English

Proper noun

Mormon

1. The ancient American prophet of Mormon theology who Mormons believe compiled the Book of Mormon.

Derived terms

• Mormonism

Translations

Noun

Mormon ‎(plural Mormons)

1. (originally derogatory) A person who views Joseph Smith, Jr. as a prophet, and considers the Book of Mormon and the Pearl of Great Price to be holy.
   • 1912, Zane Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage, Chapter 1

     That year, 1871, had marked a change which had been gradually coming in the lives of the peace-loving Mormons of the border.

Coordinate terms

• (religionists) religion, religionist; African traditionalist,‎ animist,‎ Asatruar,‎ Baha'i,‎ Buddhist,‎ Christian,‎ Confucianist,‎ deist,‎ Druid,‎ Eckist,‎ freethinker,‎ heathen,‎ Hindu,‎ Jain,‎ Jew,‎ LaVeyan,‎ Luciferian,‎ Muslim,‎ mysticist,‎ New Thoughter,‎ New Ager,‎ occultist,‎ Odinist,‎ pagan,‎ Rastafarian,‎ Raëlian,‎ religious humanist,‎ Santerían,‎ Scientologist,‎ shamanist,‎ Shintoist,‎ Sikh,‎ spiritist,‎ Taoist,‎ Tenrikyoist,‎ Thelemite,‎ theosophist,‎ Unitarian Universalist,‎ Wiccan,‎ Zoroastrian ^{(Category: en:Religion) [edit]}

Synonyms

• Latter-day Saint, LDS

Derived terms

• Jack Mormon
• Molly Mormon (Molly Mormon)

Translations

Adjective

Mormon ‎(not comparable)

1. Of, or pertaining to, the faith established by Joseph Smith, Jr.

Derived terms

• Mormon cricket

Translations

References

1. ↑ An early use is in the title of the 1839 Facts Relative to the Expulsion of the Mormons, Or Latter Day Saints, from the State of Missouri.
2. ↑ Within the Book of Mormon, the waters are said by the book to have been named by "the king" (taken in context to be King Noah).
3. ↑ See Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture, volume 13 (2015, ISBN 1508514119). The most prominent pro-Mormon etymology is the one, suggested in an 1834 Times and Seasons letter, that the term derives from English more + Egyptian [script needed] ‎(mon, “good”), which, however, modern scholarship considers figurative at best — see Paul Y. Hoskisson, What's in a Name? Mormon part 1 (Insights 32/2, 2012) and part 2 (Insights 32/3, 2012). Matthew Bowen suggested that the name derives from Egyptian mr(i) ‎(“love, desire”). Anti-Mormon etymologies are also implausible. Eber D. Howe suggested in 1834 that "The English word Mormon [...] is the English termination of the Greek word, "Mormoo," which we find defined in an old obsolete Dictionary "bug-bear, hob-goblin, raw head, and bloody bones"; Hoskisson writes that "almost any knowledgeable reader, even in 1834, would have recognized that this definition is not only fabricated but downright silly." An anonymous editorialist wrote in 1841 that "[In] the reformed Egyptian tongue, [...] Mormon [is] a writer of wicked, absurd, fictitious nonsense, for evil purposes, to make sorcerors", which the Interpreter calls "laughable".

Danish

Noun

mormon c (singular definite mormonen, plural indefinite mormoner)

1. Mormon

Declension

References

• “mormon” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Adjective

mormon m ‎(feminine singular mormone, masculine plural mormons, feminine plural mormones)

1. Mormon

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

mormon m ‎(definite singular mormonen, indefinite plural mormoner, definite plural mormonene)

1. (religion) a Mormon (adherent of Mormonism)

References

• “mormon” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

mormon m ‎(definite singular mormonen, indefinite plural mormonar, definite plural mormonane)

1. (religion) a Mormon (adherent of Mormonism)

References

• “mormon” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mǒrmoːn/
• Hyphenation: mor‧mon

Noun

mòrmōn m ‎(Cyrillic spelling мо̀рмо̄н)

1. Mormon (adherent of Mormonism)

Declension