Moses

See also: moses and Móses

English

Etymology

From Latin Mōsēs, Mōȳsēs, from Ancient Greek Μωυσῆς (Mōusês), from Biblical Hebrew מֹשֶׁה‎ (mōše). Further etymology is unclear, but it is sometimes conjectured to derive from Egyptian (msj, “to give birth to”), a common element in Egyptian names of the form ‘[name of deity] is the one who bore him’; or, alternatively, contains Egyptian (mw, “water”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈməʊzɪs/, /ˈməʊzɪz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmoʊzəz/, /ˈmoʊzəs/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -əʊzɪz, -əʊzɪs

Proper noun

Moses

1. The pharaonic patriarch who led the slaved Hebrews out of Egypt, the brother of Aaron and Miriam described in the Book of Exodus and the Quran.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Exodus 19:20, column 1:

     And the Lord came downe vpon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the Lord called Moſes vp to the top of the mount, and Moſes went vp.

   • 1952 Singin' in the Rain: Moses supposes (a song):

     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!

2. A male given name from Hebrew.
3. A surname, from given names​.
4. A dialect of the Columbia-Wenatchi language
5. (US, African American culture) pseudonym for Harriet Tubman

Synonyms

(Jewish male given name):

• Moishe
• Moshe

Derived terms

• Moses basket
• Moses Lake
• Moses sole

 

Related terms

• Mosaism

Translations

the biblical patriarch

• Albanian: Moisiu m
• Amharic: ሙሴ (Musse)
• Arabic: مُوسَىٰ‎ (ar) m (mūsā)
• Aramaic:

  Samaritan Aramaic: ࠌࠦࠔࠨࠄ‎ (mūši)

  Classical Syriac: ܡܘܫܐ‎

• Armenian: Մովսես (Movses)

  Old Armenian: Մովսէս (Movsēs)

• Azerbaijani: Musa (az)
• Bashkir: Муса (Musa)
• Basque: Mois
• Belarusian: Майсе́й m (Majsjéj)
• Bengali: মূসা (mūsa)
• Bulgarian: Моисе́й m (Moiséj)
• Catalan: Moisès
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 摩西 (mo¹ sai¹), 梅瑟 (mui⁴ sat¹) (Catholic)

  Hakka: 摩西 (Mô-sî)

  Mandarin: 摩西 (zh) (Móxī), 梅瑟 (zh) (Méisè) (Catholic)

  Min Nan: 摩西 (zh-min-nan) (Mô͘-se)

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

  Middle French: Moyse m

  Old French: Moyses

• Georgian: მოსე (mose)
• German: Moses m (Catholic), Mose m (Protestant)
• Greek: Μωυσής (el) m (Moysís)

  Ancient: Μωϋσῆς m (Mōüsês), Μωσῆς (Mōsês)

• Hausa: Musa
• Hawaiian: Mose
• Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה‎ (he) m (moshé), מֹשֶׁה רַבֵּנוּ‎ m (moshé rabénu)
• Hindi: मूसा (hi) m (mūsā)
• Hungarian: Mózes (hu)
• Indonesian: Musa
• Irish: Maois m

  Old Irish: Moysi m

• Italian: Mosè
• Japanese: モーセ (Mōse)

• Jarai: Môis
• Kashubian: Mózes
• Kazakh: Мұса (Musa)
• Konkani: मूजे (mūje)
• Korean: 모세 (Mose)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: مووسا‎ (mûsa)

  Northern Kurdish: Mûsa (ku)

• Ladino: Moshe
• Lak: Муса идавс (Musa idaws)
• Latin: Mōsēs m, Mōȳsēs
• Latvian: Mozus
• Lithuanian: Mozė m
• Macedonian: Мојсеј (Mojsej)
• Malay: Musa
• Maori: Mohi
• Maranao: Mosa
• Mongolian: Мосе (Mose)
• Navajo: Mózes
• Norwegian: Moses (no)
• Persian: موسی‎ (fa) (Musâ)
• Plautdietsch: Moses
• Polish: Mojżesz (pl) m
• Portuguese: Moisés (pt) m
• Romanian: Moise m
• Russian: Моисе́й (ru) m (Moiséj)
• Scottish Gaelic: Maois m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Мојсије m, Муса m (Muslim)

  Roman: Mojsije m, Musa (sh) m (Muslim)

• Slovak: Mojžíš m
• Slovene: Mójzes (sl) m
• Sogdian: [script needed] (mwšʾ /mušā/)
• Spanish: Moisés (es)
• Swahili: Musa, Mose
• Swedish: Mose (sv)
• Tagalog: Moises
• Tatar: Муса (Musa)
• Tibetan: མོ་ཤི། (mo shi)
• Turkish: Musa (tr), موسی, Mûsâ (tr), Musalar (tr) pl, Mûsâlar (tr) pl
• Ukrainian: Мойсе́й (uk) m (Mojséj)
• Urdu: موسیٰ‎ (ur) m (mūsā)
• Vietnamese: Môi-se, Mô-sê
• Welsh: Moses m
• Yiddish: משה‎ m (moyshe)

male given name

• Arabic: مُوسَى‎ (ar) m (mūsā)
• Armenian: Մովսես (Movses)

  Old Armenian: Մովսէս (Movsēs)

• Bengali: মূসা (mūsa)
• Galician: Moisés (gl) m
• Hausa: Musa
• Hawaiian: Moke
• Hungarian: Mózes (hu)

• Latvian: Mozus m
• Macedonian: Мојсеј m (Mojsej)
• Malay: Musa
• Maori: Mohi
• Navajo: Mózes
• Portuguese: Moisés (pt) m
• Swahili: Musa
• Swedish: Moses (sv)
• Turkish: Musa (tr), Mûsâ (tr), Musalar (tr) pl, Mûsâlar (tr) pl, موسی, Mısa, Mısalar pl

Noun

Moses

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

Interjection

Moses

1. An exclamation of shock.

See also

• Moses Gate

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.
(See the entry for “Moses” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

• Mosse

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Danish

Proper noun

Moses

1. Moses (biblical figure)

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German

Etymology

Biblical, cognate with English Moses.

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Proper noun

Moses m (proper noun, strong, genitive Moses or Mosis)

1. (biblical) Moses

   Synonym: Moyses

Synonyms

• Mose (Protestant)

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Latin

Alternative forms

• Mō̆ȳsēs

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Μωσῆς (Mōsês), Μωϋσῆς (Mōüsês), from Biblical Hebrew מֹשֶׁה‎ (moshé).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmoː.seːs/, [ˈmoːs̠eːs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.ses/, [ˈmɔːs̬es]

Proper noun

Mōsēs m sg (genitive Mōsis or Mōsī or Mōseī); third declension

1. Moses (pharaonic patriarch)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Mōsēs
Genitive	Mōsis Mōsī Mōseī
Dative	Mōsī
Accusative	Mōsem Mōsēn
Ablative	Mōse
Vocative	Mōsēs

Derived terms

• Mōsēius

• Mōsēus

• Mōsiticus

References

• “Mōses”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• Moses in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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Norwegian

Proper noun

Moses

1. Moses (biblical figure)

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Swedish

Etymology

Biblical, cognate with English Moses, from earlier versions of the Swedish Bible.

Proper noun

Moses c (genitive Moses)

1. A male given name (quite rare).

Related terms

• Mose
• mosaisk