migrant

See also: Migrant

English

Etymology

From French migrant

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪɡɹənt/

Noun

migrant (plural migrants)

1. A migratory bird or other animal.
2. Traveller or worker who moves from one region or country to another.
3. (informal) An immigrant or refugee.
   • 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

A migratory bird or other animal

• Bulgarian: прелетна птица (preletna ptica)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 候鳥 (zh), 候鸟 (zh) (hòuniǎo) (bird)

• Danish: trækfugl (da) c (bird)
• Finnish: muuttolintu (fi)
• French: oiseau migrateur m
• Georgian: გადამფრენი ფრინველი (gadampreni prinveli)
• German: Zugvogel (de) m (bird)
• Hungarian: vándormadár (hu) (bird)

• Irish: éan imirce m (bird), éan imirceach m (bird), éan aistreánach m (bird), éan aistreáin m (bird)
• Japanese: 渡り鳥 (ja) (わたりどり, watari-dori)
• Korean: 철새 (ko) (cheolsae)
• Russian: перелётная пти́ца (ru) f (pereljótnaja ptíca) (bird)
• Spanish: migratorio (es) m, migratoria (es) f
• Swedish: flyttfågel (sv)
• Tagalog: ibong-lagalag
• Westrobothnian: strekkfogel m

A person moving from one region or country to another

• Armenian: միգրանտ (hy) (migrant)
• Bulgarian: преселник (bg) m (preselnik)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 移民 (zh) (yímín)

• Danish: migrant c
• Finnish: siirtolainen (fi), siirtotyöläinen (fi) (worker)
• French: migrateur (fr) m, immigré (fr) m
• Galician: migrante m or f

• German: Migrant (de) m
• Hungarian: migráns (hu)
• Japanese: 移住者 (いじゅうしゃ, ijū-sha), 渡り者 (わたりもの, watarimono)
• Portuguese: migrante (pt) m or f
• Russian: мигра́нт (ru) m (migránt), переселе́нец (ru) m (pereselénec)
• Spanish: migrante m or f
• Ukrainian: мігра́нт m (mihránt), мігра́нтка f (mihrántka), переселе́нець m (pereselénecʹ), переселе́нка f (pereselénka)

Adjective

migrant (comparative more migrant, superlative most migrant)

1. Migratory.

Anagrams

• Ntigram, marting

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Catalan

Verb

migrant

1. present participle of migrar

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Dutch

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin migrans.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miˈɣrɑnt/

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• Hyphenation: mi‧grant
• Rhymes: -ɑnt

Noun

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

1. migrant

Hyponyms

• emigrant
• immigrant

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French

Noun

migrant m (plural migrants)

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

Adjective

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

1. migrant, migratory

Verb

migrant

1. present participle of migrer

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Latin

Verb

migrant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of migrō