name
Musa
MOO-sah
ˈmuːsɑListen
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Syllable breakdown
Musa
Name meaning and origin
- Origin
- Mandinka (West Africa)
- Meaning
- the Mandinka and broader West African Islamic form of the prophet Moses, meaning drawn from the water in the Semitic tradition; among the Mandinka, Musa is one of the most honoured masculine names, connecting the bearer to the great lineage of Islamic prophets venerated in the Quran and to the historic Mande Muslim scholars and rulers who shaped the civilisations of the Senegambian and Upper Niger regions; the name was borne by Mansa Musa I of the Mali Empire, whose legendary fourteenth-century pilgrimage to Mecca with unimaginable quantities of gold announced the wealth and sophistication of West African civilisation to the wider medieval world
- Gender
- male
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