moped

See also: Moped and mo-ped

English

Etymology 1

From mope +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) enPR: mōpt, IPA^(key): /moʊpt/

Verb

moped

1. simple past 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: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, 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 (Southern England):

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

Noun

moped (plural mopeds)

2. 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, Motorvelo n (Swiss) Greek: μοτοποδήλατο (el) n (motopodílato) Hindi: मोपेड f (mopeḍ), फटफटिया f (phaṭphaṭiyā) (colloquial), फट (hi) m (phaṭ) (colloquial) Hungarian: moped (hu) Icelandic: skellinaðra f Indonesian: moped Irish: móipéid f 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 (es), 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 Welsh: moped m

See also

• scooter

Further reading

• moped on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

moped

Wikipedia ^no

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.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

moped

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

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.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English moped.

Noun

moped n (plural mopeduri)

1. moped

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	moped	mopedul		mopeduri	mopedurile
genitive-dative	moped	mopedului		mopeduri	mopedurilor
vocative	mopedule			mopedurilor

Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

moped

Wikipedia ^sv

en moped

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").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʊˈpeːd/
• Rhymes: -eːd

Noun

moped c

1. a moped (vehicle)

   Synonym: (colloquial) moppe

   Det är kul att åka moped

   It's fun to ride a moped

Declension

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	moped	mopeds
	definite	mopeden	mopedens
plural	indefinite	mopeder	mopeders
	definite	mopederna	mopedernas

Declension of moped

Related terms

• mopedist
• EU-moppe

Descendants

• → English: moped

See also

• motorcykel (“motorcycle”)

References

• moped in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• moped in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)