Bushra — Name Meaning in Islam

Root: ب-ش-ر (b-sh-r), "to bring good news". Bushrā is the fuʿlā pattern, a noun of the thing itself: glad tidings, the good news — not the messenger and not the joy, but the announcement. The root's older physical sense is skin, the outer surface, because good news shows first on the face.

From the same root: bashar (humankind, from that same word for skin), bashīr (one who brings good news), bishāra (an announcement of something happy), mubashshir (a herald), tabshīr (the giving of glad tidings), and the names Bashīr, Bishr, Bashshār and Mubashshir. The word appears in the Qur'an in Yusuf 12:19, when the traveller lowering his bucket into the well calls out at the sight of the boy, and in Hud 11:69, where the messengers come to Ibrahim carrying glad tidings.

Spellings: Bushra, Büşra (Turkish), Busyra (Indonesian), Bushra (Urdu), Bouchra (French and Maghrebi), بشرى.

Pronunciation: BUSH-rā — two syllables, stress on the first. The sh is exactly the English sound. The final letter is alif maqṣūra, written like a yāʾ but sounded as a long open ā, so the name ends long and open rather than clipped.

Masculine counterpart: Bashīr and Bishr, both in common use.