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Moussa

Moussa

See also: moussa

French

Proper noun

Moussa m

  1. A male given name, Musa; widely used in Islamic North and West Africa.
    • 1963, Nicolas Bouvier, L'Usage du Monde, 2005 ed., Payot & Rivages, ISBN 978-2-228-89401-2, p. 166
      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. — 1992, Robyn Marsack (trans.), The Way of the World, 2011 ed., Eland, ISBN 978-1-78060-090-1

Related terms

moussa

moussa

See also: Moussa

French

Verb

moussa

  1. third-person singular past historic of mousser