Asian

Etymology
From. The popular American definition referring to East and Southeast Asians collectively seems to be a shortened form of "Asian American", a term whose origins activists and academics trace back to 1968 and University of California, Berkeley (UCLA) students Yuji Ichioka and Emma Gee, who, inspired by the Black Power Movement and the protests against the Vietnam War, founded the "Asian American Political Alliance" as a way to unite Japanese, Chinese, and Filipino American students on campus. It replaced the term "Mongoloid", but still continued the racial grouping of "Mongoloid". South Asians are also sometimes called "Asian" in the English settler colonies (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) but rarely (if ever) Near Easterners and Central Asians. The British term exclusively referring to South Asians was due to South Asians making up a majority of immigrants from the continent of Asia in the United Kingdom.

Noun

 * 1) A person from the continent of Asia, or a descendant thereof - especially:
 * 2)  A person from or with ancestry in East or Southeast Asia, occasionally South Asia.
 * 3)  A person from or with ancestry in South Asia.
 * 4) A domestic cat of a breed similar to the Burmese.
 * 1) A domestic cat of a breed similar to the Burmese.
 * 1) A domestic cat of a breed similar to the Burmese.

Usage notes

 * The American usage of "Asian" (East, Southeast, sometimes South Asian) is internationally used outside of English (e.g. in Turkish, German, Swedish, Korean, French, etc.).

Synonyms

 * See Thesaurus:Asian
 * (person from Asia): Oriental,
 * (person from east Asia): East Asian, Oriental, Oriental Asian, Chinese (loosely)
 * (person from the Indian subcontinent): South Asian, Desi, Asian Indian, East Indian, Indian (loosely), Pakistani (loosely)

Translations

 * Afrikaans: Asiaat
 * Arabic: آسِيَوِيّ, آسِيَوِيَّة
 * Armenian: ասիացի
 * Azerbaijani: asiyalı
 * Belarusian: азія́т, азія́тка
 * Bikol Central: Asyano
 * Breton: ,
 * Bulgarian:, азиа́тка
 * Burmese: အာရှတိုက်သူ
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: aziano
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:, asiática
 * Georgian: აზიელი
 * German:, ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hawaiian: ʻĀkia
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ingush: азхо
 * Inupiaq: Inupiaŋuaq
 * Irish: Áiseach
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: アジア人
 * Kashubian: Azjata, Azjatka
 * Kazakh: азиялық
 * Korean: ,
 * Kyrgyz: азиялык
 * Lao: ຄົນອາຊີ
 * Latvian: aziāts, aziāte
 * Lithuanian: ,
 * Macedonian: Азиец, Азијка
 * Marathi: आशियाई
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Persian:
 * Dari: ,
 * Iranian Persian: ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, asiática
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Ази́јац, А̑зӣјка
 * Roman:, Ȃzījka
 * Sicilian: siàticu, siàtica
 * Slovak: Ázijec, Ázijka
 * Slovene: aziat, azijka
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik:
 * Telugu: ఆసియను
 * Thai: คนเอเชีย
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:, азі́йка, ,
 * Urdu: ایشِیائی
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: người châu Á, người Á châu
 * Volapük:


 * Afrikaans: Asiër
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 南亞裔
 * Dutch:, Azische, ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Hungarian:, , dél-ázsiai
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 南アジア人
 * Korean: 남아시아인
 * Portuguese:, asiática
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman:, Ȃzījka
 * Sicilian: siàticu, siàtica
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 東亞裔
 * Dutch:, Azische, Oost-Aziaat, Oost-Azische
 * Finnish: itäaasialainen
 * French:
 * Hebrew: אסיאתי
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Japanese: 東アジア人
 * Korean:, 동아시아인
 * Portuguese:, asiática
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman:, Ȃzījka
 * Sicilian: siàticu, siàtica
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese: người Á Đông

Adjective

 * Of, relating to or from Asia.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: آسِيَوِيّ
 * Armenian: ասիական
 * Azerbaijani: asiyalı
 * Belarusian: азія́цкі
 * Bengali: এশিয়ান
 * Bulgarian: азиа́тски
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: asiatisk
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: აზიური
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient Greek: Ἀσιατικός
 * Hawaiian: ʻĀkia
 * Hebrew: אַסְיָתִי
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: asískur
 * Irish: Áiseach
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kashubian: azjacczi, azjatny
 * Kazakh: азиялық
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: азиялык
 * Lao:
 * Latvian: Āzijas, aziāšu, aziātisks
 * Lithuanian:, azijiečių
 * Macedonian: азиски
 * Malay:
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: азийн, ази
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: asiatisk
 * Nynorsk:
 * Pashto: آسیايي
 * Persian:
 * Dari: ,
 * Iranian Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: а̑зӣјскӣ
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: Asyahin
 * Tajik:
 * Telugu: ఆసియను
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: asyalı
 * Turkmen: aziýaly
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Urdu: ایشِیائی
 * Uyghur: ئاسىيالىق
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük:
 * Yiddish: אַזיאַטיש
 * Zhuang: Yacouh