Word.ws English Dictionary

Lassa

Lassa proper noun: a town in Borno state, Nigeria. Also the archaic form of Lhasa.

Proper noun

Lassa

  1. A town in Borno state, Nigeria.
    • It was first described in the town of Lassa, Nigeria in 1969.2013, Arin Bhattacharya, A Review on Viral Hemorrhagic Fever, page 8
    • Luka. The Gospel According to St. Luke in Margi. Prepared by The Church of the Brethren Mission. Lassa, Nigeria.2017, Carl Hoffmann, A Grammar of the Margi Language
  2. A city in the Kara Region of Togo
    • Other Catholic elemntary schools are at Lassa and a few other places .1964, Thomas John Larson, A Preliminary Survey of the Cabrai of Lama-Kara Circonscription, Togo, page 65
    • At Lassa, the president witnessed the unanimous selection of Chief Adre Walla who replaces the deceased Asoumaro Walla1972, Translations on Sub-Saharan Africa - Issues 1196-1203, page 62

Also used as

Lassa is also the archaic form of Lhasa.

Lassa is also the acronym of Latin American Society of South Australia.

Words formed from Lassa

Phrases with Lassa

Questions about Lassa

What does Lassa mean?
Lassa means a town in Borno state, Nigeria.
What part of speech is Lassa?
Lassa is a proper noun.

Words near Lassa in the dictionary

  1. laspring
  2. lasprings
  3. lasque
  4. lasques
  5. lass
  6. Lassa
  7. Lassa fever
  8. Lassa virus
  9. Lassa viruses
  10. Lassalle
  11. Lassallean

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Lassa (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Lassa.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/lassa. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.