Namasia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Namahsia
form: Namaxia
Etymology: From the Tongyong Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 那瑪夏 (Nàmǎsià).
Senses: examples: text: Bunun Ear-shooting Festival (late April or early May) This is one of Taiwan's most popular aboriginal festivals. The precise date varies from year to year and events are held in a number of locations including Lidao and Namasia.
ref: 2014, Steven Crook, Taiwan (Bradt Travel Guides), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 68:
text: The most catastrophic damage occurred in Siaolin, Chiahsien township and Nansalu village, Namasia township.
ref: 2017, Michiko Banba, Rajib Shaw, Land Use Management in Disaster Risk Reduction: Practice and Cases from a Global Perspective, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 275:
text: As a place well-known for watching fireflies, the district office of Namasia in Kaohsiung City has planned out six routes for watching fireflies as well as other activities in the mountainous district, according to the district office.
Because of its location at a relatively higher altitude away from light pollution, Namasia is an ideal place for watching fireflies during the best firefly watching season from the end of March to late April.[…]
Namasia nestles at northwest corner of Kaohsiung; it is one of the three aboriginal districts in the city.
ref: 2017 April 3, George Liao, “Camp and watch fireflies in southern Taiwan’s Namasia mountainous area”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 12 Aug 2017:
text: Saaroa is spoken in Taoyuan District and Namasia District, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan. There are around 400 members of Saaroa community. Saaroa is a moribund Formosan language, with fewer than ten fluent speakers.
ref: 2018, Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd, The Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 665:
text: Two of Kaohsiung's most rugged districts, Taoyuan and Namasia, are high above sea level, and home to members of the indigenous Bunun, Paiwan, and Hla'alua tribes.
ref: 2019 March 27, Zih-yin Chen, “Rejuvenating the Hla'alua Language”, in Hou Ya-ting, transl., 聯合新聞網, archived from the original on 24 Oct 2019:
text: The heavy rain and winds downed power lines in Kaohsiung City in southern Taiwan, leaving all of Namasia District without electricity Friday morning, but the power was restored in phases before noon.
ref: 2020, Wang Shu-fen, Hsiao Po-yang, Kuo Chih-hsuan, Lee Hsin-Yin, “Heavy rain causes power outages, traffic disruptions in Taiwan”, in Focus Taiwan:
text: Since the launch of the Minquan Elementary School in Namasia more than 10 years ago, the student body has doubled, but its electricity intensity has declined enough to achieve net-zero energy consumption for three consecutive years thanks to Delta's energy-saving solutions, which include an energy storage system to store excess solar energy during the day for night lighting and for the operations of IT equipment.
ref: 2021 November 30, “Delta's Sponsored Green Building for Namasia Minquan Elementary School in Taiwan Becomes Asia's First LEED-certified Zero Energy Academic Campus”, in PR Newswire, archived from the original on 30 Nov 2021:
text: As of 9 a.m. Saturday, 568 people from Namasia, 356 from Taoyuan and 21 from Maolin had been evacuated to nearby shelters, the Council of Indigenous Peoples said in a statement.
Based on data provided by Kaohsiung's weather station, Namasia had accumulated over 210 millimeters of rainfall in 24 hours as of 9:30 a.m. Saturday, while other districts had also seen rising rain levels in a short period of time.
ref: 2023 August 5, Hung Hsueh-kuang, Kuan Tuan-ping, Yu Hsiao-han, Pan Tzu-yu, Ko Lin, “Kaohsiung residents evacuated due to torrential rain”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2023, Society:
text: The Namasia Firefly Season and peach festival will be held from March 21 to April 27 on the mountain trails in Kaohsiung's Namasia District.
ref: 2025 March 12, Carol Yang, “Kaohsiung's firefly season and peach festival begin soon”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 12 Mar 2025, Lifestyle:
glosses: A district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.