Mustafa

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Gender Masculine
Usage Arabic, Turkish, Bosnian, Urdu, Kazakh, Indonesian, Malay
Scripts مصطفى(Arabic) مصطفی(Urdu) Мұстафа(Kazakh)
Pronounced Pron. /ˈmusˤ.tˤa.faː/(Arabic) /mus.ta.ˈfa/(Turkish)

Meaning & History

Means "chosen" in Arabic, derived from اصطفا (iṣṭafā) meaning "to choose". This is an epithet of the Prophet Muhammad. It was borne by four Ottoman sultans. Another famous bearer was Mustafa Kemal (1881-1938), also known as Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey.