transmigration

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin trānsmigrātiō.

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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) Indonesian: transmigrasi (id) 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 (sv) c Tibetan: ཕོ (pho)

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Italian: (please verify) trasmigrazione f

References

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

French

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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.