Editing Maimonides (section)

==Name==
Maimonides referred to himself as "Moses, son of Rabbi Maimon [[Sephardic Jews|the Spaniard]]" ({{langx|he|משה ברבי מימון הספרדי}}).{{Efn|name=e|He usually left off "the Spaniard" and he sometimes added זצ"ל, short for "[let] mention of the righteous one bring a blessing." At the end of his commentary to the [[Mishna]] he gives a fuller lineage: אני משה ברבי מימון הדיין ברבי יוסף החכם ברבי יצחק הדיין ברבי יוסף הדיין ברבי עובדיהו הדיין ברבי שלמה הרב ברבי עובדיהו הדיין זכר קדושים לברכה, "I am Moshe son of Rabbi Maimon the Judge, son of Rabbi Joseph the Wise, son of Rabbi Isaac the Judge, son of Rabbi Joseph the Judge, son of Rabbi Obadiah the Judge, son of Rabbi Solomon the Teacher, son of Rabbi Obadiah the Judge; [let] mention of the holy ones bring a blessing."}} In Medieval Hebrew, he was usually called {{lang|he|ר״ם}}, short for "our Rabbi Moshe", but mostly he is called {{lang|he|רמב״ם}}, short for "our Rabbi, Moshe son of Maimon" and pronounced ''Rambam''.

In Arabic, he is sometimes called "Moses '[[Kunya (Arabic)|son of]] [[Amram]]'{{Efn|Medieval Jews named Moses received the Arabic nickname ''abu Imran'', in which the word ''abu'' has been inverted from its original sense of "father" to reference the biblical Moses' father Amram. Similarly, Jews named Isaac were known as ''abu Ibrahim'', meaning: "son of Abraham". For more on the Jewish system of biblical nicknames, see [[Kunya (Arabic)|Kunya]].}} son of Maimon, of Obadiah,{{Efn|Ubaydallah is to be treated as Maimonides' surname; his grandfather was named Joseph. It is not always included in either Arabic or Hebrew versions of Maimonides' name. Various Hebrew manuscripts render ''ben Ovadyahu'' and ''ben Eved-Elohim'' ("descended/son of Obadiah"), but also ''Eved-Elohim'', implying only "Moses son of Maimon, the servant of God" (cf. Josh. 1:13–15) and Latin versions follow, rendering ''servus dei''. See: {{cite journal | last1=Bar-Sela | first1=Ariel | last2=Hoff | first2=Hebbel E. | last3=Faris | first3=Elias | last4=Maimonides | first4=Moses | title=Moses Maimonides' Two Treatises on the Regimen of Health: Fi Tadbir al-Sihhah and Maqalah fi Bayan Ba'd al-A'rad wa-al-Jawab 'anha | journal=Transactions of the American Philosophical Society | publisher=JSTOR | volume=54 | issue=4 | year=1964 | issn=0065-9746 | doi=10.2307/1005935 | page=3| jstor=1005935 }}}} the [[Córdoba, Spain|Cordoban]]" ({{lang|ar|أَبُو عَمْرَان مُوسَى بْن مَيْمُون بْن عُبَيْد ٱللّٰه ٱلْقُرْطُبِيّ}}, ''Abū ʿImrān Mūsā bin Maimūn bin ʿUbaydallāh al-Qurṭubī''), or more often simply "Moses, son of Maimon" ({{lang|ar|موسى بن ميمون}}).

In Greek, the Hebrew {{transliteration|he|[[ben (Hebrew)|ben]]}} ('son of') becomes the [[patronymic]] suffix ''[[wikt:-ίδης|-ides]]'', forming Μωησής Μαϊμονίδης "Moses Maimonides".

He is sometimes known as "The Great Eagle" ({{langx|he|הנשר הגדול|haNesher haGadol|link=no}}).{{Sfn|Kraemer|2008|p=12}}