Asia Minor
Asia Minor proper noun: a large peninsula, mostly coterminous with Anatolia, between the Mediterranean Sea, the Aegean Sea and the Black Sea; it makes up the Asian part of Turkey.
Proper noun
Asia Minor
- A large peninsula, mostly coterminous with Anatolia, between the Mediterranean Sea, the Aegean Sea and the Black Sea; it makes up the Asian part of Turkey.
- Holonyms: Turkey, Türkiye, Turkiye < West Asia < Asia < Earth
- Meronym: Central Anatolia
- Synonyms:
- Anatolia, Lesser Asia, Turkey, Türkiye, Turkiye
Asia Minor meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Tagalog
Asia Minor in Hindi
- peninsula between the Mediterranean Sea, the Aegean Sea and the Black Sea
- रूम rūm, अनातोलिया anātoliyā, एशिया माइनर eśiyā māinar
Asia Minor in Urdu
- peninsula between the Mediterranean Sea, the Aegean Sea and the Black Sea
- ایشِیائے کُوچَک eśiyāe kūcak
Asia Minor in Bengali
- peninsula between the Mediterranean Sea, the Aegean Sea and the Black Sea
- এশিয়া মাইনর eśiẏa mainor
Asia Minor in Tagalog
- peninsula between the Mediterranean Sea, the Aegean Sea and the Black Sea
- Asya Menor
More languagesFewer languages
- Asia Minor in Arabic
- آسِيَا الصُّغْرَى ʔāsiyā ṣ-ṣuḡrā
- Asia Minor in Malay
- Asia Kecil
- Asia Minor in Indonesian
- Asia Kecil
- Asia Minor in Thai
- เอเชียน้อย ee-chiia-nɔ́ɔi
- Asia Minor in Vietnamese
- Tiểu Á
- Asia Minor in Myanmar
- အာရှတိုက်ငယ် ahra.tuikngai, အာရှ-မိုင်းနား ahra.-muing:na:
Synonyms of Asia Minor
Origin of Asia Minor
From Latin Asia Minor (“lesser Asia”), distinguishing it from Asia Major (i.e., Asia as a whole).
Questions about Asia Minor
- What does Asia Minor mean?
- Asia Minor means a large peninsula, mostly coterminous with Anatolia, between the Mediterranean Sea, the Aegean Sea and the Black Sea; it makes up the Asian part of Turkey.
- What is Asia Minor in Hindi?
- Asia Minor in Hindi is रूम (rūm), अनातोलिया (anātoliyā), एशिया माइनर (eśiyā māinar). See Asia Minor meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is Asia Minor?
- Asia Minor is a proper noun.
Words near Asia Minor in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Asia Minor (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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