refugee

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Etymology

From French réfugié, past participle of réfugier ("to take refuge"), describing early French protestants seeking refuge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛfjudʒiː/, /ɹɛfjuˈdʒiː/

  Rhymes: -iː

Noun

refugee (plural refugees)

1. A person seeking refuge in a foreign country out of fear of political persecution or the prospect of such persecution in his home country, i.e., a person seeking a political asylum.
2. A person seeking refuge in a foreign country due to poverty and no prospect of overcoming said poverty in his home country, i.e., a person seeking an economic asylum.
3. A person seeking refuge due to a natural disaster.
4. A person formally granted a political or economic asylum by a country other than his home country.

Derived terms

• reffo
• refugeehood

Translations

person seeking political asylum

• Arabic: لاجئ m (laajiʔ)
• Armenian: փախստական (pʿaxstakan)
• Azeri: qaçqın
• Bashkir: ҡасҡын (qasqïn)
• Belarusian: уцекач m (ucékač)
• Bulgarian: бежанец (bg) m (bežanec)
• Catalan: refugiat m
• Chechen: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (政治 zhèngzhì) 難民 (zh), 难民 (zh) (nànmín), 避難者, 避难者 (bìnànzhě)

• Czech: uprchlík (cs) m
• Estonian: pagulane
• Finnish: pakolainen (fi)
• French: réfugié (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Flüchtling (de) m, Asylant (de) m, Asylbewerber (de) m
• Hungarian: menekült (hu)
• Japanese: 難民 (なんみん, nanmin)

• Korean: 난민 (ko) (nanmin) (難民)
• Kurdish: penaber (ku)
• Malay: pelari
• Maori: konene
• Polish: uchodźca (pl) m
• Portuguese: refugiado (pt) m
• Russian: беженец (ru) m (béženec), беженка (ru) f (béženka)
• Scottish Gaelic: fògarrach m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: избеглица m, избjеглица m

  Roman: izbeglica m, izbjeglica m

• Slovak: utečenec m, utečenkyňa f
• Slovene: begunec (sl) m
• Spanish: refugiado (es) m
• Swahili: mkimbizi (sw)
• Swedish: flykting (sv) c
• Tamil: அகதி (ta) (akati)
• Turkish: sığınmacı (tr), mülteci (tr), göçmen (tr)
• Ukrainian: біженець (uk) m (bíženec')

person seeking economic asylum

• Arabic: لاجئ m (laaji')
• Armenian: փախստական (pʿaxstakan)
• Bashkir: ҡасҡын (qasqïn)
• Catalan: refugiat m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (經濟 / 经济 jīngjì) 難民 (zh), 难民 (zh) (nànmín)

• Czech: uprchlík (cs) m
• Finnish: pakolainen (fi)
• French: réfugié (fr) m
• German: Flüchtling (de) m

• Hungarian: menekült (hu)
• Japanese: 難民 (なんみん, nanmin)
• Malay: pelari
• Maori: konene
• Portuguese: expatriado (pt) m
• Russian: беженец (ru) m (béženec)
• Spanish: refugiado (es) m
• Swahili: mkimbizi (sw)
• Swedish: flykting (sv) c
• Turkish: mülteci (tr), göçmen (tr)

person seeking refuge from natural disaster

• Armenian: փախստական (pʿaxstakan)
• Bashkir: ҡасҡын (qasqïn)
• Catalan: refugiat m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 災民, 灾民 (zh) (zāimín)

• Czech: uprchlík (cs) m
• Finnish: pakolainen (fi)
• German: Flüchtling (de) m
• Hungarian: menekült (hu)
• Indonesian: pengungsi (id)

• Malay: pelari
• Maori: konene
• Polish: uchodźca (pl) m
• Portuguese: desabrigado m
• Russian: беженец (ru) m (béženec)
• Scottish Gaelic: fògarrach m
• Swahili: mkimbizi (sw)
• Swedish: flykting (sv) c
• Turkish: mülteci (tr), sığınmacı (tr), göçmen (tr)

person granted formal asylum

• Armenian: փախստական (pʿaxstakan)
• Catalan: refugiat m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 難民 (zh), 难民 (zh) (nànmín)

• Czech: uprchlík (cs) m
• Finnish: pakolainen (fi)
• German: Flüchtling (de) m
• Hungarian: menekült (hu)

• Malay: pelari
• Maori: konene
• Polish: uchodźca (pl) m
• Portuguese: asilado m
• Russian: беженец (ru) m (béženec)
• Scottish Gaelic: fògarrach m
• Swahili: mkimbizi (sw)

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Translations to be checked

• Interlingua: refugiato
• Kurdish: penaber, mihacir, miltecî
• Lithuanian: pabėgėlis

• Malayalam: അഭയാര്‍ത്ഥി (abhayaarthi) (1,2,3,4)
• Welsh: ffoadur m

See also

• asylum
• economic asylum
• political asylum
• refuge
• refoulement

Verb

refugee (third-person singular simple present refugees, present participle refugeeing, simple past and past participle refugeed)

1. (transitive, US, historical) To convey (slaves) away from the advance of the federal forces.