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INA

INA is the initialism of information not available.

INA is the initialism of Immigration and Nationality Act.

Proper noun capitalized: Ina

Ina

  1. A female given name from Latin.
    • Miss Ina Claire tells me that half her acquaintances call her "Eenah" and the other half "Eynah". She answers docilely to either.1935, Winthrop Ames, What Shall We Name the Baby?, New York: Simon and Schuster, page 18
    • The eldest, originally called Christina in spite of her Jewish father's protests, eventually had her name sliced in half. "Stop sulking, Abe," Aurora commanded. "From now on she's plain Ina without the Christ." So poor Ina grew up with only half a handle, and when the second child was born a year...1995, Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh, →ISBN, page 139

Origin of INA

Short form of given names ending in -ina, e.g. Georgina, Christina, Wilhelmina.

Phrases with INA

Questions about INA

What does INA mean?
INA means a female given name from Latin.
What is INA the initialism of?
INA is the initialism of information not available.
What part of speech is INA?
INA is a proper noun.

Words near INA in the dictionary

  1. in-winter
  2. in-world
  3. in-yer-face
  4. in-your-face
  5. in.
  6. INA
  7. Ina Bauer
  8. Ina Bauers
  9. Inaba
  10. Inabaan Norte
  11. Inabaan Sur

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Adapted from Wiktionary: INA (page history and authors); Ina (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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