari:
• Erzya: паспорт (pasport)
• Esperanto: pasporto
• Estonian: pass (et)
• Faroese: pass n
• Fijian: pasipote
• Finnish: passi (fi)
• French: passeport (fr) m
• Fula: paspor, 𞤨𞤢𞤧𞤨𞤮𞤪
• Gagauz: paşport, paşport
• Galician: pasaporte m
• Georgian: პასპორტი (ṗasṗorṭi)
• German: Reisepass (de) m, Pass (de) m
• Gilbertese: bwatiboti
• Greek: διαβατήριο (el) n (diavatírio)

  Ancient: δίπλωμα n (díplōma)

• Greenlandic: pas, passi
• Guaraní: kuatiahaipy avarasaha
• Gujarati: પારપત્ર (pārpatra)
• Haitian Creole: paspò
• Hausa: fasfo (ha), fazgo (ha)
• Hawaiian: palapala holo ʻāina ʻē, palapala hoʻāpono
• Hebrew: דַּרְכּוֹן (he) m (darkón)
• Hindi: पासपोर्ट (hi) m (pāsporṭ), पारपत्र m (pārpatra)
• Hungarian: útlevél (hu)
• Icelandic: vegabréf (is)
• Ido: pasporto (io)
• Igbo: paspọtụ, akwukwo eji eje ije
• Indonesian: paspor (id)
• Interlingua: passaporto (ia)
• Interlingue:
• Inuktitut: ᐃᓯᕈᓐᓇᐅᑦ ᓄᓇᓕᕐᔪᐊᒧᑦ (isironnaot nonaliryoamot)
• Irish: pas
• Italian: passaporto (it) m
• Japanese: パスポート (ja) (pasupōto), 旅券 (ja) (りょけん, ryoken)
• Javanese: please add this translation if you can
• Kabuverdianu: pási, pasapórti
• Kabyle: abasbur, ⴰⴱⴰⵙⴱⵓⵕ
• Kalmyk: үмнлл (ümnll)
• Kannada: ದಾಟೋಲೆ (dāṭōle), ಪಾಸ್ಪೊರ್ಟು (pāsporṭu)
• Karachay-Balkar: паспорт (pasport)
• Kazakh: паспорт (kk) (pasport)
• Khanty:
• Khmer: លិខិតឆ្លងដែន (likhət chlɑɑng daen), ប៉ាសស្ព័រ (paahspɔə)
• Komi-Zyrian: паспорт (pasport)
• Korean: 여권 (ko) (yeogwon) (旅券 (ko)), 려권 (ko) (ryeogwon) (North Korea), 패스포트 (paeseupoteu)
• Kumyk: пашпурт (paşpurt), paşpurt
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: پاسپۆرت (pasport)

  Kurmanji: pesport, pasaport (ku)

• Kyrgyz: паспорт (pasport)
• Ladino: pasaporto
• Lao: ໜັງສືຜ່ານແດນ (lo) (nang sư̄ phān dǣn), ໜັງສືເດີນທາງ (nang sư̄ dœ̄n thāng), ປັດສະປໍ (pat sa pǭ)
• Latin: syngraphus (la) m
• Latvian: pase f
• Ligurian: pasapòrto
• Lingala: pasɛpɔ́
• Lithuanian: pasas (lt) m
• Lombard: passaport
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: paspoort n

• Luxembourgish: Pass m
• Macedonian: пасош m (pasoš)
• Malagasy: pasipaoro (mg)
• Malay: pasport
• Malayalam: പാസ്പോർട്ട് (pāspōṟṭṭŭ)
• Maltese: passaport m
• Manx: kied-troailt
• Maori: uruwhenua
• Marathi: पासपोर्ट (pāsporṭa)
• Marshallese: peejpoot
• Mauritian Creole: paspor
• Mingrelian: პასპორტი (ṗasṗorṭi)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: паспорт (mn) (pasport)

  Uyghurjin: ᠫᠠᠰᠫᠣᠷᠲ᠋ (pasport)

• Nahuatl: tlalnemiamoxtli
• Nepali: राहदानी (rāhadānī)
• Nogai: паспорт (pasport)
• Northern Sami: pássa
• Northern Sotho: pasporoto
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pass (no) n

