import

See also: Import

English

Pronunciation

Noun

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ĭmʹpôt, IPA^(key): /ˈɪm.pɔːt/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (General American) enPR: ĭmʹpôrt, IPA^(key): /ˈɪm.pɔɹt/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ĭmʹpōrt, IPA^(key): /ˈɪm.po(ː)ɹt/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɪm.poət/

Verb

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ĭmpôtʹ, IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpɔːt/

  • Audio (UK)

    (file)

• (General American) enPR: ĭmpôrtʹ, IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpɔɹt/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ĭmpōrtʹ, IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpo(ː)ɹt/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpoət/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t

Etymology 1

From Middle English importen, from Old French emporter, importer, from Latin importō (“bring in from abroad, import”, verb), from in (“in, at, on; into”) + portō (“I carry, bear; convey”).

Noun

import (countable and uncountable, plural imports)

1. (countable) Something brought in from an exterior source, especially for sale or trade.
2. (uncountable) The practice of importing.
3. (uncountable) Significance, importance.

   It was a matter of great import.

4. (countable, Philippines) A foreigner playing in a sports league.

Synonyms

• (significance): importancy, importance, meaning, purport, significance, tenor, weight

Antonyms

• (practice of importing): export
• (something brought in from a foreign country): export
• insignificance

Translations

something brought in from a foreign country

• Azerbaijani: idxal, import
• Bulgarian: внос (bg) m (vnos)
• Catalan: importació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 進口貨, 进口货 (jìnkǒuhuò), 舶來品 (zh), 舶来品 (zh) (bóláipǐn), 外國貨 (zh), 外国货 (zh) (wàiguóhuò)

• Dutch: import (nl), invoer (nl)
• Finnish: tuontitavara, importti (slang)
• German: Importware (de) f, Importgut (de) n
• Greek: εισαγωγή (el) f (eisagogí)
• Hebrew: ייבוא‎ m (y'ivu)
• Hungarian: import (hu)
• Irish: iompórtáil, allmhaire f
• Japanese: 輸入品 (ゆにゅうひん, yunyūhin)
• Polish: import (pl) m
• Portuguese: importados m pl
• Russian: и́мпорт (ru) m (ímport)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: увоз m, импорт m

  Roman: uvoz (sh) m, import (sh) m

• Spanish: importación (es) f
• Swedish: import (sv) c, införsel (sv) c
• Turkish: ithal (tr)
• Welsh: mewnforyn m

practice of importing

• Arabic: اِسْتِيرَاد‎ m (istīrād)
• Azerbaijani: idxal
• Bulgarian: внос (bg) m (vnos)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 進口 (zh), 进口 (zh) (jìnkǒu), 輸入 (zh), 输入 (zh) (shūrù)

• Czech: dovoz (cs) m, import (cs) m
• Dutch: import (nl), invoer (nl)
• Finnish: tuonti (fi), maahantuonti (fi)
• French: importation (fr) f
• German: Import (de) m, Einfuhr (de) f
• Greek: εισαγωγή (el) f (eisagogí)
• Hungarian: importálás, behozatal (hu)
• Irish: allmhairiú m
• Japanese: 輸入 (ja) (yunyū), 輸入 (ja) (ゆにゅう, yunyū)
• Korean: 수입 (ko) (su'ip)
• Polish: import (pl) m
• Portuguese: importação (pt) f
• Romanian: import (ro) n
• Russian: и́мпорт (ru) m (ímport), ввоз (ru) m (vvoz)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: импорт m, увоз m

  Roman: import (sh) m, uvoz (sh) m

• Spanish: importación (es) f
• Swedish: import (sv) c, införsel (sv) c
• Turkish: ithalat (tr)
• Welsh: mewnforio (cy) m

licence for import

• Dutch: invoervergunning
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: увозница

  Roman: uvoznica (sh)

significance, importance

• Bulgarian: смисъл (bg) m (smisǎl), значение (bg) n (značenie)
• Dutch: belang (nl) n, gewicht (nl) n
• Finnish: tärkeys (fi), merkityksellisyys (fi)
• Portuguese: importância (pt) f, significância (pt) f
• Scottish Gaelic: susbaint f
• Spanish: importancia (es) f, significado (es) m
• Swedish: vikt (sv) c, betydelse (sv) c
• Welsh: pwys m

Verb

import (third-person singular simple present imports, present participle importing, simple past and past participle imported)

1. (transitive) To bring (something) in from a foreign country, especially for sale or trade.

