Meaning, origin and history of the name Mousa

Gender Masculine

Scripts موسی (Persian) موسى (Arabic)

Pronounced Pron. /muː.ˈsɒː/ (Persian) /ˈmuː.saː/ (Arabic) [key ·simplify]

Meaning & History

Persian form of Musa, as well as an alternate Arabic transcription.

VariantsMoussa, Musa (Arabic)

Other Languages & CulturesMusa (Avar) Musa (Azerbaijani) Musa (Bashkir) Musa (Bengali) Moses (Biblical) Mose (Biblical German) Mouses (Biblical Greek) Moshe (Biblical Hebrew) Mosè (Biblical Italian) Moses, Moyses (Biblical Latin) Moisés (Biblical Portuguese) Moisés (Biblical Spanish) Musa (Chechen) Mozes, Moos (Dutch) Moses, Moss (English) Moïse (French) Musa (Hausa) Moshe (Hebrew) Mózes (Hungarian) Musa (Indonesian) Mosè (Italian) Moses, Moss (Jewish) Mūsa (Kazakh) Musa (Kyrgyz) Musa (Malay) Moisés (Portuguese) Musa (Quranic) Moise (Romanian) Moisey (Russian) Moisés (Spanish) Musa (Tatar) Musa (Turkish) Musa (Urdu) Musa (Uyghur) Moussa (Western African) Moishe (Yiddish)

Surname DescendantMousavi (Persian)