Namasia

English

Alternative forms

• Namahsia (Wade–Giles)
• Namaxia (Hanyu Pinyin)

Etymology

From the Tongyong Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 那瑪夏 (Nàmǎsià).

Proper noun

Namasia

1. A district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
   • 2014, Steven Crook, Taiwan (Bradt Travel Guides)‎^[1], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 68:

     Bunun Ear-shooting Festival (late April or early May) This is one of Taiwan's most popular aboriginal festivals. The precise date varies from year to year and events are held in a number of locations including Lidao and Namasia.

   • 2017, Michiko Banba, Rajib Shaw, Land Use Management in Disaster Risk Reduction: Practice and Cases from a Global Perspective‎^[2], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 275:

     The most catastrophic damage occurred in Siaolin, Chiahsien township and Nansalu village, Namasia township.

   • 2017 April 3, George Liao, “Camp and watch fireflies in southern Taiwan’s Namasia mountainous area”, in Taiwan News‎^[3], archived from the original on 12 August 2017:

     As a place well-known for watching fireflies, the district office of Namasia in Kaohsiung City has planned out six routes for watching fireflies as well as other activities in the mountainous district, according to the district office.
     Because of its location at a relatively higher altitude away from light pollution, Namasia is an ideal place for watching fireflies during the best firefly watching season from the end of March to late April. […]
     Namasia nestles at northwest corner of Kaohsiung; it is one of the three aboriginal districts in the city.

   • 2018, Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd, The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality‎^[4], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 665:

     Saaroa is spoken in Taoyuan District and Namasia District, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan. There are around 400 members of Saaroa community. Saaroa is a moribund Formosan language, with fewer than ten fluent speakers.

   • 2019 March 27, Zih-yin Chen, “Rejuvenating the Hla'alua Language”, in Hou Ya-ting, transl., 聯合新聞網‎^[5], archived from the original on 2019-10-24:

     Two of Kaohsiung's most rugged districts, Taoyuan and Namasia, are high above sea level, and home to members of the indigenous Bunun, Paiwan, and Hla'alua tribes.

   • 2020, Wang Shu-fen, Hsiao Po-yang, Kuo Chih-hsuan, Lee Hsin-Yin, “Heavy rain causes power outages, traffic disruptions in Taiwan”, in Focus Taiwan‎^[6]:

     The heavy rain and winds downed power lines in Kaohsiung City in southern Taiwan, leaving all of Namasia District without electricity Friday morning, but the power was restored in phases before noon.

   • 2021 November 30, “Delta's Sponsored Green Building for Namasia Minquan Elementary School in Taiwan Becomes Asia's First LEED-certified Zero Energy Academic Campus”, in PR Newswire‎^[7], archived from the original on 30 November 2021:

     Since the launch of the Minquan Elementary School in Namasia more than 10 years ago, the student body has doubled, but its electricity intensity has declined enough to achieve net-zero energy consumption for three consecutive years thanks to Delta's energy-saving solutions, which include an energy storage system to store excess solar energy during the day for night lighting and for the operations of IT equipment.

   • 2023 August 5, Hung Hsueh-kuang, Kuan Tuan-ping, Yu Hsiao-han, Pan Tzu-yu, Ko Lin, “Kaohsiung residents evacuated due to torrential rain”, in Focus Taiwan‎^[8], archived from the original on 05 August 2023, Society‎^[9]:

     As of 9 a.m. Saturday, 568 people from Namasia, 356 from Taoyuan and 21 from Maolin had been evacuated to nearby shelters, the Council of Indigenous Peoples said in a statement.
     Based on data provided by Kaohsiung's weather station, Namasia had accumulated over 210 millimeters of rainfall in 24 hours as of 9:30 a.m. Saturday, while other districts had also seen rising rain levels in a short period of time.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Namasia.

Translations

district in southern Taiwan

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 那瑪夏／那玛夏 (zh) (Nàmǎxià)

Further reading

• Namasia at Google Ngram Viewer

Anagrams

• manaias