Moses

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Etymology

From the Ancient Greek Μωϋσῆς from the Classical Hebrew משה

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊzɪz

Proper noun

Moses

1. The patriarch who led the slaved Jews out of Egypt, brother of Aaron and Miriam in the Book of Exodus.

   Moses supposes his toeses are roses,
   But Moses supposes erroneously,
   Moses he knowses his toeses aren't roses,
   As Moses supposes his toeses to be! (Singin' in the Rain)

2. A male given name.
3. A surname.

Quotations

• 1611, King James Version of the Bible (Authorized Version), Exodus 19:20:

  And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the LORD called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.

Derived terms

• Moses basket

Translations

the biblical patriarch

• Albanian: Moisiu (sq) m
• Amharic: ሙሴ (am) (Musse)
• Arabic: موسى (ar) (mūsā) m
• Armenian: Մովսես (hy) (Movses)

  Old Armenian: Մովսէս (Movsēs)

• Azeri: Musa (az)
• Basque: Mois (eu)
• Belarusian: Майсей (be) (Majséj) m
• Bulgarian: Моисей (bg) (Moiséj) m
• Catalan: Moisès (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 摩西 (cmn) (Móxī)

• Czech: Mojžíš (cs) m
• Danish: Moses (da)
• Dutch: Mozes (nl)
• Esperanto: Moseo (eo)
• Estonian: Mooses (et)
• Finnish: Mooses (fi)
• French: Moïse (fr) m

  Middle French: Moyse m

• Georgian: მოსე (ka) (mose)
• German: Moses (de) m (Catholic), Mose (de) m (Protestant)
• Greek: Μωυσής (el) (Moisís) m
• Hawaiian: Mose
• Hebrew: משׁה (he) (môshéh) m
• Hindi: मूसा (hi) (mūsā) m
• Hungarian: Mózes (hu)
• Indonesian: Musa (id)
• Irish: Maoise (ga)
• Italian: Mosè (it)

• Japanese: モーセ (ja) (Mōse)
• Korean: 모세 (ko) (Mose)
• Ladino: Moshe
• Lak: Муса идавс
• Latin: Moises (la)
• Latvian: Mozus (lv)
• Macedonian: Мојсеј (mk) (Mójsej) m
• Malay: Musa (ms)
• Mongolian: Мосе (mn) (Mose)
• Navajo: Mózes
• Norwegian: Moses (no)
• Persian: موسی (fa) (Musâ)
• Polish: Mojżesz (pl) m
• Portuguese: Moisés (pt) m
• Russian: Моисей (ru) (Moiséj) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Мојсије (sh) m, Муса (sh) m

  Roman: Mojsije (sh) m, Musa (sh) m

• Slovak: Mojžíš (sk) m
• Slovene: Mójzes (sl) m
• Spanish: Moisés (es)
• Swedish: Mose (sv)
• Tatar: Муса (tt) (Musa)
• Tibetan: མོ་ཤི། (bo)
• Turkish: Musa (tr)
• Ukrainian: Мойсей (uk) (Mojséj) m
• Urdu: موسیٰ (ur) (mūsā) m
• Welsh: Moses (cy) m
• Yiddish: משה (yi) m

male given name

• Arabic: موسى (ar) (mūsā) m
• Armenian: Մովսես (hy) (Movses)

  Old Armenian: Մովսէս (Movsēs)

• Hawaiian: Moke
• Hungarian: Mózes (hu)

• Malay: Musa (ms)
• Navajo: Mózes
• Portuguese: Moisés (pt) m
• Swedish: Moses (sv)

Noun

Moses

1. A large flatboat used in the West Indies for taking freight from shore to ship.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

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Danish

Proper noun

Moses

1. Moses.

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German

Proper noun

Moses

1. (Catholic) Moses.

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Gothic

Romanization

Mōsēs

1. See 𐌼𐍉𐍃𐌴𐍃

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Norwegian

Proper noun

Moses

1. Moses.

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Swedish

Proper noun

Moses

1. A male given name (quite rare), cognate to Moses, from earlier versions of the Swedish Bible.

Related terms

• Mose