Mahsa or Mahsā (, ) is a feminine given name of
Persian
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* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
origin. The name has the meaning "like the moon". ''Mah'' () is the
Old Persian
Old Persian is one of the two directly attested Old Iranian languages (the other being Avestan language, Avestan) and is the ancestor of Middle Persian (the language of Sasanian Empire). Like other Old Iranian languages, it was known to its native ...
word for "moon",
and ''-sā'' (), as a suffix, means "representing, alike, as". Notable people with the name include:
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Mahsa Abdolzadeh (born 1985), Austrian politician, political scientist and women's rights and LGBT activist
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Mahsa Amini
On 16 September 2022, the 22-year-old Iranian woman Mahsa Amini, also known as Jina Amini,; ku, ژینا ئەمینی, Jîna Emînî died in a hospital in Tehran, Iran, under suspicious circumstances. The Guidance Patrol, the religious mo ...
(1999–2022), Iranian-Kurdish woman whose death in the
Islamic Republic of Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmen ...
's police custody sparked protests in Iran and in the world
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Mahsa Amrabadi (born 1984), Iranian journalist
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Mahsa Javar (born 1994), Iranian rower
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Mahsa Kadkhoda (born 1993), Iranian volleyball player
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Mahsa Mohaghegh, Iranian-born New Zealand computer engineer
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Mahsa Saberi (born 1993), Iranian volleyball player
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Mahsa Shahbazian (born 1984), Iranian musician, composer and
Qanun player
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Mahsa Vahdat (born 1973), Persian classical and world music vocalist
See also
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Mahsa (disambiguation)
References
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Feminine given names
Iranian feminine given names
Persian feminine given names