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Isa

Isa

See also: Appendix:Variations of "isa"

English

Proper noun

Isa

  1. A diminutive of the female given name Isabel or of its variant forms, sometimes also used as a formal given name.
    • 1885 Arthur's Home Magazine, Volume 53, page 165:
      Even "Liz" brought little to his memory; though he said: "The name does recall the fact of a sister. But why call her Isa?" "Just as easy as Liz, or any of the lot, Eliza, Elizabeth, Betsy and Bess. Isa, that's, I think, a sort of a city name," Lee said, with a shadow of a smile.
    • 2010 Margaret Forster, Isa & May, Chatto & Windus, ISBN 9780701184667, page 5:
      It's an awkward name: Isamay, pronounced Is-a-may. Isa is my paternal grandmother's name (shortened from Isabel) and May my maternal grandmother's (it comes, somehow, from Margaret). The amalgamation is, as you see, strictly alphabetical. Life, I feel, would have been much easier if they had chosen Maybel.
  2. A female given name

Etymology 2

Transliteration of Arabic عِيسَى (ʿīsā) or anglicized from Turkish İsa, both equivalents of Jesus as a given name.

Proper noun

Isa

  1. A male given name mainly used by Muslims.

Anagrams


Spanish

Proper noun

Isa f

  1. A diminutive of the female given name Isabel.

Swedish

Etymology

From a pet form of Isabella, Lovisa and Louise. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1866.

Proper noun

Isa

  1. A female given name.

References

Statistics Sweden: 2181 females with the given name Isa living in Sweden on December 31st, 2013, with the highest frequency in the 2000s decade. Accessed on 12 April 2014.

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isa

See also: Appendix:Variations of "isa"

Estonian

Noun

isa (genitive isa, partitive isa)

  1. father

Declension

Derived terms


Hiligaynon

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /iˈsa/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Philippine, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *isa, *əsa, from Proto-Austronesian *isa, *əsa, *asa.

Numeral

isá

  1. (cardinal) one.

Adjective

isá

  1. alone, solitary

Noun

isá

  1. one, unit

Verb

isá

  1. to reduce in number to one

Etymology 2

Borrowing from Spanish izar.

Verb

ísa

  1. to haul, hoist

Japanese

Romanization

isa

  1. rōmaji reading of いさ

Malagasy

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *isa, *əsa, from Proto-Austronesian *isa, *əsa, *asa.

Numeral

isa

  1. (cardinal) one

Synonyms


Norwegian

Verb

isa

  1. past participle of ise (iced)

Tagalog

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *isa, *əsa, from Proto-Austronesian *isa, *əsa, *asa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /iˈsa/
  • ee-sah'

Numeral

isa

  1. (cardinal) one

Usage notes

  • To describe the quantity of something, the number is placed before the noun and affixed with -ng when the word ends with a vowel, and a separate word, na, for a consonant.
    Isang saging, dalawang pinya.
    Apat na mansanas, anim na mangga.