"Lyssa" meaning in All languages combined

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Proper name [English]

IPA: /ˈlɪsə/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Lyssa.wav [Southern-England]
Rhymes: -ɪsə Etymology: Shortened form of Alyssa. Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Lyssa
  1. A female given name.

Noun [German]

IPA: /ˈlʏsa/ Audio: De-Lyssa.ogg [Germany, Berlin] Forms: Lyssa [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], Lyssa [nominative, singular], Lyssa [genitive, singular], Lyssa [dative, singular], Lyssa [accusative, singular]
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek λύσσα (lússa). Etymology templates: {{ety|de|:lbor|grc:λύσσα}} [Appendix:Glossary#learned_borrowing|Learned borrowing]] from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Ancient Greek", "term" : "λύσσα", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "grc" } ], "keyword" : "lbor" } ], "lang_name" : "German", "term" : "Lyssa", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "de" }" data-lang="de" data-title="Lyssa">, {{lbor|de|grc|λύσσα}} Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek λύσσα (lússa) Head templates: {{de-noun|f.sg}} Lyssa f (genitive Lyssa, no plural), {{tlb|de|specialist|rare}} (specialist, rare) Inflection templates: {{de-ndecl|f.sg}}
  1. rabies Tags: feminine, no-plural Synonyms: Tollwut

Proper name [Translingual]

Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek λύσσᾰ (lússă, “rage; mania”). Etymology templates: {{bor|mul|grc|λύσσᾰ|t=rage; mania}} Ancient Greek λύσσᾰ (lússă, “rage; mania”) Head templates: {{head|mul|proper noun|||g=f|g2=|head=Lyssa|nogendercat=1}} Lyssa f
  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Uraniidae – certain large moths of Southeast Asia, including the tropical swallowtail moth. Tags: feminine Related terms: Lua execution error in Module:taxref function show
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (ccec6f1 and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.