emigrant

See also: Emigrant, émigrant, and êmigrant

English

Etymology

From Classical Latin ēmigrāns, present participle of ēmigrāre (“to emigrate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛmɪɡɹənt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

emigrant (plural emigrants)

1. Someone who leaves a country to settle in a new country.
2. Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Catopsilia. Also called a migrant.

Antonyms

• immigrant

Derived terms

• economic emigrant
• nonemigrant

Related terms

• emigration

Translations

someone who leaves a country to settle in a new country

• Albanian: emigrant (sq) m
• Arabic: مُهَاجِر m (muhājir), مُهَاجِرَة f (muhājira)
• Armenian: էմիգրանտ (hy) (ēmigrant), արտագաղթող (hy) (artagaġtʻoġ)
• Azerbaijani: mühacir (az)
• Belarusian: эмiгра́нт m (emihránt), эмiгра́нтка f (emihrántka), высяле́нец m (vysjaljénjec), высяле́нка f (vysjaljénka)
• Bengali: মুহাজির (bn) (muhajir)
• Catalan: emigrant (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 移民 (ji⁴ man⁴)

  Hokkien: 移民 (î-bîn)

  Mandarin: 移民 (zh) (yímín)

• Czech: emigrant m, emigrantka f, vystěhovalec m, vystěhovalkyně f
• Danish: emigrant c, udvandrer c
• Dutch: uitwijkeling (nl) m, uitwijkelinge f, landverhuizer (nl) m, landverhuizerin f, emigrant (nl) m, emigrante (nl) f
• Estonian: emigrant (et)
• Finnish: maastamuuttaja (fi)
• French: émigré (fr) m, émigrée (fr) f, émigrant (fr) m, émigrante (fr) f
• Galician: emigrante (gl)
• Georgian: ემიგრანტი (emigranṭi)
• German: Auswanderer (de) m, Auswanderin (de) f, Emigrant (de) m, Emigrantin (de) f, Aussiedler (de) m
• Greek: απόδημος (el) m (apódimos), απόδημη f (apódimi)
• Hebrew: יוֹרֵד m (yoréd)
• Hindi: उत्प्रवासी m (utpravāsī)
• Hungarian: kivándorló (hu), emigráns (hu)
• Icelandic: (collective) förufólk n, (obsolete) útflytjandi m
• Italian: emigrante (it) m or f
• Japanese: 移民 (ja) (いみん, imin)
• Kazakh: эмигрант (èmiygrant)
• Korean: 이민(移民) (ko) (imin)
• Kyrgyz: эмигрант (ky) (emigrant)
• Latvian: emigrants m
• Lithuanian: emigrantas m
• Macedonian: иселеник m (iselenik), иселеничка f (iselenička), емигра́нт m (emigránt), емигра́нтка f (emigrántka)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: utvandrer m, emigrant m

  Nynorsk: utvandrar m, emigrant m

• Persian: مهاجر (fa) (mohâjer)
• Polish: emigrant (pl) m, emigrantka (pl) f
• Portuguese: emigrante (pt) m or f
• Romanian: emigrant (ro) m, emigrantă (ro) f
• Russian: эмигра́нт (ru) m (emigránt), эмигра́нтка (ru) f (emigrántka)
• Scottish Gaelic: eilthireach m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: исељѐнӣк m, исељѐница f, емѝгрант m, емѝгранткиња f

  Latin: iseljènīk (sh) m, iseljènica f, emìgrant (sh) m, emìgrantkinja f

• Slovak: emigrant m, emigrantka f, vysťahovalec m, vysťahovalkyňa f
• Slovene: izseljenec m, izseljenka f, emigrant m, emigrantka f
• Spanish: emigrante (es) m or f
• Swedish: emigrant (sv) c
• Tagalog: manluluwasbayan
• Tajik: муҳоҷир (muhojir)
• Turkish: muhacir (tr)
• Ukrainian: емігра́нт (uk) m (emihránt), емігра́нтка f (emihrántka)
• Uzbek: muhojir (uz), emigrant (uz)
• Vietnamese: người di cư (vi), người xuất cư
• Volapük: (♂♀) setevan (vo), (♂) hisetevan, (♀) jisetevan (vo), (collective ♂♀) setevanef, (collective ♂) hisetevanef, (collective ♀) jisetevanef
• Walloon: ebagant (wa) m
• Welsh: ymfudwr m, ymfudwraig f
• Yiddish: עמיגראַנט m (emigrant)

Anagrams

• Tigerman, antigerm, man-tiger, remating, retaming

Albanian

Noun

emigránt m

1. emigrant

   Synonym: mërgimtar

Declension

Declension of emigrant

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	emigrant	emigranti	emigrantë	emigrantët
accusative		emigrantin
dative	emigranti	emigrantit	emigrantëve	emigrantëve
ablative			emigrantësh

Further reading

• “emigrant”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006

Catalan

Pronunciation

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Etymology 1

From Latin ēmigrāns.

