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Asia

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)

Proper noun

Asia

  1. 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.
  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.

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Asturian

Proper noun

Asia f

  1. Asia (the continent of Asia)

Corsican

Proper noun

Asia

  1. Asia

Galician

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Proper noun

Asia f

  1. Asia

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Indonesian

Proper noun

Asia

  1. Asia

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈazja/, [ˈaː.zi̯a]

Proper noun

Asia f

  1. (continent) Asia
  2. A female given name

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Latin

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Asia f (genitive Asiae); first declension

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

Inflection

First declension, with locative.

Case Singular
nominative Āsia
genitive Āsiae
dative Āsiae
accusative Āsiam
ablative Āsiā
vocative Āsia
locative Āsiae

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Norwegian

Proper noun

Asia

  1. Asia

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Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈa.ɕa/

Proper noun

Asia f

  1. A diminutive of the female given name Joanna

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Asia f

  1. Obsolete spelling of Ásia

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἀσία (Asía).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈa.si.a]

Proper noun

Asia f

  1. Asia (a continent)

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Romansch

Proper noun

Asia f

  1. Asia

Spanish

Proper noun

Asia f

  1. Asia

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Swahili

Proper noun

Asia

  1. Asia

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

Finnish

(index as)

Noun

asia

  1. thing, matter, issue, business
    Kuuntele, mitä minulla on asiaa.
    Please listen to the matter I have to talk to you about.
    Tämä ei ole sinun asiasi!
    This is none of your business!

Declension

Inflection of asia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative asia asiat
genitive asian asioiden
asioitten
partitive asiaa asioita
illative asiaan asioihin
singular plural
nominative asia asiat
accusative nom. asia asiat
gen. asian
genitive asian asioiden
asioitten
asiainrare
partitive asiaa asioita
inessive asiassa asioissa
elative asiasta asioista
illative asiaan asioihin
adessive asialla asioilla
ablative asialta asioilta
allative asialle asioille
essive asiana asioina
translative asiaksi asioiksi
instructive asioin
abessive asiatta asioitta
comitative asioineen

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Latin

Pronunciation

Noun

asia f (genitive asiae); first declension

  1. A kind of rye

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative asia asiae
genitive asiae asiārum
dative asiae asiīs
accusative asiam asiās
ablative asiā asiīs
vocative asia asiae

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