migration

See also: Migration

English

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migration

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Middle French migration and its source, Latin migrātiō, from the participle stem of migrō (“I migrate”). Morphologically migrate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /maɪˈɡɹeɪʃ(ə)n/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

migration (countable and uncountable, plural migrations)

1. An instance of moving to live in another place for a while.
2. Seasonal moving of animals, as mammals, birds or fish, especially between breeding and non-breeding areas.
   • 2013 January 1, Paul Bartel, Ashli Moore, “Avian Migration: The Ultimate Red-Eye Flight”, in American Scientist‎, volume 101, number 1, archived from the original on 5 March 2016, pages 47–48:

     Many of these classic methods are still used, with some modern improvements. For example, with the aid of special microphones and automated sound detection software, ornithologists recently reported […] that pine siskins (Spinus pinus) undergo an irregular, nomadic type of nocturnal migration.

3. Movement in general.

   The migration of lead from a can to the food inside it can cause lead poisoning.

4. (computing) Instance of changing a platform from an environment to another one.
5. (biochemistry) The movement of cells in particular directions to specific locations.

Derived terms

• abmigration
• antimigration
• chain migration
• chemomigration
• climigration
• comigration
• countermigration
• cybermigration
• ecomigration
• eco-migration
• electromigration
• e-migration
• endomigration
• hypermigration
• intermigration
• internal migration
• interregional migration
• intraregional migration
• Lessepsian migration
• loop migration
• mass migration
• migrational
• migrationism
• migrationist
• mismigration
• neuromigration
• nonmigration
• overmigration
• palaeomigration
• postmigration
• premigration
• relay migration
• remigration
• stepwise migration
• time migration

Related terms

• emigration
• immigration
• inmigration, in-migration
• migrant
• migrate
• migratory
• outmigration, out-migration
• porting

Translations

moving a place to live to another

Albanian: shpërngulje (sq) Arabic: هِجْرَة (ar) f (hijra) Armenian: միգրացիա (hy) (migracʻia), գաղթ (hy) (gaġtʻ), գաղթում (hy) (gaġtʻum) Basque: migrazio Bengali: হিজরত (bn) (hijrot) Bulgarian: преселване n (preselvane) Catalan: migració f Chinese: Mandarin: 徙動 / 徙动 (túdòng), 遷移 / 迁移 (zh) (qiānyí) Czech: migrace (cs) f Dutch: migratie (nl) Esperanto: migrado Finnish: muutto (fi), migraatio French: migration (fr) Galician: migración (gl) f Georgian: მიგრაცია (migracia), გადასახლება (gadasaxleba) German: Wohnsitzwechsel m, Migration (de) f Greek: μετανάστευση (el) f (metanástefsi) Ancient: μετανάστασις f (metanástasis) Hindi: प्रवास (hi) m (pravās) Indonesian: migrasi (id) Irish: imirce f Japanese: 移住 (ja) (いじゅう, ijū) Korean: 이주 (ko) (iju) Latin: migratio f Low German: German Low German: Migratschoon f Macedonian: преселба f (preselba), селидба f (selidba), миграција f (migracija) Malay: migrasi, penghijrahan Maori: hekenga Norwegian: Bokmål: migrasjon m Nynorsk: migrasjon m Persian: هجرت (fa), مهاجرت (fa) Polish: migracja (pl) f Portuguese: migração (pt) f Romanian: migrare (ro), migrație (ro) Russian: мигра́ция (ru) f (migrácija), переселе́ние (ru) n (pereselénije) Scottish Gaelic: imrich f Slovene: migracija f Southern Altai: кӧчӱш (köčüš) Spanish: migración (es) f Swedish: migration (sv) c Tagalog: ngibambayan Tamil: இடம்பெயர்தல் (ta) (iṭampeyartal), புலம்பெயர்வு (pulampeyarvu), குடிபெயர்தல் (kuṭipeyartal) Telugu: వలస (te) (valasa) Thai: อพยพ (th) (òp-pá-yóp) Vietnamese: di dân (vi)

