immigrate

English

Etymology

From Latin immigratus, past participle of immigro (“remove, move into”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ĭʹmĭ.grāt'
• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɪmɪɡɹeɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Homophone: emigrate (pin–pen merger)

Verb

immigrate (third-person singular simple present immigrates, present participle immigrating, simple past and past participle immigrated)

1. (intransitive) To move into a foreign country to stay permanently.
   • 2023, Devika Rege, Quarterlife, Dialogue Books (2025), page 56:

     He knows hardship. He has experienced life in a cold-water flat in Moldova before he immigrated to the States.

Antonyms

• emigrate

Derived terms

• immigrant
• immigration
• immigrator

Related terms

• migrate

Translations

to move into a foreign country or area

Arabic: هَاجَرَ (ar) (hājara) Armenian: ներգաղթել (hy) (nergaġtʻel) Bulgarian: емигрирам (emigriram), преселвам се (preselvam se) Burmese: please add this translation if you can Catalan: immigrar (ca) Chinese: Cantonese: 移民 (ji4 man4) Mandarin: 移民 (zh) (yímín), 移居 (zh) (yíjū) Danish: immigrere, indvandre Dutch: immigreren (nl) Esperanto: enmigri Finnish: muuttaa maahan French: immigrer (fr) German: einwandern (de), immigrieren (de) Hebrew: הִגֵּר (higér) Hindi: आप्रवास m (āpravās) Ido: enmigrar (io) Italian: immigrare (it) Japanese: 移住する (ja) (いじゅうする, ijū suru), 移民する (ja) (いみんする, imin suru) Khmer: ធ្វើអន្តោប្រវេសន៍ (thvəə ʼɑntaoprɑveeh) Lao: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: immigrere Polish: imigrować (pl) Portuguese: imigrar (pt) Russian: иммигри́ровать (ru) impf or pf (immigrírovatʹ), переселя́ться (ru) impf (pereseljátʹsja), пересели́ться (ru) pf (pereselítʹsja) Scottish Gaelic: dèan in-imrich Serbo-Croatian: imigrirati (sh), имигрирати Spanish: inmigrar (es) Swedish: immigrera (sv), invandra (sv) Thai: please add this translation if you can Tibetan: please add this translation if you can Turkish: göçmek (tr), göç etmek (tr) Vietnamese: nhập cư (vi) Yiddish: אײַנוואַנדערן (aynvandern)

Italian

Adjective

immigrate f pl

1. feminine plural of immigrato

Noun

immigrate f

1. plural of immigrata

Verb

immigrate

1. inflection of immigrare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative
   3. feminine plural past participle

Latin

Verb

immigrāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of immigrō