Musa (name)

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Gender Male Meaning Moses		Word/name Arabic Alternative spelling Moussa
Pronunciation Arabic pronunciation: [muːsaː]

Musa (Arabic: موسى‎‎) is a male given name, corresponding to Moses, see also Moses in Islam.

A theory is that 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. Another theory is that Musa comes from the Ancient Egyptian word for newborn.

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

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