Asunción

Asunción

See also: asunción and Asuncion

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˌsuːnsiˈɒn/, /əˌsuːnsiˈəʊn/, /ˌæsʊnˈsjɒn/

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Proper noun

Asunción

1. The capital city of Paraguay.

Translations

capital of Paraguay

Arabic: أَسُونْسِيُون‎ f (ʾasunsiyōn) Chinese: Mandarin: 亞松森／亚松森 (zh) (Yàsōngsēn) Danish: Asunción n Esperanto: Asunciono (eo) French: Asunción (fr) f German: Asunción (de) n Greek: Ασουνσιόν (el) f (Asounsión) Hebrew: אָסוּנְסְיוֹן‎ f (asunsion) Japanese: アスンシオン (ja) (Asunshion) Korean: 아순시온 (Asunsion) Latvian: Asunsjona Macedonian: Асунсио́н m (Asunsión) Maltese: Asunzjon Portuguese: Assunção (pt) f Romanian: Asunción (ro) Russian: Асунсьо́н (ru) m (Asunsʹón) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Асунсион m Roman: Asunsion m Spanish: Asunción (es) f Vietnamese: A-xun-xi-ôn

Anagrams

• incanous

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Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈasunsioːn]

Proper noun

Asunción m (genitive singular Asuncióna or Asunciónu)

1. Asunción (the capital of Paraguay)

References

• Asunción in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

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Spanish

Etymology

From asunción (“assumption (of Mary to heaven)”), shortened from María (de la) Asunción, a Roman Catholic epithet of the Virgin Mary.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /asunˈθjon/ [a.sũn̟ˈθjõn]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /asunˈsjon/ [a.sũnˈsjõn]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: A‧sun‧ción

Proper noun

Asunción f

1. a female given name from Latin
2. any of a number of places, including Asunción (the capital city of Paraguay)

Derived terms

• asunceno
• asunceño