Yusuf (name)

Yusuf (name)

Yusuf (يوسف) or Yusif, Yousif, Yousuf also (less commonly) transliterated as Jusuf is a Masculine Arabic name, meaning (in Hebrew) "The Lord increases.", and is the Arabic form of the name "Joseph". In Islam, the most famous "Yusuf" is the prophet Joseph. Yusuf has no meaning in Arabic.

People named so include:

*Yusuf
*Yusuf Salman Yusuf
*Yusuf Balasagun
*Yusuf Hamied
*Yusuf II, Almohad Caliph
*Yusuf Dadoo
*Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens)

People with the Patronymic Yusuf include:
*Hamza Yusuf
*Sami Yusuf
*Abdullah Yusuf Ali
*Ilona Yusuf
*Y.Misdaq aka Yoshi

See also

* Arabic name


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