emigration

See also: Emigration and émigration

English

Etymology

From Late Latin stem of emigratio, from e (“out”) + migrare (“to move, remove, depart”).

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

emigration (countable and uncountable, plural emigrations)

1. The act of emigrating; movement of a person or persons out of a country or national region, for the purpose of permanent relocation of residence.

   Synonym: outmigration

   Antonyms: inmigration, immigration

   Hypernym: migration

2. A body of emigrants; emigrants collectively.

   the Irish emigration

Derived terms

• antiemigration
• emigrational
• emigrationist
• inner emigration
• nonemigration
• postemigration
• semigration

Related terms

• emigrate (verb)
• émigré, emigre
• migrate
• migratory

Translations

act of emigrating

• Afrikaans: emigrasie
• Albanian: emigrim (sq) m, emigracion (sq) m
• Arabic: هِجْرَة (ar) f (hijra), نُزُوح m (nuzūḥ)
• Armenian: արտագաղթ (hy) (artagaġtʻ)
• Asturian: emigración f
• Azerbaijani: köçmə (az), mühacirət
• Bashkir: эмиграция (emigratsiya)
• Basque: emigrazio
• Belarusian: эмігра́цыя f (emihrácyja)
• Bengali: হিজরত (bn) (hijrot)
• Bulgarian: емиграция f (emigracija), изселване (bg) n (izselvane)
• Catalan: emigració (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 移民 (ji⁴ man⁴)

  Mandarin: 移民 (zh) (yímín)

• Czech: emigrace (cs) f, vystěhovalectví n
• Danish: udvandring c, emigration c
• Dutch: uitwijking f, emigratie (nl) f
• Esperanto: elmigrado
• Estonian: emigratsioon (et)
• Finnish: maastamuutto (fi)
• French: émigration (fr) f
• Galician: emigración (gl) f
• Georgian: ემიგრაცია (emigracia), გადასახლება (gadasaxleba)
• German: Auswanderung (de) f, Emigration (de) f
• Greek: αποδημία (el) f (apodimía), αποδήμηση (el) f (apodímisi)
• Hebrew: הֲגִירָה (he) f (hagirá)
• Hindi: उत्प्रवास m (utpravās)
• Hungarian: kivándorlás (hu), emigráció (hu)
• Icelandic: brottflutningur (is) m
• Indonesian: emigrasi (id), perantauan (id)
• Irish: imirce f
• Italian: emigrazione (it) f
• Japanese: 移民 (ja) (いみん, imin), エミグレーション (emigurēshon), 移住 (ja) (いじゅう, ijū)
• Kazakh: эмиграция (èmiygracıya)
• Korean: 이민(移民) (ko) (imin), 이주(移住) (ko) (iju)
• Kyrgyz: эмиграция (ky) (emigratsiya)
• Latin: trānsmigrātiō f
• Latvian: emigrācija f
• Lithuanian: emigracija (lt) f
• Macedonian: иселување n (iseluvanje), емиграција f (emigracija)
• Malay: emigrasi, penghijrahan
• Maltese: emigrazzjoni f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: utvandring m or f

  Nynorsk: utvandring f

• Pashto: کډوالي f (kaḍwālí), مهاجرت m (mohājerát)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: بُرون‌کوچی (borun-kuči), مُهاجَرَت (fa) (mohâjarat), مُهاجِرَت (fa) (mohâjerat)

• Polish: emigracja (pl) f
• Portuguese: emigração (pt) f
• Romanian: emigrare (ro) f
• Russian: эмигра́ция (ru) f (emigrácija)
• Scottish Gaelic: às-imrich f, eilthireachd f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: исеље́ње n, емигра́ција f, исељени́штво n

  Latin: iseljénje n, emigrácija (sh) f, iseljeníštvo (sh) n

• Slovak: emigrácia f, vysťahovalectvo n
• Slovene: izseljevanje n, emigracija (sl) f
• Spanish: emigración (es) f
• Swedish: emigration (sv) c, utvandring (sv) c
• Tagalog: luwasbayan
• Tajik: муҳоҷират (tg) (muhojirat), ҷалои ватан (jalo-yi vatan)
• Thai: การอพยพ (th) (gaan-òp-pá-yóp)
• Turkish: göçme (tr)
• Turkmen: emigrasiýa
• Ukrainian: емігра́ція (uk) f (emihrácija)
• Urdu: ہِجْرَت f (hijrat)
• Uzbek: emigratsiya (uz)
• Vietnamese: di dân (vi)
• Welsh: ymfudiad m
• Yiddish: עמיגראַציע f (emigratsye)

body of emigrants; emigrants collectively

• Asturian: emigración f
• Belarusian: эмігра́цыя f (emihrácyja)
• Bengali: মুহাজিরগণ (muhajirgon)
• Dutch: uitwijking f, emigratie (nl) f
• Finnish: maastamuuttajat pl
• Galician: emigración (gl) f
• German: Auswanderung (de) f
• Hindi: उत्प्रवासी m (utpravāsī)
• Irish: imirce f
• Italian: emigrazione (it) f
• Latvian: emigrācija f
• Macedonian: иселеништво n (iseleništvo)
• Polish: emigracja (pl) f
• Romanian: emigrație (ro), emigrare (ro)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: исељени́штво n

  Latin: iseljeníštvo (sh) n

• Swedish: emigranter (sv) c pl, utvandrare (sv) c pl
• Ukrainian: емігра́ція (uk) f (emihrácija)

See also

• emigration on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Etymology

From emigrere +‎ -tion, from French émigration, from Latin emigratio.

Noun

emigration c (singular definite emigrationen, plural indefinite emigrationer)

1. emigration

   Synonym: udvandring

Declension

Declension of emigration

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	emigration	emigrationen	emigrationer	emigrationerne
genitive	emigrations	emigrationens	emigrationers	emigrationernes

Further reading

• “emigration” in Den Danske Ordbog

Swedish

Noun

emigration c

1. emigration

   Synonym: utvandring

   Antonyms: immigration, invandring

Declension

Declension of emigration

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	emigration	emigrations
	definite	emigrationen	emigrationens
plural	indefinite	emigrationer	emigrationers
	definite	emigrationerna	emigrationernas

Related terms

• emigrant
• emigrera

See also

• migration

References

• “emigration”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)