Mormon
English
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Etymology
[edit]From the title of the chief work of Joseph Smith the Book of Mormon. Followers of his religious movement were called this since the 1830s.[1] The title of the book comes from the name from the prophet who they believe compiled it, called Mormon, father of Moroni, and/or the Waters of Mormon mentioned in it.[2]
Various implausible etymologies have been proposed, usually in attempts to discredit or defend the Mormon faith.[3]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmɔːmən/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmɔɹmən/
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mən
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Proper noun
[edit]Mormon
- In Mormonism, an ancient American prophet who compiled the Book of Mormon.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]ancient prophet
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Noun
[edit]Mormon (plural Mormons)
- (originally derogatory, sometimes proscribed) A believer in the Mormon religion, which views Joseph Smith as a prophet of God and holds the Bible and the Book of Mormon as its primary scriptures.
- Synonyms: Latter-day Saint, LDS
- 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 1, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:
- That year, 1871, had marked a change which had been gradually coming in the lives of the peace-loving Mormons of the border.
Coordinate terms
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[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Hopi: moomona
- → Fijian: momani
- → Samoan: Mamona
- → Hawaiian: Moramona
- → Portuguese: mórmon
- → Spanish: mormón
- → Japanese: モルモン
Translations
[edit]member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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Adjective
[edit]Mormon (not comparable)
- (sometimes proscribed) Of, or pertaining to, the faith established by Joseph Smith, Jr.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]pertaining to the faith established by Joseph Smith, Jr
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References
[edit]- ^ An early use is in the title of the 1839 Facts Relative to the Expulsion of the Mormons, Or Latter Day Saints, from the State of Missouri.
- ^ Within the Book of Mormon, the waters are said by the book to have been named by "the king" (taken in context to be King Noah).
- ^ For example, the suggestion that Mormon or Moroni might be derived from moron cannot be correct, because moron was only coined in 1910. For more theories, see Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture, volume 13 (2015, →ISBN. The most prominent pro-Mormon etymology is the one, suggested in an 1834 Times and Seasons letter, that the term derives from English more + a supposed Egyptian *mon (“good”), which, however, modern scholarship considers figurative at best — see Paul Y. Hoskisson, What's in a Name? Mormon part 1 (Insights 32/2, 2012) and part 2 (Insights 32/3, 2012). Matthew Bowen suggested that the name derives from Egyptian mr(j) (“to love, desire”). On the anti-Mormon side, Eber D. Howe suggested in 1834 that "The English word Mormon [...] is the English termination of the Greek word, "Mormoo," which we find defined in an old obsolete Dictionary "bug-bear, hob-goblin, raw head, and bloody bones"; Hoskisson writes that "almost any knowledgeable reader, even in 1834, would have recognized that this definition is not only fabricated but downright silly." An anonymous editorialist wrote in 1841 that "[In] the reformed Egyptian tongue, [...] Mormon [is] a writer of wicked, absurd, fictitious nonsense, for evil purposes, to make sorcerors", which the Interpreter calls "laughable".
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