Save Type Island Usage Spanish, French, Italian, English, Czech, German, Polish, Portuguese Pronounced Pron. ee-BEE-tha(European Spanish) ee-BEE-sa(Latin American Spanish) EE-BEE-SA(French) i-BEE-thə(British English) ie-BEE-thə(British English) ee-BEE-sə(American English) i-BEE-sə(American English) i-BEE-zə(American English) ee-BEE-za(Polish) ee-BEE-zu(Portuguese) [key·IPA] Meaning & History Spanish form of Catalan Eivissa, which is a derivative of Arabic يَابِسَة (yābisa), itself from Latin Ebusus, from Phoenician 𐤀𐤉𐤁𐤔𐤌 (ʾybšm).