USA

See also: Appendix:Variations of "usa"

Translingual

Etymology

Borrowed from English USA (“United States of America”).

Symbol

USA

1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for the United States.

   Synonym: US (alpha-2)

References

• „USA“ on Abkürzungen.de

Further reading

• USA on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Alternative forms

• U.S.A., U. S. A.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /juː ɛs ˈeɪ/
• (General American) enPR: yo͞o' ĕs' āʹ, IPA^(key): /ˌju ˌɛs ˈeɪ/

• Audio (Australia):

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• Rhymes: -eɪ

Proper noun

USA or the USA

2. Initialism of the United States of America: a country in North America.
   • 2002, Antony Kamm, Malcolm Baird, “Sound and Vision 1929-1930”, in John Logie Baird: A Life, Edinburgh: National Museums of Scotland Publishing, →ISBN, page 150:

     The BBC refused to be drawn by arguments that more facilities for television would result in more televisors being sold, which would be in the interests of Britain and the British Empire, or by comparisons with the situation in USA, and also in Germany, where the Baird company was already fairly comfortably entrenched.

   • 2024 June 25, Sam Joseph, “Snoop Dogg delivers mic drop moments at US trials as 52-year-old runs 200m in 34.44 seconds”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Donning a tracksuit in the colors of the American flag and a Team USA shirt that paid respect to the late NBA Hall of Famer Kobe Bryant, Snoop Dogg laced up for a 200-meter exhibition race against Trinidadian former Olympic medalist Ato Boldon and two-time NCAA outdoor 200m champion Wallace Spearmon.

3. (US, military) Initialism of United States Army.

   The Defense Distinguished Service Medal was awarded to GEN Martin Dempsey, USA.

4. (nonstandard) Initialism of Union of South Africa.
5. (Malaysian politics) Initialism of United Sabah Alliance.

Synonyms

(United States of America):

• Usania, Usonia
• US
• U.S. of A., US of A

Coordinate terms

(United States Army):

• Continental Army
• USAF (“United States Air Force”)
• USN (“United States Navy”)
• USMC (“United States Marine Corps”)

Derived terms

(United States of America):

• Usanian
• JewSA
• USAian
• USSA

(United States Army):

• USAAC
• USAAF

Descendants

(United States of America):

• → German: USA
• → Ido: Usa

Translations

abbreviation of the United States of America

• Afrikaans: VSA (af) pl, USA pl
• Albanian: SHBA (sq) pl
• Arabic: و. م. أ. f (w. m. ʔ.)
• Armenian: ԱՄՆ (hy) (AMN)
• Azerbaijani: ABŞ (az)
• Bashkir: АҠШ (AQŞ)
• Basque: AEB (eu)
• Belarusian: ЗША m pl (ZŠA)
• Bengali: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: САЩ (bg) m pl (SAŠt)
• Catalan: EUA (ca) m pl
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: no equivalent term in Cantonese, but see 美國 / 美国 (yue) (mei⁵ gwok³)

  Dungan: no equivalent term in Dungan, but see Мыйгуй (Mɨyguy), Мыйгуә (Mɨyguə)

  Hokkien: no equivalent term in Hokkien, but see 美國 / 美国 (Bí-kok), 花旗 (Hoe-kî)

  Mandarin: no equivalent term in Mandarin, but see 美國 / 美国 (zh) (Měiguó), 美- (zh) (Měi-) (as a component)

• Corsican: SUA m pl
• Crimean Tatar: АКЪШ (AQŞ)
• Czech: SSA pl, USA (cs) pl
• Danish: USA (da) n pl
• Dutch: USA pl, VSA (nl) pl (rare)
• Esperanto: no equivalent term in Esperanto, but see Usono (eo)
• Estonian: USA (et)
• Finnish: USA (fi)
• French: ÉUA m pl (rare), USA (fr) m pl
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: FSA pl

