Asia

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

English

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

The former Roman province of Asia

The UNSD divisions of Asia: Northern Asia (blue), Central Asia (purple), Western Asia (green), Southern Asia (red), Eastern Asia (yellow), Southeastern Asia (orange)

Etymology

From Middle English Asia, Asie, from Old French Asie and Latin Asia, from Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓σῐ́ᾱ (Asíā), from Mycenaean Greek 𐀀𐀯𐀹𐀊 (a-si-wi-ja /aswijaː/), in turn probably from Hittite 𒀸𒋗𒉿 (aš-šu-wa /Aššuwa/, “northwest Anatolia”) of uncertain origin. Potentially from a Aegean language family substrate or Akkadian. Possibly a doublet of Assuwa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.ʒə/, /ˈeɪ.ʃə/
• (Indian English) IPA^(key): /ˈeː.ʃja/, /ˈeɪ.ʃja/

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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 mythology) 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 transferred from the place name, of modern usage.
   • 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. An ancient province of the Roman Empire, in modern western Turkey.

Synonyms

• (continent) Chinkland (pejorative)
• (Roman province) Phrygia, Roman Asia

Hypernyms

• (continent): See Eurasia, Afro-Eurasia, Earth

Hyponyms

• See Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia
• (countries of Asia) country of Asia; Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, 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

Related terms

• Asia Minor
• Asian
• Asiaphile
• Asiatic
• Australasia
• Central Asia
• East Asia
• Eurasia
• South Asia
• Southeast Asia
• Southwest Asia
• West Asia
• Western Asia

 

Translations

the continent of Asia

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

  Egyptian Arabic: أسيا‎ f (asya)

  Hijazi Arabic: آسْيَا‎ f (ʾāsya)

  South Levantine Arabic: آسيا‎ (ʔāsya)

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

  Old Armenian: Ասիա (Asia)

• Assamese: এছিয়া (esia)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܲܣܝܼܵܐ‎‎ f (Āsiya)
• Asturian: Asia (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: Asiya (az)
• Balinese: Asia
• Bashkir: Азия (Aziya)
• Basque: Asia (eu)
• Bavarian: Asien
• Belarusian: А́зія f (Ázija)
• Bengali: এশিয়া (bn) (eśia)
• Bikol Central: 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
• Chakma: please add this translation if you can
• Chechen: Ази (Azi)
• 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 (ia tseu)

• Chuvash: Ази (Azi)
• Cornish: Asi
• Corsican: Asia (co)
• Crimean Tatar: Asiya
• Czech: Asie (cs) f
• Danish: Asien (da)
• Dhivehi: އޭޝިއާ‎ (ēšiā)
• Dinka: Athiɛ
• Dutch: Azië (nl) n
• Dzongkha: ཨ་ཤི་ཡ (a shi ya)
• Esperanto: Azio (eo)
• Estonian: Aasia (et)
• Farefare: Asia
• 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

• 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)
• Irish: An Áise f

  Old Irish: Aissia

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

  Central Kurdish: ئاسیا‎ (asya)

  Northern Kurdish: Asya (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Азия (ky) (Aziya)
• Ladin: please add this translation if you can
• Ladino: Asia f
• Lao: ອາຊີ (lo) (ʼā 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)
• Moore: Azi, 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)

• 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
• Plautdietsch: Asien n
• Polish: Azja (pl) f
• Portuguese: Ásia (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਏਸ਼ਿਆ (ēśiā)
• Quechua: Asya
• Rohingya: Asía
• Romanian: Asia (ro) f
• Romansch: Asia f
• Russian: А́зия (ru) f (Ázija)
• Rusyn: А́зія f (Ázija)
• Rwanda-Rundi: Azia
• S'gaw Karen: အ့ၡၢၣ် ( ʼay shuh̀)
• 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 (āsiyāwa)
• 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 (su)
• Swahili: Asia (sw)
• Swedish: Asien (sv) n
• Tagalog: 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)
• Tigrinya: እስያ (ʾəsya)
• Tok Pisin: Esia
• Turkish: Asya (tr)
• Turkmen: Aziýa (tk)
• Tuvan: Азия (Aziya)
• 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) (亞), (rare, obsolete) Á Tế Á (亞細亞)
• 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)
• Western Panjabi: ایشیا‎
• Wolof: Asi (wo)
• Yakut: Азия (Aziya)
• Yiddish: אַזיע‎ (azye)
• Yoruba: Éṣíà
• Zhuang: Yacouh

province of Roman empire

• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܲܣܝܼܵܐ‎‎ f (Āsiya)
• French: Asie (fr) f
• Gothic: 𐌰𐍃𐌹𐌰 f (asia)
• Greek:

  Ancient: Ἀσία f (Asía)

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

asteroid

See also

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

Anagrams

• AIAs, IaaS, Saia, aias

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Asturian

Proper noun

Asia f

1. Asia (a continent)

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Corsican

Etymology

From Latin Asia, from Ancient Greek Ἀσία (Asía). Compare Italian Asia and Spanish Asia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈazja/

Proper noun

Asia f

1. Asia (a continent)

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Galician

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Asia f

1. Asia (a continent)

Related terms

• asiático

See also

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

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German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Āsia.

Proper noun

Asia n (proper noun, strong, genitive Asias or Asia)

1. (historical) Asia (province of the Roman Empire, in the western part of modern-day Turkey, later called Phrygia in the Byzantine era)

Related terms

• Asien

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay Asija, from Dutch Azië, ultimately from Latin Asia, from Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓σῐ́ᾱ (Asíā).

Proper noun

Asia

1. Asia (a continent)

Further reading

• “Asia” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
• Morel, Casparus Johannus (1875), “Asia”, in Nieuw Laagmaleisch-Nederlandsch woordenbooekje: bevattende de meest in gebruik zijnde woorden en spraakwendingen, ten dienste van hen, die zich op de beoefening van het Laagmaleisch, en der Maleisch-sprekenden, die zich op het Nederlandsch willen toeleggen, H. M. van Dorp

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.zja/
• Rhymes: -azja
• Hyphenation: À‧sia

Proper noun

Asia f

1. Asia (a continent)
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)}

Anagrams

• saia

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓σῐ́ᾱ (Asíā).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈaː.si.a/, [ˈäːs̠iä] or IPA^(key): /ˈa.si.a/, [ˈäs̠iä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.si.a/, [ˈäːs̬iä]

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Proper noun

Ā̆sia f sg (genitive Ā̆siae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Ā̆sia
Genitive	Ā̆siae
Dative	Ā̆siae
Accusative	Ā̆siam
Ablative	Ā̆siā
Vocative	Ā̆sia

Related terms

• āsiānus
• āsiāticus
• āsius

Descendants

• → Middle English: Asia, Asie (also via Old French)
  • English: Asia
• Old French: Asie
  • French: Asie

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 (a continent)

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)

Related terms

• asiatic

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.ɕa/

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• Rhymes: -aɕa
• Syllabification: A‧sia

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 (a continent)

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈasja/, [ˈa.sja]
• Homophone: hacia (non-Castilian)

Proper noun

Asia f

1. Asia (a continent)

Derived terms

• Asia del Este
• Asia del Sur
• Asia Menor
• Asia Sudoeste

 

Related terms

• asiático

See also

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

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Swahili

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Asia

1. Asia (a continent)

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]}