   Antonym: export

2. (transitive) To load a file into a software application from another version or system.

   Antonym: export

   How can I import files from older versions of this application?

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:import.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• importable
• important
• importation
• importer

Translations

to bring in from a foreign country

• Arabic: اِسْتَوْرَدَ‎ (istawrada)
• Asturian: importar
• Azerbaijani: idxal etmək
• Belarusian: імпартава́ць impf or pf (impartavácʹ)
• Bulgarian: внасям (bg) (vnasjam)
• Catalan: importar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 進口 (zh), 进口 (zh) (jìnkǒu), 輸入 (zh), 输入 (zh) (shūrù)

• Czech: dovézt
• Dutch: invoeren (nl), importeren (nl)
• Esperanto: importi (eo)
• Estonian: importima, (sisse) tooma
• Finnish: tuoda (maahan)
• French: importer (fr)
• Galician: importar
• German: importieren (de), einführen (de)
• Greek: εισάγω (el) (eiságo)
• Hebrew: ייבא‎ (yibé)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: importál (hu)
• Ido: importacar (io)
• Indonesian: mengimpor (id)
• Irish: iompórtáil, allmhairigh
• Italian: importare (it)
• Japanese: 輸入する (ゆにゅうする, yunyū-suru)
• Kazakh: импорттау (importtau)
• Khmer: នាំចូល (km) (nŏəm coul)
• Korean: 수입하다 (ko) (su'iphada)
• Latin: advectō
• Latvian: importēt
• Lithuanian: importúoti, įvèžti
• Luxembourgish: aféieren, importéieren
• Polish: zapożyczać impf, zapożyczyć (pl) pf, importować (pl) impf, zaimportować (pl) pf
• Portuguese: importar (pt)
• Romanian: importa (ro)
• Russian: импорти́ровать (ru) impf or pf (importírovatʹ), ввози́ть (ru) impf (vvozítʹ), ввезти́ (ru) pf (vveztí)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: увести pf, увозити impf

  Roman: ùvesti (sh) pf, uvòziti (sh) impf

• Slovene: uvoziti pf, uvažati impf
• Spanish: importar (es)
• Swedish: importera (sv), föra in (sv)
• Thai: นำเข้า
• Ukrainian: імпортува́ти (importuváty); уво́зити (uvózyty), вво́зити (uk) impf (vvózyty), увезти́ (uveztý), ввезти́ pf (vveztý)
• Vietnamese: nhập khẩu (vi) (入口), nhập cảng (vi)
• Welsh: mewnforio (cy)

to load files into a computer from another source

• Bulgarian: зареждам (bg) (zareždam)
• Esperanto: importi (eo)
• French: importer (fr)
• Maori: kawe mai
• Polish: importować (pl) impf, zaimportować (pl) pf
• Russian: импортировать (ru) (importirovatʹ)

Etymology 2

From Italian importare, and French importer, from Latin importō.

Verb

import (third-person singular simple present imports, present participle importing, simple past and past participle imported)

1. (intransitive) To be important; to be significant; to be of consequence.
   • 1661, Thomas Salusbury

     See how much it importeth to learn to take Time by the Fore-Top.

2. (transitive) To be of importance to (someone or something).
   • 1593, Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost:

     This Letter is mistooke: it importeth none here: It is writ to laquenetta.

   • 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 6484883, (please specify the page number):

     If I endure it, what imports it you?

3. (transitive) To be incumbent on (someone to do something).
   • 1762, David Hume, The History of England:

     It imports us to get all the aid and assistance we can.

4. (transitive) To be important or crucial to (that something happen).
   • 1819, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Cenci:

     It much imports your house That all should be made clear.

5. (transitive) To mean, signify.
   • 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, J[ohn] S[penser], editor, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, OCLC 931154958, (please specify the page):

     Every petition […] doth […] always import a multitude of speakers together.

