Musa (name)
| Musa | |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation | Arabic pronunciation: [muːsaː] |
| Gender | Male |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Arabic |
| Meaning | Moses |
| Other names | |
| Alternative spelling | Moussa |
Musa (Arabic: موسى) is a male given name, corresponding to Moses, see also Moses in Islam
The name Musa comes from the Hebrew language. Mu means box while sa is wood. This is because Asiya, Pharaoh's wife, found him floating in the Nile river in a wooden box.
People with the given name
- Musa Aydın (born 1980), Turkish footballer
- Musa Çağıran, Turkish footballer
- Musa Çelebi (died 1413), an Ottoman prince and a co-ruler of the empire
- Musa Cälil, Tatar poet and anti-Nazi resistance fighter
- Musa Ćazim Ćatić, was a Bosniak poet
- Musa Cooper, So You Think You Can Dance finalist
- Musa al-Kadhim, seventh imām of Twelver Shī‘ah Muslims
- Musa McKim, American artist and poet
- Musa Nizam, Turkish footballer
- Musa bin Nusayr (640–716), Yemeni Muslim governor and general under the Umayyads, Viceroy of North Africa since 698, invaded Spain in 711
- Musa of Parthia, queen of Parthia c. 2 BC – AD 4
- Mūsā ibn Shākir, Persian engineer and astronomer
- Musa ibn Musa ibn Qasi, leader of the muwallad Banu Qasi clan
- Musa Hitam, Malaysian politician; former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
- Moussa Koussa, Libyan general under Qadaffi
People with the surname
- Ahmed Musa (footballer), Nigerian footballer
- Antonius Musa, Roman botanist and physician
- Banū Mūsā, Persian scholars
- Igor Musa, Croatian footballer
- Mansa Musa, leader of the Mali Empire between 1312–37
- Mírzá Músá (died 1887), surnamed Áqáy-i-Kalím was the brother of Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith
- Quintus Pomponius Musa, a first-century Roman banker and moneyer
See also
- Arabic name
- All pages beginning with "Musa"
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