Busra (Name)

Busra (transliteration: Busra, Arabic: بشرة) (not to be confused with Bushra) is an Arabic name for boys and girls that means “unripe date”, a date that has started to become red or yellow but that is not completely ripe.¹²³

There are two Companions of the Prophet Muhammad named Busra, the first one is male and the second one female:

• Busra al-Ghaffariبُسرة الغفاري
• Busra bint Safwanبسرة بنت صفوان

Below is the name Busra written in Arabic naskh script:

Below is the name Busra written in Arabic kufi script:

1. Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane (d. 1876), بسر.
2. Al-Muṭarrizī, al-Mughrib fī Tartīb al-Muʿrib (d. 1213 CE), بسر.
3. Zayn al-Dīn al-Razī, Mukhtār al-Ṣiḥāḥ (d. 1266 CE), بسر.