Mosul

See also: moșul

English

Map of Mosul, Iraq

Mosul Eyalet (1609)

Mosul Eyalet (1795)

Mosul Vilayet (1900)

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish موصل (Mosul), from Arabic الموصل (al-Mawṣil, “the Junction”), from و ص ل (w ṣ l) related to terms concerning access, arrival, or connection.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈməʊsəl/

Proper noun

Mosul

1. A city in Nineveh, Iraq at the site of former Nineveh.
2. (historical) A former province of the Ottoman Empire with its capital at Mosul.

Synonyms

• Nineveh (historical)

Coordinate terms

• Moslawi

Translations

city — see also Nineveh

• Arabic: الْمَوْصِل f (al-mawṣil)
• Aramaic: ܡܘܨܠ, ܢܝܢܘܐ
• Armenian: Մոսուլ (Mosul)
• Azerbaijani: Mosul (az)
• Belarusian: Масул (Masul)
• Bengali: মসুল (mośul)
• Bulgarian: Мосул (Mosul)
• Catalan: Mossul
• Chechen: Мовсил (Movsil)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 摩蘇爾／摩苏尔 (zh) (Mósū'ěr)

• Dutch: Mosoel
• Estonian: Mosul
• Finnish: Mosul (fi)
• French: Mossoul (fr)
• Georgian: მოსული (mosuli)
• German: Mossul (de), Mosul (de)
• Greek: Μοσούλη (el) f (Mosoúli)
• Hebrew: מוסול
• Hindi: मूसल (hi) m (mūsal)
• Hungarian: Moszul (hu)
• Indonesian: Mosul
• Italian: Mossul
• Japanese: モスル (Mosuru)
• Kazakh: Мосул (Mosul)
• Korean: 모술 (mosul)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Mûsil (ku), Nînewe

• Kyrgyz: Мосул (Mosul)
• Latin: Mausilium n
• Malay: Mosul
• Mongolian: Мосул (Mosul)
• Ottoman Turkish: موصل (Mevsıl/Mosul)
• Persian: موصل (fa) (mowsel, musel)
• Portuguese: Mossul f, Mosul f
• Russian: Мосу́л (ru) m (Mosúl)
• Serbo-Croatian: Mosul, Мосул
• Spanish: Mosul (es)
• Tajik: Мавсил (Mavsil)
• Thai: โมซูล
• Turkish: Musul
• Urdu: موصل
• Uyghur: مەۋسىل (mewsil)
• Uzbek: Mosul

See also

• Nineveh
• muslin

Anagrams

• Solum, mulos, omuls, solum

Spanish

Proper noun

Mosul ?

1. Mosul