visa

See also: vísa, Visa, and visā

Contents

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From 1831, "official signature or endorsement on a passport," from French visa, from Latin charta visa (meaning "paper that has been seen") from feminine perfect passive of Latin videre ("to see").

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈviːzə/
• Rhymes: -iːzə

NounEdit

visa (plural visas)

1. A permit to enter and leave a country, normally issued by the authorities of the country to be visited.

Related termsEdit

• student visa
• tourist visa
• transit visa
• visaless
• working-holiday visa

TranslationsEdit

permit

• Afrikaans: visum
• Albanian: vizë (sq) f
• Arabic: تَأْشِيرَة‎‎ f (taʾšīra), فِيزَا‎‎ f (fīzā)
• Armenian: վիզա (hy) (viza), մուտքի արտոնագիր (mutkʿi artonagir)
• Asturian: visáu m
• Azerbaijani: viza
• Belarusian: ві́за f (víza)
• Bengali: ভিসা (bhisa)
• Bulgarian: ви́за f (víza)
• Burmese: ဗီဇာ (my) (bija)
• Catalan: visat m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 簽證 (cim¹ zing³)

  Mandarin: 簽證 (zh), 签证 (zh) (qiānzhèng)

• Czech: vízum (cs) n
• Danish: visum (da)
• Dutch: visum (nl) n
• Esperanto: vizo (eo)
• Estonian: viisa
• Finnish: viisumi (fi)
• French: visa (fr) m
• Galician: visado m
• Georgian: ვიზა (viza)
• German: Visum (de) n
• Greek: βίζα (el) f (víza)
• Hausa: bīzā̀ f
• Hebrew: וִיזָה‎‎ (he) f (viza), אֲשֵׁרָה‎‎ (he) f (ashera)
• Hindi: वीज़ा m (vīzā), वीजा m (vījā), वीसा m (vīsā)
• Hungarian: vízum (hu)
• Icelandic: vegabréfsáritun
• Indonesian: visa (id)
• Irish: víosa f
• Italian: vista (it) f, nulla osta f, permesso (it) m, nullaosta (it) m, visto (it) m
• Japanese: 査証 (ja) (さしょう, sashō), ビザ (ja) (biza)
• Kazakh: виза (vïza)
• Khmer: ទិដ្ឋាការ (km) (tɨtthaakaa)
• Korean: 비자 (ko) (bija), 사증 (ko) (sajeung) (査証)
• Kyrgyz: виза (viza)
• Lao: ວີຊ້າ (wī sā)

• Latvian: vīza f
• Lithuanian: viza f
• Macedonian: ви́за f (víza)
• Malay: visa
• Maori: kōkota, pane uruwhenua
• Marathi: व्हिसा (vhisā)
• Mongolian: виз (mn) (viz)
• Norwegian: visum
• Persian: روادید‎‎ (fa) (ravâdid), ویزا‎‎ (fa) (vizâ)
• Polish: wiza (pl) f
• Portuguese: visto (pt) m
• Romanian: viză (ro) f
• Russian: ви́за (ru) f (víza)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: виза f

  Roman: viza (sh) f

• Sindhi: please add this translation if you can
• Sinhalese: වීසා (vīsā)
• Slovak: vízum n
• Slovene: vizum (sl) m
• Spanish: visa (es) f (Latin America), visado (es) m
• Swahili: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: visum (sv) n
• Tagalog: bisa
• Tajik: виза (viza)
• Tamil: விசா (vicā)
• Tatar: виза (wiza)
• Telugu: వీసా (vīsā)
• Thai: วีซา (wii-sâa)
• Tibetan: ཐོངས་མཆན (thongs mchan), ཝི་ཛ (wi dza)
• Turkish: vize (tr)
• Turkmen: wiza
• Ukrainian: ві́за (uk) f (víza)
• Urdu: ویزا‎‎ m (vīzā)
• Uyghur: ۋىزا‎‎ (wiza)
• Uzbek: viza (uz)
• Vietnamese: thị thực (vi) (視實), giấy xuất cảnh
• Yiddish: וויזע‎‎ f (vize)
• Yoruba: please add this translation if you can

VerbEdit

visa (third-person singular simple present visas, present participle visaing, simple past and past participle visaed)

1. (transitive, dated) To endorse (a passport, etc.).

AnagramsEdit

• Avis, IVAs, Siva, Vias, avis, vias

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DanishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /viːsa/, [ˈviːsa]

NounEdit

visa n

1. plural indefinite of visum

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DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

• Audio

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NounEdit

visa

1. Plural form of visum

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FinnishEdit

NounEdit

visa

1. A kind of birch (wood), in which the fibers are twisted, resulting in a very hard and decorative wood material.
2. A quiz.

DeclensionEdit

Inflection of visa (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative		visa	visat
genitive		visan	visojen
partitive		visaa	visoja
illative		visaan	visoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		visa	visat
accusative	nom.	visa	visat
	gen.	visan
genitive		visan	visojen visainrare
partitive		visaa	visoja
inessive		visassa	visoissa
elative		visasta	visoista
illative		visaan	visoihin
adessive		visalla	visoilla
ablative		visalta	visoilta
allative		visalle	visoille
essive		visana	visoina
translative		visaksi	visoiksi
instructive		—	visoin
abessive		visatta	visoitta
comitative		—	visoineen

SynonymsEdit

• (kind of birch): visakoivu

Derived termsEdit

• visailu
• visainen

CompoundsEdit

• tietovisa
• visakoivu

AnagramsEdit

• savi

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FrenchEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Latin visa, neuter plural of Latin visus (“having been seen”).

