Asyria

Learned borrowing from Latin Assyria.

• IPA^(key): /aˈsɘ.rja/

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• Rhymes: -ɘrja
• Syllabification: A‧sy‧ria

Asyria f

1. (historical) Assyria (an ancient Semitic Akkadian kingdom and at times an empire, extant from the mid-23rd century BCE to 608 BCE and centred on the Upper Tigris river in northern Mesopotamia (present day northern Iraq, but at its maximum extent including parts of modern Iran, Syria, Israel, Palestine and Egypt))

• Asyria in Polish dictionaries at PWN