Asia

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

English

The continent of Asia, by the standard definition delimited by the Urals.

Asia (the Roman province)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἀσῐ́ᾱ (Asíā), from Mycenaean Greek 𐀀𐀯𐀹𐀊 (a-si-wi-ja /aswijaː/), in turn probably from Hittite 𒀸𒋗𒉿 (Aššuwa, “northwest Anatolia”) of uncertain origin, but possibly from either:

• Akkadian 𒀀𒋗 (“to go out, to rise”), a reference to the rising sun, hence “land of the sunrise.”
• a proposed Aegean language family word "asis", meaning "muddy" or "silty", in reference to the silty eastern shores of the Aegean sea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪʒə/, /ˈeɪʃə/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʒə, -eɪʃə

Proper noun

Asia

2. A continent located east of Europe (typically delimited by the Urals), west of the Pacific Ocean, north of Oceania and south of the Arctic Ocean.
3. (Greek God) A daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, the wife of the Titan, Iapetus, and mother of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus and Menoetius.
4. (astronomy) 67 Asia, a main belt asteroid.
5. A female given name of modern usage, from the continent.
   • 1994 Blake Nelson, Girl: A Novel, Simon&Schuster, →ISBN, page 81

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

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

Hyponyms

• (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

Related terms

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

 

Translations

the continent of Asia

• Adyghe: Азие (Āzie)
• Afrikaans: Asië
• Albanian: Azia (sq) f, Azi f
• Amharic: እስያ (ʾəsya)
• Arabic: آسِيَا‎ f (ʾāsiyā)

  Egyptian Arabic: أسيا‎ f (asya)

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

  Old Armenian: Ասիա (Asia)

• Assamese: এছিয়া (esia)
• Asturian: Asia (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: Asiya (az)
• Balinese: please add this translation if you can
• Bashkir: Азия (Aziya)
• Basque: Asia (eu)
• Bavarian: Asien
• Belarusian: А́зія f (Ázija)
• Bengali: এশিয়া (bn) (eśiya)
• Bikol Central: ^{(please verify)} Asya
• Bishnupriya Manipuri: এশিয়া
• Brahui: Eşíá
• Breton: Azia (br) f
• Bulgarian: А́зия (bg) f (Ázija)
• Burmese: အာရှ (my) (ahra.)
• Catalan: Àsia (ca) f
• Cebuano: Asya
• Chechen: please add this translation if you can
• Cherokee: ᎠᏏᎠ (asia), ᏓᎶᏂᎨᏍᏛ (dalonigesdv)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 亞洲, 亚洲 (aa³ zau¹)

  Dungan: Азия (Azii͡a)

  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
• Corsican: Asia (co)
• Crimean Tatar: Asiya
• Czech: Asie (cs) f
• Danish: Asien (da)
• Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
• Dinka: Athiɛ
• Dutch: Azië (nl) n
• Dzongkha: ཨ་ཤི་ཡ (a shi ya)
• 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

  Central Franconian: Aasije

• Gothic: 𐌰𐍃𐌹𐌰 (asia)
• Greek: Ασία (el) f (Asía)

  Ancient: Ἀσία f (Asía)

• Greenlandic: Asia
• Guaraní: Asya
• Gujarati: એશિયા (gu) (eśiyā)
• Haitian Creole: Azi
• Hausa: Asiya
• Hawaiian: ʻĀkia
• Hebrew: אַסְיָה‎ (he) f (ásya)
• Hindi: एशिया (hi) (eśiyā)
• Hungarian: Ázsia (hu)
• Icelandic: Asía (is)
• Ido: Azia (io)
• Igbo: Asia
• Ilocano: Asia
• Indonesian: Asia (id)
• Interlingua: Asia (ia)
• Interlingue: Asia
• Irish: An Áise f

  Old Irish: Aissia

• Italian: Asia (it) f
• Japanese: アジア (ja) (Ajia), (dated) 亜細亜 (あじあ, Ajia)
• Javanese: Asia
• Kabyle: Asya
• Kannada: ಏಷ್ಯಾ (kn) (ēṣyā)
• Kapampangan: Asia
• Kashmiri: ایشیا‎ (yśyā)
• Kashubian: Azëjô f
• Kazakh: Азия (kk) (Azïya)
• Khmer: អាស៊ី (km) (ʾaazii)
• Komi-Permyak: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 아시아 (Asia)
• Kurdish: Asya (ku)

  Sorani: ئاسیا‎ (ku) (asya)

• Kyrgyz: Азия (ky) (Aziya)
• Ladin: please add this translation if you can
• 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
• Luxembourgish: Asien (lb)
• Macedonian: А́зија f (Ázija)
• Malagasy: Azia (mg)
• Malay: Asia
• Malayalam: ഏഷ്യ (ml) (ēṣya)
• Maltese: Asja f
• Manx: Yn Aishey
• Marathi: आशिया (āśiyā)
• Mazanderani: آسیا‎
• Mongolian: Ази (mn) (Azi)
• Nahuatl: Axia
• Neapolitan: Asia f
• Nepali: एशिया (eśiyā)
• Newar: एसिया (esiyā)
• Norman: Âsie f (Jersey)
• Northern Sami: Ásia
• Norwegian: Asia (no)

  Nynorsk: Asia (nn)

• Novial: Asia
• Occitan: Asia (oc) f
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: Асїꙗ f (Asija)

