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/

Adjective

immigrant (not comparable)

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

Noun

immigrant (plural immigrants)

1. A non-native person who comes to a country from another country in order to permanently settle there.
   • 2019 July 15, Greg Afinogenov, “The Jewish Case for Open Borders”, in Jewish Currents‎^[1], 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.

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

Antonyms

• emigrant

Derived terms

• landed immigrant

Translations

person who comes to a country to settle

• Afrikaans: immigrant
• Albanian: mërgimtar (sq) m
• Arabic: مُهَاجِر m (muhājir)
• Armenian: ներգաղթյալ (hy) (nergaġtʻyal)
• Azerbaijani: immiqrant, mühacir (az)
• Belarusian: імігра́нт m (imihránt), імігра́нтка f (imihrántka), перасяле́нец m (pjerasjaljénjec), перасяле́нка f (pjerasjaljénka)
• Bulgarian: имигра́нт (bg) m (imigránt), имигра́нтка f (imigrántka)
• 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, imigrant (cs) m
• Danish: indvandrer (da) c, immigrant (da) c
• Dutch: inwijkeling (nl) m, ingewekene (nl), immigrant (nl) m
• Estonian: immigrant (et), sisserändaja
• Finnish: siirtolainen (fi), maahanmuuttaja (fi)
• French: immigrant (fr) m, immigrante (fr) f, immigré (fr) m
• 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: מהגר m (m'hagér), מהגרת f (m'hagéret)
• Hindi: आप्रवासी m (āpravāsī)
• Hungarian: bevándorló (hu)
• Icelandic: innflytjandi (is)
• Indonesian: imigran (id), pendatang (id), orang pindah
• Italian: immigrante (it) m or f
• Japanese: 移民 (ja) (いみん, imin), 移住者 (いじゅうしゃ, ijūsha)
• Kazakh: босқын (bosqyn), иммигрант (immigrant)
• Khmer: អន្តោប្រវេសន្ត (ɑntaoprɑveeh), ជននិគម (cɔɔn ni’kum)
• Korean: 이민자 (iminja) (移民者)
• Kyrgyz: иммигрант (immigrant)
• Lao: ຄົນເຂົ້າເມືອງ (khon khao mư̄ang)
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• Latvian: imigrants m
• Lithuanian: imigrantas m
• Macedonian: досе́леник m (dosélenik), имигра́нт m (imigránt)
• Mongolian: цагаач (mn) (cagaač), нүүсэн (nüüsen), шилжсэн (mn) (šilžsen)
• Norwegian:

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

  Nynorsk: innvandrar m, immigrant m

• Occitan: immigrant m, immigranta f
• Persian: مهاجر (fa) (mohâjer)
• Polish: imigrant (pl) m, imigrantka (pl) f
• Portuguese: imigrante (pt) m or f
• Romanian: imigrant (ro) m
• Russian: иммигра́нт (ru) m (immigránt), иммигра́нтка (ru) f (immigrántka), переселе́нец (ru) m (pereselénec), переселе́нка (ru) f (pereselénka)
• Scottish Gaelic: in-imriche m
• Serbo-Croatian: doseljenik (sh) m, doseljenica (sh) f
• Slovak: prisťahovalec m
• Slovene: priseljenec m, priseljenka 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)
• Uzbek: imigrant
• Vietnamese: dân nhập cư, nhập cư (vi)
• Volapük: (♂♀) nütevan, (♂) hinütevan, (♀) jinütevan, (collective ♂♀) nütevanef, (collective ♂) hinütevanef, (collective ♀) jinütevanef
• Welsh: mewnfudwr (cy)
• Yiddish: אימיגראַנט m (imigrant)

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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See also

• expatriate

Anagrams

• Marmiting

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Catalan

Pronunciation

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

Noun

immigrant m (plural immigrants)

1. immigrant

Adjective

immigrant m or f (masculine and feminine plural immigrants)

1. immigrant

Verb

immigrant

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Dutch

Etymology

From immigreren +‎ -ant

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: im‧migrant

Noun

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

1. immigrant

Related terms

• immigreren, immigratie

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French

Verb

immigrant

1. present participle of immigrer

Noun

immigrant m (plural immigrants)

1. immigrant

Adjective

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

1. immigrant (attributive)

Further reading

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

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) immigrant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of immigrō

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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).

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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.

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Swedish

Noun

immigrant c

1. an immigrant

Declension

Declension of immigrant
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	immigrant	immigranten	immigranter	immigranterna
Genitive	immigrants	immigrantens	immigranters	immigranternas

See also

• emigrant
• immigration
• immigrera
• migration