different between messiah vs hosanna

English

Alternative forms

• Messiah

Etymology

From Middle English Messyas, Messy, Messie, from Latin Mess??s, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek ??????? (Messías), from Aramaic ???????? (m?š???), from Biblical Hebrew ????????? (m?šîa?, “anointed”). Doublet of Masih.

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?-s?'?, IPA^(key): /m??sa?.?/
• Rhymes: -a??

Noun

messiah (plural messiahs)

1. (Abrahamic tradition) The one who is ordained by God to lead the people of Israel, believed by Christians and Muslims to be Jesus Christ.
2. (religion, loosely) A similar religious figure or awaited divine ruler, such as the Islamic Mahdi.
3. (figuratively) An extremely powerful figure.

Derived terms

• messiah complex
• messiahship

Related terms

Translations

See also

• Christ

Anagrams

• mashies, sameish, smashie

English

Alternative forms

• hosana
• hosannah
• hoshanna
• hoshiana

Etymology

From Latin osanna, hosanna, from Ancient Greek ?????? (h?sanná), from Aramaic ???????/??????? ('?sha‘n?), from Biblical Hebrew ??????????? (h?sha‘n?, “please save”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ho??zæn?/, /ho??z?n?/
• Rhymes: -æn?

Interjection

hosanna

1. A cry of praise or adoration to God in liturgical use among the Jews, and said to have been shouted in recognition of the Messiahship of Jesus on his entry into Jerusalem; hence since used in the Christian Church.

Translations

Noun

hosanna (plural hosannas)

1. A cry of ‘hosanna’.
   • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 23:

     The hall rang with the hosannas of the faithful, while the women knelt at his feet to ask for salvation.

Verb

hosanna (third-person singular simple present hosannas, present participle hosannaing, simple past and past participle hosannaed)

1. (intransitive) To give a cry of ‘hosanna’.