seasonal moving of animals, birds or fish

Armenian: չու (hy) (čʻu) (birds) Bulgarian: миграция f (migracija) Catalan: migració f Chinese: Mandarin: 洄游 (zh) (huíyóu), 遷徙 / 迁徙 (zh) (qiānxǐ) Dutch: migratie (nl), trek (nl) Finnish: muutto (fi), vaellus (fi) Galician: migración (gl) f Georgian: მიმოფრენა (mimoprena) (birds), გადაფრენა (gadaprena) (birds), მიგრაცია (migracia) German: Migration (de) f, Wanderung (de) f, Vogelwanderung f, Vogelzug (de) m, (partial) Vogelstrich m, Tierwanderung f Greek: αποδημία (el) f (apodimía), μετανάστευση (el) f (metanástefsi) Hindi: प्रवास (hi) m (pravās) Irish: imirce f Japanese: 回遊 (ja) (かいゆう, kaiyū), 移動 (ja) (いどう, idō) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: کۆچ (koç) Northern Kurdish: koç (ku) Southern Kurdish: کووچ (kûç) Macedonian: преселба f (preselba), миграција f (migracija) Norwegian: Bokmål: trekk n, migrasjon m Nynorsk: trekk n, migrasjon m Persian: کوچ (fa) Polish: migracja (pl) f Portuguese: migração (pt) f Romanian: migrație (ro) Russian: мигра́ция (ru) f (migrácija) Scottish Gaelic: imrich f Spanish: migración (es) f Swedish: migration (sv) c Tamil: வலசை (ta) (valacai) Telugu: వలస (te) (valasa) Thai: อพยพ (th) (òp-pá-yóp) Vietnamese: di cư (vi) Volapük: (birds) bödatäv, (larks) laudatäv

computing: changing a platform from an environment to another one

Bengali: হিজরত (bn) (hijrot) Galician: migración (gl) f German: Migration (de) f Greek: μετεγκατάσταση (el) f (metegkatástasi) Japanese: 移行 (ja) (いこう, ikō) Persian: ترایال Russian: мигра́ция (ru) f (migrácija) Swedish: migration (sv)

Danish

Etymology

From Latin migrātiō.

Noun

migration c (singular definite migrationen, plural indefinite migrationer)

1. migration (of people)
2. migration (of animals)

Declension

Declension of migration

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	migration	migrationen	migrationer	migrationerne
genitive	migrations	migrationens	migrationers	migrationernes

Related terms

• migrant
• migrere

See also

• emigration
• immigration
• folkevandring

References

• “migration” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From Latin migrātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Switzerland (Valais)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

migration f (plural migrations)

1. migration (of animals)
2. migration (of people)

Related terms

• migrer

Further reading

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

Middle French

Noun

migration f (plural migrations)

1. migration (movement from one place to another)

Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

migration

Wikipedia ^sv

Etymology

From Latin migrātiō, from migrō (“I migrate”) + -ātiō.

Noun

migration c

1. migration; an instance of moving to live in another place for a while, often used in regards of immigration

   Migrationspolitiken har gått överstyr och måste återgå till sansade diskussioner.

   The migration politics has gone overboard and must return to a state of sane discussions.

2. (biology) migration; seasonal moving for animals, as birds or fishes, to breed or find a new home
3. (computing) migration; instance of changing a platform from an environment to another one

Declension

Declension of migration

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	migration	migrations
	definite	migrationen	migrationens
plural	indefinite	migrationer	migrationers
	definite	migrationerna	migrationernas

Derived terms

• Migrationsverket
• migrationspolitik

Related terms

• migrant
• migrera

See also

• emigration
• immigration

References

• migration in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• migration in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• migration in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• migration in Nationalencyklopedin (needs an authorization fee).