visa

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈviːzə/
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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /-sə/
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• Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• South-Asia: /ˈʋi.zɑ/
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• /ˈʋɪ.sɑ/ Tamil Nadu, spelling pronunciation
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Coined by the company's founder, Dee Hock, who believed that the word was instantly recognizable in many languages and that it denoted universal acceptance.

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.

108 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: visum — permit to enter a country
• Albanian: vizë — permit to enter a country
• Amharic: ቪዛ (viza) — permit to enter a country
• Arabic: تَأْشِيرَة (taʔšīra) — permit to enter a country
• Arabic: فِيزَا (fīzā) — permit to enter a country
• Arabic: ڤيزا (vīza) — permit to enter a country
• Arabic: ڤيزة (vīza) — permit to enter a country
• Arabic: فيزا (fīza) — permit to enter a country
• Arabic: ڤيزا (vīza) — permit to enter a country
• Arabic: ڤيزة (vīza) — permit to enter a country
• Arabic: تَأْشِيرَة (taʔšīra) — permit to enter a country
• Armenian: վիզա (viza) — permit to enter a country
• Armenian: մուտքի արտոնագիր (mutkʻi artonagir) — permit to enter a country
• Asturian: visáu — permit to enter a country
• Azerbaijani: viza — permit to enter a country
• Belarusian: ві́за (víza) — permit to enter a country
• Bengali: ভিসা (bhiśa) — permit to enter a country
• Bulgarian: ви́за (víza) — permit to enter a country
• Burmese: ဗီဇာ (bija) — permit to enter a country
• Catalan: visat — permit to enter a country
• Chinese Cantonese: 簽證 /签证 — permit to enter a country
• Chinese: 簽證 /签证 (zh-min-nan) — permit to enter a country
• Chinese Mandarin: 簽證 /签证 (qiānzhèng) — permit to enter a country
• Wu Chinese: 簽證 /签证 (1chi-tsen) — permit to enter a country
• Czech: vízum — permit to enter a country
• Danish: visum — permit to enter a country
• Dutch: visum — permit to enter a country
• Esperanto: vizo — permit to enter a country
• Estonian: viisa — permit to enter a country
• Finnish: viisumi — permit to enter a country
• French: visa — permit to enter a country
• Galician: visado — permit to enter a country
• Georgian: ვიზა (viza) — permit to enter a country
• German: Visum — permit to enter a country
• Greek: βίζα (víza) — permit to enter a country
• Greek: θεώρηση (theórisi) — permit to enter a country
• Hausa: bīzā̀ — permit to enter a country
• Hebrew: וִיזָה (víza) — permit to enter a country
• Hebrew: אֲשֵׁרָה ('ashrá) — permit to enter a country
• Hindi: वीज़ा (vīzā) — permit to enter a country
• Hindi: वीजा (vījā) — permit to enter a country
• Hindi: वीसा (vīsā) — permit to enter a country
• Hungarian: vízum — permit to enter a country
• Icelandic: vegabréfsáritun — permit to enter a country
• Indonesian: visa — permit to enter a country
• Irish: víosa — permit to enter a country
• Italian: visto — permit to enter a country
• Japanese: ビザ (biza) — permit to enter a country
• Japanese: 査証 (sashō) — permit to enter a country
• Kazakh: виза (viza) — permit to enter a country
• Khmer: ទិដ្ឋាការ (tidthaakaa) — permit to enter a country
• Korean: 비자 (bija) — permit to enter a country
• Korean: 사증 (sajeung) — permit to enter a country
• Northern Kurdish: vîze — permit to enter a country
• Kyrgyz: виза (viza) — permit to enter a country
• Lao: ວີຊ້າ (wī sā) — permit to enter a country
• Latvian: vīza — permit to enter a country
• Lithuanian: viza — permit to enter a country
• Macedonian: виза (viza) — permit to enter a country
• Malay: visa — permit to enter a country
• Māori: kōkota — permit to enter a country
• Māori: pane uruwhenua — permit to enter a country
• Marathi: व्हिसा (vhisā) — permit to enter a country
• Mongolian: виз (viz) — permit to enter a country
• Mongolian: ᠸᠢᠰᠠ (wisa) — permit to enter a country
• Nepali: भिसा (bhisā) — permit to enter a country
• Norwegian Bokmål: visum — permit to enter a country
• Norwegian Nynorsk: visum — permit to enter a country
• Pashto: ويزه (viza) — permit to enter a country
• Iranian Persian: رَوادید (ravâdid) — permit to enter a country
• Iranian Persian: ویزا (vizâ) — permit to enter a country
• Polish: wiza — permit to enter a country
• Portuguese: visto — permit to enter a country
• Romanian: viză — permit to enter a country
• Russian: ви́за (víza) — permit to enter a country
• Serbo-Croatian: ви́за — permit to enter a country
• Serbo-Croatian: víza — permit to enter a country
• Sinhalese: වීසා (wīsā) — permit to enter a country
• Slovak: vízum — permit to enter a country
• Slovene: vizum — permit to enter a country
• Spanish: visa — permit to enter a country
• Spanish: visado — permit to enter a country
• Swahili: viza — permit to enter a country
• Swedish: visum — permit to enter a country
• Tagalog: bisa — permit to enter a country
• Tajik: виза (viza) — permit to enter a country
• Tajik: раводид (ravodid) — permit to enter a country
• Tamil: விசா (vicā) — permit to enter a country
• Tatar: виза (wiza) — permit to enter a country
• Telugu: వీసా (vīsā) — permit to enter a country
• Thai: วีซา (wii-sâa) — permit to enter a country
• Tibetan: ཐོངས་མཆན — permit to enter a country
• Tibetan: ཝི་ཛ (wi dza) — permit to enter a country
• Turkish: vize — permit to enter a country
• Ottoman Turkish: ویزه (vize) — permit to enter a country
• Turkmen: wiza — permit to enter a country
• Ukrainian: ві́за (víza) — permit to enter a country
• Urdu: وِیزا (vīzā) — permit to enter a country
• Uyghur: ۋىزا (wiza) — permit to enter a country
• Uzbek: viza — permit to enter a country
• Vietnamese: thị thực — permit to enter a country
• Vietnamese: giấy xuất cảnh — permit to enter a country
• Vietnamese: chiếu khán — permit to enter a country
• Welsh: teitheb — permit to enter a country
• Yiddish: וויזע (vize) — permit to enter a country
• Yoruba: físà — permit to enter a country
• Yoruba: ìwé àṣẹ ìwọ̀lú — permit to enter a country
• Chinese Mandarin: 維薩卡 /维萨卡 (wéisàkǎ) — credit card issued by Visa