migration

English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /maɪˈɡɹeɪʃ(ə)n/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

migration (plural migrations)

1. An instance moving a place to live to another place for a while.
2. Seasonal moving for animals, birds or fishes to breed or find a new home.
   • 2013 January 1, Paul Bartel, Ashli Moore, “Avian Migration: The Ultimate Red-Eye Flight”, American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 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. (computing) Instance of changing a platform from an environment to another one.

Derived terms

• migrate
• migratory

Related terms

• immigration
• porting

Translations

moving a place to live to another

• Arabic: هجرة (ar) (híjra) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 徒動 (cmn), 徒动 (cmn) (túdòng), 遷移 (cmn), 迁移 (cmn) (qiānyí)

• Esperanto: migrado (eo)
• Finnish: muutto (fi), migraatio (fi)
• French: free (fr), french (fr) pl, migration (fr)
• German: Wohnsitzwechsel (de) m, Migration (de) f
• Japanese: 移住 (ja) (いじゅう, ijū)
• Macedonian: преселба (mk) (préselba) f, селидба (mk) (sélidba) f, миграција (mk) (migrácija) f, миграција (mk) (migrácija) f

• Malay: migrasi (ms)
• Maori: hekenga (mi)
• Polish: migracja (pl) f
• Portuguese: migração (pt) f
• Romanian: migrare (ro), migrație (ro)
• Russian: миграция (ru) (migrácija) f, переселение (ru) (pereselénije) n
• Scottish Gaelic: imrich (gd) f
• Slovene: migracija (sl) f
• Spanish: migración (es) f
• Telugu: వలస (te) (valasa)

seasonal moving of animals, birds or fishes

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 回游 (cmn) (huíyóu)

• Finnish: muutto (fi), vaellus (fi)
• German: Migration (de) f, Wanderung (de) f, Vogelwanderung (de) f, Vogelzug (de) m, (partial) Vogelstrich (de) m, Tierwanderung (de) f
• Japanese: 回遊 (ja) (かいゆう, kaiyū), 移動 (ja) (いどう, idō)
• Macedonian: преселба (mk) (préselba) f, миграција (mk) (migrácija) f

• Portuguese: migração (pt) f
• Romanian: migrație (ro)
• Russian: миграция (ru) (migrácija) f
• Scottish Gaelic: imrich (gd) f
• Spanish: migración (es) f
• Telugu: వలస (te) (valasa)
• Volapük: (birds) bödatäv (vo), (larks) laudatäv (vo)

computing: changing a platform from an environment to another one

• German: Migration (de) f
• Japanese: 移行 (ja) (いこう, ikō)

• Russian: миграция (ru) (migrácija) f

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• Swedish: migration

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French

Noun

migration f (plural migrations)

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

Related terms

• migrer

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Middle French

Noun

migration f (plural migrations)

1. migration (movement from one place to another)

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Swedish

Noun

migration c

1. migration (clarification of this Swedish definition is being sought)

Declension

Declension of migration

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