persona non grata

See also: Persona non grata

English

Etymology

From Latin persōna (“person”) + nōn (“not”) + grāta (from grātus (“acceptable”)).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pə(ɹ)ˈsəʊnə nɒn ˈɡɹɑːtə/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

persona non grata (plural personae non gratae)

1. A person who is not welcome, especially a diplomat in a foreign country.

Usage notes

Sometimes incorrectly pluralized as personas non grata.

Antonyms

• persona grata

Translations

a person who is not welcome

• Afrikaans: persona non grata
• Albanian: person i padëshirueshëm
• Arabic: شَخْص غَيْر مَرْغُوب فِيهِ (šaḵṣ ḡayr marḡūb fīhi)
• Armenian: պերսոնա նոն գրատա (hy) (persona non grata)
• Azerbaijani: persona non grata, arzuolunmaz şəxs
• Belarusian: персона нон грата (pjersóna non hrata)
• Bengali: ব্যক্তি অ আস্থাভাজন (bêkti o asthabhajon)
• Bulgarian: персона нон грата (persona non grata)
• Catalan: persona non grata
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不受歡迎的人／不受欢迎的人 (zh) (bù shòu huānyíng de rén)

• Czech: persona non grata
• Danish: persona non grata (da)
• Dutch: persona non grata (nl)
• Esperanto: persono non plaĉa
• Estonian: persona non grata (et)
• Finnish: ei-toivottu henkilö, persona non grata (fi)
• French: persona non grata (fr)
• Georgian: პერსონა ნონ გრატა (ṗersona non graṭa)
• German: Persona non grata (de) f
• Greek: ανεπιθύμητο πρόσωπο n (anepithýmito prósopo), πρόσωπο όχι ευπρόσδεκτο (prósopo óchi efprósdekto)
• Hebrew: אישיות לוא רצוי
• Hindi: अवांछित व्यति (avāñchit vyati)
• Hungarian: persona non grata (hu), nemkívánatos személy
• Icelandic: persónu non grata
• Indonesian: persona non grata
• Irish: persona neamh grata
• Italian: persona non grata
• Japanese: ペルソナ・ノン・グラータ (ja) (perusona-non-gurāta)
• Korean: 페르소나 논 그라타 (pereusona non geurata), 인물이 아닌 그라 (inmuri anin geura)
• Latin: persona non grata
• Latvian: persona non grata
• Lithuanian: persona non grata
• Macedonian: персона нон грата (persona non grata), непожелна личност f (nepoželna ličnost)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: persona non grata

• Persian: شخص غیر قابل قبول
• Polish: persona non grata (pl) f
• Portuguese: persona non grata f
• Romanian: persoană neacceptată
• Russian: персо́на нон гра́та (ru) f (persóna non gráta), нежела́тельное лицо́ n (neželátelʹnoje licó)
• Serbo-Croatian: persona non grata
• Slovak: persona non grata
• Slovene: persona non grata
• Spanish: persona non grata (es)
• Swedish: persona non grata (sv), varg i veum (sv)
• Thai: บุคคลไม่พึงปรารถนา (bùk-kon-mâi-pʉng-bpràat-tà-nǎa)
• Turkish: istenmeyen kişi (tr), persona non grata (tr)
• Ukrainian: персона нон ґрата (persona non grata)
• Vietnamese: nhân vật không được hoan nghênh, người bị cấm nhập cảnh
• Yiddish: פּערסאָנאַ ניט גראַטאַ (persona nit grata)

See also

• gatecrasher, interloper, peeping tom, encroacher, backseat driver, kibitzer, meddler, nosy parker, marplot, buttinsky, busybody

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pɛrsona non ɡrata]

Noun

persona non grata f (indeclinable)

1. (diplomacy, literary) persona non grata

Further reading

• “persona non grata”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin persōna nōn grāta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛrˈsɔ.na nɔn ˈɡra.ta/
• Rhymes: -ata

Noun

persona non grata f (indeclinable)

1. (diplomacy, literary) persona non grata

   Synonym: intruz

   Antonym: persona grata

Further reading

• persona non grata in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• persona non grata in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• pessoa non grata, pessoa não grata

Noun

persona non grata f (plural personae non gratae or personas non gratas)

1. persona non grata (a person who is not welcome)

Slovak

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin persōna nōn grāta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [persoːna nɔn ɡraːta]

Noun

persona non grata f (indeclinable)

1. (diplomacy, literary) persona non grata

Further reading

• “persona non grata”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024