transmigration

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin trānsmigrātiō.

Noun

transmigration (countable and uncountable, plural transmigrations)

1. Departure from one's homeland to live in another country; migration.
2. A change from one state of existence to another.
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 109:

     Any great change is like cold water in winter—one shrinks from the first plunge; and a lover may be excused who shivers a little at the transmigration into a husband.

3. The movement of a soul from one body to another after death; metempsychosis.
   • 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page 12:

     The curioſity of the lady was highly inflamed, to know the hiſtory of the parrot's tranſmigration, which ſhe intreated the bird with all her eloquence to relate; but he preſented a deaf ear to her importunity, and, like a painted nightingale, remained ſilent.

   • 1776, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol I, ch 1-pt i:

     To the strength and fierceness of barbarians they [the Dacians] added a contempt for life, which was derived from a warm persuasion of the immortality and transmigration of the soul.

Related terms

• transmigrable
• transmigrant
• transmigrate
• transmigrator
• transmigratory

 

Translations

departure

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: преселване (preselvane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 移居 (zh) (yíjū), 移民 (zh) (yímín)

• Esperanto: transmigrado
• Finnish: muutto toiseen maahan
• French: transmigration (fr) f
• Greek: μετανάστευση (el) f (metanástefsi), αποδημία (el) f (apodimía)
• Irish: imaistriú m, trasimirce f
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Khmer: ចំណាកស្រុក (km) (cɑmnaak srok)
• Latin: trānsmigrātiō f
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: migración (es) f
• Swedish: transmigration (sv)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can

movement of a soul

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: превъплъщение (bg) n (prevǎplǎštenie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 轉世／转世 (zh) (zhuǎnshì), 輪迴／轮回 (zh) (lúnhuí)

• Esperanto: animomigrado, metempsikozo, transmigrado
• Finnish: sielunvaellus (fi)
• French: transmigration (fr) f
• Galician: transmigración (gl) f
• Greek: μετεμψύχωση (el) f (metempsýchosi)

  Ancient Greek: μετεμψύχωσις f (metempsúkhōsis), μετενσωμάτωσις f (metensōmátōsis), μεταγγισμός m (metangismós)

• Irish: athchollúchas m, anamimirce f
• Japanese: 転生 (ja) (てんせい, ​tensei), 転生 (ja) (てんしょう, tenshō)
• Khmer: សង្សារ (km) (sɑngsaa)
• Latin: trānsmigrātiō f, metempsȳchōsis f, metensōmatōsis f
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: transmigración (es) f
• Swedish: själavandring c
• Tibetan: ཕོ (pho)

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Translations to be checked

• Italian: ^{(please verify)} trasmigrazione f

References

• “transmigration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

transmigration f (plural transmigrations)

1. transmigration

Further reading

• “transmigration”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.