آسیا

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓σῐ́ᾱ (Ăsĭ́ā, “Asia”).

آسیا • (asiya)

1. Asia (the largest continent, located between Europe and the Pacific Ocean)
2. (historical) Asia (an ancient province of the Roman Empire in modern western Turkey, existing between 133 BC (during the Roman Republic) and the 7th century AD)

• آسیالو (Asyalı, “Asiatic”)

• Turkish: Asya

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “Asya”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 327
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آسیا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 18
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آسیا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 116

Borrowed from Persian آسیا (âsiyâ).

آسیا • (asya)

1. mill, a grinding apparatus for substances such as grains or seeds

   Synonyms: دگرمن (değirmen), رحی (raha)

2. mill, a building housing such a grinding apparatus

• Turkish: asya

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “asya”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 326
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آسیا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[3] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 18
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Mola”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1067
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آسیا”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[5], Vienna, column 226
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آسیا”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 116

آسیا • (âsiyâ)

1. Asia (the largest continent, located between Europe and the Pacific Ocean)

   Meronyms: آسیای جنوبی (âsiyâ-ye jonubi), آسیای شرقی (âsiyâ-ye šarqi), آسیای غربی (âsiyâ-ye ġarbi)

2. (historical) Asia (an ancient province of the Roman Empire in modern western Turkey, existing between 133 BC (during the Roman Republic) and the 7th century AD)

• آسیایی (âsiyâyi)

آسیا • (âsiyâ)

1. alternative form of آسیاب (âsiyâb)