ISIS

An acronym of one English translation of one of the group's Arabic-language names, الدَّوْلَة الْإِسْلَامِيَّة فِي الْعِرَاق وَالشَّام‎ (ad-dawla al-ʾislāmiyya fī l-ʿirāq waš-šām, literally “the Islamic State of/in Iraq and Syria”). Compare ISIL, which translates شَام‎ (šām) as “Levant” rather than “Syria”.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɪsɪs/
• Homophone: Isis

ISIS

1. A Sunni jihadist group active in Libya, Nigeria, Iraq and Syria, where it has proclaimed an (unrecognized) state. [from 2013]

• Isis
• Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
• Islamic State in Iraq and Syria

• (Sunni jihadist group): Daesh; ISIL (also a former name); IS, Islamic State (current name)

• Isis

Borrowed from English ISIS, or abbreviation of Islamischer Staat im Irak und Syrien, Islamischer Staat im Irak und in Syrien or Islamischer Staat im Irak und in (Groß-)Syrien

ISIS m or f

1. ISIS; a former name of Islamischer Staat or IS

• ISIL/Isil, ISIG/Isig

• Islamischer Staat, IS

Borrowed from English ISIS.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈi.zis/
• Homophone: Ísis

ISIS m

1. ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria)

• Estado Islâmico