moshav
/moʊˈʃɑːv/noun
moshav is a noun meaning “An Israeli town or settlement, especially a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists during…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-O-S-H-A-V, and it appears about once in every 28 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of moshav is moshavs or moshavim.
What does moshav mean?
noun
- 1
An Israeli town or settlement, especially a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists during the second aliyah.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce moshav?
- /moʊˈʃɑːv/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of moshav
- moshavs plural
- moshavim plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is moshav?
Moshav appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 161,690th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Moshav in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Israeli cooperative agricultural community:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | moshav |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does moshav come from?
Borrowed from Hebrew מוֹשָׁב (mosháv, “village”, literally “settlement”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).