permission

EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

permistion, permixtion (obsolete)

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English permision, permission, permissioun, permyssion, from Middle French permission, from Latin permissiō. Mostly replaced native English leave, from Old English lēaf (“permission”).

PronunciationEdit

(Received Pronunciation) enPR: pərmĭ'shən, IPA^(key): /pəˈmɪʃən/
(General American) enPR: pərmĭ'shən, IPA^(key): /pɚˈmɪʃən/
Audio (GA) (file)
Rhymes: -ɪʃən
Hyphenation: per‧mis‧sion

NounEdit

permission (countable and uncountable, plural permissions)

authorisation; consent (especially formal consent from someone in authority)
Sire, do I have your permission to execute this traitor?
The act of permitting.
(computing) Flags or access control lists pertaining to a file that dictate who can access it, and how.
I used the "chmod" command to change the file's permission.

AntonymsEdit

prohibition

Derived termsEdit

Derived terms

Related termsEdit

permit

TranslationsEdit

authorisation

Albanian: leje (sq) f
Arabic: تَصْرِيح‎ m (taṣrīḥ), سَمَاح‎ m (samāḥ), إِجَازَة‎ f (ʾijāza), رُخْصَة‎ f (ruḵṣa), رُخُصَة‎ f (ruḵuṣa), إِذْن‎ (ar) m (ʾiḏn)
Armenian: թույլտվություն (hy) (tʿuyltvutʿyun)
Avar: изну (iznu)
Azerbaijani: icazə (az), izin (az), müsaidə
Bashkir: рөхсәт (röxsät)
Belarusian: дазво́л m (dazvól)
Bengali: অনুমতি (bn) (ônumôti), ইজাজত (bn) (ijazôt)
Bulgarian: разреше́ние (bg) n (razrešénie), позволе́ние (bg) n (pozvolénie)
Burmese: အခွင့် (my) (a.hkwang.)
Catalan: permís (ca) m, autorització (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 許可 (zh), 许可 (zh) (xǔkě), 授權 (zh) (shòuquán), 授权 (zh) (shòuquán), 允許 (zh) (yúnxǚ), 允许 (zh) (yúnxǚ)
Czech: povolení (cs) n
Danish: tilladelse (da) c, lov (da) c
Dutch: toestemming (nl) f, toelating (nl) f, permissie (nl) f, verlof (nl) n
Esperanto: permeso (eo)
Estonian: luba
Faroese: loyvi n
Finnish: oikeus (fi), lupa (fi)
French: permission (fr) f, permis (fr) m
Georgian: ნებართვა (nebartva)
German: Erlaubnis (de) f, Gestattung (de) f, Genehmigung (de) f
Greek: άδεια (el) f (ádeia), έγκριση (el) f (égkrisi)
Hebrew: הֶתֵּר‎ m (hetér)
Hindi: अनुमति (hi) f (anumti), इजाज़त f (ijāzat)
Hungarian: engedély (hu)
Icelandic: leyfi (is) f
Ido: darfo (io)
Indonesian: izin (id), keizinan (id), perkenan (id), permisi (id)
Italian: permesso (it) m
Japanese: 許可 (ja) (きょか, kyoka)
Kazakh: рұқсат (rūqsat)
Khmer: អធិក្រឹតិ (km) (ʼaʼthikrət), អនុញ្ញាត (km) (ʼaʼnuññaat)
Korean: 허가(許可) (ko) (heoga)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: îcaze (ku), izin (ku), destûr (ku)
Kyrgyz: уруксат (ky) (uruksat)
Lao: ການອະນຸຍາດ (kān ʼa nu nyāt), ອະນຸຍາດ (ʼa nu nyāt)
Latin: permissio f, concessus m
Latvian: atļauja f
Lithuanian: leidimas m
Macedonian: дозвола (dozvola)
Malay: kebenaran (ms), izin (ms), keizinan (ms), perkenan
Malayalam: അനുമതി (ml) (anumati)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: зөвшөөрөл (mn) (zövšööröl)
Ngazidja Comorian: idhini class 9
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tillatelse (no) m, permisjon m
Old English: lēaf (ang) f
Pashto: اجازت‎ (ps) m (ejāzat), اجازه‎ (ps) f (ejāza), اذن‎ (ps) m (ezn), رخصت‎ (ps) m (roxsat)
Persian: اجازه‎ (fa) (ejâze), رخصت‎ (fa) (roxsat), اذن‎ (fa) (ezn)
Polish: pozwolenie (pl) n, dozwolenie n, zezwolenie (pl) n
Portuguese: permissão (pt) f
Romanian: permisiune (ro) f
Russian: разреше́ние (ru) n (razrešénije), позволе́ние (ru) n (pozvolénije)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: до̏звола f

