🔄 To be reborn 🧬 To cross tissue ✈️ To move countries

to transmigrate

1 9.9

To have your soul enter a new body after death

verb
/ˌtrænzˈmaɪɡreɪt/

Literature

: reencarnar

Many cultures believe that the soul will transmigrate into a new body after death, starting a fresh existence.

Examples

In some religions, it is thought that when a person dies, their soul will transmigrate into another living being.
She was told that a hermit would die in three years and transmigrate to become her son.

Academic text (1990)
And why were people who didn't die among the "souls" who transmigrated with Jack at the end?

Blog text (18)
And why were people who didn't die among the "souls" who transmigrated with Jack at the end?

Blog text (18)
In a novel in which characters' souls transmigrate into other characters and are reincarnated, this loss leads to freedom from the previous destiny and to renewal.

Academic text (2004)
The ancient texts describe how the spirit can transmigrate to gain wisdom in a new form after the body's demise.

Synonyms

to reincarnate

vsto transmigrate

15 7.7

To be born again in another body after death

is used mainly in religious and philosophical contexts to describe that passage

Surface Forms

transmigrate infinitive

transmigrated past

transmigrated past participle

transmigrating present participle

transmigrates third person singular

Morphology

transmigrate = migrate (semi-transparent) = trans + migrate

The formation is formally transparent (trans + migrate), but the specific sense of souls passing into new bodies is a specialized religious/philosophical meaning that may not be obvious to general learners. [Postprocessing: moved 'trans' from base_words to prefix]

Etymology

Transmigrate comes from trans- ('across') and migrate ('to move'), so a helpful image is a soul 'moving across' from one body to another. That's why in religious use to transmigrate means a soul passes into a new body after death.