Where does “ISIS” come from?

ISIS is an English acronym for the Arabic الدَّوْلَة الْإِسْلَامِيَّة فِي الْعِرَاق وَالشَّام, a designation for an extremist organization formed in the early twenty-first century.

ISIS (English): A Salafist group mainly active in Iraq and Syria, where it has proclaimed itself as a (unrecognized) state and later caliphate

Definitions

  1. A Salafist group mainly active in Iraq and Syria, where it has proclaimed itself as a (unrecognized) state and later caliphate

Ancestry of “ISIS”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinĪsisIsis
2Ancient GreekἾσιςIsis
3EgyptianꜣstIsis

Words derived from “ISIS”

Every word from Egyptian ꜣst →Every word from Ancient Greek Ἶσις →Every word from Latin Īsis →