persona non grata

See also: Persona non grata

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

Latin persona (“person”) + non (“not”) + grata (from gratus (“acceptable”)).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pə(ɹ)ˈsəʊnə nɒn ˈɡɹɑːtə/

Noun

persona non grata (plural personae non gratae)

1. A person who is not welcome, especially a diplomat in a foreign country.

Usage notes

Sometimes incorrectly pluralized as personas non grata.

See also

• gatecrasher, interloper, peeping tom, encroacher, backseat driver, kibitzer, meddler, nosy parker, marplot, buttinsky, busybody

Translations

a person who is not welcome

• Afrikaans: persona non grata
• Albanian: person i padëshirueshëm
• Arabic: شخص غير مرغوب فيه
• Armenian: պերսոնա նոն գրատա (persona non grata)
• Azeri: persona non grata
• Belarusian: персона нон грата (pjersona non hrata)
• Bengali: ব্যক্তি অ আস্থাভাজন
• Bulgarian: персона нон грата (persona non grata)
• Catalan: persona non grata
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不受歡迎人物, 不受欢迎人物 (bù shòu huānyíng rénwù), 不受欢迎的人, 不受歡迎的人

• Czech: persona non grata
• Danish: persona non grata
• Dutch: persona non grata
• Esperanto: persono non plaĉa
• Estonian: persona non grata (et)
• Finnish: ei-toivottu henkilö
• French: persona non grata (fr)
• Georgian: პერსონა ნონ გრატად (persona non gratad)
• German: Persona non grata (de) f
• Greek: ανεπιθύμητο πρόσωπο n (anepithýmito prósopo), πρόσωπο όχι ευπρόσδεκτο (prósopo óchi efprósdekto)
• Hebrew: אישיות בלתי רצוי
• Hindi: अवांछित व्यति
• Hungarian: persona non grata (hu)
• Icelandic: persónu non grata
• Indonesian: persona non grata
• Irish: persona neamh grata

• Italian: persona non grata
• Japanese: ペルソナ・ノン・グラータ (ja) (perusona-non-gurāta)
• Korean: 페르소나 논 그라타 (pereusona non geurata), 인물이 아닌 그라 (inmuri anin geura)
• Latin: persona non grata
• Latvian: persona non grata
• Lithuanian: persona non grata
• Macedonian: персона нон грата (persona non grata)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: persona non grata

• Persian: شخص غیر قابل قبول
• Portuguese: pessoa non grata
• Romanian: persoană neacceptată
• Russian: персона нон грата (ru) f (persóna non gráta), нежелательное лицо n (neželátel’noje licó)
• Serbo-Croatian: persona non grata
• Slovak: persona non grata
• Slovene: persona non grata
• Spanish: persona non grata (es)
• Swedish: persona non grata (sv)
• Thai: บุคคลห้าม
• Turkish: istenmeyen adam
• Ukrainian: персона нон грата (persona non hrata)
• Yiddish: פּערסאָנאַ ניט גראַטאַ (persona nit grata)

Antonyms

• persona grata