asp

asp

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

• IPA^(key): /æsp/

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• Rhymes: -æsp

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

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).

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

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”).

asp (plural asps)

1. An aspen tree.

• quaking asp

asp

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

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

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

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

asp f (genitive singular aspa, nominative plural aspanna)

1. asp

   Synonym: foiléasán (literary)

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

• aspe

asp

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

asp

1. Alternative form of aspe

From Old Norse ǫsp, ösp.

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

1. alternative form of osp

• “asp” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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

1. (zoology) asp (Aspius aspius)

• “asp” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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

asp c

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

• SAP, spa.

Cognate with Persian اسب (asb).

asp

1. horse