emigration

See also: Emigration and émigration

English

Etymology

From Late Latin stem of emigratio, from e (“out”) + migrare (“to move, remove, depart”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

emigration (countable and uncountable, plural emigrations)

1. The act of emigrating; movement of a person or persons out of a country or national region, for the purpose of permanent relocation of residence.
2. A body of emigrants; emigrants collectively.

   the Irish emigration

Derived terms

• emigrational
• inner emigration

Related terms

• migration
• migrate
• migratory
• emigrate
• émigré, emigre
• immigrate
• immigration
• inmigration, in-migration
• outmigration, out-migration

Translations

act of emigrating

• Afrikaans: emigrasie
• Albanian: emigrim (sq) m
• Arabic: هِجْرَة‎ (ar) f (hijra)
• Armenian: արտագաղթ (hy) (artagaġtʿ)
• Asturian: emigración f
• Azerbaijani: köçmə (az), mühacirət
• Bashkir: эмиграция (emigratsiya)
• Belarusian: эмігра́цыя f (emihrácyja)
• Bengali: হিজরত (bn) (hijrot)
• Bulgarian: емигра́ция f (emigrácija), изсе́лване (bg) n (izsélvane)
• Catalan: emigració (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 移民 (zh) (yímín)

• Czech: emigrace (cs) f, vystěhovalectví n
• Danish: udvandring c, emigration c
• Dutch: uitwijking f, emigratie (nl) f
• Esperanto: elmigrado
• Estonian: emigratsioon (et)
• Finnish: maastamuutto (fi)
• French: émigration (fr) f
• Galician: emigración (gl) f
• Georgian: ემიგრაცია (emigracia), გადასახლება (gadasaxleba)
• German: Auswanderung (de) f, Emigration (de) f
• Greek: αποδημία (el) f (apodimía), αποδήμηση (el) f (apodímisi)
• Hebrew: הֲגִירָה‎ (he) f (hagirah)
• Hindi: उत्प्रवास (utpravās)
• Hungarian: kivándorlás (hu), emigráció (hu)
• Indonesian: emigrasi (id), perantauan (id)
• Italian: emigrazione (it) f
• Japanese: 移民 (ja) (いみん, imin), エミグレーション (emigurēshon), 移住 (ja) (いじゅう, ijū)
• Kazakh: эмиграция (émigrasiä)
• Korean: 이민(移民) (ko) (imin), 이주(移住) (ko) (iju)
• Kyrgyz: эмиграция (ky) (emigratsiya)
• Latin: transmigratio f
• Latvian: emigrācija f
• Lithuanian: emigracija (lt) f
• Macedonian: иселување n (iseluvanje), емиграција f (emigracija)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: utvandring m or f

  Nynorsk: utvandring f

• Polish: emigracja (pl) f
• Portuguese: emigração (pt) f
• Romanian: emigrare (ro) f
• Russian: эмигра́ция (ru) f (emigrácija)
• Scottish Gaelic: às-imrich f, eilthireachd f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: исеље́ње n, емигра́ција f, исељени́штво n

  Roman: iseljénje n, emigrácija (sh) f, iseljeníštvo (sh) n

• Slovak: emigrácia f, vysťahovalectvo n
• Slovene: izseljevanje n, emigracija (sl) f
• Spanish: emigración (es) f
• Swedish: emigration (sv) c, utvandring (sv) c
• Tagalog: luwasbayan
• Turkish: göçme (tr)
• Turkmen: emigrasiýa
• Ukrainian: емігра́ція (uk) f (emihrácija)
• Uzbek: emigratsiya (uz)
• Vietnamese: di dân (vi)
• Welsh: ymfudiad m
• Yiddish: עמיגראַציע‎ f (emigratsye)

body of emigrants; emigrants collectively

• Asturian: emigración f
• Belarusian: эмігра́цыя f (emihrácyja)
• Bengali: মুহাজিরগণ (muhajirgon)
• Dutch: uitwijking f, emigratie (nl) f
• Finnish: maastamuuttajat pl
• Galician: emigración (gl) f
• German: Auswanderung (de) f
• Italian: emigrazione (it) f
• Latvian: emigrācija f
• Macedonian: иселеништво n (iseleništvo)
• Polish: emigracja (pl) f
• Romanian: emigrație (ro), emigrare (ro)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: исељени́штво n

  Roman: iseljeníštvo (sh) n

• Swedish: emigranter (sv) c pl, utvandrare (sv) c pl
• Ukrainian: емігра́ція (uk) f (emihrácija)

See also

• emigration on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Noun

emigration c (singular definite emigrationen, plural indefinite emigrationer)

1. emigration

   Synonym: udvandring

Declension

Declension of emigration

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	emigration	emigrationen	emigrationer	emigrationerne
genitive	emigrations	emigrationens	emigrationers	emigrationernes

Further reading

• “emigration” in Den Danske Ordbog

Swedish

Noun

emigration c

1. emigration

   Synonym: utvandring

   Antonyms: immigration, invandring

Declension

Declension of emigration
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	emigration	emigrationen	emigrationer	emigrationerna
Genitive	emigrations	emigrationens	emigrationers	emigrationernas

Related terms

• emigrant
• emigrera

See also

• migration

References

• emigration in Svensk ordbok (SO)