messiah

See also: Messiah

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) Messias, from Hellenistic (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek (deprecated template usage) Μεσσίας (Messías), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Aramaic (deprecated template usage) [script needed] (měšīḥā), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Hebrew (deprecated template usage) מָשִׁיחַ (mashíach).

Pronunciation

• enPR: mə-sī'ə, , Template:X-SAMPA

Noun

messiah (plural messiahs)

1. (deprecated template usage) (Abrahamic tradition) The one who is ordained by God to lead the people of Israel, believed by Muslims and Christians to be Jesus Christ.

   Baha'is consider Bahaullah to be a messiah.

2. An extremely powerful divine figure.

Related terms

• messianic
• Christ

Translations

ordained to lead the people of Israel

• Ancient Greek: Χριστός (Christos) m
• Aramaic:

  Syriac: ܡܫܝܚܐ m (mšīħā’)

• Armenian: օծյալ (ōcyal)
• Catalan: messies m
• Czech: mesiáš (cs) m
• Danish: messias
• Dutch: Messias (nl) m
• Esperanto: mesio
• Faroese: messias m
• Finnish: messias (fi)
• French: messie (fr) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Messias (de) m
• Hebrew: משיח m (mashíakh)
• Ido: mesio (io)
• Irish: Meisias m
• Italian: messia (it) m
• Polish: mesjasz m
• Portuguese: messias (pt) m
• Russian: мессия (ru) m (messíja)
• Spanish: Mesías (es) m
• Swedish: Messias c
• Yiddish: משיח m (moshiyekh)

an extremely powerful divine figure

• Dutch: messias (nl) m
• Finnish: messias (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Polish: mesjasz m

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Translations to be checked

• (deprecated template usage) Slovene: odrešenik m, Odrešenik m (of Christ), mesija m (liter.)

Anagrams

• mashies, smashie