Axis power

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Noun

Axis power (plural Axis powers)

1. (chiefly in the plural) A country in the alliance (in effect before and during World War II) of Nazi Germany, Kingdom of Italy, Empire of Japan, and a few other countries, which opposed the Allies.
   • 2015 January 22, Adam Reed, 0:02:50 from the start, in Archer, season 3, episode 1, spoken by Sterling Archer (H. Jon Benjamin):

     The target was from a country that, in World War II, was an Axis power.

Translations

member country of the World War II Axis

• Arabic: قوة التحلف
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 軸心國 / 轴心国 (zh) (zhóuxīnguó)

• Czech: Osa f
• Dutch: Asmogendheid f
• Finnish: akselivalta
• Galician: potencia do Eixe
• German: Achsenmacht (de) f
• Greek: Άξονας (el) m (Áxonas)
• Hindi: धुरीराष्ट्र (hi) m (dhurīrāṣṭra)
• Hungarian: tengelyhatalom (hu)
• Italian: Asse m, Potenze dell'Asse
• Japanese: 枢軸国 (ja) (sūjikukoku)
• Korean: 추축국(樞軸國) (chuchukguk)
• Malay: kuasa Paksi
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Тэнхлэгийн гүрэн (Tenxlegiin güren)

• Persian: نیروهای محور (niruhâye mehvar), متحدین (motahedin)
• Polish: Oś f
• Portuguese: Eixo m
• Russian: ось (ru) f (osʹ)
• Spanish: potencia del Eje f
• Swedish: axelmakterna
• Tamil: அச்சு நாடு (accu nāṭu)
• Telugu: అక్ష రాజ్యాలు (akṣa rājyālu)
• Thai: อักษะ
• Vietnamese: khối Trục, phe Trục

See also

• axis of evil

Further reading

• Axis powers on Wikipedia.Wikipedia