immigrant

See also: Immigrant

English

Etymology

From Latin immigrans, present active participle of immigrāre (“to migrate into”), from in- (“into”) +‎ migrāre (“to migrate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪmɪɡɹənt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: im‧mi‧grant

Noun

immigrant (plural immigrants)

1. A non-native person who comes to a country from another country to permanently settle there.

   Approximately 1.5 million Mexicans are descendants of Irish immigrants.

   • 1964, John F. Kennedy, A Nation of Immigrants‎^[1], Revised and Enlarged edition, Harper & Row, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2:

     What Alexis de Tocqueville saw in America was a society of immigrants, each of whom had begun life anew, on an equal footing. This was the secret of America: a nation of people with the fresh memory of old traditions who dared to explore new frontiers, people eager to build lives for themselves in a spacious society that did not restrict their freedom of choice and action.

   • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 178, about Eynsford:

     The village was once well known for its paper-milling, founded by Huguenot immigrants in 1648, which produced high-quality hand-made paper until 1952.

   • 2001, South African Law Commission, Review of the Child Care Act, page 1123:

     However, an accompanied undocumented immigrant child should not be removed from his or her family , unless there are grounds for removal in terms of section 14(4) of the Child Care Act, 1983.

   • 2019 July 15, Greg Afinogenov, “The Jewish Case for Open Borders”, in Jewish Currents‎^[2], number Summer 2019:

     [Stephen] Miller’s uncle, a neuroscientist, has been welcomed onto the public stage for his denunciations of his nephew’s immigration policies, which the elder Miller has characterized as hypocritical: the Millers’ not-so-distant Jewish ancestors were, of course, immigrants themselves.

   • 2023 June 15, Eli Masket and Michelle Watson, “A city in Michigan votes to permanently ban Pride flags from display on public property during Pride Month”, in CNN‎^[3]:

     Hamtramck is described in the resolution as “one of the most diverse cities in the United States.” The city has a large immigrant presence and all the city council members are of the Muslim faith, city manager Max Garbarino told CNN Thursday. Hamtramck was also the first known city in the US to inaugurate an all-Muslim government, CNN previously reported.

2. A plant or animal that establishes itself in an area where it previously did not exist.

Antonyms

• emigrant

Derived terms

• anti-immigrant
• antiimmigrant
• crimmigrant
• digital immigrant
• economic immigrant
• Euroimmigrant
• illegal immigrant
• landed immigrant
• new immigrant
• nonimmigrant
• trimmigrant
• undocumented immigrant

Translations

person who comes to a country to settle

• Afrikaans: immigrant
• Albanian: mërgimtar (sq) m, imigrant (sq) m
• Arabic: مُهَاجِر m (muhājir), مُهَاجِرَة f (muhājira)
• Armenian: ներգաղթյալ (hy) (nergaġtʻyal)
• Azerbaijani: immiqrant, mühacir (az)
• Basque: etorkin
• Belarusian: імігра́нт m (imihránt), імігра́нтка f (imihrántka), перасяле́нец m (pjerasjaljénjec), перасяле́нка f (pjerasjaljénka)
• Bengali: অভিবাসী (bn) (obhibaśi)
• Bulgarian: имигра́нт (bg) m (imigránt), имигра́нтка f (imigrántka), пресе́лник (bg) m (presélnik), пресе́лничка f (presélnička)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: immigrant (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 移民 (ji⁴ man⁴)

  Mandarin: 移民 (zh) (yímín), 移民者 (zh) (yímínzhě)

• Czech: přistěhovalec m, přistěhovalkyně (cs) f, imigrant (cs) m, imigrantka f
• Danish: indvandrer (da) c, immigrant (da) c
• Dutch: inwijkeling (nl) m, ingewekene (nl), immigrant (nl) m
• Esperanto: enmigrinto
• Estonian: immigrant (et), sisserändaja
• Finnish: siirtolainen (fi), maahanmuuttaja (fi)
• French: immigrant (fr) m, immigrante (fr) f, immigré (fr) m, immigrée (fr) f
• Galician: inmigrante m or f
• Georgian: იმიგრანტი (imigranṭi)
• German: Einwanderer (de) m, Einwanderin (de) f, Immigrant (de) m, Immigrantin (de) f
• Greek: μετανάστης (el) m (metanástis)
• Hebrew: מְהַגֵּר m (m'hagér), מְהַגֶּרֶת f (m'hagéret)
• Hindi: आप्रवासी m (āpravāsī), मुहाजिर m (muhājir) (historical or Muslim context)
• Hungarian: bevándorló (hu)
• Icelandic: innflytjandi (is) m
• Indonesian: imigran (id), pendatang (id), orang pindah
• Irish: inimirceach m
• Italian: immigrante (it) m or f
• Japanese: 移民 (ja) (いみん, imin), 移住者 (ja) (いじゅうしゃ, ijūsha)
• Kazakh: келімсек (kelımsek)
• Khmer: ជនអន្តោប្រវេសន៍ (km) (cŭən ʼɑntaoprɑveeh),​ អន្តោប្រវេសន្ត (ʼɑntaoprɑveesɑn), ជននិគម (cŭən nikum)
• Korean: 이민(移民) (ko) (imin), 이민자(移民者) (iminja), 이주자(移住者) (ijuja)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: koçber (ku), mihacir (ku)

• Kyrgyz: иммигрант (immigrant)
• Lao: ຄົນເຂົ້າເມືອງ (khon khao mư̄ang)
• Latvian: imigrants m, ieceļotājs m
• Lithuanian: imigrantas m
• Macedonian: доселеник m (doselenik), доселеничка f (doselenička), имигра́нт m (imigránt), имигра́нтка f (imigrántka), преселник m (preselnik), преселничка f (preselnička)
• Malay: pendatang (ms)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: цагаач (mn) (cagaač), нүүсэн (nüüsen), шилжсэн (mn) (šilžsen), цагаачлагч (mn) (cagaačlagč)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: innvandrer (no) m, immigrant (no) m

