asp

See also: Asp and ASP

Translingual

Symbol

asp

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Algerian Sign Language.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æsp/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -æsp

Etymology 1

From Middle English aspe, from Old French aspe, from Latin aspis, aspidis (“asp, viper”), from Ancient Greek ἀσπίς (aspís, “shield; Egyptian cobra Naja haje”); compare Middle English aspide.

Noun

asp (plural asps)

1. (archaic) A water snake.
2. A venomous viper native to southwestern Europe (Vipera aspis).
3. The Egyptian cobra (Naja haje).
4. (figurative) An evil person; a snake.
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     'Two thousand years ago did thou and I and that Egyptian asp rest therein, but since then have I not set foot here, nor any man, and perchance it has fallen,' and, followed by the rest of us, she passed up a vast flight of broken and ruined steps into the outer court, and looked round into the gloom.

5. A type of European fish (Aspius aspius).
6. (Southern US) The caterpillar of various types of flannel moths which induce an intense pain when their hair is touched.

Synonyms

• (Vipera aspis): asp viper, European asp, aspis viper

Derived terms

• aspish
• asplike
• sand asp

 

Translations

water snake — see water snake

Vipera aspis

• Catalan: escurçó pirinenc m
• Dutch: aspisadder (nl) c
• Finnish: aspiskyy (fi)
• French: aspic (fr) m
• German: Aspisviper (de) f
• Greek: αστρίτης (el) m (astrítis)
• Italian: aspide (it) m
• Ottoman Turkish: صاغر ییلان (sağır yılan)
• Polish: żmija żebrowana f
• Portuguese: áspide f
• Russian: а́списовая гадю́ка f (áspisovaja gadjúka)
• Spanish: áspid (es) m
• Swedish: aspishuggorm
• Turkish: sağır yılan (tr)

Naja haje — see Egyptian cobra

fish Aspius aspius

• Czech: bolen dravý (cs)
• Danish: asp c
• Dutch: roofblei (nl) f
• Finnish: toutain (fi)
• French: aspe (fr) m
• German: Rapfen (de) m, Schied (de) m
• Hungarian: balin (hu), őn (hu), ragadozó őn
• Italian: aspio m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: asp (no) m

• Polish: boleń (pl) m, boleń pospolity (pl) m, chwat (pl) m, rap (pl) m, rapa (pl) f
• Romanian: avat (ro) m
• Russian: же́рех (ru) m (žérex)
• Swedish: asp (sv) c
• Ukrainian: біли́зна (uk) f (bilýzna), же́рех m (žérex)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Ewe: ^{(please verify)} fli
• Irish: ^{(please verify)} asp f, ^{(please verify)} foiléasán m (literary)
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} aspis f

Etymology 2

From Middle English aspe (aspen (in compounds)), from Old English æspe (æspan (in compounds)), from Proto-West Germanic *aspu, from Proto-Germanic *aspō, from Proto-Indo-European *Hosp-.

See also Dutch esp, German Espe, Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål asp, Norwegian Nynorsk osp; also Welsh aethnen, Latin abiēs (“fir”), Latvian apse, Polish osa, Old Armenian ոփի (opʻi, “poplar”).

Noun

asp (plural asps)

1. An aspen tree.

Derived terms

• quaking asp

Translations

aspen — see aspen

Etymology 3

Noun

asp

1. (UK, law, in citation) Initialism of Act of the Scottish Parliament.

   Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009 (2009 asp 9)

Anagrams

• SPA, APS, Spa, SAP, sap, APs, Psa., PsA, spa, s.ap., pas, Pas, PSA, SpA, PAs, PAS

Irish

Etymology

From Latin aspis (“asp, viper; shield”), from Ancient Greek ἀσπίς (aspís, “shield; Egyptian cobra”).

Noun

asp f (genitive singular aspa, nominative plural aspanna)

1. asp

   Synonym: foiléasán (literary)

Declension

Declension of asp (third declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative asp aspanna vocative a asp a aspanna genitive aspa aspanna dative asp aspanna forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an asp na haspanna genitive na haspa na n-aspanna dative leis an asp don asp leis na haspanna

Mutation

Mutated forms of asp

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
asp	n-asp	hasp	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “asp”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “asp”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “asp”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm

Italian

Alternative forms

• aspe

Verb

asp

1. (Internet, text messaging) Abbreviation of aspetta.

Middle English

Noun

asp

1. Alternative form of aspe

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse ǫsp, ösp.

Noun

asp f or m (definite singular aspa or aspen, indefinite plural asper, definite plural aspene)

1. alternative form of osp

References

• “asp” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

asp m (definite singular aspen, indefinite plural aspar, definite plural aspane)

1. (zoology) asp (Aspius aspius)

References

• “asp” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse ǫsp, from Proto-Germanic *aspō, from Proto-Indo-European *Hosp- (“aspen, poplar”).

Noun

asp c

1. Aspen; a type of poplar tree. (Populus tremula)
2. A type of fish. (Aspius aspius)
3. An African snake. (Vipera aspis)

Declension

Declension of asp

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	asp	asps
	definite	aspen	aspens
plural	indefinite	aspar	aspars
	definite	asparna	asparnas

Anagrams

• SAP, spa.

Talysh

Etymology

Cognate with Persian اسب (asb).

Noun

asp

1. horse