6. (transitive, archaic) To express, to imply.

Translations

to be important

• Esperanto: gravi
• French: importer (fr), compter (fr)
• Spanish: importar (es)
• Welsh: bod yn bwysig, bod o bwys

References

• “import”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪmport]

Noun

import m inan

1. import

   Synonym: dovoz

   Antonyms: export, vývoz

Related terms

• importér
• importní
• importovat

Further reading

• import in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• import in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• import in Internetová jazyková příručka

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Dutch

Etymology

Back-formed from importeren or borrowed from English import.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪm.pɔrt/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: im‧port

Noun

import m (plural importen, diminutive importje n)

1. Geographical import.
2. (Netherlands, collective) A person or people who is/are not native to a city, village or region, but moved there from outside.

Synonyms

• (import): invoer

Antonyms

• (import): export, uitvoer

Derived terms

• importbruid
• importgoederen
• importhandel

Related terms

• importeur

Descendants

• → Indonesian: impor
• → West Frisian: ymport

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French

Noun

import m (plural imports)

1. Geographical import

Derived terms

• importeur m

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• promit, promît, rompit, rompît

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Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English import.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈimport]
• Hyphenation: im‧port
• Rhymes: -ort

Noun

import (plural importok)

1. import

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	import	importok
accusative	importot	importokat
dative	importnak	importoknak
instrumental	importtal	importokkal
causal-final	importért	importokért
translative	importtá	importokká
terminative	importig	importokig
essive-formal	importként	importokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	importban	importokban
superessive	importon	importokon
adessive	importnál	importoknál
illative	importba	importokba
sublative	importra	importokra
allative	importhoz	importokhoz
elative	importból	importokból
delative	importról	importokról
ablative	importtól	importoktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	importé	importoké
non-attributive possessive - plural	importéi	importokéi

Possessive forms of import
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	importom	importjaim
2nd person sing.	importod	importjaid
3rd person sing.	importja	importjai
1st person plural	importunk	importjaink
2nd person plural	importotok	importjaitok
3rd person plural	importjuk	importjaik

Related terms

• importál
• importőr

 

Further reading

• import in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English or German.

Noun

import m (definite singular importen, indefinite plural importer, definite plural importene)

1. import

Related terms

• importere

References

• “import” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English or German.

Noun

import m (definite singular importen, indefinite plural importar, definite plural importane)

1. import

References

• “import” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English import, from Middle English importen, from Old French emporter, importer, from Latin importō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈim.pɔrt/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -impɔrt
• Syllabification: im‧port

Noun

import m inan

1. (economics) import (act of importing)

   Antonym: eksport

2. (economics) import (something brought in from a foreign country)

   Antonym: eksport

Declension

Declension of import

	singular
nominative	import
genitive	importu
dative	importowi
accusative	import
instrumental	importem
locative	imporcie
vocative	imporcie

Derived terms

adjectives

• antyimportowy
• importochłonny
• importowy

 

noun

• importochłonność

 

verbs

• importować
• zaimportować

 

Related terms

adjectives

• importerski

 

noun

• importer

 

Further reading

• import in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• import in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Romanian

Etymology

Back-formation from importa

Noun

import n (plural importuri)

1. import

Declension

Declension of import

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) import	importul	(niște) importuri	importurile
genitive/dative	(unui) import	importului	(unor) importuri	importurilor
vocative	importule		importurilor

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English import, from Latin importare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǐmport/
• Hyphenation: i‧mport

Noun

ìmport m (Cyrillic spelling ѝмпорт)

1. import (practice of importing)
2. An import (something brought in from a foreign country)

Declension

Declension of import

	singular	plural
nominative	import	importi
genitive	importa	importa
dative	importu	importima
accusative	import	importe
vocative	importe	importi
locative	importu	importima
instrumental	importom	importima

References

• “import” in Hrvatski jezični portal

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Swedish

Noun

import c

1. import

Declension

Declension of import
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	import	importen	—	—
Genitive	imports	importens	—	—

Synonyms

• införsel

Antonyms

• export

Related terms

• importera
• importförbud
• importtillstånd
• importtull