permission

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle French permission, from Latin permissio.

PronunciationEdit

(General American) enPR: pərmĭ'shən, IPA^(key): /pɚˈmɪʃən/
(Received Pronunciation) enPR: pərmĭ'shən, IPA^(key): /pəˈmɪʃən/
Audio (US)
(file)
Rhymes: -ɪʃən

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

Arabic: تَصْرِيح‎‎ m (taṣrīḥ), سَمَاح‎‎ m (samāḥ), إِجَازَة‎‎ f (ʾijāza)
Armenian: թույլտվություն (hy) (tʿuyltvutʿyun)
Bashkir: рөхсәт (röxsät)
Bulgarian: разреше́ние (bg) n (razrešénie), позволе́ние (bg) n (pozvolénie)
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)
Faroese: loyvi n
Finnish: oikeus (fi), lupa (fi)
French: permission (fr) f
Georgian: ნებართვა (nebartva)
German: Erlaubnis (de) f
Greek: άδεια (el) f (ádeia), έγκριση (el) f (égkrisi)
Hindi: अनुमति (hi) f (anumati)
Hungarian: engedély (hu)
Ido: darfo (io)

Indonesian: izin (id), keizinan (id), perkenan (id), permisi (id)
Italian: permesso (it) m
Japanese: 許可 (ja) (きょか, kyoka)
Korean: 허가 (ko) (heoga) (許可 (ko))
Macedonian: дозвола (dozvola)
Malay: kebenaran, izin, keizinan, perkenan
Ngazidja Comorian: idhini class 9
Norwegian: tillatelse (no) m
Old English: lēafnes f
Persian: اجازه‎‎ (fa) (ejâze)
Portuguese: permissão (pt) f
Romanian: permisiune (ro) f
Russian: разреше́ние (ru) n (razrešénije), позволе́ние (ru) n (pozvolénije)
Slovene: dovoljênje (sl) n
Spanish: permiso (es) m
Swahili: idhini (sw)
Swedish: tillåtelse (sv) c, tillstånd (sv) n, medgivande (sv) c
Telugu: అనుమతి (te) (anumati)
Turkish: izin (tr), müsaade (tr)
Ukrainian: дозвіл (uk) n (dozvil)
Urdu: اجازت‎‎ (ur) f (ijaazat)

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)
Italian: permesso (it)
Japanese: 許可 (ja) (きょか, kyoka)

Malayalam: അനുവാദം (ml) (anuvādaṃ)
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)

in computing

Finnish: oikeudet (fi), käyttöoikeudet
Greek: άδεια (el) f (ádeia)
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.