Messiah

See also: messiah

English

Pronunciation

See messiah.

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)
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)
Czech: Mesiáš m
Danish: Messias
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: Μεσσίας m (Messías), Χριστός m (Khristós)
Hebrew: מָּשִׁיחַ (he) m (Mašīaḥ), הַמָּשִׁיחַ m (HaMašīaḥ)
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)
Korean: 메시아 (Mesia)
Kyrgyz: Мессия (Messiya)
Latvian: Mesija m
Lithuanian: Mesijas m
Macedonian: Ме́сија m (Mésija)
Malay: Al-Masih, Mesias
Ngazidja Comorian: Masihi
Norman: Messie m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Messias (no)
Ottoman Turkish: مسیح (mesih)
Pashto: مسيح m (masíh)
Persian: مسیح (fa) (masih)
Polish: Mesjasz (pl) m
Portuguese: Messias (pt) m
Romanian: Mesia m
Russian: Месси́я (ru) m (Messíja)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Месија m

Roman: Mesija (sh) m
Slovak: Mesiáš m
Slovene: Mesíja m
Spanish: Mesías (es) m
Swahili: Masiya
Swedish: Messias
Tagalog: Mesiyas
Tajik: Масеҳ (Maseh)
Tatar: Мәсих (Mäsix)
Thai: เมสสิยาห์ (mét-sì-yaa)
Turkish: Mesih (tr)
Ukrainian: Месі́я m (Mesíja)
Urdu: مسیحا m (masīhā), مسیح m (masīh)
Uyghur: مەسىھ (mesih)
Uzbek: Masih
Vietnamese: Đấng Mê-si
Volapük: Mäsiat, (older term) Mesial
Welsh: Meseia m
Yiddish: משיח m (moshiyekh)

Anagrams

mashies, sameish, smashie