moped

See also: Moped and mo-ped

English

Etymology 1

Honda PA50 step-through moped (European market)

Borrowed from Swedish moped.

Alternative forms

• mo-ped

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈməʊ.pɛd/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• (US) enPR: mōʹpĕd, IPA^(key): /ˈmoʊ.pɛd/

Noun

moped (plural mopeds)

2. A lightweight, two-wheeled vehicle equipped with a small motor and pedals, designed to go no faster than some specified speed limit.

   He took his moped into work.

Derived terms

• e-moped
• go-ped

Translations

two-wheeled vehicle

• Armenian: մոպեդ (hy) (moped)
• Azerbaijani: moped
• Basque: ziklomotor
• Belarusian: мапе́д m (mapjéd)
• Bulgarian: мотопе́д (bg) m (motopéd)
• Catalan: ciclomotor (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 摩托自行車 / 摩托自行车 (mótuō zìxíngchē)

• Czech: moped (cs) m
• Danish: knallert
• Dutch: brommer (nl) m, bromfiets (nl) f
• Esperanto: mopedo
• Estonian: mopeed
• Finnish: mopo (fi), mopedi (fi)
• French: vélomoteur (fr) m, cyclomoteur (fr) m, mobylette (fr) f, mob (fr) f
• Georgian: მოპედი (moṗedi)
• German: Moped (de) n, Motorvelo n (Swiss)
• Greek: μοτοποδήλατο (el) n (motopodílato)
• Hindi: मोपेड f (mopeḍ), फटफटिया f (phaṭphaṭiyā) (colloquial), फट (hi) m (phaṭ) (colloquial)
• Hungarian: moped (hu)
• Icelandic: skellinaðra f
• Indonesian: moped
• Irish: móipéid f
• Italian: motorino (it) m, ciclomotore (it) m, bicimotore (it)
• Japanese: モペッド (ja) (mopeddo), 原付 (ja) (gentsuki)
• Kazakh: мопед (moped)
• Korean: 모페드 (mopedeu)
• Kyrgyz: мопед (ky) (moped)
• Latvian: mopēds m
• Lithuanian: mopedas m
• Macedonian: мопед m (moped)
• Malay: kapcai
• Mongolian: мопед (moped)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: moped m

  Nynorsk: moped m

• Persian: موتورگازی (motor-gâzi)
• Polish: motorower (pl) m
• Portuguese: ciclomotor (pt)
• Romanian: moped
• Russian: мопе́д (ru) m (mopéd)
• Sami:

  Northern Sami: mopeda

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мопед m

  Latin: moped (sh) m

• Silesian: moplik
• Slovak: moped m
• Slovene: kolo z motorjem n
• Spanish: motoneta (es) f, motocicleta (es) f, ciclomotor (es) m, vespino m or f (Spain), bicimoto (es) f
• Swedish: moped (sv) c, moppe (sv) c
• Thai: รถป๊อป (rót-bpɔ́p), โมเพด (moo-pèt)
• Turkish: mobilet (tr)
• Turkmen: moped
• Ukrainian: мопе́д (uk) m (mopéd)
• Urdu: محرکاب
• Uzbek: moped (uz)
• Vietnamese: xe đạp điện
• Welsh: moped m

See also

• scooter

Etymology 2

From mope + -ed.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊpt
• (UK) IPA^(key): /məʊpt/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• (US) enPR: mōpt, IPA^(key): /moʊpt/

Verb

moped

1. simple past and past participle of mope

Adjective

moped (comparative more moped, superlative most moped)

1. Melancholic, dejected.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], chapter I, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition iii, section 1, member 2:

     it so far troubles them, that they become quite moped many times, and so disheartened, dejected, they dare not come abroad […]

Further reading

• moped on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Czech

Alternative forms

• mopéd (less common)

Etymology

Borrowed from Swedish moped.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmopɛt]
• Hyphenation: mo‧ped

Noun

moped m inan

1. moped

Declension

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• “moped”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “moped”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “moped”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Swedish moped.

Noun

moped m (definite singular mopeden, indefinite plural mopeder, definite plural mopedene)

1. a moped

Derived terms

• mopedist

References

• “moped” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Swedish moped.

Noun

moped m (definite singular mopeden, indefinite plural mopedar, definite plural mopedane)

1. a moped

Derived terms

• mopedist

References

• “moped” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English moped.

Noun

moped n (plural mopeduri)

1. moped

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	moped	mopedul	mopeduri	mopedurile
genitive-dative	moped	mopedului	mopeduri	mopedurilor
vocative	mopedule		mopedurilor

Swedish

en moped

Etymology

Blend of motor +‎ pedaler (“pedals”). Coined by motor journalist Harald Nielsen in 1952 in the magazine Motor from tramp-cykel med motor och pedaler ("bicycle with engine and pedals").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʊˈpeːd/
• Rhymes: -eːd

Noun

moped c

1. a moped (vehicle)

   Synonym: (colloquial) moppe

   Det är kul att åka moped

   It's fun to ride a moped

Declension

Declension of moped

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	moped	mopeds
	definite	mopeden	mopedens
plural	indefinite	mopeder	mopeders
	definite	mopederna	mopedernas

Related terms

• mopedist
• EU-moppe

Descendants

• → English: moped
• → Norwegian Bokmål: moped

See also

• motorcykel (“motorcycle”)

References

• “moped”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “moped”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)