• Old East Slavic: Асиꙗ (Asija)
• Old English: Asia
• Oriya: ଏସିଯା (esija), ଏସିଆ (esia)
• Oromo: Asia
• Ossetian: Ази (Azi)
• Pangasinan: Asia
• Pashto: آسيا‎ (ps) f (āsyã), اېشيا‎ f (ešyā)
• Pennsylvania German: Asie
• Persian: آسیا‎ (fa) (âsiyâ)
• Piedmontese: Asia f
• Polish: Azja (pl) f
• Portuguese: Ásia (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਏਸ਼ਿਆ (eshiā)
• Quechua: Asya
• Romanian: Asia (ro) f
• Romansch: Asia f
• Russian: А́зия (ru) f (Ázija)
• Rusyn: А́зія f (Ázija)
• Rwanda-Rundi: Azia
• Samoan: Asia
• Sanskrit: एशिया (eśiyā)
• Santali: ᱮᱥᱤᱭᱟ (esiya)
• Scots: Asie
• Scottish Gaelic: Àisia f, Aisia
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: А̑зија f

  Roman: Ȃzija (sh) f

• Sicilian: Asia f
• Silesian: Azyjo f
• Sindhi: ايشيا‎
• Sinhalese: ආසියාව (āsiyāva)
• Slovak: Ázia (sk) f
• Slovene: Ázija (sl) f
• Somali: Aasiya (so)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Azija f

  Upper Sorbian: Azija (hsb) f

• Sotho: Asia
• Spanish: Asia (es) f
• Sundanese: Asia
• Swahili: Asia (sw)
• Swedish: Asien (sv) n
• Tagalog: Ásya, Asya (tl)
• Tajik: Осиё (tg) (Osiyo)
• Tamil: ஆசியா (ta) (āciyā)
• Tatar: Азия (Aziya)
• Telugu: ఆసియా (te) (āsiyā)
• Tetum: Ázia
• Thai: เอเชีย (th) (ee-chiia)
• Tibetan: ཡ་ཀྲོའུ་གླིང (ya kro'u gling)
• Tok Pisin: Esia
• Turkish: Asya (tr)
• Turkmen: Aziýa (tk)
• Tuvan: please add this translation if you can
• Udmurt: Азия (Azija)
• Ukrainian: А́зія (uk) f (Ázija)
• Urdu: ایشیاء‎ (eśiyā'), ایشیا‎ (ur) (eśiyā)
• Uyghur: ئاسىيا‎ (asiya)
• Uzbek: Osiyo (uz)
• Venetian: Axia (vec) f
• Veps: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: Châu Á (vi) (洲亞), Á Châu (亞洲), Á (vi)
• Volapük: Siyop (vo)
• Votic: please add this translation if you can
• Võro: please add this translation if you can
• Walloon: Azeye
• Welsh: Asia (cy)
• West Frisian: Aazje (fy)
• Wolof: Asi
• Yakut: Азия (Aziya)
• Yiddish: אַזיע‎ (azye)
• Zhuang: Yacouh

province of Roman empire

• French: Asie (fr) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: Ἀσία f (Asía)

• Interlingue: Asia

• Parthian: 𐭀𐭎𐭀𐭉𐭀 𐭇𐭔𐭕𐭓‎ (āsāyā xšahr)
• Polish: Azja (pl) f
• Portuguese: Ásia (pt) f
• Russian: А́зия (ru) f (Ázija)

Asteroid

See also

• (continents) continent; Africa, America, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America ^{(Category: en:Continents)}

Anagrams

• AIAs, IaaS, Saia, aias

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Asturian

Proper noun

Asia f

1. Asia (the continent of Asia)

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Corsican

Proper noun

Asia

1. Asia

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Galician

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Asia f

1. Asia

See also

• (continents) continente; África, América, Antártida, Asia, Oceanía, Europa, Norteamérica/América do Norte, Suramérica/América do Sur ^{(Category: gl:Continents)}

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Indonesian

Proper noun

Asia

1. Asia

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Italian

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, 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

Āsia f sg (genitive Āsiae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Āsia
Genitive	Āsiae
Dative	Āsiae
Accusative	Āsiam
Ablative	Āsiā
Vocative	Āsia
Locative	Āsiae

Related terms

• āsiānus
• āsiāticus
• āsius

Descendants

• English: Asia

References

• Asia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Asia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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Norwegian

Proper noun

Asia

1. Asia

Derived terms

• Sørøst-Asia (Bokmål)

See also

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

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Occitan

Proper noun

Asia f

1. Asia (a continent)

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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

Further reading

• 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

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀσία (Asía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈa.si.a]

Proper noun

Asia f

1. Asia (a continent)

Declension

declension of Asia (singular only)

	singular
f gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) Asie	Asia
genitive/dative	(unei) Asii	Asiei
vocative	Asie, Asio

See also

• (continents) continent; Africa, America, America de Nord, America de Sud, Antarctica, Asia, Europa, Oceania ^{(Category: ro:Continents)}

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Romansch

Proper noun

Asia f

1. Asia

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈasja/
• Homophone: hacia (non-Castilian)

Proper noun

Asia f

1. Asia

Related terms

• asiático

See also

• (continents) continente; África, América, Antártida, Asia, Oceanía, Europa, Norteamérica/América del Norte, Sudamérica/Suramérica/América del Sur ^{(Category: es:Continents)}

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Swahili

Proper noun

Asia

1. Asia

See also

• (continents) mabara; Afrika (“Africa”), Amerika (“America”), Antaktika (“Antarctica”) or Antaktiki, Asia (“Asia”), Ulaya (“Europe”) or Uropa, Amerika ya Kaskazini (“North America”), Australia (“Oceania”), Amerika ya Kusini (“South America”) ^{(Category: sw:Continents) [edit]}