different between diaspora vs exodus

English

Alternative forms

• Diaspora (in certain senses)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (diasporá, “dispersion”), from ????????? (diaspeír?, “to scatter”), from ???- (diá-, prefix indicating motion across or in all directions) + ?????? (speír?, “to sow”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /da??æsp???/, /da??æsp??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /da??æsp???/, /da??æsp??/, /di?æsp???/, /di?æsp??/
• Hyphenation: di?a?spo?ra

Noun

diaspora (plural diasporas or diasporae or diasporai)

1. (historical) The dispersion of the Jews among the Gentiles after the Babylonian captivity (6th century B.C.E.).
2. (by extension) Any similar dispersion.

3. (collective) A group so dispersed, especially Jews outside of the land of Israel.
4. The regions where such a dispersed group (especially the Jews) resides, taken collectively.

5. Any dispersion of an originally homogeneous entity, such as a language or culture.

Derived terms

• Afrodiaspora
• diasporal
• diasporan

Translations

References

Further reading

• diaspora on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Jewish diaspora on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• diaspora at OneLook Dictionary Search
• diaspora in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• diaspora in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Esperanto

Etymology

From diasporo +? -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dias?pora/
• Hyphenation: di?as?po?ra
• Rhymes: -ora

Adjective

diaspora (accusative singular diasporan, plural diasporaj, accusative plural diasporajn)

1. diasporic

Finnish

(index d)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?di??spor?/, [?di??s?po?r?]
• Rhymes: -or?
• Syllabification: di?a?spo?ra

Noun

diaspora

1. diaspora

Declension

Derived terms

• diasporaseurakunta

Anagrams

• rapsodia

French

Noun

diaspora f (plural diasporas)

1. diaspora

Further reading

• “diaspora” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• parodias

Indonesian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (diasporá, “dispersion”), from ????????? (diaspeír?, “to scatter”), from ???- (diá-, prefix indicating motion across or in all directions) + ?????? (speír?, “to sow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [dias?pora]
• Hyphenation: di?as?po?ra

Noun

diaspora (first-person possessive diasporaku, second-person possessive diasporamu, third-person possessive diasporanya)

1. (politics, government) diaspora.

Further reading

• “diaspora” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Noun

diaspora f (plural diaspore)

1. diaspora (all senses)

Anagrams

• Paradiso, paradiso, rapsodia

English

Etymology

From Latin exodus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (éxodos, “expedition, procession, departure”). Doublet of exodos.From late Old English only as a proper noun, Exodus, the biblical book; use as a common noun is from the early 17th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ks?d?s/, /???z?d?s/

Noun

exodus (plural exoduses)

1. A sudden departure of a large number of people.

   There was an exodus when the show ended.

   In the movie The Sinking of Japan, virtually all Japanese desperately try to find any form of transportation out of Japan in a massive exodus to flee the sinking country.

Translations

Verb

exodus (third-person singular simple present exoduses, present participle exodusing, simple past and past participle exodused)

1. To depart from a place in a large group.

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “exodus”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• udoxes

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

exodus m (plural exodussen, diminutive exodusje n)

1. exodus

Synonyms

• uittocht