Moses

See also: moses and Móses

English

Etymology

From Latin Mōsēs, Mōȳsēs, from Ancient Greek Μωϋσῆς (Mōüsês), from Biblical Hebrew מֹשֶׁה‏ (mōše).

Pronunciation

• (Uk) IPA^(key): /ˈməʊzɪs/, /ˈməʊzɪz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmoʊzəz/, /ˈmoʊzəs/
• Rhymes: -əʊzɪz, -əʊzɪs

Proper noun

Moses

1. The pharaonic patriarch who led the slaved Jews out of Egypt, the brother of Aaron and Miriam described in the Book of Exodus and the Quran.
   • 1611, Bible (King James Version), Exodus 19:20:
     :

     And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the LORD called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.

   • 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.
3. A surname​.
4. A dialect of the Columbia-Wenatchi language
5. (US, African American culture) pseudonym for Harriet Tubman

Derived terms

• Moses basket

Related terms

• Mosaism

Translations

the biblical patriarch

• Albanian: Moisiu m
• Amharic: ሙሴ (Musse)
• Arabic: مُوسَى‏‎ (ar) m (mūsā)
• Armenian: Մովսես (Movses)

  Old Armenian: Մովսէս (Movsēs)

• Azeri: Musa (az)
• Bashkir: Муса (Musa)
• Basque: Mois
• Belarusian: Майсе́й m (Majsjéj)
• 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
• 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)
• Hausa: Musa
• Hawaiian: Mose
• Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה‏‎ m (moshé), מֹשֶׁה רַבֵּנוּ‏‎ m (moshé rabénu)
• Hindi: मूसा (hi) m (mūsā)
• Hungarian: Mózes (hu)
• Indonesian: Musa
• Irish: Maoise
• Italian: Mosè

• Japanese: モーセ (Mōse)
• Judeo-Arabic: מוסי‏‎ m (mūsā)
• Kazakh: Муса (Mwsa)
• Korean: 모세 (Mose)
• Ladino: Moshe
• Lak: Муса идавс (Musa idaws)
• Latin: Mōsēs m
• Latvian: Mozus
• Lithuanian: Mozė m
• Macedonian: Мојсеј (Mojsej)
• Malay: Musa
• Maori: Mohi
• Mongolian: Мосе (Mose)
• Navajo: Mózes
• Norwegian: Moses (no)
• Persian: موسی‏‎ (fa) (Musâ)
• Polish: Mojżesz (pl) m
• Portuguese: Moisés (pt) m
• Russian: Моисе́й (ru) m (Moiséj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Мојсије m, Муса m (Muslim)

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

• Slovak: Mojžíš m
• Slovene: Mójzes (sl) m
• Sogdian: mwšʾ (mušā)
• Spanish: Moisés (es)
• Swahili: Musa
• Swedish: Mose (sv)
• Tagalog: Moises
• Tatar: Муса (Musa)
• Tibetan: མོ་ཤི། (mo shi)
• Turkish: Musa (tr)
• Ukrainian: Мойсе́й m (Mojséj)
• Urdu: موسیٰ‏‎ 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)

• Galician: Moisés m
• Hausa: Musa
• Hawaiian: Moke
• Hungarian: Mózes (hu)
• Kazakh: Муса (Mwsa)

• Latvian: Mozus m
• Malay: Musa
• Maori: Mohi
• Navajo: Mózes
• Portuguese: Moisés (pt) m
• Swahili: Musa
• Swedish: Moses (sv)

Noun

Moses

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

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.)

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Danish

Proper noun

Moses

1. Moses (biblical figure)

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German

Etymology

Biblical, cognate with English Moses.

Proper noun

Moses

1. (Catholicism) Moses (biblical figure).

Synonyms

• Moyses
• Mose (Protestant)

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Gothic

Romanization

Mōsēs

1. Romanization of 𐌼𐍉𐍃𐌴𐍃

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Latin

Alternative forms

• Mō̆ȳsēs

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek Μωσῆς (Mōsês), Μωϋσῆς (Mōüsês).

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Mōsēs m (genitive Mōsis or Mōsī); third declension

1. Moses (pharaonic patriarch)

Declension

Third declension.

Case	Singular
nominative	Mōsēs
genitive	Mōsis Mōsī
dative	Mōsī
accusative	Mōsem Mōsēn
ablative	Mōse
vocative	Mōsēs

Derived terms

• Mōsēius

• Mōsēus

• Mōsiticus

References

• Mōses in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Moses” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)

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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

1. A male given name (quite rare).

Related terms

• Mose