# asp
## Translingual
### Symbol

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

## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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)
* (archaic) A water snake.
* A venomous viper native to southwestern Europe (Vipera aspis).
* The Egyptian cobra (Naja haje).
* (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.
* A type of European fish (Aspius aspius).
* (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

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### 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)
* An aspen tree.

##### Derived terms

* quaking asp

##### Translations
### Etymology 3
#### Noun

asp
* (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)
* asp
    Synonym: foiléasán (literary)

#### 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

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

## Italian
### Alternative forms

* aspe

### Verb

asp
* (Internet, text messaging) Abbreviation of aspetta.

## Middle English
### Noun

asp
* 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)
* alternative form of osp

### References

* “asp” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

asp m (definite singular aspen, indefinite plural aspar, definite plural aspane)
* (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
* Aspen; a type of poplar tree. (Populus tremula)
* A type of fish. (Aspius aspius)
* An African snake. (Vipera aspis)

#### Declension
### Anagrams

* SAP, spa.

## Talysh
### Etymology

Cognate with Persian اسب (asb).

### Noun

asp
* horse