Moksha

Meanings

Proper Noun

• A language of the Finnic branch of the Uralic language family, spoken by about 428,000 people in the western and southern parts of Mordovia, a dependent republic within Russia, and the adjacent regions of Tambov, Penza, Samara, Ulyanovsk, Saratov, Tatarstan, Buguruslan and Bashkortostan.

Noun

• A member of the people who speak this language.

Origin

• From Moksha мокша.