Moses

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English

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Etymology

From the Ancient Greek Μωϋσῆς ‎(Mōüsês) from the Biblical Hebrew מֹשֶׁה ‎(mōše).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmoʊzɨz/, /ˈmoʊzɨs/
• Rhymes: -əʊzɪz

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 (KJV), 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

  Old French: Moyses

  Middle French: Moyse m

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

• Hawaiian: Moke
• Hungarian: Mózes (hu)

• Kazakh: Муса ‎(Mwsa)
• Malay: Musa
• Maori: Mohi
• Navajo: Mózes
• Portuguese: Moisés (pt) m
• 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.

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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/

Proper noun

Mōsēs m ‎(genitive Mōsis or Mōsī); irregular

1. Moses (pharaonic patriarch)

Declension

• nominative Mōsēs, genitive Mōsis or Mōsī, accusative Mōsēn, ablative Mōse

Derived terms

Mōsēius

Mōsēus

Mōsiticus

References

• Mōses in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Moses in Félix Gaffiot (1934), Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: 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

1. A male given name (quite rare).

Related terms

• Mose