Moussa

See also: moussa

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مُوسَى (mūsā, “Moses”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mu.sa/

Proper noun

Moussa m

1. a male given name from Arabic, equivalent to English Musa
   • 1963, Nicolas Bouvier, L'Usage du Monde, 2005 ed., Payot & Rivages, →ISBN, p. 166; translated 1992 by Robyn Marsack as The Way of the World, 2011 ed., Eland, →ISBN:

     Moussa était l’unique enfant d’un arbab turc du bout de notre rue, un jeunot cordial et désœuvré qui passait son temps à chasser, peindre des miniatures, et relire indéfiniment en traduction persane Les Misérables qui l’enflammaient de chimères héroïques et de passions égalitaires.

     — Mussa was the only son of a Turkish arbab who lived at the end of our street, a likeable, idle young fellow who spent is time hunting, painting miniatures, and endlessly re-reading Les Misérables in a Persian translation, which inflamed him with delusions of heroism and egalitarian passions.

Related terms

• Moïse