{{Short description|Name list for Musa}} {{Infobox given name | name = Musa | image= | imagesize= | caption= | pronunciation= {{IPAc-en|ˈ|m|uː|s|ə}}<br/>{{IPA|ar|muːsaː|lang}} | gender = Male | meaning = See "Moses" for hypotheses | alternative spelling = Mosa, Moosa, Mousa, Moussa | related names = | footnotes = | wikt = | languageorigin=Hebrew|see also=Moses in Islam }} '''Musa''' is an Arabic male name ({{langx|ar|موسی}}) and cognate for "Moses".
== Given name == * Musa al-Hadi (764-786), fourth caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate (reigned from 785 to 786) * Musa ibn Isa ibn Musa al-Hashimi (746-?), 8th-century Abbasid governor * Musa ibn Musa al-Hadi, an Abbasid prince and son of Al-Hadi * Musa Aman (born 1951), Malaysian politician * Musa Aydın (born 1980), Turkish footballer * Musa Beg, official in Safavid Iran * Musa Bility (born 1967), Liberian politician and businessman * Musa Çağıran (born 1992), Turkish footballer * Musa Çelebi (died 1413), 15th-century Ottoman prince * Musa Cälil (1906–1944), Soviet poet and World War II resistance fighter * Musa Ćazim Ćatić (1878–1915), Bosnian poet * Musa al-Kadhim (745-799), seventh imam in Twelver Shia Islam * Musa McKim (1908–1992), American artist and poet * Musa Nizam (born 1990), Turkish footballer * Musa Nur Amin, Somali politician * Musa ibn Nusayr (640–716), Yemeni Muslim governor and general under the Umayyads, Viceroy of North Africa since 698; invaded Spain in 711 * Mūsā ibn Shākir, Persian engineer and astronomer * Musa ibn Musa al-Qasawi (died 862), leader of the muwallad Banu Qasi clan's * Musa Hitam (born 1934), Malaysian politician; former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia * Musa I of Mali (1280-1337), Mansa of the Mali Empire between 1312 and 1337 * Musa Jatta (born 2004), Gambian footballer * Musa Sor, Yazidi saint * Musa Yakub, Bruneian military officer
==Surname== *Ahmed Musa (born 1992), Nigerian footballer *Antonius Musa, Roman botanist and physician *Balkisu Musa (born 1970), Nigerian weightlifter *Banū Mūsā (died 873), 9th century Persian family of scholars *Džanan Musa (born 1999), Bosnian-Herzegovinian basketball player *Igor Musa (born 1973), Croatian footballer *Isaac Musa (died 2008), Liberian military official and politician *Mansa Musa (born 1280), political figure, 10th mansa of the Mali empire (reign 1312–1337) *Mírzá Músá (died 1887), surnamed Áqáy-i-Kalím, was the brother of Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith *Murjanatu Musa (born 2000), Nigerian basketball player *Quintus Pomponius Musa, first-century Roman banker and moneyer *Said Musa (born 1944), Prime Minister of Belize from 1996 to 2008 *Sunusi Musa (born 1978), Nigerian politician
==Derived name== '''Umm Musa''' is a female name of Semitic origin. Its meaning is ''mother'' of Musa. * Umm Musa (Jochebed), mother of prophet Musa. * Arwa bint Mansur al-Himyari (734-764) also known as Umm Musa, was the wife of Caliph al-Mansur. * Umm Musa al-Hashimiyya, was a Qahramana courtier of the caliph's harem during the reign of Caliph al-Muqtadir (r. 908–929).
== See also == * Musa of Parthia, queen of Parthia c. 2 BC – AD 4 * Musa, a character from ''Winx Club'' * {{intitle|Musa}} * Moussa * Musah (name)
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