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Etymology
From Hebrew מְתוּשֶׁלַח (M'tušelaḥ), also spelled מְתוּשָׁלַח (M'tušalaḥ). The planet's name stems from the fact that, at the time of its discovery in 2003, it was the oldest known planet.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Methuselah
- The oldest person whose age is recorded in the Hebrew Bible, having reportedly lived 969 years.
- (astronomy) A planet in the PSR B1620-26 star system, Messier 4 globular cluster, Milky Way Galaxy, Scorpius constellation; a circumbinary planet, officially named PSR B1620-26 b, orbiting a pulsar (“PSR B1620-26 A”) and white dwarf (“WD B1620-26 B”).
- Synonyms: Planet Methuselah, Methuselah Planet, Genesis, Planet Genesis, Genesis Planet
Derived terms
Translations
Biblical character
- Arabic: مَتُوشَلَخ m (matūšalaḵ)
- Asturian: Matusalén m
- Basque: Matusalen
- Bikol:
- Central Bikol: Matusalen
- Bulgarian: Матусал m (Matusal)
- Catalan: Matusalem (ca) m
- Cherokee: ᎻᏚᏏᎳ (midusila)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 瑪土撒拉 / 玛土撒拉 (Mǎtǔsǎlā)
- Czech: Metuzalém m
- Esperanto: Metuŝelaĥ
- Finnish: Metusalem, Metuselah
- French: Mathusalem (fr) m
- Galician: Metuxalén m
- German: Methusalem (de) m
- Greek: Μαθουσάλας (el) m (Mathousálas)
- Ancient Greek: Μαθουσάλα m (Mathousála)
- Ancient Greek: Μαθουσάλας (Mathousálas)
- Gujarati: મથૂશેલાહ m (mathūśelāh)
- Hebrew: מְתוּשֶׁלַח m (Məṯūšélaḥ)
- Hungarian: Matuzsálem (hu)
- Indonesian: Metusalah
- Italian: Matusalemme m
- Japanese: メトシェラ (Metoshera)
- Kashubian: Metuszelach m
- Korean: 므두셀라 (Meudusella)
- Latin: Mathusael m
- Macedonian: Матусал m (Matusal), Метуза́лем m (Metuzálem)
- Māori: Matutaera
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: Metusalem m, Metusjalah m
- Nynorsk: Metusalem m, Metusjalah m
- Occitan: Matusalèm m
- Old English: Matusael m
- Persian: متوشالح (fa) (matušâlah)
- Polish: Matuzalem (pl) m, Metuszelach (pl) m
- Portuguese: Matusalém (pt) m
- Romanian: Metusala m, Matusalem m
- Russian: Мафусаи́л (ru) m (Mafusaíl)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Мету̀залем m
- Latin: Metùzalem (sh) m
- Spanish: Matusalén (es) m, Mathusalam m (obsolete)
- Tibetan: མེ་ཐུ་ཟི་ལཱ། (me thu zi lā)
- Ukrainian: Мафусаї́л m (Mafusajíl)
- Walloon: Matîssalé (wa) m
- Welsh: Methwsela m, Methusela m
- Yiddish: מתושלח m (mesushelekh)
- Yoruba: Mẹ̀túsélà
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Noun
Methuselah (plural Methuselahs)
- (by extension) Any person or thing that has lived to a very old age.
- Alternative spelling of methuselah (“large wine bottle”).
Translations
person or thing that has lived to a very old age
- Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
- Hungarian: matuzsálem (hu)
- Portuguese: matusalém (pt) m
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