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asp

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

English Wikipedia has an article on:

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• IPA^(key): /æsp/

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• Rhymes: -æsp

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.

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 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.
   1. (by extension) Any caterpillar which inflicts a sharp pain when their hair is touched.

• (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)

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

Danish Wikipedia has an article on:

bævreasp

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From Old Norse ǫsp, ösp.

asp c (singular definite aspen, plural indefinite aspe)

1. aspen (Populus tremula)

• “asp” in Den Danske Ordbog

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, 2013–2025
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “asp”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm

• aspe

asp

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

asp

1. Alternative form of aspe

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

Osp

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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.

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

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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