Eurasia

See also: Eurásia, and Euràsia

English

Etymology

From Euro- +‎ Asia or blend of Europe +‎ Asia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jʊˈɹeɪ.ʒə/, /jəˈɹeɪ.ʒə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʒə
• Hyphenation: Eur‧a‧sia

Proper noun

Eurasia

2. The largest and most populous landmass on Earth, consisting of Europe and Asia; sometimes also including neighboring islands. [1881]
3. A region comprising parts of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia; the countries of the former Soviet Union and the sphere of influence of Russia.
   • 1997, Stephen K. Batalden, Sandra L. Batalden, The Newly Independent States of Eurasia: Handbook of Former Soviet Republics, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 197:

     This bureaucratic security-minded elite has invariably weathered changes in government by maintaining the personal ties that continue to dominate political life in the newly independent states. Political patronage continues to thrive in Eurasia.

   • 1998, Bruno Coppieters, Alekseĭ Zverev, Dmitriĭ Trenin, Commonwealth and Independence in Post-Soviet Eurasia, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 191:

     The Failure of Regionalism in Eurasia and the Western Ascendancy over Russia's Near Abroad

   • 2014, Piotr Dutkiewicz, Richard Sakwa, Eurasian Integration – The View from Within, Routledge, →ISBN, page 226:

     Turkey is one of the regional actors with ambitions to influence regional developments in Eurasia, which is geographically a very large land mass between Eastern Europe and China.

Synonyms

• Europasia
• (geopolitical region): Soviet Union (historical)

Hypernyms

• Africa-Eurasia
• Afro-Eurasia

Hyponyms

• (landmass): Asia, Europe
  • Central Asia, East Asia, South Asia, Western Asia, Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Northern Europe, Southern Europe, Western Europe
    • Arabian Peninsula, Balkans, Caucasus, Iberia, Indian subcontinent, Levant, Scandinavian Peninsula
  • See also Category:en:Countries of Asia, Category:en:Countries of Europe

Related terms

• Eurasian

Descendants

• → Japanese: ユーラシア (Yūrashia)

Translations

the largest landmass on Earth, consisting of Europe and Asia

• Afrikaans: Eurasië
• Albanian: Eurazi f, Eurazia f (definite)
• Arabic: يُورَاسِيَا f (yūrāsiyā)
• Armenian: Եվրասիա (hy) (Evrasia)
• Azerbaijani: Avrasiya (az)
• Belarusian: Еўра́зія f (Jeŭrázija), Эўра́зія f (Eŭrázija)
• Bengali: ইউরেশিয়া (bn) (iureśiẏa)
• Bulgarian: Евра́зия f (Evrázija)
• Burmese: ယူရေးရှား (yure:hra:)
• Catalan: Euràsia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 歐亞大陸／欧亚大陆 (zh) (Ōuyà dàlù), 歐亞／欧亚 (zh) (Ōu-Yà), 亞歐／亚欧 (zh) (Yà-Ōu)

• Czech: Eurasie (cs) f
• Danish: Eurasien n
• Dutch: Eurazië (nl) n
• Esperanto: Eŭrazio
• Estonian: Euraasia
• Faroese: Evrasia n
• Finnish: Euraasia (fi)
• French: Eurasie (fr) f
• Galician: Eurasia (gl) f
• Georgian: ევრაზია (ka) (evrazia)
• German: Eurasien (de) n
• Greek: Ευρασία (el) f (Evrasía)
• Hebrew: אֵירוֹאַסְיָה (he) f (eiroásia)
• Hindi: यूरेशिया m (yūreśiyā)
• Hungarian: Eurázsia (hu)
• Icelandic: Evrasía (is) f
• Indonesian: Eurasia
• Irish: an Eoráise f
• Italian: Eurasia (it) f
• Japanese: ユーラシア (ja) (Yūrasia), 亜欧 (ja) (あおう, Aō), 欧亜 (ja) (おうあ, Ōa)
• Kazakh: Еуразия (Euraziä)
• Khmer: អឺរ៉ាស៊ី (ʼəɨraasii)
• Korean: 유라시아 (ko) (Yurasia), 아구(亞歐) (ko) (Agu)
• Kyrgyz: Евразия (Yevraziya)
• Lao: ຢູເຣເຊຍ (yū rē sīa)
• Latin: Eurasia f
• Latvian: Eirāzija (lv) f
• Lithuanian: Eurazija (lt) f
• Macedonian: Евроа́зија f (Evroázija)
• Malay: Eurasia
• Maltese: Ewrasja
• Marathi: युरेशिया m (yureśiyā)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Еврази (Jevrazi)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Eurasia (no) n

• Pashto: اوراسيا f (orāsyā)
• Persian: اُوراسیا (orâsiyâ)
• Polish: Eurazja (pl) f
• Portuguese: Eurásia (pt) f
• Romanian: Eurasia f
• Russian: Евра́зия (ru) f (Jevrázija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Евроазија, Евразија f

  Roman: Euroazija f, Eurazija (sh) f

• Slovak: Eurázia f
• Slovene: Evrazija (sl) f
• Spanish: Eurasia (es) f
• Swahili: Urasia
• Swedish: Eurasien (sv) n
• Tajik: Евросиё (Yevrosiyo), Авросиё (Avrosiyo)
• Tatar: Ауразия (Awraziyä)
• Thai: ยูเรเชีย (yuu-ree-chiia)
• Turkish: Avrasya (tr)
• Turkmen: Ýewraziýa
• Ukrainian: Євра́зія (uk) f (Jevrázija)
• Uzbek: Yevrosiyo (uz)
• Vietnamese: lục địa Á-Âu (陸地亞歐), lục địa Âu-Á (陸地歐亞), đại lục Á Âu (大陸亞歐), đại lục Âu Á (大陸歐亞)
• West Frisian: Jeraazje

See also

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

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /eu̯ˈra.si.a/, [ɛu̯ˈräs̠iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eu̯ˈra.si.a/, [eu̯ˈräːs̬iä]

Proper noun

Eurasia f sg (genitive Eurasiae); first declension

1. Eurasia (a supercontinent consisting of Europe and Asia)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only

	singular
nominative	Eurasia
genitive	Eurasiae
dative	Eurasiae
accusative	Eurasiam
ablative	Eurasiā
vocative	Eurasia
locative	Eurasiae

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /euˈɾasja/ [eu̯ˈɾa.sja]
• Rhymes: -asja
• Syllabification: Eu‧ra‧sia

Proper noun

Eurasia f

1. Eurasia (a supercontinent consisting of Europe and Asia)

Related terms

• euroasiático