месія

Ukrainian

Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic месия (mesija), from Old Church Slavonic месиꙗ (mesija), from Ancient Greek Μεσσίας (Messías), from Aramaic ܡܫܺܝܚܳܐ (məšīḥā), from Biblical Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (māšîaḥ, anointed).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [meˈsʲijɐ]

Noun

месі́я • (mesíja) m pers (genitive месі́ї, nominative plural месі́ї, genitive plural месі́й)

  1. messiah

Declension

Derived terms

References

  1. Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “месія”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka

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