# visa
## English
### Etymology

From 1831, "official signature or endorsement on a passport," from French visa, from Latin charta vīsa (“paper that has been seen”) from feminine perfect passive of Latin vidēre (“to see”). Compare vision, video, vista.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈviː.zə/, /ˈviː.sə/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
** Rhymes: -iːzə, -iːsə
* (Indic) IPA: /visaː/
** Rhymes: -ɪsə

### Noun

visa (plural visas)
* A permit to enter and leave a country, normally issued by the authorities of the country to be visited.
    I came on a six-month tourist visa.
** 2009 January 13, Cade Metz, “Sun MySQLers barred from Oz”, in The Register‎, archived from the original on 2020-06-17:Several Sun MySQLers have been denied short stay business visas to Australia - yes, Australia - as they attempted to attend a Linux conference in Hobart, Tasmania. According to a blog post from Kaj Arno, vice president in charge of "database community" at Sun Microsystems, several employees - many of whom worked with MySQL - have been barred from entering Oz.
** 2016, James S. Kessler, Echoes of Empire:However, I couldn't continue by land to Georgia, as I would have liked: Russia still maintains its crazy, Sovietesque visa regulations, which makes getting a transit visa extremely difficult and extremely expensive.

#### Derived terms

* bridging visa
* e-visa
* exit visa
* golden visa
* prisoner visa
* student visa
* tied visa
* tourist visa
* transit visa
* visa-free
* visaless
* visa-on-arrival
* visa run
* working-holiday visa

#### Related terms

* visé

#### Translations
### Verb

visa (third-person singular simple present visas, present participle visaing, simple past and past participle visaed)
* (transitive, dated) To endorse (a passport, etc.).

### Anagrams

* Avis, IVAs, Siva, Vias, avis, vias

## Catalan
### Verb

visa
* inflection of visar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Danish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /viːsa/, [ˈviːsa]

### Noun

visa n
* indefinite plural of visum

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈvi.zaː/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

visa
* plural of visum

## Finnish
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *visa (“hard?”). Cognate with Estonian visa, Karelian visa and Livonian vizā. The original adjective "hard, difficult, demanding" is now exclusively found in dialects (and some derivations, like visakoivu); the modern sense "quiz" is a backformation of visailla, itself derived from that adjective.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʋisɑ/, [ˈʋis̠ɑ̝]
* Rhymes: -isɑ
* Hyphenation: vi‧sa

### Noun

visa
* Synonym of visakoivu (“wood obtained from a mutation of the silver birch”)
* quiz (competition in the answering of questions)

#### Declension

Possessive forms of visa (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
visani
visani
accusative
nom.
visani
visani
gen.
visani
genitive
visani
visojeni visaini $^{rare}$
partitive
visaani
visojani
inessive
visassani
visoissani
elative
visastani
visoistani
illative
visaani
visoihini
adessive
visallani
visoillani
ablative
visaltani
visoiltani
allative
visalleni
visoilleni
essive
visanani
visoinani
translative
visakseni
visoikseni
abessive
visattani
visoittani
instructive
comitative
—visoineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
visasi
visasi
accusative
nom.
visasi
visasi
gen.
visasi
genitive
visasi
visojesi visaisi $^{rare}$
partitive
visaasi
visojasi
inessive
visassasi
visoissasi
elative
visastasi
visoistasi
illative
visaasi
visoihisi
adessive
visallasi
visoillasi
ablative
visaltasi
visoiltasi
allative
visallesi
visoillesi
essive
visanasi
visoinasi
translative
visaksesi
visoiksesi
abessive
visattasi
visoittasi
instructive
comitative
—visoinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
visamme
visamme
accusative
nom.
visamme
visamme
gen.
visamme
genitive
visamme
visojemme visaimme $^{rare}$
partitive
visaamme
visojamme
inessive
visassamme
visoissamme
elative
visastamme
visoistamme
illative
visaamme
visoihimme
adessive
visallamme
visoillamme
ablative
visaltamme
visoiltamme
allative
visallemme
visoillemme
essive
visanamme
visoinamme
translative
visaksemme
visoiksemme
abessive
visattamme
visoittamme
instructive
comitative
—visoinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
visanne
visanne
accusative
nom.
visanne
visanne
gen.
visanne
genitive
visanne
visojenne visainne $^{rare}$
partitive
visaanne
visojanne
inessive
visassanne
visoissanne
elative
visastanne
visoistanne
illative
visaanne
visoihinne
adessive
visallanne
visoillanne
ablative
visaltanne
visoiltanne
allative
visallenne
visoillenne
essive
visananne
visoinanne
translative
visaksenne
visoiksenne
abessive
visattanne
visoittanne
instructive
comitative
—visoinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
visansa
visansa
accusative
nom.
visansa
visansa
gen.
visansa
genitive
visansa
visojensa visainsa $^{rare}$
partitive
visaansa
visojaan visojansa
inessive
visassaan visassansa
visoissaan visoissansa
elative
visastaan visastansa
visoistaan visoistansa
illative
visaansa
visoihinsa
adessive
visallaan visallansa
visoillaan visoillansa
ablative
visaltaan visaltansa
visoiltaan visoiltansa
allative
visalleen visallensa
visoilleen visoillensa
essive
visanaan visanansa
visoinaan visoinansa
translative
visakseen visaksensa
visoikseen visoiksensa
abessive
visattaan visattansa
visoittaan visoittansa
instructive
comitative
—visoineen visoinensa :

#### Derived terms

* visailla
* visainen
* visautua
* visu (possibly)
* tietovisa
* visakallo
* visakoivu
* visapuu

### Further reading

* “visa”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04

### Anagrams

* savi

## French
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vi.za/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -za

#### Noun

visa m (plural visas)
* a mark or stamp attesting to the performance of an official action
* a travel visa

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vi.za/

#### Verb

visa
* third-person singular past historic of viser

### Further reading

* “visa”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* avis, vais

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Dutch visa, from French visa, from Latin visa, short form of charta visa (“paper that has been seen”), plural of visum (“something seen”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈvisa/
* Rhymes: -sa, -a
* Hyphenation: vi‧sa

### Noun

visa (plural visa-visa)
* visa: A permit to enter and leave a country, normally issued by the authorities of the country to be visited.

