Biblical Hebrew origin
Source-reportedBorrowed from Arabic يُوسُف (yūsuf), borrowed from Biblical Hebrew יוֹסֵף (yōsép), from הוֹסִיף (hosíf, “to add”).
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- Wiktionary: یوسفCC-BY-SA-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
