Meaning: Its source is Moshe, a Hebrew name meaning "Saviour."

Languages: This boy's name is used in Arabic.

Source Forms: Moshe

Narrative: Mousa is equivalent to the English name Moses.

An alternate meaning, ''drawn out of the water,'' recalls the story in the Hebrew scriptures of the future leader of the Jewish people being saved from the Nile by Pharoah's daughter. Other authorities connect it with Eyptian dynastic names such as Rameses (''born of the god Ra'').