English
Etymology
Derived from Middle English Messyas.
Pronunciation
- enPR: mə-sī'ə, IPA(key): /məˈsaɪ.ə/
- Rhymes: -aɪə
Proper noun
the Messiah
- (Judaism) The promised and expected savior or liberator of the Jewish people.
- Synonym: Christ
- A saviour or liberator of a group of people.
- (Christianity) Jesus Christ.
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 (Mäsıx)
- 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)
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