• Georgian: აშშ (ka) (ašš)
• German: USA (de) pl

  Alemannic German: USA pl

  Bavarian: USA pl

• Greek: ΗΠΑ (el) f pl (IPA)
• Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: no equivalent term in Hebrew, but see ארה״ב ('arhá"v)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hmong:

  Green Hmong: KTA

  White Hmong: KTA

• Hungarian: AEÁ (hu), USA (hu)
• Icelandic: BNA (is) f pl
• Ido: Usa (io)
• Indonesian: AS (id)
• Ingrian: AYŠ, SŠA
• Irish: SAM
• Italian: SUA (it) m pl, USA (it) m pl
• Japanese: USA (ja) (Yū Esu Ē), ユー・エス・エー (Yū-Esu-Ē)
• Kazakh: АҚШ (kk) (AQš)
• Khmer: ស.រ.អ. (sɑɑrɔɔʼɑɑ)
• Korean: no equivalent term in Korean, but see 미국(美國) (ko) (Miguk), 미(美) (ko) (Mi) (as a component)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: DYA

• Kyrgyz: АКШ (AKŞ)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: CFA pl
• Latvian: ASV f pl
• Livonian:

  Courland: AĪV (liv) pl

• Lithuanian: JAV (lt)
• Macedonian: САД (mk) f pl (SAD)
• Malay: AS (ms)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: АНУ (ANU)

• Navajo: WBA
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: USA (no)

  Nynorsk: USA (nn)

• Occitan: EUA m pl
• Pannonian Rusyn: ЗАД f pl (ZAD)
• Persian: not used in Persian
• Polish: USA (pl) pl
• Portuguese: EUA (pt) m pl, E.U.A. (pt) m pl
• Romanian: SUA (ro) f pl
• Russian: США (ru) m pl (SŠA)
• Samogitian: JAV
• Sardinian: IUA m pl
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: САД f pl

  Latin: SAD f pl

• Slovak: USA (sk) pl
• Slovene: ZDA (sl) f pl
• Spanish: EUA (es) m pl, EEUUA m pl
• Swedish: USA (sv) n pl
• Tajik: ИМА (IMA)
• Tatar: АКШ (AQŞ)
• Thai: สหรัฐ (th) (sà-hà-rát)
• Turkish: ABD (tr)
• Turkmen: ABŞ
• Ukrainian: США (uk) m pl (SŠA)
• Uzbek: AQSh
• Vietnamese: no equivalent term in Vietnamese, but see Mỹ (vi) (美 (vi))
• Volapük: TPM
• Yiddish: פֿש״אַ (fsh"a)

See also

• US

Noun

USA (plural USAs)

1. Abbreviation of United States Attorney.

Derived terms

• AUSA

Anagrams

• A.U.'s, ASU, AUs, Asu, Aus, SAU, Sua, UAS, UAs, a.u.s

Finnish

Etymology

From English USA.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈuːˌæsˌɑː/, [ˈuːˌæs̠ˌɑ̝ː]
• IPA^(key): /ˈuːˌesˌɑː/, [ˈuːˌe̞s̠ˌɑ̝ː]
• IPA^(key): /ˈusɑ/, [ˈus̠ɑ̝] (colloquial)
• Rhymes: -ɑː

Proper noun

USA (informal)

1. initialism of the United States of America: a country in North America: USA

Synonyms

• Amerikan yhdysvallat
• Amerikka
• Yhdysvallat

Derived terms

• usalainen

Anagrams

• asu, sua

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English USA.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /y.ɛs.a/

• Audio (France (Paris)):

  (file)

Proper noun

USA m pl (plural only)

1. initialism of the United States of America: a country in North America: USA

   Synonyms: États-Unis, US, ÉU, ÉUA, É.U.A., pays de l’Oncle Sam, States

German

Alternative forms

• VSA (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from English USA.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌuː.ɛsˈaː/, [ˌʔuː.ɛsˈʔaː], (formal) [ˌʔuː.ʔɛsˈʔaː]

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

Proper noun

die USA pl (proper noun, plural only, usually definite)

1. initialism of the United States of America: a country in North America: USA

   Synonyms: Vereinigte Staaten, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Amerika, US-Amerika

Usage notes

• The word may at times be construed as a feminine singular. Though considered nonstandard in all contexts, it is somewhat current in the nominative and accusative cases (e.g. die USA hat for die USA haben). It is more ungrammatical in the dative case after prepositions (thus very rarely in der USA for in den USA).

