Joshua (the son of Nun, Judge of Israel following Moses; author of the Book of Joshua; Quranic figure) · Joshua (the sixth book of the Old Testament of the Bible, and a book of the Tanakh)
köken: Learned borrowing from Biblical Hebrew יהושע (y'hoshúa).
a very rare male given name · Joshua (biblical character).
Etimoloji
From older Josue, from Middle Dutch josue, from Latin Iosue, from Ancient Greek Ιωσούας (Iōsoúas), from Biblical Hebrew יְהוֹשֻׁעַ. The form with a appears in the sixteenth century, probably influenced by the Greek and Hebrew forms.