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’.

Pronunciation

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

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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:

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     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 from Hebrew.
3. A surname​.
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

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
• Judeo-Arabic: מוסי‎ m (mūsā)
• Kazakh: Мұса (Musa)
• Konkani: मूजे (mūje)
• Korean: 모세 (Mose)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: مووسا‎ (ku) (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
• 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 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
• 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.

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.

Proper noun

Moses m (genitive Moses or Mosis)

1. (Catholicism) Moses (biblical figure).

Synonyms

• Moyses
• 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/, [ˈmoː.s̠eːs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.ses/, [ˈmɔː.zɛs]

Proper noun

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

1. Moses (pharaonic patriarch)

Declension

Third-declension noun, singular only.

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. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, 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