moped

See also mo-ped

English

Pronunciation

Verb form

• (UK) IPA: /məʊpt/, X-SAMPA: /m@Upt/
• (US) enPR: mōpt, IPA: /moʊpt/, X-SAMPA: /moUpt/

Noun

• (UK) IPA: /ˈməʊ.pɛd/, X-SAMPA: /"m@U.pEd/
• (US) enPR: mōʹpĕd, IPA: /ˈmoʊ.pɛd/, X-SAMPA: /"moU.pEd/

Etymology 1

From mope +‎ -ed.

Verb

moped

1. simple past tense and past participle of mope

Adjective

moped (comparative more moped, superlative most moped)

1. Melancholy, dejected.
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, I.iii.1.2:

     it so far troubles them, that they become quite moped many times, and so disheartened, dejected, they dare not come abroad [...].

Etymology 2

Swedish moped

Alternative forms

• mo-ped

Noun

Wikipedia moped (plural mopeds)

1. A lightweight, two-wheeled vehicle equipped with a small motor and pedals, designed to go no faster than some specified speed limit.

Translations

two-wheeled vehicle

• Belarusian: мапед (be) (mapjéd) m
• Bulgarian: мотопед (bg) (motopéd) m
• Catalan: ciclomotor (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 摩托自行車 (cmn), 摩托自行车 (cmn) (mótuō zìxíngchē)

• Czech: moped (cs) m
• Danish: knallert (da)
• Dutch: brommer (nl), bromfiets (nl)
• Esperanto: mopedo (eo)
• Estonian: mopeed (et)
• Finnish: mopedi (fi), mopo (fi)
• French: vélomoteur (fr) m, cyclomoteur (fr)
• Georgian: მოპედ (ka) (moped)
• German: Moped (de) n, Mofa (de) n, Kleinkraftrad (de)
• Indonesian: moped (id)
• Italian: motorino (it) m, ciclomotore (it) m
• Japanese: モペッド (ja) (mopeddo)
• Korean: 모페드 (ko) (mopedeu)
• Latvian: mopēds (lv)

• Macedonian: мопед (mk) (móped) m
• Malay: kapcai (ms)
• Polish: motorower (pl) m
• Portuguese: ciclomotor (pt)
• Northern Sami: mopeda
• Norwegian: moped (no)
• Persian: موتورگازی (fa) (motor-gâzi)
• Romanian: moped (ro)
• Russian: мопед (ru) (mopéd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мопед (sh) m

  Roman: moped (sh) m

• Silesian: moplik
• Slovak: moped (sk) m
• Slovenian: kolo z motorjem (sl) n
• Spanish: motoneta (es) f, motocicleta (es) f, ciclomotor (es)
• Swedish: moped (sv) c, moppe (sv) c
• Turkish: mobilet (tr)
• Ukrainian: мопед (uk) (mopéd) m
• Urdu: محرکاب (ur)

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

Wikipedia ^no

moped

1. moped

Inflection

	singular	plural
indefinite	moped	mopeder
definite	mopeden	mopedene

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Swedish

Etymology

Blend of motor and pedaler. Coined in 1952 by a Swedish motor journalist in the magazine “Motor” from tramp-cykel med motor och pedaler (“bicycle with engine and pedals”).

Noun

moped c

1. moped (vehicle)

Declension

Declension of moped

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	moped	mopeden	mopeder	mopederna
genitive	mopeds	mopedens	mopeders	mopedernas

Related terms

• mopedist
• moppe
• EU-moppe