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IA

IA is the abbreviation of Iowa.

IA is the initialism of Indian Army.

IA is the initialism of Indian Airlines.

IA is the initialism of Iraqi Army.

IA is the initialism of Intel Architecture.

IA is the initialism of Ice Age.

Meaning of Iowa

Proper noun

Iowa

  1. A state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Capital and largest city: Des Moines.
    • I prefer to think of Iowa as I saw it through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy. Those were eyes filled with the wonders of Iowa’s streams and woods, of the mystery of growing crops.1951, Herbert Hoover, The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover, Years of Adventure 1874–1920, New York: Macmillan Company, →OCLC, →OL, page 1
  2. A tributary of the Mississippi River which flows through Iowa in a southeast direction.
  3. A town in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana.

See all 4 meanings of Iowa

Interjection

IA

  1. (Arabic, English) inshallah; God willing

Proper noun capitalized: Ia

Ia

  1. A surname.

Synonyms of IA

Forms of IA

pluralIAs

Words formed from IA

Questions about IA

What does IA mean?
IA means inshallah; God willing.
What is IA the abbreviation of?
IA is the abbreviation of Iowa.
What part of speech is IA?
IA can be an interjection or a proper noun.

Words near IA in the dictionary

  1. i18n
  2. I2
  3. I3
  4. i386
  5. I3A
  6. IA
  7. IA-32
  8. IA-64
  9. IAAF
  10. Iaai
  11. IAAL

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: IA (page history and authors); Ia (page history and authors); Iowa (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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