Musa
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[edit] Botany
- Musa (Musaceae), one of three genera in the family Musaceae that includes bananas and plantains
[edit] Geography
- Mūša, a river in Lithuania and Latvia
- Musa (crater), an impact crater on Saturn's moon Enceladus
- Musa Dağı a mountain peak in Turkey
- Abu Musa, an island in the Persian Gulf
- Jabal Musa, Sinai, a mountain in the Sinai Desert believed to be a possible location of the Biblical Mount Sinai
- Jebel Musa, Morocco, a mountain known as one of the pillars of Hercules
[edit] Living or historical people
- Mírzá Musá (d. 1887) surnamed Áqáy-i-Kalím was the brother of Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith.
- Musavengana Goremucheche of Zimbabwe I.B. student at Hastings College U.K. (Yr 2006-2008)
- Musa is the name of Moses in Arabic.
- Musa of Darfur, a 17th century ruler of Darfur
- Musa of Parthia, queen of Parthia c. 2 BC–AD 4
- Musa bin Nusair (640-716), Yemeni Muslim governor and general under the Umayyads, Viceroy of North Africa since 698, invaded Spain in 711
- Musa bin Shakir, Persian engineer and astronomer
- The Banu Musa brothers, Persian scholars, sons of Musa bin Shakir
- Mansa Musa, leader of the Mali Empire between 1312–37
- Mohammad Musa, founder and president of the Engineering & Business Alliance [1]
- M. Musa Mbenga, Executive Secretary of Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel
- Imam Musa al-Kazim, the seventh Imam (spiritual leader) of mainstream Shi'ite Islam.
- Musa Khan
- Duduzile Likwa Musa
[edit] Fictional characters
- Musa, a character in the story of "The City of Brass" in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights.
- Musa, a fairy of music from the Winx Club animated series.
[edit] Acronyms
- Multiple-unit steerable antenna for shortwave reception developed by HT Friis (Proc. IRE, vol. 25, no. 7, p. 841, 1937)
- Mathematics Undergraduate Student Association at the University of California, Berkeley.
- Musicians Union of South Africa
- Multilingual Subtitling of Multimedia
- Municipal Urban Service Area
[edit] Miscellaneous
- Musa, a 2001 South Korean epic film
- Musa connector, a type of coaxial connector used in the telecommunications and video industries