persona non grata

See also: Persona non grata

English

Etymology

From Latin persōna (“person”) + nōn (“not”) + grāta (from grātus (“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.

Antonyms

• persona grata

Translations

a person who is not welcome

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

  Mandarin: 不受歡迎的人, 不受欢迎的人 (bù shòu huānyíng de rén)

• Czech: persona non grata
• Danish: persona non grata
• Dutch: persona non grata (nl)
• Esperanto: persono non plaĉa
• Estonian: persona non grata (et)
• Finnish: ei-toivottu henkilö
• French: persona non grata (fr)
• Georgian: პერსონა ნონ გრატად (ṗersona non graṭad)
• 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 (avāñchit vyati)
• Hungarian: persona non grata (hu), nemkívánatos személy
• 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: persona non grata f
• Romanian: persoană neacceptată
• Russian: персо́на нон гра́та (ru) f (persóna non gráta), нежела́тельное лицо́ n (neželátelʹnoje licó)
• Serbo-Croatian: persona non grata
• Slovak: persona non grata
• Slovene: persona non grata
• Spanish: persona non grata (es)
• Swedish: persona non grata (sv), varg i veum (sv)
• Thai: บุคคลห้าม
• Turkish: istenmeyen adam
• Ukrainian: персона нон грата (persona non hrata)
• Yiddish: פּערסאָנאַ ניט גראַטאַ‎ (persona nit grata)

See also

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

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• pessoa non grata, pessoa não grata

Noun

persona non grata f (plural personae non gratae or personas non gratas)

1. persona non grata (a person who is not welcome)