transmigration

English

Etymology

From Latin trānsmigrātiō.

Noun

transmigration (countable and uncountable, plural transmigrations)

1. Departure from one's homeland to live in another country; migration.
2. The movement of a soul from one body to another after death; metempsychosis.

Related terms

• transmigrable
• transmigrant
• transmigrate
• transmigrator
• transmigratory

 

Translations

departure

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• 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
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• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• 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
• Chinese:

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

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

  Ancient Greek: μετεμψύχωσις f (metempsúkhōsis)

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• 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: please add this translation if you can
• 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
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References

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