Asia

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

English

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Asia (the Roman province)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἀσία (Asía), from Mycenaean Greek [script needed] (a-si-wi-ya /aswiyā/, “Aššuwan”), adjective from Hittite 𒀸𒋗𒉿 (Aššuwa, “northwest Anatolia”) or Akkadian 𒀀𒋗 (“to go out, to rise”), a reference to the rising sun, hence "land of the sunrise."

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪʒə/, /ˈeɪʃə/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʒə, -eɪʃə

Proper noun

Asia

1. A continent located east of Europe, west of the Pacific Ocean, north of Oceania and south of the Arctic Ocean.
2. (Greek God) A daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, the wife of the Titan, Iapetus, and mother of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus and Menoetius.
3. (astronomy) Short for 67 Asia, a main belt asteroid.
4. 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.

5. (historical) A province of the Roman Empire located in what is now western Turkey.

Translations

the continent of Asia

• Afrikaans: Asië
• Albanian: Azia (sq) f, Azi f
• Arabic: آسيا f (āsiya)

  Egyptian Arabic: أسيا f (asya)

• Aragonese: Asia f
• Aramaic: ܐܣܝܐ
• Armenian: Ասիա (Asia)

  Old Armenian: Ասիա (Asia)

• Assamese: এছিয়া (echiẏā)
• Asturian: Asia (ast) f
• Azeri: Asiya (az)
• Basque: Asia (eu)
• Bavarian: Asien
• Belarusian: А́зія f (Ázija)
• Bengali: এশিয়া (bn) (eshiẏa)
• Bikol Central: ^{(please verify)} Asya
• Bishnupriya Manipuri: এশিয়া
• Brahui: Eşíá
• Breton: Azia (br) f
• Bulgarian: А́зия (bg) f (Ázija)
• Burmese: အာရှတိုက် (ahra.tuik)
• Catalan: Àsia (ca) f
• Cebuano: Asya
• Cherokee: ᎠᏏᎠ (asia), ᏓᎶᏂᎨᏍᏛ (dalonigesdv)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 亞洲, 亚洲 (aa3 zau1)

  Gan: 亞洲, 亚洲 (Nga jiu)

  Hakka: 亞洲, 亚洲 (Â-chû)

  Mandarin: 亞洲 (zh), 亚洲 (zh) (Yàzhōu), 亞細亞 (zh), 亚细亚 (zh) (Yàxìyà) (dated)

  Min Dong: 亞洲, 亚洲 (Ā-ciŭ)

  Min Nan: 亞洲 (zh-min-nan), 亚洲 (zh-min-nan) (A-chiu)

  Wu: 亞洲, 亚洲 (hhia tseu)

• Chuvash: Ази (Azi)
• Cornish: Asi
• Crimean Tatar: Asiya
• Czech: Asie (cs) f
• Danish: Asien (da)
• Dutch: Azië (nl) n
• Esperanto: Azio (eo)
• Estonian: Aasia (et)
• Faroese: Asia
• Finnish: Aasia (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: Asia f
• French: Asie (fr) f
• Friulian: Asie f
• Galician: Asia (gl) f
• Georgian: აზია (azia)
• German: Asien (de) n
• Gothic: 𐌰𐍃𐌹𐌰 (asia)
• Greek: Ασία (el) f (Asía)
• Guaraní: Asya
• Gujarati: એશિયા (gu) (eśiyā)
• Haitian Creole: Azi
• Hawaiian: ʻĀkia
• Hebrew: אסיה (he) f (asia)
• Hindi: एशिया (hi) (ešiyā)
• Hungarian: Ázsia (hu)
• Icelandic: Asía (is)
• Ido: Azia (io)
• Igbo: Asia
• Ilocano: Asia
• Indonesian: Asia
• Interlingua: Asia (ia)
• Irish: an Áise f
• Italian: Asia (it) f
• Japanese: アジア (ja) (あじあ, Ajia), (dated) 亜細亜 (あじあ, Ajia)
• Javanese: Asia
• Jèrriais: Âsie f
• Kabyle: Asya
• Kannada: ಏಷ್ಯಾ (ēṣyā)
• Kapampangan: Asia
• Kashubian: Azëjô
• Kazakh: Азия (kk) (Azïya)
• Khmer: អាស៊ី (km) (qasi)
• Kinyarwanda: Azia
• Korean: 아시아 (ko) (asia)
• Kurdish: Asya (ku)

