Issa

From Somali Ciise or Arabic عيسى

Issa (plural Issas or Issa)

1. A member of a Somali clan, mainly residing in Djibouti; it is the larger of the two dominant ethnic groups.

   Until its independence in 1977, Djibouti was called the French Territory of the Afars and the Issas.

Issa pl (plural only)

1. Alternative form of Iswa (the Catawba, a Native American people who inhabit the Carolinas).

• AISs, ASIS, ASIs, Assi, ISAs, SSIA, Sais, Saïs, as is, as-is, is-as, sais

From English leave.

Issa

1. to leave something

• IPA^(key): /i.sa/

A French spelling of an Arabic-derived form for Jesus. From Arabic عِيسَى (ʕīsā) or its derivatives (Wolof Isaa, Pulaar Iisaa etc.).

Issa m

1. a male given name from Arabic, widely used in Islamic North and West Africa

• male given name: Jésus

Issa m (plural Issas)

1. a member of the Issa clan

• sais

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἴσσα (Íssa), possibly from an Illyrian word meaning "spas," from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eysh₂- (“to move violently, rapidly”). Possibly related to Isacia, a place in Lucania mentioned by Pliny.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈis.sa/, [ˈɪs̠ːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈis.sa/, [ˈisːä]

Issa f sg (genitive Issae); first declension

1. Vis (an island off the coast of Croatia)

First-declension noun, singular only.

• Issēnsis

• Issaeus
• Issaicus

• “Issa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Issa”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Issa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• How the Croatian Islands Got Their Names
• Roller, D. W. (2018). A Historical and Topographical Guide to the Geography of Strabo. United States: Cambridge University Press, p. 286