Roman: dȍzvola (sh) f
Slovak: povolenie n
Slovene: dovoljênje (sl) n
Spanish: permiso (es) m, venia, beneplácito (es)
Swahili: idhini (sw)
Swedish: tillåtelse (sv) c, tillstånd (sv) n, medgivande (sv) c, lov (sv) c or n
Tabasaran: ихтияр (iꭓtijar)
Tajik: иҷозат (tg) (ijozat), рухсат (ruxsat), изн (izn)
Tamil: அனுமதி (ta) (aṉumati)
Tatar: рөхсәт (tt) (röxsät)
Telugu: అనుమతి (te) (anumati)
Thai: การอนุญาต (th) (gaan-à-nú-yâat), อนุญาต (th) (à-nú-yâat)
Tocharian B: plāki
Turkish: izin (tr), müsaade (tr), ruhsat (tr)
Turkmen: rugsat
Ukrainian: до́звіл (uk) m (dózvil), дозволя́ння n (dozvoljánnja)
Urdu: اجازت‎ (ur) f (ijāzat)
Uyghur: ئىجازەت‎ (ijazet), رۇخسەت‎ (ruxset)
Uzbek: ijozat (uz), ruxsat (uz), izn (uz)
Vietnamese: sự cho phép (vi)
Welsh: caniatâd m

act of permitting

Armenian: թույլտվություն (hy) (tʿuyltvutʿyun)
Bulgarian: позволе́ние (bg) n (pozvolénie)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 授權 (zh) (shòuquán), 授权 (zh) (shòuquán), 允許 (zh) (yúnxǚ), 允许 (zh) (yúnxǚ)
Finnish: lupa (fi)
Georgian: ნებართვის მიცემა (nebartvis micema)
Greek: άδεια (el) f (ádeia)
Hungarian: megengedés, engedélyezés (hu)
Italian: permesso (it)
Japanese: 許可 (ja) (きょか, kyoka)
Malayalam: അനുവാദം (ml) (anuvādaṃ)
Polish: pozwolenie (pl) n, dozwolenie n, zezwolenie (pl) n
Portuguese: permissão (pt) f
Romanian: permitere (ro) f
Russian: разреше́ние (ru) n (razrešénije)
Slovene: dovoljênje (sl) n
Swahili: idhini (sw)
Swedish: tillåtelse (sv)
Telugu: అనుమతి (te) (anumati)
Turkish: izin (tr), müsaade (tr)
Ukrainian: до́звіл (uk) m (dózvil), дозволя́ння c (dozvoljánnja)

in computing

Finnish: oikeudet (fi), käyttöoikeudet
Greek: άδεια (el) f (ádeia), δικαίωμα (el) n (dikaíoma)
Portuguese: permissão (pt) f
Spanish: permiso (es) m
Swedish: rättigheter (sv)

VerbEdit

permission (third-person singular simple present permissions, present participle permissioning, simple past and past participle permissioned)

(transitive) To grant or obtain authorization for.
- 2003, Mary Ellen Lepionka, Writing and Developing Your College Textbook‎^[1], page 190:
  Photographs also must be permissioned and credited, although a corpus of copyright-free images does exist online.