Adjective

emigrant m or f (masculine and feminine plural emigrants)

1. (relational) emigrant

Noun

emigrant m (plural mfbysense)

1. emigrant

Etymology 2

From emigrar +‎ -ant.

Verb

emigrant

1. gerund of emigrar

Further reading

• “emigrant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛmɪɡrant]
• Hyphenation: emi‧g‧rant

Noun

emigrant m anim (female equivalent emigrantka)

1. emigrant

Declension

Declension of emigrant (hard masculine animate)

	singular	plural
nominative	emigrant	emigranti
genitive	emigranta	emigrantů
dative	emigrantovi, emigrantu	emigrantům
accusative	emigranta	emigranty
vocative	emigrante	emigranti
locative	emigrantovi, emigrantu	emigrantech
instrumental	emigrantem	emigranty

Derived terms

• emigrantka
• emigrantský
• emigrantův

Related terms

• See migrace

• emigrace
• imigrace

See also

• exulant
• uprchlík
• utečenec
• vystěhovalec

Further reading

• “emigrant”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “emigrant”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “emigrant”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Danish

Etymology

From French émigrant.

Noun

emigrant c (singular definite emigranten, plural indefinite emigranter)

1. emigrant

Declension

Declension of emigrant

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	emigrant	emigranten	emigranter	emigranterne
genitive	emigrants	emigrantens	emigranters	emigranternes

Synonyms

• udvandrer

References

• “emigrant” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “emigrant” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French émigrant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌeː.miˈɣrɑnt/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: emi‧grant
• Rhymes: -ɑnt

Noun

emigrant m (plural emigranten, no diminutive)

1. emigrant

Hypernyms

• migrant

Coordinate terms

• immigrant

Latin

Verb

ēmigrant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of ēmigrō

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian emigrante.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ.mɪɡˈrant/
• Rhymes: -ant

Noun

emigrant m (plural emigranti, feminine emigranta)

1. emigrant

Related terms

• emigra
• emigrazzjoni

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French émigrant.

Noun

emigrant m (definite singular emigranten, indefinite plural emigranter, definite plural emigrantene)

1. emigrant

Synonyms

• utvandrer

References

• “emigrant” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “emigrant” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French émigrant.

Noun

emigrant m (definite singular emigranten, indefinite plural emigrantar, definite plural emigrantane)

1. emigrant

Synonyms

• utvandrar

References

• “emigrant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French émigrant and German Emigrant, from Latin ēmigrāns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛˈmi.ɡrant/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -iɡrant
• Syllabification: e‧mi‧grant

Noun

emigrant m pers (female equivalent emigrantka)

1. emigrant

Declension

Declension of emigrant

	singular	plural
nominative	emigrant	emigranci/emigranty (deprecative)
genitive	emigranta	emigrantów
dative	emigrantowi	emigrantom
accusative	emigranta	emigrantów
instrumental	emigrantem	emigrantami
locative	emigrancie	emigrantach
vocative	emigrancie	emigranci

Further reading

• “emigrant”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “emigrant”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French émigrant.

Noun

emigrant m (plural emigranți)

1. emigrant

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	emigrant	emigrantul	emigranți	emigranții
genitive-dative	emigrant	emigrantului	emigranți	emigranților
vocative	emigrantule		emigranților

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /emǐɡrant/
• Hyphenation: e‧mi‧grant

Noun

emìgrant m anim (Cyrillic spelling емѝгрант)

1. emigrant

Declension

Declension of emigrant

	singular	plural
nominative	emìgrant	emigranti
genitive	emigranta	emìgranātā
dative	emigrantu	emigrantima
accusative	emigranta	emigrante
vocative	emigrante	emigranti
locative	emigrantu	emigrantima
instrumental	emigrantom	emigrantima

Swedish

Etymology

From French émigrant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛmɪˈɡrant/

Noun

emigrant c

1. an emigrant

   Synonym: utvandrare

   Antonyms: immigrant, invandrare

Declension

Declension of emigrant

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	emigrant	emigrants
	definite	emigranten	emigrantens
plural	indefinite	emigranter	emigranters
	definite	emigranterna	emigranternas

Related terms

• emigration
• emigrera

References

• “emigrant”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “emigrant”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “emigrant”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)