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MSA

MSA is the initialism of Modern Standard Arabic.

MSA is the initialism of Modern South Arabian.

MSA is the initialism of Michigan Statutes Annotated.

MSA is the initialism of Middle Stone Age.

MSA is the initialism of Mobile Service Architecture.

MSA is the initialism of Malaysia-Singapore Airlines.

Meaning of Modern Standard Arabic

Proper noun

Modern Standard Arabic (uncountable)

  1. The standard and literary variety of Arabic used in writing and in formal speech in the Arab world since c. the 19th century.

Meaning of Modern South Arabian

Proper noun

Modern South Arabian

  1. An independent branch in the Semitic languages, niece to the Old South Arabian lects, situated in the east of Yemen and in Oman, the largest being the Mehri language extending over both countries with a six-digit speaker number, bordering, while thus embosoming the intermediary Hobyot, the Shehri (syn.: Jibbali) language in Oman, and further containing the small Bathari and Harsusi languages in Oman, + the larger Soqotri language on Soqotra.

See all 2 meanings of Modern South Arabian

Synonyms of MSA

Forms of MSA

pluralMSAs

Questions about MSA

What is MSA the initialism of?
MSA is the initialism of Modern Standard Arabic.

Words near MSA in the dictionary

  1. Ms. Presidents
  2. Ms. Right
  3. Ms. Rights
  4. Ms. Wrong
  5. Ms. Wrongs
  6. MSA
  7. MSAA
  8. MSAE
  9. msakhan
  10. msakhurtukhutsesi
  11. MSAL

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: MSA (page history and authors); Modern Standard Arabic (page history and authors); Modern South Arabian (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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