migrant

See also: Migrant

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French migrant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪɡɹənt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

migrant (plural migrants)

1. A migratory animal, in particular a migratory bird.
   • 1887, Edwin Lester Linden Arnold, Bird Life in England, page 182:

     Gilbert White writes, "I have consulted a sportsman who tells me that […] often there are amongst them little parties of small blue doves which he calls rockiers. The food of these numberless migrants was beechmast and some acorns."

2. Traveller or worker who moves from one region or country to another.
3. (informal) A person who leaves one place in order to permanently settle in another.
   • 2021 April 22, Aryn Baker, “Environmental Crises Are Forcing Millions Into Cities. Can Countries Turn Climate Migrants Into an Asset?”, in Time‎^[1]:

     “But once you lose everything— your home, your school, your clinic, your road, your church—then it’s an impossible situation. You become an environmental migrant because you have to find those facilities in some other place.”

4. Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Catopsilia. Also called an emigrant.

Hyponyms

• emigrant
• immigrant

Related terms

• migrate
• migration

Translations

migratory animal — see also migratory bird

• Spanish: migratorio (es) m, migratoria (es) f
• Tagalog: ibong-lagalag

person moving from one region or country to another

• Arabic: مُهَاجِر m (muhājir), مُهَاجِرَة f (muhājira)
• Armenian: միգրանտ (hy) (migrant)
• Azerbaijani: miqrant, mühacir (az), köçkün
• Belarusian: мігра́нт m (mihránt), мігра́нтка f (mihrántka), перасяле́нец m (pjerasjaljénjec), перасяле́нка f (pjerasjaljénka)
• Bulgarian: пресе́лник (bg) m (presélnik), пресе́лничка f (presélnička), мигра́нт m (migránt), мигра́нтка f (migrántka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 移民 (zh) (yímín)

• Czech: migrant (cs) m, migrantka f
• Danish: migrant c
• Dutch: migrant (nl) m, migrante (nl) f, trekarbeider m, trekarbeidster f
• Estonian: migrant (et)
• Finnish: siirtolainen (fi), siirtotyöläinen (fi) (worker)
• French: migrateur (fr) m, migratrice (fr) f, immigré (fr) m, immigrée (fr) f
• Galician: migrante m or f
• Georgian: მიგრანტი (migranṭi)
• German: Migrant (de) m, Migrantin (de) f
• Greek: μετανάστης (el) m (metanástis), μετανάστρια (el) f (metanástria)
• Hindi: प्रवासी (hi) m (pravāsī)
• Hungarian: migráns (hu)
• Italian: migratore (it) m, migratrice f
• Japanese: 移住者 (ja) (いじゅうしゃ, ijūsha), 渡り者 (わたりもの, watarimono), 移民 (ja) (いみん, imin)
• Korean: 이민(移民) (ko) (imin)
• Latvian: migrants m
• Lithuanian: migrantas m
• Macedonian: преселник m (preselnik), преселничка f (preselnička), мигра́нт m (migránt), мигра́нтка f (migrántka)
• Maori: manuheke
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: migrant m

• Persian: مهاجر (fa) (mohâjer)
• Polish: migrant (pl) m, migrantka f
• Portuguese: migrante (pt) m or f
• Russian: мигра́нт (ru) m (migránt), мигра́нтка (ru) f (migrántka), переселе́нец (ru) m (pereselénec), переселе́нка (ru) f (pereselénka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мѝгрант m, мѝгранткиња f

  Roman: mìgrant (sh) m, mìgrantkinja (sh) f

• Slovak: migrant m, migrantka f
• Slovene: migrant m, migrantka f
• Spanish: migrante m or f
• Swedish: migrant (sv) c
• Tajik: муҳоҷир (muhojir)
• Ukrainian: мігра́нт m (mihránt), мігра́нтка f (mihrántka), переселе́нець m (pereselénecʹ), переселе́нка f (pereselénka)
• Uzbek: migrant, muhojir (uz)

Adjective

migrant (comparative more migrant, superlative most migrant)

1. Migratory.

Derived terms

terms derived from adjective or noun

• climate migrant
• economic migrant
• environmental migrant
• migrant smuggling
• migrant worker
• passage migrant

Anagrams

• Ntigram, marting

Catalan

Noun

migrant m or f by sense (plural migrants)

1. migrant

Verb

migrant

1. gerund of migrar

Dutch

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin migrans.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miˈɣrɑnt/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: mi‧grant
• Rhymes: -ɑnt

Noun

migrant m (plural migranten, diminutive migrantje n, feminine migrante)

1. migrant

Hyponyms

• emigrant
• immigrant

French

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

migrant m (plural migrants)

1. Traveler or worker who moves from one region or country to another

Derived terms

• migrant économique

Adjective

migrant (feminine migrante, masculine plural migrants, feminine plural migrantes)

1. migrant, migratory

Participle

migrant

1. present participle of migrer

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

migrant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of migrō

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French migrant, from Latin migrāns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi.ɡrant/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -iɡrant
• Syllabification: mi‧grant

Noun

migrant m pers (female equivalent migrantka)

1. migrant (person)

Declension

Declension of migrant

	singular	plural
nominative	migrant	migranci/migranty (deprecative)
genitive	migranta	migrantów
dative	migrantowi	migrantom
accusative	migranta	migrantów
instrumental	migrantem	migrantami
locative	migrancie	migrantach
vocative	migrancie	migranci

Noun

migrant m animal

1. migrant (animal)

Declension

Declension of migrant

	singular	plural
nominative	migrant	migranty
genitive	migranta	migrantów
dative	migrantowi	migrantom
accusative	migranta	migranty
instrumental	migrantem	migrantami
locative	migrancie	migrantach
vocative	migrancie	migranty

Further reading

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

Swedish

Noun

migrant c

1. a migrant (someone who moves from one country or region to another)

Declension

Declension of migrant

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	migrant	migrants
	definite	migranten	migrantens
plural	indefinite	migranter	migranters
	definite	migranterna	migranternas

Related terms

• migration
• migrera

See also

• emigration
• immigration

References

• migrant in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• migrant in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)