Icelandic word senses marked with place category "Asia"
Parent categories: Earth, Eurasia, Nature
Subcategories: Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, Countries in Asia, Cyprus, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Nepal, Oman, Persia, Philippines, Regions of Asia, Rivers in Asia, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Soviet Union, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam
Total 56 word senses
- Afganistan (Proper name) Afghanistan (A landlocked country between Central Asia and South Asia)
- Armenía (Proper name) Armenia (A country in the South Caucasus region of Asia, sometimes considered to belong politically to Europe)
- Aserbaídsjan (Proper name) Azerbaijan (a country in the South Caucasus, Asia and Europe; official name: Poblacht na hAsarbaiseáine)
- Bangladess (Proper name) Bangladesh (a country in South Asia)
- Barein (Proper name) Bahrain (an archipelago, island, and country in Western Asia, in the Persian Gulf)
- Brúnei (Proper name) Brunei (a country in Southeast Asia)
- Búrma (Proper name) Burma (a country in Southeast Asia)
- Bútan (Proper name) Bhutan (a country in South Asia, in the Himalayas)
- Egyptaland (Proper name) Egypt (a country in North Africa and Western Asia)
- Filippseyjar (Proper name) Philippines (a country in Southeast Asia)
- Georgía (Proper name) Georgia (A transcontinental country in the Caucasus region of Europe and Asia, on the coast of the Black Sea, often considered to belong politically to Europe)
- Indland (Proper name) India (a country in South Asia)
- Indónesía (Proper name) Indonesia (a country and archipelago in maritime Southeast Asia)
- Japan (Proper name) Japan (a country in East Asia)
- Jórdan (Proper name) Jordan (a river in Western Asia, in the Middle East, that empties into the Dead Sea, flowing through Israel, the Golan Heights, the West Bank and Jordan)
- Jórdanía (Proper name) Jordan (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East)
- Kambódía (Proper name) Cambodia (a country in Southeast Asia)
- Kasakstan (Proper name) Kazakhstan (a country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe)
- Kirgistan (Proper name) Kyrgyzstan (a country in Central Asia, bordering on Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and China)
- Kýpur (Proper name) Cyprus (an island and country in the Mediterranean Sea, normally considered politically part of Southeast Europe but geographically part of Western Asia)
- Lappland (Proper name) Lapland, Lappland
- Líbanon (Proper name) Lebanon (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East)
- Malasía (Proper name) Malaysia (a country in Southeast Asia)
- Maldíveyjar (Proper name) Maldives (a country in southern Asia)
- Mikligarður (Proper name) Istanbul (a city in Turkey)
- Moskva (Proper name) Moscow (a federal city, the capital of Russia)
- Nepal (Proper name) Nepal (a country in South Asia, located between China and India)
- Pétursborg (Proper name) Saint Petersburg, Petersburg (a federal city of Russia)
- Rússland (Proper name) Russia (A transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and North Asia)
- Sameinuðu arabísku furstadæmin (Proper name) United Arab Emirates (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East)
- Sankti Pétursborg (Proper name) Saint Petersburg (a federal city of Russia)
- Singapúr (Proper name) Singapore (an island and city-state in Southeast Asia, located off the southernmost tip of the Malay Peninsula; a former British crown colony)
- Sovétríkin (Proper name) the Soviet Union
- Suðaustur-Asía (Proper name) Southeast Asia (a region of Asia)
- Suður-Kórea (Proper name) South Korea (a country in Asia)
- Sádí-Arabía (Proper name) Saudi Arabia (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East)
- Síbería (Proper name) Siberia
- Sýrland (Proper name) Syria (a country in West Asia, in the Middle East)
- Tadsjikistan (Proper name) Tajikistan (a country in Central Asia)
- Taíland (Proper name) Thailand (a country in Southeast Asia)
- Tyrkland (Proper name) Turkey (a country located in Thrace in southeastern Europe and Anatolia in southwestern Asia)
- Tævan (Proper name) Taiwan (an island and partly-recognized country in East Asia)
- Túrkmenistan (Proper name) Turkmenistan (a country in Central Asia)
- Vestur-Asía (Proper name) West Asia (a region of Asia)
- Víetnam (Proper name) Vietnam (a country in Southeast Asia)
- gúlag (Noun) gulag (Soviet labour camp)
- víetnamskur (Adjective) Vietnamese
- Írak (Proper name) Iraq (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East)
- Íran (Proper name) Iran (a country in West Asia, in the Middle East)
- Ísrael (Proper name) Israel (A Biblical region of Western Asia roughly coextensive with the modern State of Israel, known in the Bible as the Land of Israel and considered the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people); Israel (an ancient kingdom in Western Asia, roughly coextensive with the modern State of Israel and the Land of Israel)
- Ísrael (Proper name) Israel (A Biblical region of Western Asia roughly coextensive with the modern State of Israel, known in the Bible as the Land of Israel and considered the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people); Israel (an ancient kingdom that occupied the northern part of the Land of Israel and modern State of Israel, as distinct from Judah)
- Ísrael (Proper name) Israel (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East, at the eastern shore of the Mediterranean)
- Ísraeli (Noun) Israeli
- Ísraelsmaður (Noun) Israeli
- Óman (Proper name) Oman (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East)
- Úsbekistan (Proper name) Uzbekistan (a country in Central Asia)
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