diaspora

See also: Diaspora and diáspora

English

Alternative forms

• Diaspora (in certain senses)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek διασπορά (diasporá, “dispersion”), from διασπείρω (diaspeírō, “I scatter”), from διά (diá, “across”) + σπείρω (speírō, “I sow”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /daɪˈæspəɹə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪəˌspɒɹə/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

diaspora (plural diasporas)

1. The dispersion of the Jews among the Gentiles after the Captivity.
2. Any similar dispersion.

   The African diaspora caused a melding of cultures, both African cultures and Western ones, in many places.

3. A group so dispersed, especially Jews outside of the land of Israel.
4. The regions where such a dispersed group (especially the Jews) resides, taken collectively.

   Jews in the diaspora often have a different perspective of anti-Semitism from Israeli Jews.

5. Any dispersion of an originally homogeneous entity, such as a language or culture.
   • 1988, Joseph Foley, New Englishes: the case of Singapore, page 1:

     Small wonder that there should have been in recent years fresh talk of the diaspora of English into several mutually incomprehensible languages

Derived terms

• Afrodiaspora
• diasporal
• diasporan

Translations

dispersion of a group of people

• Armenian: սփյուռք (hy) (spʿyuṙkʿ)
• Bulgarian: диаспора (diasporá)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 散居 (zh) (sǎnjū), 流散 (zh) (liúsàn), 僑民 (zh), 侨民 (zh) (qiáomín), 離散 (zh), 离散 (zh) (lísàn)

• Finnish: diaspora (fi), hajaannus (fi)
• French: diaspora (fr) f
• German: Diaspora (de) f
• Greek: διασπορά (el) f (diasporá)
• Hebrew: גלות‎‎ (he) f (galut)
• Hungarian: szórvány (hu)
• Irish: diaspóra

• Italian: diaspora (it) f
• Japanese: ディアスポラ (diasupora), 四散 (しさん, shisan), 離散 (りさん, risan)
• Kazakh: шетжұрт (şetjurt), ғұрбат (ğurbat)
• Portuguese: diáspora (pt) f
• Russian: диа́спора (ru) f (diáspora)
• Spanish: diáspora (es) f
• Swedish: diaspora (sv) c
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: cộng đồng (vi)
• Yiddish: גלות‎‎ f (goles)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Estonian: ^{(please verify)} diasporaa, ^{(please verify)} hajala
• Japanese: 四散 (しさん, shisan)

• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} diáspora (es) f
• Turkish: diaspora

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Finnish

(index d)

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: dias‧po‧ra

Noun

diaspora

1. diaspora

Declension

Inflection of diaspora (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation)
nominative		diaspora	diasporat
genitive		diasporan	diasporien
partitive		diasporaa	diasporia
illative		diasporaan	diasporiin
		singular	plural
nominative		diaspora	diasporat
accusative	nom.	diaspora	diasporat
	gen.	diasporan
genitive		diasporan	diasporien diasporainrare
partitive		diasporaa	diasporia
inessive		diasporassa	diasporissa
elative		diasporasta	diasporista
illative		diasporaan	diasporiin
adessive		diasporalla	diasporilla
ablative		diasporalta	diasporilta
allative		diasporalle	diasporille
essive		diasporana	diasporina
translative		diasporaksi	diasporiksi
instructive		—	diasporin
abessive		diasporatta	diasporitta
comitative		—	diasporineen

Derived terms

• diasporaseurakunta

Anagrams

• rapsodia

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French

Noun

diaspora f (plural diasporas)

1. diaspora

Further reading

• “diaspora” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• parodias

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Italian

Noun

diaspora f (plural diaspore)

1. diaspora (all senses)

Anagrams

• Paradiso, paradiso, rapsodia