  Nynorsk: innvandrar m, immigrant m

• Occitan: immigrant m, immigranta f
• Pashto: مهاجر (ps) m (mohāǰér)
• Persian: مهاجر (fa) (mohâjer)
• Plautdietsch: Immigraunt m
• Polish: imigrant (pl) m, imigrantka (pl) f
• Portuguese: imigrante (pt) m or f
• Romanian: imigrant (ro) m, imigrantă (ro) f
• Russian: иммигра́нт (ru) m (immigránt), иммигра́нтка (ru) f (immigrántka), переселе́нец (ru) m (pereselénec), переселе́нка (ru) f (pereselénka)
• Scottish Gaelic: in-imriche m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: досељѐнӣк m, досељѐница f, имѝгрант m, имѝгранткиња f

  Roman: doseljènīk (sh) m, doseljènica (sh) f, imìgrant (sh) m, imìgrantkinja f

• Slovak: prisťahovalec m, prisťahovalkyňa f, imigrant m, imigrantka f
• Slovene: priseljenec m, priseljenka f, imigrant m, imigrantka f
• Spanish: inmigrante (es) m or f
• Swedish: invandrare (sv) c, immigrant (sv) c
• Tagalog: manunuludbayan
• Tajik: муҳоҷир (muhojir)
• Thai: ผู้อพยพ (pûu-òp-pá-yóp)
• Tibetan: གཞིས་ཆགས་ལ་ཡོང་པའི་མི (gzhis chags la yong pa'i mi)
• Turkish: göçmen (tr), muhacir (tr)
• Turkmen: immigrant
• Ukrainian: іммігра́нт m (immihránt), іммігра́нтка f (immihrántka), переселе́нець m (pereselénecʹ), переселе́нка f (pereselénka)
• Urdu: مہاجر m (muhājir)
• Uyghur: كۆچمەن (köchmen)
• Uzbek: immigrant (uz), muhojir (uz)
• Vietnamese: dân nhập cư, nhập cư (vi)
• Volapük: (♂♀) nütevan, (♂) hinütevan, (♀) jinütevan, (collective ♂♀) nütevanef, (collective ♂) hinütevanef, (collective ♀) jinütevanef
• Welsh: mewnfudwr (cy)
• Yiddish: אימיגראַנט m (imigrant), אײַנוואַנדערער m (aynvanderer), אײַנגעוואַנדערטער m (ayngevanderter)

plant or animal

• Japanese: 帰化植物 (きかしょくぶつ, kika shokubutsu) (plant), 外来動物 (がいらいどうぶつ, gairai dōbutsu) (animal)

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• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} inmigrante (es)

Adjective

immigrant (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to immigrants or the act of immigrating.

See also

• expatriate

Anagrams

• Marmiting

Aragonese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /immiˈɡɾan/
• Syllabification: im‧mi‧grant
• Rhymes: -an

Noun

immigrant m

1. immigrant

Adjective

immigrant

1. immigrant

Further reading

• “immigrant”, in Diccionario ortografico de l’aragonés (seguntes la PO de l’EFA)‎^[4], Zaragoza: EDACAR, 2023, →ISSN, page 1389

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [im.miˈɣɾan]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [im.miˈɣɾant]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

immigrant m (plural immigrants)

1. immigrant

Adjective

immigrant m or f (masculine and feminine plural immigrants)

1. immigrant

Verb

immigrant

1. gerund of immigrar

Further reading

• “immigrant”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “immigrant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “immigrant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “immigrant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Etymology

From Latin immigrans.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [imiˈɡʁɑnˀd]

Noun

immigrant c (singular definite immigranten, plural indefinite immigranter)

1. immigrant

   Synonym: indvandrer

Declension

Declension of immigrant

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	immigrant	immigranten	immigranter	immigranterne
genitive	immigrants	immigrantens	immigranters	immigranternes

Further reading

• “immigrant” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

From immigreren +‎ -ant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪ.miˈɣrɑnt/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: im‧migrant

Noun

immigrant m (plural immigranten, diminutive immigrantje n, feminine immigrante)

1. immigrant

Derived terms

• crimigrant

Related terms

• immigratie
• immigreren

Descendants

• → Indonesian: imigran

Further reading

• “immigrant” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

French

Pronunciation

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Participle

immigrant

1. present participle of immigrer

Noun

immigrant m (plural immigrants)

1. immigrant

Adjective

immigrant (feminine immigrante, masculine plural immigrants, feminine plural immigrantes)

1. (relational) immigrant

Further reading

• “immigrant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Verb

immigrant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of immigrō

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin immigrans.

Noun

immigrant m (definite singular immigranten, indefinite plural immigranter, definite plural immigrantene)

1. an immigrant

Synonyms

• innvandrer

References

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

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin immigrans.

Noun

immigrant m (definite singular immigranten, indefinite plural immigrantar, definite plural immigrantane)

1. an immigrant

Synonyms

• innvandrar

References

• “immigrant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Noun

immigrant c

1. an immigrant

   Synonym: invandrare

   Antonyms: emigrant, utvandrare

Declension

Declension of immigrant

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	immigrant	immigrants
	definite	immigranten	immigrantens
plural	indefinite	immigranter	immigranters
	definite	immigranterna	immigranternas

Related terms

• immigration
• immigrera

See also

• asylsökande (“asylum seeker”)
• migration

References

• immigrant in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• immigrant in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• immigrant in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)