Declension

Declension of USA [pl-only]

	plural
	def.	noun
nominative	die	USA
genitive	der	USA
dative	den	USA
accusative	die	USA

Derived terms

• USA-Imperialismus

Further reading

• “USA”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[2] (in German)

Hungarian

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from English USA, an initialism of United States of America.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈuʃɒ]
• Rhymes: -ʃɒ

Proper noun

USA

1. initialism of the United States of America: a country in North America: USA

   Synonyms: Amerikai Egyesült Államok, AEÁ, Egyesült Államok

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	USA	—
accusative	USA-t	—
dative	USA-nak	—
instrumental	USA-val	—
causal-final	USA-ért	—
translative	USA-vá	—
terminative	USA-ig	—
essive-formal	USA-ként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	USA-ban	—
superessive	USA-n	—
adessive	USA-nál	—
illative	USA-ba	—
sublative	USA-ra	—
allative	USA-hoz	—
elative	USA-ból	—
delative	USA-ról	—
ablative	USA-tól	—
non-attributive possessive – singular	USA-é	—
non-attributive possessive – plural	USA-éi	—

Possessive forms of USA

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	USA-m	—
2nd person sing.	USA-d	—
3rd person sing.	USA-ja	—
1st person plural	USA-nk	—
2nd person plural	USA-tok	—
3rd person plural	USA-juk	—

Derived terms

• USA-beli

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English USA.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈu.za/
  • Rhymes: -uza
• IPA^(key): /ju.esˈsej/, /ju.esˈsɛj/
  • Rhymes: -ej, -ɛj

Proper noun

USA m pl (plural only)

1. initialism of the United States of America: a country in North America: USA

   Synonyms: America, Stati Uniti

Japanese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [jɯ̟ː e̞sɨ e̞ː]
• (Tokyo) ユーエスエー [yùú ésú éé] (Heiban – [0])

Proper noun

USA(ユーエスエー) • (Yū-Esu-Ē) 

1. initialism of the United States of America: a country in North America: USA

See also

• 米(べい)国(こく) (Beikoku)

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

USA

1. initialism of the United States of America: a country in North America: USA

Synonyms

• Amerikas forente stater (full name)

Related terms

• amerikaner
• amerikansk
• USA-amerikaner
• USA-amerikansk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʉːsaː/

Proper noun

USA

1. initialism of the United States of America: a country in North America: USA

Synonyms

• Dei amerikanske Sambandsstatane (full name)

Related terms

• amerikanar
• amerikansk
• USA-amerikanar
• USA-amerikansk

Polish

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from English USA.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /u.ɛsˈa/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: U‧S‧A

Proper noun

USA pl

1. initialism of the United States of America: a country in North America: USA

   Synonyms: Stany Zjednoczone, Stany, Ameryka

Further reading

• “USA”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “USA”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[4] (in Polish)

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʉːɛˌsɑː/, /ʉːɛˈsɑː/

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

USA n pl (genitive USA:s)

1. initialism of the United States of America: a country in North America: USA

   Synonyms: Amerikas förenta stater, Förenta staterna, Staterna, (sometimes proscribed) Amerika, (humorous) Amerikat

See also

countries in North America: Nordamerikas länder (appendix)edit

• Antigua och Barbuda
• Bahamas
• Barbados
• Belize
• Costa Rica
• Dominica
• Dominikanska republiken
• El Salvador
• Grenada
• Guatemala
• Haiti
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Kanada
• Kuba
• Mexiko
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Saint Kitts och Nevis
• Saint Lucia
• Saint Vincent och Grenadinerna
• Trinidad och Tobago
• USA