moped

moped

See also: Moped and mo-ped

English

Etymology 1

From mope +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊpt
• (UK) IPA^(key): /məʊpt/

• Audio (UK)

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• (US) enPR: mōpt, IPA^(key): /moʊpt/

Verb

moped

1. simple past tense and past participle of mope

Adjective

moped (comparative more moped, superlative most moped)

1. Melancholic, dejected.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], chapter I, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970, partition iii, section 1, member 2:

     it so far troubles them, that they become quite moped many times, and so disheartened, dejected, they dare not come abroad […]

Etymology 2

Honda PA50 step-through moped (European market)

Borrowed from Swedish moped.

Alternative forms

• mo-ped

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈməʊ.pɛd/

• Audio (UK)

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• (US) enPR: mōʹpĕd, IPA^(key): /ˈmoʊ.pɛd/

Noun

moped (plural mopeds)

1. A lightweight, two-wheeled vehicle equipped with a small motor and pedals, designed to go no faster than some specified speed limit.

   He was drunk again and moped, whining at length about his moped.

Translations

two-wheeled vehicle

Armenian: մոպեդ (hy) (moped) Azerbaijani: moped Basque: ziklomotor Belarusian: мапе́д m (mapjéd) Bulgarian: мотопе́д (bg) m (motopéd) Catalan: ciclomotor (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 摩托自行車／摩托自行车 (mótuō zìxíngchē) Czech: moped (cs) m Danish: knallert Dutch: brommer (nl) m, bromfiets (nl) f Esperanto: mopedo Estonian: mopeed Finnish: mopedi (fi), mopo (fi) French: vélomoteur (fr) m, cyclomoteur (fr) m, mobylette (fr) f, mob (fr) f Georgian: მოპედი (moṗedi) German: Moped (de) n, Mofa (de) n, Kleinkraftrad n, Motorfahrrad n, Mokick n, Highriser m, Motorvelo n (Swiss), Töffli n (Swiss) Greek: μοτοποδήλατο (el) n (motopodílato) Hindi: मोपेड f (mopeḍ), फटफटिया f (phaṭphaṭiyā) (colloquial), फट (hi) m (phaṭ) (colloquial) Hungarian: moped Indonesian: moped Italian: motorino (it) m, ciclomotore (it) m, bicimotore (it) Japanese: モペッド (ja) (mopeddo), 原付 (ja) (gentsuki) Kazakh: мопед (moped) Korean: 모페드 (mopedeu) Kyrgyz: мопед (ky) (moped) Latvian: mopēds m Lithuanian: mopedas m Macedonian: мопед m (moped) Malay: kapcai Mongolian: мопед (moped) Northern Sami: mopeda Norwegian: Bokmål: moped m Nynorsk: moped m Persian: موتورگازی‎ (motor-gâzi) Polish: motorower (pl) m Portuguese: ciclomotor (pt) Romanian: moped Russian: мопе́д (ru) m (mopéd) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: мопед m Roman: moped (sh) m Silesian: moplik Slovak: moped m Slovene: kolo z motorjem n Spanish: motoneta (es) f, motocicleta (es) f, ciclomotor, vespino m (Spain) Swedish: moped (sv) c, moppe (sv) c Thai: รถป๊อป (rót-bpɔ́p), โมเพด (moo-pèt) Turkish: mobilet (tr) Turkmen: moped Ukrainian: мопе́д (uk) m (mopéd) Urdu: محرکاب‎ Uzbek: moped (uz) Vietnamese: xe đạp điện

See also

• scooter

Further reading

• moped on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Swedish moped.

Noun

moped m (definite singular mopeden, indefinite plural mopeder, definite plural mopedene)

1. a moped

Derived terms

• mopedist

References

• “moped” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Swedish moped.

Noun

moped m (definite singular mopeden, indefinite plural mopedar, definite plural mopedane)

1. a moped

Derived terms

• mopedist

References

• “moped” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English moped.

Noun

moped n (plural mopeduri)

1. moped

Declension

Declension of moped

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) moped	mopedul	(niște) mopeduri	mopedurile
genitive/dative	(unui) moped	mopedului	(unor) mopeduri	mopedurilor
vocative	mopedule		mopedurilor

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Swedish

Etymology

Blend of motor +‎ pedaler (“pedals”). Coined by motor journalist Harald Nielsen in 1952 in the magazine Motor from tramp-cykel med motor och pedaler ("bicycle with engine and pedals").

Noun

moped c

1. moped (vehicle)

Declension

Declension of moped
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	moped	mopeden	mopeder	mopederna
Genitive	mopeds	mopedens	mopeders	mopedernas

Related terms

• mopedist
• moppe
• EU-moppe