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

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, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 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!
A male given name.
A surname.
A dialect of the Columbia-Wenatchi language
(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:
Classical Syriac: ܡܘܫܐ‎
Armenian: Մովսես (Movses)
Old Armenian: Մովսէս (Movsēs)
Azerbaijani: 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 (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: Maoise
Italian: Mosè
Japanese: モーセ (Mōse)

Judeo-Arabic: מוסי‎ m (mūsā)
Kazakh: Муса (Mwsa), Мұса (Musa)
Korean: 모세 (Mose)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: مووسا‎ (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
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: [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)
Galician: Moisés (gl) 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)
Turkish: Musa (tr), Mûsâ (tr), Musalar (tr) pl, Mûsâlar (tr) pl, موسی‎, Mısa, Mısalar pl

Noun

Moses

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

Interjection

Moses

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.)

Danish

Proper noun

Moses

Moses (biblical figure)

German

Etymology

Biblical, cognate with English Moses.

Proper noun

Moses

(Catholicism) Moses (biblical figure).

Synonyms

Moyses
Mose (Protestant)

Latin

Alternative forms

Mō̆ȳsēs

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek Μωσῆς (Mōsês), Μωϋσῆς (Mōüsês), from Biblical Hebrew מֹשֶׁה‎‎ (moshé).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmoː.seːs/

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

Proper noun

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

Moses (pharaonic patriarch)

Declension

Third declension.

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

Norwegian

Proper noun

Moses

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)

A male given name (quite rare).

Related terms

Mose

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