Messiah

See also: messiah

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Aramaic ܡ ܫ ܚder.

Aramaic ܡܫܺܝܚܳܐ (məšīḥā)bor.

Hebrew מָשַׁח

Biblical Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (māšîaḥ)der.

Ancient Greek Μεσσῑ́ᾱς (Messī́ās)bor.

Latin Messīāsbor.

Middle English Messyasder.

English Messiah

Derived from Middle English Messyas.

Pronunciation

• enPR: mə-sī'ə, IPA^(key): /məˈsaɪ.ə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -aɪə

Proper noun

the Messiah

2. (Judaism) The promised and expected savior or liberator of the Jewish people.

   Synonym: Christ

3. A saviour or liberator of a group of people.
5. (Christianity) Jesus Christ.

Derived terms

• Messiahship
• Messian
• messianic

Descendants

• → Japanese: メシア
• → Korean: 메시아 (mesia)
• → Welsh: Meseia

Translations

(Christianity) Jesus — see also Savior

• Albanian: Mesia m
• Arabic: الْمَسِيح m (al-masīḥ)
• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܡܫܺܝܚܳܐ m (Məšīḥā)

  Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: מְשִׁיחָא m (Məšīḥā)

• Armenian: Օծյալ (Ōcyal)
• Azerbaijani: Məsih
• Belarusian: Месі́я m (Mjesíja)
• Bengali: মসিহ (bn) (mośiho)
• Bulgarian: Меси́я m (Mesíja)
• Burmese: မေရှိယ (mehri.ya.)
• Catalan: Messies m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 彌賽亞 / 弥赛亚 (mei⁴ coi³ aa³, nei⁴ coi³ aa³), 默西亞 / 默西亚 (mak⁶ sai¹ aa³) (Catholic)

  Hokkien: 彌賽亞 / 弥赛亚 (Bí-sài-a, Mî-sài-a), 默西亞 / 默西亚 (Be̍k-se-a) (Catholic), Me-sí-iah

  Mandarin: 彌賽亞 / 弥赛亚 (zh) (Mísàiyà), 默西亞 / 默西亚 (zh) (Mòxīyà) (Catholic)

• Comorian:

  Ngazidja Comorian: Masihi

• Czech: Mesiáš m
• Danish: Messias c
• Dutch: Messias (nl) m
• Estonian: Messias
• Finnish: Messias
• French: Messie (fr) m
• Galician: Mesías m
• Georgian: მესია (mesia)
• German: Messias (de) m
• Greek: Μεσσίας (el) m (Messías)

  Ancient Greek: Μεσσίας m (Messías), Χριστός m (Khristós)

• Hebrew: מָּשִׁיחַ (he) m (mashíakh), הַמָּשִׁיחַ m (ha-mashíakh)
• Hindi: मसीह (hi) m (masīh), मसीहा (hi) m (masīhā), क्राइस्ट (hi) m (krāisṭ)
• Hungarian: Messiás (hu), Megváltó (hu)
• Iban: Almesih
• Icelandic: Messías m
• Indonesian: Mesias
• Irish: Meisias m, An tUngthach m
• Italian: Messia m
• Japanese: メシア (ja) (Meshia)
• Kazakh: Мәсіх (Mäsix)
• Khmer: មេស្ស៊ី (meihsii)
• Korean: 메시아 (Mesia)
• Kyrgyz: Мессия (Messiya)
• Lao: ເມຊີອາ (mē sī ʼā)
• Latvian: Mesija m
• Lithuanian: Mesijas m
• Macedonian: Ме́сија m (Mésija)
• Malay: Al-Masih, Mesias
• Norman: Messie m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Messias (no) m

• Pashto: مسيح m (masíh)
• Persian:

  Dari: مَسِیح (fa) (masīh), مَسِیحَا (fa) (masīhā)

  Iranian Persian: مَسیح (fa) (masih), مَسیحا (fa) (masihâ)

• Polish: Mesjasz (pl) m
• Portuguese: Messias (pt) m
• Romanian: Mesia m
• Russian: Месси́я (ru) m (Messíja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ме́сија m

  Latin: Mésija (sh) m

• Slovak: Mesiáš m
• Slovene: Mesíja m
• Spanish: Mesías (es) m
• Swahili: Masiya
• Swedish: Messias c
• Tagalog: Mesiyas
• Tajik: Масеҳ (Maseh)
• Tatar: Мәсих (Mäsix)
• Thai: เมสสิยาห์ (th) (mét-sì-yaa)
• Turkish: Mesih (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: مسیح (mesih)

• Ukrainian: Месі́я m (Mesíja)
• Urdu: مَسِیح m (masīh), مَسِیحا m (masīhā)
• Uyghur: مەسىھ (mesih)
• Uzbek: Masih, Messiya
• Vietnamese: Đấng Mê-si, Mê-si-a
• Volapük: Mäsiat, (older term) Mesial
• Welsh: Meseia m
• Yiddish: משיח m (moshiyekh)

Anagrams

• mashies, sameish, smashie