Noun
transmigration (countable and uncountable, plural transmigrations)
- Departure from one's homeland to live in another country; migration.
- A change from one state of existence to another.
- The movement of a soul from one body to another after death; metempsychosis.
1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page 12:The curioſity of the lady was highly inflamed, to know the hiſtory of the parrot's tranſmigration, which ſhe intreated the bird with all her eloquence to relate; but he preſented a deaf ear to her importunity, and, like a painted nightingale, remained ſilent.
1776, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol I, ch 1-pt i:To the strength and fierceness of barbarians they [the Dacians] added a contempt for life, which was derived from a warm persuasion of the immortality and transmigration of the soul.
Translations
movement of a soul
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: превъплъщение (bg) n (prevǎplǎštenie)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 轉世/转世 (zh) (zhuǎnshì), 輪迴/轮回 (zh) (lúnhuí)
- Esperanto: animomigrado, metempsikozo, transmigrado
- Finnish: sielunvaellus (fi)
- French: transmigration (fr) f
- Galician: transmigración (gl) f
- Greek: μετεμψύχωση (el) f (metempsýchosi)
- Ancient Greek: μετεμψύχωσις f (metempsúkhōsis), μετενσωμάτωσις f (metensōmátōsis), μεταγγισμός m (metangismós)
- Irish: athchollúchas m, anamimirce f
- Japanese: 転生 (ja) (てんせい, tensei), 転生 (ja) (てんしょう, tenshō)
- Khmer: សង្សារ (km) (sɑngsaa)
- Latin: trānsmigrātiō f, metempsȳchōsis f, metensōmatōsis f
- Russian: please add this translation if you can
- Spanish: transmigración (es) f
- Swedish: själavandring (sv) c
- Tibetan: ཕོ (pho)
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