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[Facts] Moya
My neighbor recently overheard me calling my cat and told me that Moya means water in Arabic. I know it's an Irish name, a South American surname & a South African name - but is it true that it's also Arabic for water?
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Note: Neighbor is from SudanIf that helps.
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Muya seems to be a mountain in Sudan. (Alternate) Arabic names are Dschabal Mūya, Jabal Mayyah, Jebel Moya, Gebel Moya or Dschebel Moya.source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muya (Sorry, it's all German but I didn't find anything on English wikipedia at first)I only found some articles on English wikipedia containing 'Jebel Moya' because the German article said this was the name used in specialist literature: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=Jebel+MoyaThere is no mentioning of its usage as a first name or meaning 'water' but the article says it's located between Blue Nile and White Nile which would explain an association with water by your neighbour.A google search of 'Jebel Moya' only brought up geographical and archaeological references, nothing on a first name use. Sorry.

This message was edited 8/30/2011, 10:10 AM

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She said it was a word, not a name.So I'm guessing that I'll need to look it up in a dictionary - but I was fairly sure that there was at least one Arabic speaker over here.
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According to this site: http://www.sudairy.com/arabic/phrases.html#
water is ma'a. I'm thinking that the pronunciation might be similar to Moya?
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