immigration

See also: Immigration

English

Etymology

From immigrate +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪmɪˈɡɹeɪʃn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌɪmɪˈɡɹeɪʃən/
• Hyphenation: im‧mi‧gra‧tion
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

immigration (countable and uncountable, plural immigrations)

1. The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country for the purpose of permanent residence.

Derived terms

• anti-immigration

Related terms

• immigrate
• emigration
• emigrate
• migration
• migrate

Translations

the act of immigrating

• Afrikaans: immigrasie
• Albanian: mërgim (sq) m, emigrim (sq) m, kurbet (sq) m
• Arabic: هِجْرَة (ar) f (hijra)
• Armenian: ներգաղթ (hy) (nergałtʿ)
• Azeri: immiqrasiya, mühacirət, hicrət (az)
• Belarusian: імігра́цыя f (imihrácyja)
• Bengali: অভিবাসন (ôbhibasôn)
• Bulgarian: имигра́ция f (imigrácija)
• Burmese: လူဝင်မှုကြီးကြပ်ရေး (my) (luwanghmu.kri:krap-re:)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 移民 (ji⁴ man⁴)

  Mandarin: 移民 (zh) (yímín), 遷入 (zh), 迁入 (zh) (qiānrù)

• Czech: imigrace f, přistěhovalectví n
• Danish: indvandring c
• Dutch: inwijking f, immigratie (nl) f
• Esperanto: enmigrado
• Estonian: immigratsioon, ränne
• Finnish: maahanmuutto (fi), siirtolaisuus (fi)
• French: immigration (fr) f
• Galician: inmigración (gl) f
• Georgian: იმიგრაცია (ka) (imigracia), გადმოსახლება (gadmosaxleba)
• German: Einwanderung (de) f, Immigration (de) f
• Greek: μετανάστευση (el) (metanástefsi)
• Hebrew: הֲגִירָה (he)
• Hindi: आप्रवासन m (āpravāsan)
• Hungarian: bevándorlás (hu)
• Icelandic: aðflutningur (is)
• Ido: enmigro (io), enmigrado
• Indonesian: imigrasi (id)
• Interlingua: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: immigrazione (it) f
• Japanese: 移民 (ja) (いみん, imin), イミグレーション (imigurēshon), 入植 (にゅうしょく, nyūshoku), 移住 (ja) (いじゅう, ijū)
• Kazakh: иммиграция (ïmmïgracïya), көші-қон (köşi-qon)
• Khmer: អន្តោប្រវេសន៍ (km) (ɑntao prɑveɛh)
• Korean: 이주 (ko) (iju) (移住 (ko)), 이민 (ko) (imin) (移民 (ko))

• Kyrgyz: иммиграция (immigratsiya), четтен келүү (çetten kelüü)
• Lao: ເຂົ້າເມືອງ (khao mư̄ang)
• Latvian: imigrācija
• Lithuanian: imigracija
• Macedonian: доселу́вање n (doselúvanje), имигра́ција f (imigrácija)
• Malay: imigresen, imigrasi, imigresen
• Mongolian: цагаачлал (mn) (tsagaačlal)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: innvandring m, f, immigrasjon m

  Nynorsk: innvandring f, immigrasjon m

• Persian: مهاجرت (fa) (mohâjerat), کوچ (fa) (kuč), هجرت (fa) (hejrat)
• Polish: imigracja (pl) f
• Portuguese: imigração (pt) f
• Romanian: imigrație (ro) f, imigrare (ro)
• Russian: иммигра́ция (ru) f (immigrácija), переселе́ние (ru) n (pereselénije)
• Scottish Gaelic: in-imrich f, imrich a-steach f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: имиграција f, усељење n, досељење n

  Roman: imigracija (sh) f, useljenje (sh) n, doseljenje n

• Sinhalese: ආගමණය (āgamaṇaya)
• Slovak: prisťahovalectvo n
• Slovene: priseljevanje n
• Spanish: inmigración (es) f
• Swahili: uhamisho (sw)
• Swedish: invandring (sv) c, immigration (sv) c
• Tagalog: pandarayuhan, suludbayan
• Tajik: муҳоҷират (tg) (muhojirat), ҳиҷрат (hijrat)
• Thai: การเข้าเมือง (gaan-kâo-mʉʉang), เข้าเมือง (kâo-mʉʉang)
• Turkish: göçmenlik (tr), hicret (tr), göç (tr)
• Turkmen: immigrasiýa
• Ukrainian: іммігра́ція f (immihrácija)
• Urdu: ہجرت f (hijrat)
• Uzbek: immigratsiya (uz)
• Vietnamese: sự nhập cư (vi)
• Yiddish: אימיגראַציע f (imigratsye)

References

• immigration on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /imiɡrasjoːn/, [imiɡ̊ʁɑˈɕoːˀn] or IPA^(key): /emiɡrasjoːn/, [emiɡ̊ʁɑˈɕoːˀn]

Noun

immigration c (singular definite immigrationen, plural indefinite immigrationer)

1. immigration

Inflection

Declension of immigration

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	immigration	immigrationen	immigrationer	immigrationerne
genitive	immigrations	immigrationens	immigrationers	immigrationernes

Synonyms

• indvandring

Related terms

• emigrant
• emigration
• emigrere
• immigrant
• immigrere

Further reading

• immigration on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

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French

Noun

immigration f (plural immigrations)

1. immigration

Further reading

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

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Swedish

Noun

immigration c

1. immigration

Declension

Declension of immigration
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	immigration	immigrationen	immigrationer	immigrationerna
Genitive	immigrations	immigrationens	immigrationers	immigrationernas