Assyria

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Assyria

2. (historical) 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).

Derived terms

• Assyrian

Translations

Semitic Akkadian kingdom

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

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

  Classical Syriac: ܐܬܘܪ (ʾĀṯūr)

• Armenian: Ասորեստան (Asorestan)

  Old Armenian: Ասորեստան (Asorestan)

• Azerbaijani: Assuriya
• Basque: Asiria
• Belarusian: Асі́рыя f (Asíryja)
• Bulgarian: Асирия f (Asirija)
• Burmese: အဆီးရီးယားအင်ပါယာ (a.hci:ri:ya:angpaya)
• Catalan: Assíria f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 亞述 / 亚述 (zh) (Yàshù)

• Czech: Asýrie (cs) f
• Danish: Assyrien
• Dutch: Assyrië (nl), Assyrische Rijk
• Egyptian: (jswr f)
• Estonian: Assüüria
• Finnish: Assyria (fi)
• French: Assyrie (fr) f
• Galician: Asiria (gl) 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)
• Icelandic: Assyría f
• Indonesian: Asyur
• Irish: An Aisiria f
• Italian: Assiria f
• Japanese: アッシリア (Asshiria)
• Kazakh: Ассирия (Assiriä)
• Korean: 아시리아 (asiria)
• Kyrgyz: Ассирия (Assiriya)
• Lao: ອັດຊີເຣຍ (ʼat sī rīa)
• Latin: Assyria f
• Latvian: Asīrija f
• Lithuanian: Asirija f
• Macedonian: Асирија f (Asirija)
• Malay: Assyria
• Marathi: असिरिया m (asiriyā)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Assyria

  Nynorsk: Assyria

• Old Church Slavonic: Асоуръ (Asurŭ)
• Persian: آشور (fa) (âšur), آسورستان (âsurestân)

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

• Polish: Asyria (pl) f
• Portuguese: Assíria (pt) f
• Romanian: Asiria f
• Russian: Асси́рия (ru) f (Assírija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Аси́рија f

  Roman: Asírija (sh) f

• Shan: ဢႃႇသီးရီးယႃး (ʼàa síi ríi yáa)
• Slovak: Asýria f
• Slovene: Asirija 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

Finnish

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin Assyria.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑsːy(ː)riɑ/, [ˈɑ̝s̠ːy(ː)ˌriɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -iɑ
• Syllabification^(key): As‧sy‧ri‧a
• Hyphenation^(key): As‧sy‧ria

Proper noun

Assyria

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))

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	—
abessive		Assyriatta	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of Assyria (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Assyriani — accusative nom. Assyriani — gen. Assyriani genitive Assyriani — partitive Assyriaani — inessive Assyriassani — elative Assyriastani — illative Assyriaani — adessive Assyriallani — ablative Assyrialtani — allative Assyrialleni — essive Assyrianani — translative Assyriakseni — abessive Assyriattani — instructive — — comitative — — second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Assyriasi — accusative nom. Assyriasi — gen. Assyriasi genitive Assyriasi — partitive Assyriaasi — inessive Assyriassasi — elative Assyriastasi — illative Assyriaasi — adessive Assyriallasi — ablative Assyrialtasi — allative Assyriallesi — essive Assyrianasi — translative Assyriaksesi — abessive Assyriattasi — instructive — — comitative — — first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Assyriamme — accusative nom. Assyriamme — gen. Assyriamme genitive Assyriamme — partitive Assyriaamme — inessive Assyriassamme — elative Assyriastamme — illative Assyriaamme — adessive Assyriallamme — ablative Assyrialtamme — allative Assyriallemme — essive Assyrianamme — translative Assyriaksemme — abessive Assyriattamme — instructive — — comitative — — second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Assyrianne — accusative nom. Assyrianne — gen. Assyrianne genitive Assyrianne — partitive Assyriaanne — inessive Assyriassanne — elative Assyriastanne — illative Assyriaanne — adessive Assyriallanne — ablative Assyrialtanne — allative Assyriallenne — essive Assyriananne — translative Assyriaksenne — abessive Assyriattanne — instructive — — comitative — — third-person possessor singular plural nominative Assyriansa — accusative nom. Assyriansa — gen. Assyriansa genitive Assyriansa — partitive Assyriaansa — inessive Assyriassaan Assyriassansa — elative Assyriastaan Assyriastansa — illative Assyriaansa — adessive Assyriallaan Assyriallansa — ablative Assyrialtaan Assyrialtansa — allative Assyrialleen Assyriallensa — essive Assyrianaan Assyrianansa — translative Assyriakseen Assyriaksensa — abessive Assyriattaan Assyriattansa — instructive — — comitative — —

Derived terms

• assyrialainen
• assyriologi
• assyriologia

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [asˈsy.ri.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [asˈsiː.ri.a]

Proper noun

Assyria f sg (genitive Assyriae); first declension

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))

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

	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 script: Асирија

  Latin script: 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

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Assyria

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))

Related terms

• assyrer
• assyrisk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Assyria

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))

Related terms

• assyrar
• assyrisk

Portuguese

Proper noun

Assyria f

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of Assíria.