• Novial:
• Occitan: passapòrt m
• Ojibwe: ᐸᐹᒥᐊᔮᐎᒪᓯᓇᐦᐃᑲᓇᓐ (babaami-ayaawi-mazina'iganan)
• Old Prussian: pass
• Oriya: ପାସ୍ ପୋର୍ଟ (pās porṭa)
• Ossetian: паспорт (pasport)
• Papiamentu: pasport
• Pashto: پاسپورټ (ps) m (pāspórṭ)
• Persian: گذرنامه (fa) (gozarnâme), پاسپورت (fa) (pâsport)
• Plautdietsch: Reispauss m
• Polish: paszport (pl) m
• Portuguese: passaporte (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਪਾਸਪੋਰਟ m (pāsporaṭ)
• Romani: passaport
• Romanian: pașaport (ro) n
• Romansch: passaport
• Russian: па́спорт (ru) m (pásport), заграни́чный па́спорт m (zagraníčnyj pásport) (informal, specific for travel passport)
• Rusyn: пас m (pas), пашпорт m (pašport)
• Rwanda-Rundi: urwandiko rw'abajya mu mahanga, igitabu c'inzira
• Samoan: tusifolau
• Sango: dantité, karaté, pasapöro
• Santali: ᱟᱫᱷᱟᱨ (adhar)
• Sardinian: passapòrtu
• Scots: passport
• Scottish Gaelic: cead-siubhail
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: па̑сош m, путо́вница f

  Roman: pȃsoš (sh) m, putóvnica (sh) f

• Shan: ဝႂ်ၶၢမ်ႈမိူင်း (wǎue khāam móeng), ပႃးၸပူတ်ႉ (páa tsǎ pṵ̂ut)
• Sicilian: passaportu (scn) m
• Sindhi: پاسپورٽ
• Sinhalese: ගමන් බලපත්‍රය (gaman balapatraya)
• Slovak: pas m
• Slovene: pọ̑tni lȋst (sl) m
• Somali: baasaboor
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: drogowański pas m

  Upper Sorbian: woborny pas m

• Sotho: dipasepoto
• Spanish: pasaporte (es) m
• Sranan Tongo: paspoort
• Swahili: paspoti (sw), pasi (sw), pasipoti
• Swedish: pass (sv) n
• Tagalog: pasaporte (tl), tulot-lakbay
• Tahitian: puta rātere
• Tajik: шиноснома (šinosnoma), паспорт (pasport), гузарнома (tg) (guzarnoma)
• Tamil: பாஸ்போர்ட் (pāspōrṭ)
• Tarifit: amsukki
• Tatar: паспорт (pasport)
• Telugu: రవానా (te) (ravānā), రహదారీ (rahadārī), పాస్పోర్ట్ (pāspōrṭ)
• Tetum: pasaporte
• Thai: หนังสือเดินทาง (th) (nǎng-sʉ̌ʉ-dəən-taang), พาสปอร์ต (páat-sà-bpɔ̀ɔt),
• Tibetan: ཕྱི་བསྐྱོད་ལག་དེབ (phyi bskyod lag deb), ཕྱག་ཁྱེར (phyag khyer), ཕྱི་ཐོན་ལག་ཁྱེར (phyi thon lag khyer)
• Tigrinya: ፓስፖርት (pasport)
• Tok Pisin: paspot
• Tongan: paasipooti
• Turkish: pasaport (tr), buyruldu (tr), geçişlik (tr)
• Turkmen: pasport
• Tuvan: паспорт (pasport)
• Udmurt: паспорт (pasport)
• Ukrainian: па́спорт m (pásport)
• Urdu: پاسپورٹ m (pāspōrṭ), پاسپورت m (pāspōrt), گزرنامہ (gozarnāma)
• Uyghur: پاسپورت (pasport), گۇۋاھنامە (guwahname)
• Uzbek: pasport (uz)
• Venetian: pasapòrto m
• Vietnamese: hộ chiếu (vi) (護照)
• Volapük: dientifäd (vo), tävapäs
• Walloon: passepôrt
• Welsh: pasbort (cy)
• White Hmong: phau ntawv hla tebchaws, daim ntawv hla ciam teb
• Xhosa: ipaspoti
• Yakut: пааспара (paaspara), паспора (paspora), паспорт (pasport), бааспар (baaspar), боспуор (bospuor)
• Yiddish: פּאַספּאָרט (pasport), פּאַס m (pas)
• Yoruba: ìwé irinna, ìwé ìyõdà ìwõlú tàbí ìjádelô
• Zazaki: pasaporta
• Zhuang: hucau
• Zulu: ipasipoti (zu), ipasi lokuhamba

any document allowing entry or passage

• Greek:

  Ancient: δίπλωμα n (díplōma)

• Romanian: document de identitate
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: про́пуск (ru) m (própusk)

figurative use

• Greek: διαβατήριο (el) (diavatírio)
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• Russian: про́пуск (ru) (própusk), биле́т (ru) (bilét)

See also

• ID card
• identification card
• identity card
• portpass
• visa

Further reading

• passport on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• pop stars, popstars, portpass