Yiddish word senses marked with place category "Asia"

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Parent categories: Earth, Eurasia, Nature
Subcategories: Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, China, Countries in Asia, Cyprus, Georgia, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, North Korea, Palestine, Persia, Regions of Asia, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Soviet Union, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen

Total 66 word senses

• אַזיע (Proper name) Asia (a continent)
• אַזערבײַדזשאַן (Proper name) Azerbaijan (a country in the South Caucasus, Asia and Europe)
• אַלפֿאַרבאַנדיש (Adjective) union-wide (covering or encompassing the entire union)
• אַפּאַראַטשיק (Noun) apparatchik (member of a Communist apparat)
• אַפֿגאַניסטאַן (Proper name) Afghanistan (A landlocked country between Central Asia and South Asia)
• אַרמעניע (Proper name) Armenia (A country in the South Caucasus region of Asia, sometimes considered to belong politically to Europe)
• אָבלאַסט (Noun) oblast (a region or province)
• אוזבעקיסטאַן (Proper name) Uzbekistan (a country in Central Asia)
• אינדיע (Proper name) India (a country in South Asia)
• איראַן (Proper name) Iran (a country in West Asia, in the Middle East)
• איראַק (Proper name) Iraq (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East)
• ארץ־ישׂראל (Proper name) the Land of 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)
• באַריין (Proper name) Bahrain (a country in Asia)
• בית המקדש (Proper name) Temple in Jerusalem
• גולאַג (Noun) gulag (Soviet labour camp)
• גרוזיע (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)
• גרויסהערצאָגשאַפֿט פֿון ליטע (Noun) Grand Duchy of Lithuania (former European state)
• דרום־קאָרעע (Proper name) South Korea (a country in East Asia)
• וויעטנאַם (Proper name) Vietnam (a country in Southeast Asia)
• טאַדזשיקיסטאַן (Proper name) Tajikistan (a country in Central Asia)
• טערקײַ (Proper name) Turkey (a country located in eastern Thrace in southeastern Europe and Anatolia in southwestern Asia)
• טשעקאַ (Proper name) Cheka (Soviet security organization)
• טשעקיסט (Noun) A member of Cheka.
• טשעקיסט (Noun) A member of any Soviet security agency or secret police.
• טײַלאַנד (Proper name) Thailand (a country in Southeast Asia)
• יאַפּאַן (Proper name) Japan (a country in East Asia)
• ייִדישע אויטאָנאָמע געגנט (Proper name) Jewish Autonomous Oblast (Jewish autonomous oblast in Russia)
• יעווסעקציע (Noun) yevsektsiya (a Jewish section of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union)
• ירדן (Proper name) Jordan (a country in Western Asia)
• ישׂראל (Proper name) Israel (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East, at the eastern shore of the Mediterranean)
• כינע (Proper name) China (a country in East Asia)
• לבֿנון (Proper name) Lebanon (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East)
• ליובאַוויטש (Proper name) Lyubavichi (a village in the Rudnyansky District of the Smolensk Oblast of Russia)
• מאָסקווע (Proper name) Moscow (a federal city, the capital of Russia)
• מדינת־ישׂראל (Proper name) State of Israel, Israel (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East, at the eastern shore of the Mediterranean)
• מצרים (Proper name) Egypt (a country in North Africa and Western Asia)
• סאַוּדי אַראַביע (Proper name) Saudi Arabia (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East)
• סאָוועט (Noun) Soviet (citizen of the USSR)
• סאָוועטיזאַציע (Noun) Sovietization (act or process of Sovietizing)
• סושי (Noun) sushi
• סטאַמבול (Proper name) Istanbul (a city in Turkey)
• סיביר (Proper name) Siberia (the region of Russia in Asia)
• סיריע (Proper name) Syria (a country in West Asia, in the Middle East)
• ענקאַוועדע (Proper name) NKVD (Soviet secret police)
• ענקאַוועדעניק (Noun) A member of the NKVD.
• פּאַלעסטינע (Proper name) Palestine (all senses)
• פּעטערבורג (Proper name) Saint Petersburg (a federal city of Russia)
• פּערסיע (Proper name) Persia (old name of Iran)
• צאַר (Noun) tsar (an emperor)
• ציפּערן (Proper name) Cyprus (an island and country in the Mediterranean Sea, normally considered politically part of Southeast Europe but geographically part of Western Asia)
• צפֿאָן־קאָרעע (Proper name) North Korea (a country in East Asia)
• קאַגעבע (Proper name) KGB (Soviet KGB)
• קאַגעבעשניק (Noun) A member of the KGB.
• קאַזאַכסטאַן (Proper name) Kazakhstan (a country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe)
• קאָלווירט (Noun) kolkhoz (farming collective)
• קאָלווירטניק (Noun) kolkhoznik (one who works on a collective farm in the Soviet Union)
• קאָלכאָז (Noun) kolkhoz (farming collective)
• קאָלכאָזניק (Noun) kolkhoznik (one who works on a collective farm in the Soviet Union)
• קאָמסאָמאָל (Proper name) Komsomol (Young Communist League in the USSR)
• קאָרעע (Proper name) Korea (a region of East Asia)
• קירגיזיע (Proper name) Kyrgyzstan (a country in Central Asia, bordering on Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and China)
• קירגיזסטאַן (Proper name) Kyrgyzstan (a country in Central Asia, bordering on Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and China)
• רויטאַרמיי (Proper name) Red Army (name of the Soviet army)
• רויטאַרמייער (Noun) A member of the Red Army.
• רוסלאַנד (Proper name) Russia (A transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and North Asia)
• תּימן (Proper name) Yemen (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East)

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