Masuma
Masuma (Arabic: معصومة, romanized: Ma‘ṣūm; Japanese: 増実) is a feminine given name of Arabic origin, which translates to "innocent"; as well as a masculine name with Japanese origin, which translates to "increase, kindness".
Most notably this name was applied to Masuma e Qum, known more commonly as Fatimah bint Musa (c. 790 AD–816 AD), daughter of the seventh Twelver Shia Imam, Musa al-Kazim.
People with the given name Masuma
- Masuma Anwar, Pakistani singer-songwriter, pediatric doctor, and musician
- Masuma Begum (1902–1990), Indian politician, social worker, and feminist
- Masuma Esmati-Wardak, Afghan writer and politician
- Masuma Hasan, Pakistani diplomat, chairperson of Pakistan Institute of International Affairs
- Masuma Rahman Nabila (born 1985), Bangladeshi television presenter, model and actress
- Masuma Sultan Begum (?–c. 1509), the Queen consort of Ferghana Valley and Samarkand as the fourth wife of Emperor Babur
- Masuma Sultan Begum (daughter of Babur) (c. 1508–?), Mughal princess and the daughter of the first Mughal emperor, Babur
Other uses
- Masuma Dam, a gravity dam located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan
See also
- Masoumeh (disambiguation), the Persian variation of Masuma
- Masumabad (disambiguation) (Masuma -bad), a disambiguation page for a place name in Iran
- Mami (given name), a feminine Japanese given name
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