Nissan

Borrowed from Japanese 日産(にっさん) (Nissan, “Nissan”), from 日産(にっさん) (nissan, “daily product”).

Nissan

1. A Japanese car manufacturer.
   • 1988 November 7, Steven Greenhouse, “English-Made Nissans at Center of Trade Fight”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 May 2015:

     The Bluebird dispute is being watched closely in Europe and overseas because the 2,000-employee Nissan plant at Sunderland, England, near Newcastle, represents the largest direct investment by the Japanese in Europe.

Nissan (plural Nissans)

1. A car of the Japanese Nissan brand.
   • 1988 November 7, Steven Greenhouse, “English-Made Nissans at Center of Trade Fight”, in The New York Times‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 May 2015:

     Angry Japanese and British officials say foreign investors will be scared away from Europe unless France and Italy ease tough regulations that treat English-made Nissans as Japanese cars, subjecting them to strict import quotas.

   • 1991 February 3, Associated Press, “Jaguar in the Lead, but Nissans and Porsches Close at Daytona”, in Los Angeles Times‎^[3], Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 August 2025:

     A Jaguar and two Nissans battled into the early morning hours in the closely contested Daytona 24 Hours, with a group of Porsches still within reach of the leaders.

   • 2022 October 22, Sean O’Grady, “Nissan Ariya: All-new, all-wonderful, all-electric”, in The Independent‎^[4], London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 October 2022:

     Like other Nissans, the Ariya gets the excellent ProPilot system for cruise control and part-autonomous driving – far less fiddly than the set-up of some of its competitors.

• Nissan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Nissan

1. Alternative form of Nisan (“the Hebrew month”).
2. A surname from Hebrew.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Nissan is the 33379^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 684 individuals. Nissan is most common among White (91.72%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Nissan”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 672.

• nisnas

Nissan

1. Rōmaji transcription of にっさん