moshav

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew מוֹשָׁב (mosháv, “village”, literally “settlement”).

Noun

moshav (plural moshavs or moshavim)

1. An Israeli town or settlement, especially a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists during the second aliyah.

Related terms

• moshavnik
• moshav ovdim
• moshav shitufi

Translations

Israeli cooperative agricultural community

• Czech: mošav m
• Hungarian: mosáv, mosav
• Persian: موشاو (mo'shâv)
• Portuguese: moshav m

Further reading

• moshav on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /moˈʃa.vi/, /moˈʃav/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /moˈʃa.vi/, /moˈʃav/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /moˈʃav/, /moˈʃa.vi/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /muˈʃav/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /muˈʃav/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /muˈʃab/ [muˈʃaβ]

Noun

moshav m (plural moshavim or moshavs or moshav)

1. moshav (Israeli cooperative agricultural community)