Messiah

See also: messiah

English

Pronunciation

See messiah.

Proper noun

the Messiah

1. (Judaism) The promised and expected savior or liberator of the Jewish people.
2. A saviour or liberator of a group of people.
3. (Christianity) Jesus.

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)
• 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