Asia

See also asia, Ásia, Àsia, asía, Asía, and asĩa

English

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἀσία (Asia), from Mycenaean Greek a-si-wi-ya (aswiyā) ‘Aššuwan’, adjective from Hittite Aššuwa ‘northwest Anatolia’.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈeɪʒə], [ˈeɪʃə], SAMPA: ["eIZ@], ["eIS@]

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃə, -eɪʒə

Proper noun

Asia

Asia (the Roman province)

1. A continent located east of Europe, west of the Pacific Ocean, north of Oceania and south of the Arctic Ocean.
2. (historical) A province of the Roman Empire located in what is now western Turkey.
3. A female given name of modern usage, from the continent.
   • 1994 Blake Nelson, Girl: A Novel, Simon&Schuster, ISBN 0671897071, page 81

     And Scott Haskell started going out with this sophomore girl called Asia, who was this rich girl from Weston Heights.

Translations

the continent of Asia

Afrikaans: Asië (af) Albanian: Azia (sq) Arabic: آسیا (ar) (’āsiya) f. Aragonese: Asia (an) f. Aramaic: ܐܣܝܐ Armenian: Ասիա (hy) (Asia) Old Armenian: Ասիա (Asia) Assamese: এছিয়া (as) Asturian: Asia (ast) f. Azeri: Asiya (az) Basque: Asia (eu) Bavarian: Asien Belarusian: Азія (be) (Ázija) f. Bengali: এশিয়া (bn) (eshiẏa) Bikol: Asya Bishnupriya Manipuri: এশিয়া Bosnian: Azija (bs) f. Breton: Azia (br) f. Bulgarian: Азия (bg) (Ázija) f. Burmese: အာရှတိုက် (my) (asha.taik) Catalan: Àsia (ca) f. Cebuano: Asya Cherokee: ᎠᏏᎠ (chr) (asia) Chinese: Cantonese: 亞洲 Gan: 亞洲 (Nga jiu) Hakka: Â-chû Mandarin: 亞洲 (cmn), 亚洲 (cmn) (Yàzhōu) Min Dong: Ā-ciŭ Min Nan: A-chiu (nan) Wu: 亚洲 Chuvash: Ази Cornish: Asi (kw) Crimean Tatar: Asiya Croatian: Ȃzija (hr) f. Czech: Asie (cs) f. Danish: Asien (da) Dutch: Azië (nl) n. Esperanto: Azio (eo) Estonian: Aasia (et) Faroese: Asia (fo) Filipino: Ásya Finnish: Aasia (fi) Franco-Provençal: Asia f. French: Asie (fr) f. Friulian: Asie f. Galician: Asia (gl) f. Georgian: აზია (ka) (azia) German: Asien (de) n. Gothic: 𐌰𐍃𐌹𐌰 (Asia) Greek: Ασία (el) (Asía) f. Guaraní: Asya (gn) Gujarati: એશિયા (gu) Haitian Creole: Azi Hebrew: אסיה (he) (Asia) f. Hindi: एशिया (hi) (ešiyā) Hungarian: Ázsia (hu) Icelandic: Asía (is) Ido: Azia (io) Igbo: Asia Ilocano: Asia Indonesian: Asia (id) Interlingua: Asia (ia) Irish: an Áise (ga) f. Italian: Asia (it) f. Japanese: アジア (ja) (あじあ, Ajia); (dated) 亜細亜 (ja) (あじあ, Ajia) Javanese: Asia (jv) Kabyle: Asya Kannada: ಏಷ್ಯಾ (kn) Kapampangan: Asia Kashubian: Azëjô (csb) Kazakh: Азия (kk) (Áziya) Khmer: អាស៊ី (km) (asie) Kinyarwanda: Azia (rw) Korean: 아시아 (ko) (Asia) Kurdish: ئاسیا (ku), Asya (ku) Kyrgyz: Азия (ky) (Áziya) Kölsch: Aasije Ladino: Asia f. Lao: ອາຊີ (lo) (āsī) Latin: Asia (la) f.