#### Alternative forms

* visum

#### Derived terms

* bervisa
* visa diplomatik
* visa ganda
* visa masuk
* visa transit
* visa wisatawan

#### Related terms

* visum
* visus

### Further reading

* “visa” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Latin
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈu̯iː.sa/, [ˈu̯iːs̠ä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈvi.sa/, [ˈviːs̬ä]

#### Noun

vīsa
* nominative/accusative/vocative plural of vīsum

### Etymology 2

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

#### Pronunciation

* vīsa: (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈu̯iː.sa/, [ˈu̯iːs̠ä]
* vīsa: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈvi.sa/, [ˈviːs̬ä]
* vīsā: (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈu̯iː.saː/, [ˈu̯iːs̠äː]
* vīsā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈvi.sa/, [ˈviːs̬ä]

#### Participle

vīsa
* inflection of vīsus:
** nominative/vocative feminine singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

#### Participle

vīsā
* ablative feminine singular of vīsus

### References

* "visa", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

## Latvian
### Adjective

visa
* inflection of viss:
** genitive masculine singular
** nominative feminine singular

### Pronoun

visa
* inflection of viss:
** genitive masculine singular
** nominative feminine singular

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* visen (of vise)
* visumer (of visum)

### Noun

visa m or f
* definite feminine singular of vise

### Noun

visa n
* indefinite plural of visum

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology 1

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

#### Alternative forms

* vise (e and split infinitives)

#### Verb

visa (present tense viser, past tense viste, past participle vist, passive infinitive visast, present participle visande, imperative vis)
* (transitive) to show, point out
* (transitive) to send away
* (transitive) to demonstrate, to give proof of
* (intransitive) to be visible

##### Synonyms

* (most senses): syna/syne

##### Derived terms

* vise bort
* vise døra
* vise tilbake på
* vise til rette

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse vísa.

#### Noun

visa f (definite singular visa, indefinite plural viser or visor, definite plural visene or visone)
* (pre-2012) alternative form of vise
* definite singular of vise

##### Declension

* Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard.
* Forms in [brackets] were official, but considered second-tier.
* Forms in (parentheses) were allowed under Midlandsnormalen.
* $^1$Nouns were capitalised for most of the 19th century.
$^2$Aasen seems unsure of this form.

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

visa
* definite plural of vis n
* definite singular of vis f

### Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

visa n
* (non-standard since 2012) indefinite plural of visum
* (non-standard since 2012) definite plural of visum

### References

* “visa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old Swedish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈviːˌsa/

### Verb

vīsa
* to show
* to let know

#### Descendants

* Swedish: visa

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀯𑀺𑀲 (Brahmi script)
* विस (Devanagari script)
* ৰিস (Bengali script)
* විස (Sinhalese script)
* ဝိသ (Burmese script)
* วิส or วิสะ (Thai script)
* ᩅᩥᩈ (Tai Tham script)
* ວິສ or ວິສະ (Lao script)
* វិស (Khmer script)
* 𑅇𑄨𑄥 (Chakma script)

### Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit विष (viṣa).

### Noun

visa n
* poison
* venom

#### Descendants

* → Thai: วิสา (wí-sǎa)

### References

Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “visa”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

## Portuguese
### Verb

visa
* inflection of visar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Romanian
### Etymology

Either from vis +‎ -a, or from the rare but attested Late Latin vīsō, vīsāre, from Latin vīsum. Compare Sardinian bizare.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [viˈsa]
* Audio:(file)
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

a visa (third-person singular present visează, past participle visat) 1st conjugation
* to dream

#### Derived terms

* visător

#### Related terms

* vis

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbisa/ [ˈbi.sa]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -isa
* Syllabification: vi‧sa

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from French visa, from Latin visa.

#### Noun

visa f (plural visas)
* (Latin America) visa
    Synonym: visado

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

visa
* inflection of visar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “visa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
* “visa”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Noun

visa
* plural of kisa

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈviːˌsa/
* Audio:(file)

### Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Adjective

visa
* inflection of vis:
** definite singular
** plural

### Etymology 2

From Old Swedish vīsa, from Old Norse vísa (“strophe, stanza”), from Proto-Germanic *wīsǭ.

#### Noun

visa c
* a song, a tune, particularily one with a simple melody, where the primary focus is the lyrics

##### Derived terms

* ord och inga visor

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

visa
* indefinite plural of visum

### Etymology 4

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

#### Verb

visa (present visar, preterite visade, supine visat, imperative visa)
* (sometimes with a particle like upp or fram) to show, to display
    Han visade dem sin samlingHe showed them his collection
    Han visade (upp) sin samling för domHe showed them his collection
* to show (provide with information)
    Visa någon vägenShow someone the way
* to show, to prove
    Visa att x > 5Show that x > 5

##### Conjugation

$^1$ Archaic. $^2$ Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

##### Derived terms

* visa var skåpet ska stå

##### Related terms

* hänvisa
* visning

### See also

* ambassadör

### References

* visa in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* visa in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* visa in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

### Anagrams

* avis