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Etymology
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From French réfugié , past participle of réfugier ( “ to take refuge ” ) , describing early French Protestants seeking refuge .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈɹɛfjʊdʒiː/ , /ɹɛfjʊˈdʒiː/
Rhymes: -iː
Noun
refugee (plural refugees )
A person seeking refuge in a foreign country out of fear of political persecution or the prospect of such persecution in their home country , i.e., a person seeking political asylum .
A person seeking refuge due to a natural disaster , war , etc.
A person formally granted political or economic asylum by a country other than their home country.
Derived terms
Translations
person seeking political asylum
Arabic: لَاجِئ m ( lājiʔ )
Armenian: փախստական (hy) ( pʻaxstakan )
Assamese: শৰণাৰ্থী ( xoronarthi )
Azerbaijani: qaçqın (az)
Bashkir: ҡасҡын ( qasqın )
Belarusian: уце́кач m ( ucjékač )
Bengali: রণার্থী ( ronarthi )
Bulgarian: бежанец (bg) m ( bežanec )
Burmese: ဒုက္ခသည် (my) ( dukhka.sany )
Catalan: refugiat (ca) m , refugiada (ca) f
Chechen: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Mandarin: (政治 zhèngzhì ) 難民 / 难民 (zh) ( nànmín ) , 难民 (zh) ( nànmín ) , 避難者 / 避难者 ( bìnànzhě ) , 避难者 ( bìnànzhě )
Crimean Tatar: qaçaq
Czech: uprchlík (cs) m , uprchlice (cs) f
Danish: flygtning (da)
Dinka: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: vluchteling (nl) m
Esperanto: rifuĝinto ( male or female ) , rifuĝintino ( female )
Estonian: pagulane
Faroese: flóttafólk n
Finnish: pakolainen (fi)
French: réfugié (fr) m , réfugiée (fr) f
Galician: refuxiado (gl) m , refuxiada f
Georgian: ლტოლვილი ( lṭolvili )
German: Flüchtling (de) m , Flüchtlingin f ( obsolete ) , Asylant (de) m , Asylantin (de) f , Asylbewerber (de) m , Asylbewerberin (de) f
Greek: πρόσφυγας (el) m or f ( prósfygas )
Greenlandic: qimaasoq
Haitian Creole: refigye , refijye
Hindi: शरणार्थी (hi) m ( śarṇārthī )
Hungarian: menekült (hu)
Icelandic: flóttamaður (is) m
Italian: rifugiato (it) m , rifugiata (it) f
Japanese: 難民 (ja) ( なんみん, nanmin )
Khmer: ជនភៀសខ្លួន ( cɔɔn pʰiəh kluən )
Korean: 난민 (ko) ( nanmin ) (難民 )
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Central Kurdish: پەنابەر ( penaber )
Lao: ຜູ້ລີ້ໄພ ( phū lī phai )
Latin: profugus m
Latvian: bēglis (lv) m
Lithuanian: pabėgėlis m
Macedonian: бегалец ( begalec )
Malay: pelari
Maori: konene
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Nepali: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: flyktning (no) m
Nynorsk: flyktning m
Old English: flīema m
Persian: پناهنده (fa) ( panâhande )
Polish: uchodźca (pl) m , uchodźczyni (pl) f
Portuguese: refugiado (pt) m , refugiada f
Rohingya: please add this translation if you can
Romansch: fugitiv
Russian: бе́женец (ru) m ( béženec ) , бе́женка (ru) f ( béženka )
Scottish Gaelic: fògarrach m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: избеглица m , избjеглица m
Roman: izbeglica (sh) m , izbjeglica m
Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
Slovak: utečenec m , utečenkyňa f
Slovene: begunec (sl) m , pribežnik m , pribežnica f
Spanish: refugiado (es) m , refugiada (es) f
Swahili: mkimbizi (sw)
Swedish: flykting (sv) c
Tajik: паноҳанда ( panohanda )
Tamil: அகதி (ta) ( akati )
Thai: ผู้ลี้ภัย ( pûu-líi-pai )
Tibetan: བཙན་བྱོལ་བ ( btsan byol ba )
Turkish: sığınmacı (tr) , mülteci (tr) , göçmen (tr)
Ukrainian: бі́женець (uk) m ( bíženecʹ )
Urdu: please add this translation if you can
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
Yiddish: פּליט m ( polet )
person seeking economic asylum
person seeking refuge from natural disaster
Translations to be checked
Verb
refugee (third-person singular simple present refugees , present participle refugeeing , simple past and past participle refugeed )
( transitive , US , historical ) To convey (slaves) away from the advance of the federal forces.
See also