Assyria

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Assyria, from Ancient Greek Ἀσσυρία (Assuría), from Akkadian 𒀾𒋗𒊏𒅀 (Aššūrāyu), from 𒀸𒋩𒆠 (Aššūr, “Assur”), its original capital.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈsɪɹi.ə/
• Hyphenation: As‧syr‧ia
• Rhymes: -ɪɹiə

Proper noun

Assyria

1. A Semitic Akkadian kingdom, extant as a nation state from the mid–23rd century BC to 608 BC centred on the Upper Tigris river, in northern Mesopotamia (present day northern Iraq), that came to rule regional empires a number of times through history.

Derived terms

• Assyrian

Translations

Semitic Akkadian kingdom

• Aghwan: 𐔰𐕚𐕒𐕙𐕒𐕡𐕇 (asorux̣)
• Akkadian: 𒆳𒀸𒋩𒆠 (māt aššur^ki), 𒆳𒀀𒋩𒆠 (māt aššur^ki)
• Amharic: አሦር (ʾäśor)
• Arabic: آشُّور‎ (ʾāššūr)
• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܵܫܘܿܪ‎ f (āšor), ܐܵܬܘܿܪ‎ f (ātor)

  Classical Syriac: ܐܬܘܪ‎ (ʾĀṯūr)

• Armenian: Ասորեստան (Asorestan)

  Old Armenian: Ասորեստան (Asorestan)

• Belarusian: Асі́рыя f (Asíryja)
• Burmese: အဆီးရီးယားအင်ပါယာ (a.hci:ri:ya:angpaya)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 亞述 (zh), 亚述 (zh) (Yàshù)

• Czech: Asýrie (cs) f
• Danish: Assyrien
• Dutch: Assyrië (nl), Assyrische Rijk
• Egyptian: (jswr f)
• Finnish: Assyria (fi)
• French: Assyrie (fr) f
• Georgian: ასურეთი (asureti)
• German: Assyrien (de) n
• Greek: Ασσυρία (el) (Assyría)

  Ancient: Ἀσσυρία f (Assuría), Ἀσσυρίη f (Assuríē)

• Hawaiian: ʻAkulia

• Hebrew: אַשּׁוּר‎ (he) (ašur)
• Hungarian: Asszíria (hu)
• Irish: An Aisiria f
• Italian: Assiria f
• Japanese: アッシリア (Asshiria)
• Latin: Assyria f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Assyria

  Nynorsk: Assyria

• Old Church Slavonic: Асоуръ (Asurŭ)
• Persian: آشور‎ (fa) (āšūr), آسورستان‎ (āsurestān)

  Old Persian: 𐎠𐎰𐎢𐎼𐎠 (a-θ-u-r-a /aθura/)

• Polish: Asyria (pl) f
• Portuguese: Assíria (pt) f
• Russian: Асси́рия (ru) f (Assírija)
• Serbo-Croatian: Asírija (sh) f
• Slovak: Asýria f
• Spanish: Asiria
• Swedish: Assyrien n
• Thai: อัสซีเรีย (àtseeriya), จักรวรรดิอัสซีเรีย (jàkgràwàt àtseeriya)
• Tok Pisin: Asiria
• Turkish: Asur (tr)
• Ukrainian: Асси́рія f (Assýrija)

See also

• Babylonia
• Iraq
• Mesopotamia
• Syria

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Finnish

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin Assyria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑsːy(ː)riɑ/, [ˈɑs̠ːy(ː)ˌriɑ]
• Rhymes: -iɑ
• Syllabification^(key): as‧sy‧ri‧a

Proper noun

Assyria

1. Assyria (Semitic Accadian kingdom)

Declension

Inflection of Assyria (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		Assyria	—
genitive		Assyrian	—
partitive		Assyriaa	—
illative		Assyriaan	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Assyria	—
accusative	nom.	Assyria	—
	gen.	Assyrian
genitive		Assyrian	—
partitive		Assyriaa	—
inessive		Assyriassa	—
elative		Assyriasta	—
illative		Assyriaan	—
adessive		Assyrialla	—
ablative		Assyrialta	—
allative		Assyrialle	—
essive		Assyriana	—
translative		Assyriaksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Assyriatta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Assyria (type kulkija)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Assyriani	Assyriamme
2nd person	Assyriasi	Assyrianne
3rd person	Assyriansa

Derived terms

• assyrialainen
• assyriologi
• assyriologia

 

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἀσσυρία (Assuría), from Akkadian 𒀾𒋗𒊏𒅀 (Aššūrāyu), from 𒀸𒋩𒆠 (Aššūr, “Assur”), its original capital.

Proper noun

Assyria f sg (genitive Assyriae); first declension

1. Assyria (ancient kingdom and subsequent Roman province)

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Assyria
Genitive	Assyriae
Dative	Assyriae
Accusative	Assyriam
Ablative	Assyriā
Vocative	Assyria

Descendants

• → Catalan: Assíria
• → Czech: Asýrie
• → Danish: Assyrien
• → Dutch: Assyrië
• → English: Assyria
  • Tok Pisin: Asiria
  • → Hawaiian: ʻAkulia
• → Finnish: Assyria
• → French: Assyrie
• → German: Assyrien
• → Hungarian: Asszíria
• → Irish: Aisiria
• → Italian: Assiria
• → Japanese: アッシリア (Asshiria)
• → Polish: Asyria
• → Portuguese: Assíria
• → Russian: Ассирия (Assirija)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Асирија

  Latin: Asirija

• → Slovak: Asýria
• → Spanish: Asiria
• → Swahili: Assyrien
• → Ukrainian: Асси́рія (Assýrija)

References

• “Assyria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Assyria in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “Assyria”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• “Assyria”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Assyria”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Assyria

1. Assyria

Related terms

• assyrer
• assyrisk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Assyria

1. Assyria

Related terms

• assyrar
• assyrisk

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Assyria f

1. Obsolete spelling of Assíria (used in Portugal until September 1911 and in Brazil until the 1940s).