permission

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Middle French permission, from Latin permissio. 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)
Armenian: թույլտվություն (hy) (tʿuyltvutʿyun)
Azerbaijani: icazə (az), izin (az), müsaidə
Bashkir: рөхсәт (röxsät)
Belarusian: дазво́л m (dazvól)
Bengali: অনুমতি (bn) (ônumôti), ইজাজত (ijazôt)
Bulgarian: разреше́ние (bg) n (razrešénie), позволе́ние (bg) n (pozvolénie)
Burmese: အခွင့် (my) (a.hkwang.)
Catalan: permís (ca) m, autorització 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
Dutch: toestemming (nl) f, toelating (nl) f
Esperanto: permeso (eo)
Estonian: luba
Faroese: loyvi n
Finnish: oikeus (fi), lupa (fi)
French: permission (fr) f
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 (ruqsat)
Khmer: អធិក្រឹតិ (km) (ʼaʼthɨkrət), អនុញ្ញាត (km) (ʼaʼnuññaat)
Korean: 허가 (ko) (heoga) (許可 (ko))
Kyrgyz: уруксат (ky) (uruksat)

Lao: ການອະນຸຍາດ (kān ʼa nu nyāt), ອະນຸຍາດ (ʼa nu nyāt)
Latin: concessus m
Latvian: atļauja f
Lithuanian: leidimas m
Macedonian: дозвола (dozvola)
Malay: kebenaran (ms), izin, keizinan, perkenan
Mongolian: зөвшөөрөл (mn) (zövshööröl)
Ngazidja Comorian: idhini 9
Norwegian: tillatelse (no) m
Old English: lēaf (ang) f
Persian: اجازه‎ (fa) (ejâze), رخصت‎ (fa) (roxsat)
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
Tajik: иҷозат (tg) (ijozat), рухсат (ruxsat)
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)
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.