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /vi.za/

• audio

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NounEdit

visa m (plural visas)

1. a mark or stamp attesting to the performance of an official action
2. a travel visa

Etymology 2Edit

See the etymology of the main entry.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /vi.za/

VerbEdit

visa

1. third-person singular past historic of viser

AnagramsEdit

• avis, vais

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IndonesianEdit

NounEdit

visa

1. visa

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LatinEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Inflected form of visum (“vision, mental image”).

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwi.sa/, [ˈwɪ.sa]

NounEdit

visa

1. nominative plural of visum
2. accusative plural of visum
3. vocative plural of visum

Etymology 2Edit

Inflected form of vīsus (“seen, having been seen”), perfect passive participle of videō (“see”).

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwiː.sa/

ParticipleEdit

vīsa

1. nominative feminine singular of vīsus
2. nominative neuter plural of vīsus
3. accusative neuter plural of vīsus
4. vocative feminine singular of vīsus
5. vocative neuter plural of vīsus

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwiː.saː/

ParticipleEdit

vīsā

1. ablative feminine singular of vīsus

ReferencesEdit

• visa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

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LatvianEdit

AdjectiveEdit

visa

1. genitive singular masculine form of viss
2. nominative singular feminine form of viss

PronounEdit

visa

1. genitive singular masculine form of viss
2. nominative singular feminine form of viss

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Norwegian BokmålEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• (of vise) visen
• (of visum) visumer

NounEdit

visa m, f

1. definite feminine singular of vise

NounEdit

visa n

1. indefinite plural of visum

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Norwegian NynorskEdit

NounEdit

visa f

1. singular definite of vis

visa n

1. plural definite of vis

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Old SwedishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Norse vísa, from Proto-Germanic *wīsōną.

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

vīsa

1. to show
2. to let know

ConjugationEdit

Conjugation of vīsa (weak)

	present			past
infinitive	vīsa			—
participle	vīsandi, -e			vīsaþer
active voice	indicative	subjunctive	imperative	indicative	subjunctive
iæk	vīsar	vīsi, -e	—	vīsaþi, -e	vīsaþi, -e
þū	vīsar	vīsi, -e	vīsa	vīsaþi, -e	vīsaþi, -e
han	vīsar	vīsi, -e	—	vīsaþi, -e	vīsaþi, -e
vīr	vīsum, -om	vīsum, -om	vīsum, -om	vīsaþum, -om	vīsaþum, -om
īr	vīsin	vīsin	vīsin	vīsaþin	vīsaþin
þēr	vīsa	vīsin	—	vīsaþu, -o	vīsaþin
mediopassive voice	indicative	subjunctive	imperative	indicative	subjunctive
iæk	vīsas	vīsis, -es	—	vīsaþis, -es	vīsaþis, -es
þū	vīsas	vīsis, -es	—	vīsaþis, -es	vīsaþis, -es
han	vīsas	vīsis, -es	—	vīsaþis, -es	vīsaþis, -es
vīr	vīsums, -oms	vīsums, -oms	—	vīsaþums, -oms	vīsaþums, -oms
īr	vīsins	vīsins	—	vīsaþins	vīsaþins
þēr	vīsas	vīsins	—	vīsaþus, -os	vīsaþins

DescendantsEdit

• Swedish: visa

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PortugueseEdit

VerbEdit

visa

1. third-person singular present indicative of visar
2. second-person singular imperative of visar

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RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Either from vis +‎ -a, or from the rare but attested Late Latin visāre, from Latin visum. Compare Logudorese Sardinian bizare.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): [viˈsa]

VerbEdit

a visa (third-person singular present visează, past participle visat) 1st conj.

1. to dream

ConjugationEdit

    conjugation of visa (first conjugation, -ez- infix)

infinitive			a visa
gerund			visând
past participle			visat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	visez	visezi	visează	visăm	visați	visează
	imperfect	visam	visai	visa	visam	visați	visau
	simple perfect	visai	visași	visă	visarăm	visarăți	visară
	pluperfect	visasem	visaseși	visase	visaserăm	visaserăți	visaseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să visez	să visezi	să viseze	să visăm	să visați	să viseze
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		visează			visați
	negative		nu visa			nu visați

Derived termsEdit

• visător

Related termsEdit

• vis

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SpanishEdit

NounEdit

visa f (plural visas)

1. visa

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SwedishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• audio

  (file)

Etymology 1Edit

AdjectiveEdit

visa

1. absolute singular definite and plural form of vis.

Etymology 2Edit

From Old Swedish vīsa, from Old Norse vísa, from Proto-Germanic *wīsǭ.

NounEdit

visa c

1. a song, a tune; in particular with a simple melody to accompany the lyrics, which is the more interesting part.
2. indefinite plural of visum

DeclensionEdit

Declension of visa
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	visa	visan	visor	visorna
Genitive	visas	visans	visors	visornas

Etymology 3Edit

From Old Swedish vīsa, from Old Norse vísa, from Proto-Germanic *wīsōną.

VerbEdit

visa

1. to show, to display
2. to prove
3. to point at

ConjugationEdit

Conjugation of visa (weak)

	Active	Passive
Infinitive	visa	visas
Present tense	visar	visas
Past tense	visade	visades
Supine	visat	visats
Imperative	visa	—
Present participle	visande
Past participle	visad

Related termsEdit

• hänvisa
• visning

See alsoEdit

• ambassador