Etymology

moshav

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Today it means: An Israeli town or settlement, especially a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists during the second aliyah. Full definition →

Hebrew מוֹשָׁב
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  1. Hebrew · borrowed fromמוֹשָׁב“village”
  2. English todaymoshav

Borrowed from Hebrew מוֹשָׁב (mosháv, “village”, literally “settlement”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.