Latvian: Āzija (lv) f. Ligurian: Asia Limburgish: Azië (li) Lingala: Azía (ln) Lithuanian: Azija (lt) Low Saxon: Asien (nds) Lower Sorbian: Azija f. Luxembourgish: Asien (lb) Macedonian: Азија (mk) (Ázija) f. Malagasy: Azia (mg) Malay: Asia (ms) Malayalam: ഏഷ്യ (ml) Maltese: Asja (mt) f. Marathi: आशिया (mr) Mazanderani: آسیا Mongolian: Ази (mn) (Ázi) Nahuatl: Axia (nah) Neapolitan: Asia f. Nepali: एशिया (ne) Newari: एसिया Norman: Âsie Northern Sami: Ásia Norwegian: Asia (no) Novial: Asia Occitan: Asia (oc) f. Old Church Slavonic: Асїꙗ f. Old English: Asia (ang) Oriya: ଏସିଯା (or) Oromo: Asia (om) Ossetian: Ази Pangasinan: Asia Pashto: آسيا Pennsylvania German: Asie Persian: آسیا (fa) (Âsiyâ) Piedmontese: Asia f. Polish: Azja (pl) f. Portuguese: Ásia (pt) f. Punjabi: ਏਸ਼ਿਆ (ešiā) Quechua: Asya (qu) Romanian: Asia (ro) f. Russian: Азия (ru) (Ázija) f. Samoan: Asia (sm) Sanskrit: एशिया (sa) Scottish Gaelic: Àisia (gd) f., Aisia (gd) Serbian: Cyrillic: Азија (sr) f. Roman: Azija f. Sicilian: Asia (scn) f. Sindhi: ايشيا (sd) Sinhalese: ආසියාව (si) (āsiyāva) Slovak: Ázia (sk) f. Slovene: Azija (sl) f. Somali: Aasiya (so) Sotho: Asia (st) Spanish: Asia (es) f. Sundanese: Asia (su) Swahili: Asia (sw) Swedish: Asien (sv) n. Tagalog: Asya (tl) Tajik: Осиё (tg) (Osiyo) Tamil: ஆசியா (ta) Telugu: ఆసియా (te) Tetum: Ázia Thai: เอเชีย (th) (aychia), ทวีปเอเชีย (th) (táwêep aychia) Tibetan: ཡ་ཀྲོའུ་གླིང་ Tok Pisin: Esia (tpi) Turkish: Asya (tr) Turkmen: Aziýa (tk) Udmurt: Азия Ukrainian: Азія (uk) (Ázija) f. Upper Sorbian: Azija (hsb) f. Urdu: ایشیاء (ur) (ešiyā) Uzbek: Osiyo (uz) Venetian: Axia f. Vietnamese: Châu Á (vi) (洲亞), Á Châu (vi) (亞洲) Volapük: Siyop (vo) Welsh: Asia (cy) West Frisian: Aazje (fy) Wolof: Asi (wo) Yiddish: אזיע (yi) (azie)

Related terms

• Asia Minor
• Asian
• Asiaphile
• Asiatic
• Australasia
• Central Asia
• East Asia
• South Asia
• Southeast Asia

See also

• (continents) continent; Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America ^{(Category: en:Continents) [edit]}
• (countries of Asia) country of Asia; Abkhazia, Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, Egypt, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen ^{(Categories: en:Countries, en:Countries of Asia) [edit]}
• (territories of Asia) territory of Asia; Akrotiri and Dhekelia, British Indian Ocean Territory, Christmas Island, Cocos Islands/Keeling Islands, Hong Kong, Macau, Nagorno-Karabakh, Northern Cyprus, Palestinian Authority, South Ossetia, Taiwan ^{(Category: en:Territories of Asia) [edit]}

Anagrams

• aias

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Galician

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Proper noun

Asia f.

1. Asia

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Indonesian

Noun

Asia

1. Asia

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Italian

Wikipedia ^it

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈazja/, [ˈaː.zi̯a]

Proper noun

Asia f.

1. (continent) Asia
2. A female given name

Derived terms

• Asia Minore
• asiatico

See also

• (continents) continente; Africa, America meridionale, America settentrionale, Antartide, Asia, Europa, Oceania ^{(Category: it:Continents) [edit]}

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA: /ˈaː.si.a/

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Proper noun

Asia (genitive Asiae); f, first declension

1. Asia (continent)
2. Asia (Roman province)

Inflection

nominative	Āsia
genitive	Āsiae
dative	Āsiae
accusative	Āsiam
ablative	Āsiā
vocative	Āsia
locative	Āsiae

Related terms

• āsiānus
• āsiāticus
• āsius

Descendants

• English: Asia

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Norwegian

Proper noun

Asia

1. Asia

See also

• (continents) kontinent; Afrika, Antarktis, Asia, Australia, Europa, Nord-Amerika, Sør-Amerika ^{(Category: no:Continents) [edit]}

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈaɕa/

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Proper noun

Asia f.

1. A diminutive of the female given name Joanna, short form of Joasia.

Declension

    declension of Asia

	singular	plural
nominative	Asia	Asie
genitive	Asi	Asi
dative	Asi	Asiom
accusative	Asię	Asie
instrumental	Asią	Asiami
locative	Asi	Asiach
vocative	Asiu	Asie

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Romanian

Wikipedia ^ro

Etymology

Ancient Greek Ἀσία (Asia)

Pronunciation

• IPA: [a.si.a]

Proper noun

Asia f.

1. Asia

Declension

gender f.	uncountable
Nom/Acc	Asia
Gen/Dat	Asiei

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Spanish

Proper noun

Asia f.

1. Asia

See also

• (continents) continente; África, Antártida, Asia, Oceanía, Europa, Norteamérica, Sudamérica ^{(Category: es:Continents) [edit]}