immigrate

English

Etymology

From Latin immigratus, past participle of immigro (“remove, move into”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ĭʹmĭ.grāt'
• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɪmɪɡɹeɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Homophone: emigrate (pin–pen merger)

Verb

immigrate (third-person singular simple present immigrates, present participle immigrating, simple past and past participle immigrated)

1. (intransitive) To move into a foreign country to stay permanently.
   • 2023, Devika Rege, Quarterlife, Dialogue Books (2025), page 56:

     He knows hardship. He has experienced life in a cold-water flat in Moldova before he immigrated to the States.

Antonyms

• emigrate

Derived terms

• immigrant
• immigration
• immigrator

Related terms

• migrate

Translations

to move into a foreign country or area

• Arabic: هَاجَرَ (ar) (hājara)
• Armenian: ներգաղթել (hy) (nergaġtʻel)
• Bulgarian: емигрирам (emigriram), преселвам се (preselvam se)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: immigrar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 移民 (ji⁴ man⁴)

  Mandarin: 移民 (zh) (yímín), 移居 (zh) (yíjū)

• Danish: immigrere, indvandre
• Dutch: immigreren (nl)
• Esperanto: enmigri
• Finnish: muuttaa maahan
• French: immigrer (fr)
• German: einwandern (de), immigrieren (de)
• Hebrew: הִגֵּר (higér)
• Hindi: आप्रवास m (āpravās)
• Ido: enmigrar (io)
• Italian: immigrare (it)
• Japanese: 移住する (ja) (いじゅうする, ijū suru), 移民する (ja) (いみんする, imin suru)
• Khmer: ធ្វើអន្តោប្រវេសន៍ (thvəə ʼɑntaoprɑveeh)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: immigrere
• Polish: imigrować (pl)
• Portuguese: imigrar (pt)
• Russian: иммигри́ровать (ru) impf or pf (immigrírovatʹ), переселя́ться (ru) impf (pereseljátʹsja), пересели́ться (ru) pf (pereselítʹsja)
• Scottish Gaelic: dèan in-imrich
• Serbo-Croatian: imigrirati (sh), имигрирати
• Spanish: inmigrar (es)
• Swedish: immigrera (sv), invandra (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: göçmek (tr), göç etmek (tr)
• Vietnamese: nhập cư (vi)
• Yiddish: אײַנוואַנדערן (aynvandern)

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /im.miˈɡra.te/
• Rhymes: -ate
• Hyphenation: im‧mi‧grà‧te

Verb

immigrate

1. inflection of immigrare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Participle

immigrate

1. feminine plural of immigrato

Adjective

immigrate

1. feminine plural of immigrato

Noun

immigrate f

1. plural of immigrata

Latin

Verb

immigrāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of immigrō