diaspora

See also: Diaspora and diáspora

English

Alternative forms

• Diaspora (in certain senses)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek διασπορά (diasporá, “dispersion”), from διασπείρω (diaspeírō, “to scatter”), from διά- (diá-, prefix indicating motion across or in all directions) + σπείρω (speírō, “to sow”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /daɪˈæspəɹə/, /daɪˈæspɹə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /daɪˈæspəɹə/, /daɪˈæspɹə/, /diˈæspəɹə/, /diˈæspɹə/

• Audio (GA)

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• Hyphenation: di‧a‧spo‧ra

Noun

diaspora (plural diasporas)

1. (historical) The dispersion of the Jews among the Gentiles after the Babylonian captivity (6th century B.C.E.).
2. (by extension) Any similar dispersion.

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

3. (collective) 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

• Albanian: diasporë, mërgatë (sq)
• Alemannic German: diaspora
• Arabic: شَتَات‎ (šatāt)
• Armenian: սփյուռք (hy) (spʿyuṙkʿ)
• Basque: diaspora
• Belarusian: дыя́спара f (dyjáspara)
• Bulgarian: диаспо́ра f (diaspóra)
• Catalan: diàspora f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 散居 (zh) (sǎnjū), 流散 (zh) (liúsàn), 僑民 (zh), 侨民 (zh) (qiáomín), 離散 (zh), 离散 (zh) (lísàn), ^{(please verify)} 猶太人散居地, ^{(please verify)} 犹太人散居地 (yóutàirén sàn jū de)

• Czech: diaspora (cs) f
• Danish: diaspora
• Dutch: diaspora (nl)
• Esperanto: diasporo
• Estonian: diasporaa, hajala
• Finnish: diaspora (fi), hajaannus (fi)
• French: diaspora (fr) f
• Georgian: დიასპორა (ka) (diasṗora)
• German: Diaspora (de) f
• Greek: διασπορά (el) f (diasporá)
• Hebrew: גָּלוּת‎ (he) f (galút)
• Hindi: विकीर्णन m (vikīrṇan)
• Hungarian: szórvány (hu)
• Indonesian: diaspora (id)

• Interlingua: diaspora
• 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)
• Korean: 디아스포라 (diaseupora)
• Ladino: galut f
• Macedonian: дијаспора f (dijaspora)
• Norwegian: diaspora
• Polish: diaspora (pl) f
• Portuguese: diáspora (pt) f
• Romanian: diaspora (ro) f
• Russian: диа́спора (ru) f (diáspora)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дијаспора f

  Roman: dijaspora (sh) f

• Sicilian: diàspora
• Slovak: diaspóra f
• Slovene: diaspora f
• Spanish: diáspora (es) f
• Swedish: diaspora (sv) c
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: diaspora (tr)
• Ukrainian: діа́спора f (diáspora)
• Vietnamese: cộng đồng (vi)
• Yiddish: גלות‎ f (goles)

Further reading

• diaspora on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Jewish diaspora on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• diaspora at OneLook Dictionary Search
• diaspora in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• diaspora in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911.

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Esperanto

Etymology

From diasporo +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diasˈpora/
• Hyphenation: di‧as‧po‧ra
• Rhymes: -ora

Adjective

diaspora (accusative singular diasporan, plural diasporaj, accusative plural diasporajn)

1. diasporic

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Finnish

(index d)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdiɑˌsporɑ/, [ˈdiɑˌs̠po̞rɑ]
• Rhymes: -orɑ
• Syllabification: di‧a‧spo‧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

Possessive forms of diaspora (type koira)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	diasporani	diasporamme
2nd person	diasporasi	diasporanne
3rd person	diasporansa

Derived terms

• diasporaseurakunta

Anagrams

• rapsodia

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French

Noun

diaspora f (plural diasporas)

1. diaspora

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• parodias

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek διασπορά (diasporá, “dispersion”), from διασπείρω (diaspeírō, “to scatter”), from διά- (diá-, prefix indicating motion across or in all directions) + σπείρω (speírō, “to sow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [diasˈpora]
• Hyphenation: di‧as‧po‧ra

Noun

diaspora (plural, first-person possessive diasporaku, second-person possessive diasporamu, third-person possessive diasporanya)

1. diaspora.

Further reading

• “diaspora” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

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Italian

Noun

diaspora f (plural diaspore)

1. diaspora (all senses)

Anagrams

• Paradiso, paradiso, rapsodia