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Moussa
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moussa
French
fr:
Etymology
fr ar مُوسَى Moses. fr Moïse.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
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fr male Arabic Musa
1963, Nicolas Bouvier, L'Usage du Monde, 2005 ed., Payot & Rivages, 978-2-228-89401-2, p. 166; translated 1992 by Robyn Marsack as The Way of the World, 2011 ed., Eland Books Eland, 978-1-78060-090-1:
fr 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.