  Sorani: ئاسیا

• Kyrgyz: Азия (Aziya)
• Kölsch: Aasije
• Ladino: Asia f
• Lao: ອາຊີ (lo) ('ā sī)
• Latin: Asia (la) f

• Latvian: Āzija (lv) f
• Ligurian: Asia
• Limburgish: Azië (li)
• Lingala: Azía
• Lithuanian: Azija (lt) f
• Low German: Asien
• Lower Sorbian: Azija f
• Luxembourgish: Asien (lb)
• Macedonian: А́зија f (Ázija)
• Malagasy: Azia (mg)
• Malay: Asia
• Malayalam: ഏഷ്യ (ml) (ēṣya)
• Maltese: Asja f
• Marathi: आशिया (āśiyā)
• Mazanderani: آسیا
• Mongolian: Ази (mn) (Azi)
• Nahuatl: Axia
• Neapolitan: Asia f
• Nepali: एशिया (eśiyā)
• Newari: एसिया (esiyā)
• Norman: Âsie
• Northern Sami: Ásia
• Norwegian: Asia (no)
• Novial: Asia
• Occitan: Asia (oc) f
• Old Church Slavonic: Асїꙗ f (Asija)
• Old English: Asia
• Oriya: ଏସିଯା (ēsiyā)
• Oromo: Asia
• Ossetian: Ази (Azi)
• Pangasinan: Asia
• Pashto: آسيا (ps)
• Pennsylvania German: Asie
• Persian: آسیا (fa) (Âsiyâ)
• Piedmontese: Asia f
• Polish: Azja (pl) f
• Portuguese: Ásia (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਏਸ਼ਿਆ (ešiā)
• Quechua: Asya
• Romanian: Asia (ro) f
• Russian: А́зия (ru) f (Ázija)
• Samoan: Asia
• Sanskrit: एशिया (eśiyā)
• Scots: Asie
• Scottish Gaelic: Àisia f, Aisia
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: А̑зија f

  Roman: Ȃzija f

• Sicilian: Asia f
• Sindhi: ايشيا
• Sinhalese: ආසියාව (āsiyāva)
• Slovak: Ázia f
• Slovene: Ázija f
• Somali: Aasiya
• Sotho: Asia
• Spanish: Asia (es) f
• Sundanese: Asia
• Swahili: Asia (sw)
• Swedish: Asien (sv) n
• Tagalog: Ásya, Asya (tl)
• Tajik: Осиё (Osiyo)
• Tamil: ஆசியா (ta) (āciyā)
• Tatar: Азия (Aziya)
• Telugu: ఆసియా (te) (āsiyā)
• Tetum: Ázia
• Thai: เอเชีย (th) (aychia), ทวีปเอเชีย (th) (táwêep aychia)
• Tibetan: ཡ་ཀྲོའུ་གླིང་ (ya kro'u gling)
• Tok Pisin: Esia
• Turkish: Asya (tr)
• Turkmen: Aziýa (tk)
• Udmurt: Азия (Azija)
• Ukrainian: А́зія f (Ázija)
• Upper Sorbian: Azija (hsb) f
• Urdu: ایشیاء (ur) (ešiyā)
• Uzbek: Osiyo (uz)
• Venetian: Axia f
• Vietnamese: Châu Á (vi) (洲亞), Á Châu (亞洲)
• Volapük: Siyop (vo)
• Welsh: Asia (cy)
• West Frisian: Aazje (fy)
• Wolof: Asi
• Yiddish: אַזיע (azye)

province of Roman empire

• French: Asie f
• Parthian: 𐭀𐭎𐭀𐭉𐭀 𐭇𐭔𐭕𐭓 (āsāyā xšahr)

• Polish: Azja (pl) f

Asteroid

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)}
• (countries of Asia) country of Asia; Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, Egypt, 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)}

Anagrams

• aias

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Asturian

Wikipedia ^ast

Proper noun

Asia f

1. Asia (the continent of Asia)

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Galician

Wikipedia ^gl

Proper noun

Asia f

1. Asia

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Indonesian

Proper noun

Asia

1. Asia

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Italian

Wikipedia ^it

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /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)}

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈaː.si.a/

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Proper noun

Asia f (genitive Asiae); first declension

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

Inflection

First declension with locative.

Number	Singular
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)}

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈa.ɕa]

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Proper noun

Asia f

1. A diminutive of the female given name Joanna

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

External links

• “Asia” in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Asia f

1. obsolete spelling of Ásia

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Romanian

Wikipedia ^ro

Etymology

Ancient Greek Ἀσία (Asia)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [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)}