Anatolia

See also: anatólia, Anatólia, and Anatòlia

English

Alternative forms

• Natolia (obsolete)

Etymology

From Medieval Latin Anatolia, from Ancient Greek ἀνατολή (anatolḗ, “sunrise, place from where the sun rises, the east”), from ἀνατέλλω (anatéllō, “I rise”), from ἀνά (aná, “up”) + τέλλω (téllō, “I perform, accomplish, rise”), because Anatolia was east of Greece.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌænəˈtəʊli.ə/
• Rhymes: -əʊliə

Proper noun

Anatolia (plural Anatolias)

1. A peninsula in Western Asia, comprising most of the modern Republic of Turkey. Bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Armenian Highland to the east, the Mediterranean Sea to the south and the Aegean Sea to the west.

   Synonyms: Asia Minor, Lesser Asia, Turkey

Translations

peninsula of Western Asia

• Albanian: Anadoll m, Anadolli (sq) m (definite)
• Amharic: አናቶሊያ (ʾänatoliya)
• Arabic: الأَنَاضُول f (al-ʔanāḍūl), الْأَنَضُول f (al-ʔanaḍūl)

  Egyptian Arabic: أناضول f (ʾanaḍūl)

  Hijazi Arabic: الأنضول f (al-ʾanaḍōl)

• Armenian: Անատոլիա (hy) (Anatolia)
• Azerbaijani: Anadolu
• Belarusian: Анато́лія f (Anatólija)
• Bengali: আনাতোলিয়া (anatōliẏa)
• Bulgarian: Анадо́л m (Anadól)
• Burmese: အနာတိုလီယား (a.natuiliya:)
• Catalan: Anatòlia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 安納托利亞／安纳托利亚 (zh) (Ānnàtuōlìyǎ)

• Czech: Anatolie (cs) f
• Danish: Anatolien n
• Dutch: Anatolië n
• Estonian: Anatoolia
• Finnish: Anatolia (fi)
• French: Anatolie (fr) f
• Georgian: ანატოლია (anaṭolia)
• German: Anatolien (de) n
• Greek: Ανατολία (el) f (Anatolía)
• Hebrew: אָנָטוֹלְיָה f (anatolya)
• Hindi: अनातोलिया m (anātoliyā), रूम (hi) m (rūm) (historical)
• Hungarian: Anatólia (hu)
• Indonesian: Anatolia
• Irish: An Anatóil f, Leithinis na hAnatóile f
• Italian: Anatolia (it) f
• Japanese: アナトリア (Anatoria)
• Kazakh: Анадолы (Anadoly), Анатолия (Anatoliä)
• Korean: 아나톨리아 (Anatollia)
• Kumyk: Анадолу (Anadolu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Anatolya (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Анадолу (Anadolu), Анатоо (Anatoo), Анатолия (Anatoliya)
• Lao: ອະນາໂຕເລຍ (ʼa nā tō līa)
• Latvian: Anatolija f
• Lithuanian: Anatolija f
• Macedonian: Анадолија f (Anadolija)
• Malay: Anatolia
• Marathi: अनाटोलिया m (anāṭoliyā)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Анатоли (Anatoli)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Anatolia n

• Ottoman Turkish: اناطولی
• Pashto: اناټولیا f (anāṭolyā)
• Persian: آناتولی (fa) (ânâtoli)
• Polish: Anatolia (pl) f
• Portuguese: Anatólia (pt) f
• Romanian: Anatolia f
• Russian: Анато́лия (ru) f (Anatólija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Анадо́лија f, Анато́лија f

  Roman: Anadólija (sh) f, Anatólija (sh) f

• Sicilian: Anatòlia f
• Slovak: Anatólia (sk) f
• Slovene: Anatolija (sl) f
• Spanish: Anatolia f
• Tajik: Анотӯлӣ (Anotüli)
• Tatar: Анатулы (Anatulı)
• Thai: อานาโตเลีย
• Tibetan: ཨན་ན་ཐོའོ་ལི་ཡ (an na tho'o li ya)
• Turkish: Anadolu (tr)
• Turkmen: Anatoliýa
• Ukrainian: Анато́лія f (Anatólija)
• Urdu: اناطولیہ m (anātoliyā)
• Uyghur: ئانادولۇ (anadolu), ئاناتولىيە (anatoliye)
• Uzbek: Onadoʻli, Anatoliya
• Vietnamese: Tiểu Á (小亞)
• Yiddish: אַנאַטאָליע n (anatolye)
• Zazaki: Anatoliya (Southern Zazaki)

Asia Minor — see Asia Minor

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin Anatolia, from Ancient Greek ἀνατολή (anatolḗ, “sunrise, place from where the sun rises, the east”), from ἀνατέλλω (anatéllō, “I rise”), from ἀνά (aná, “up”) + τέλλω (téllō, “I perform, accomplish, rise”), because Anatolia was east of Greece.

Proper noun

Anatolia f

1. Anatolia

Declension

Declension of Anatolia

	singular
nominative	Anatolia
genitive	Anatolii
dative	Anatolii
accusative	Anatolię
instrumental	Anatolią
locative	Anatolii
vocative	Anatolio

Derived terms

adjective

• anatolijski

 

nouns

• Anatolijczyk
• Anatolijka

 

Further reading

• Anatolia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Anatolia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /anaˈtolja/ [a.naˈt̪o.lja]
• Rhymes: -olja
• Syllabification: A‧na‧to‧lia

Proper noun

Anatolia f

1. Anatolia (a peninsula in Western Asia)

Related terms

• anatolio