# rasp
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɹæsp/, /ɹɑːsp/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -æsp, -ɑːsp

### Etymology 1

From Middle English raspen, from Old French rasper, from Frankish *hraspōn, from Proto-Germanic *hraspōną, related to Proto-Germanic *hrespaną (“to tear”). Compare Old High German raspōn (“to gather, rake”), Old English ġehrespan (“to tear”). The noun is from Middle French raspe.

#### Noun

rasp (plural rasps)
* A coarse file, on which the cutting prominences are distinct points raised by the oblique stroke of a sharp punch, instead of lines raised by a chisel, as on the true file.
* The sound made by this tool when used, or any similar sound.
    the rasp of her perpetual cough

##### Hypernyms

* file

##### Derived terms

* rasp-house
* rasp palm

##### Translations
#### Verb

rasp (third-person singular simple present rasps, present participle rasping, simple past and past participle rasped)
* (intransitive) To use a rasp.
* (intransitive) To make a noise similar to the one a rasp makes in use; to utter rasps.
* To say in a raspy voice.
** 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:“No. I am going to feed you to the children,” rasped Burt, his laugh rattling around his throat, prising Dad’s fingers one by one off his apron.
* (transitive) To work something with a rasp.
    to rasp wood to make it smooth
    to rasp bones to powder
* (ambitransitive, figurative) To grate harshly upon; to offend by coarse or rough treatment or language.
    Some sounds rasp the ear.
    His insults rasped my temper.

##### Translations

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### Etymology 2

From raspberry.

#### Noun

rasp (plural rasps)
* (obsolete) The raspberry.
** 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:Set sorrel amongst rasps, and the rasps will be smaller.

##### Hypernyms

* berry

### Anagrams

* APRs, Arps, PSRA, RAPs, arps, pars, raps, sapr-, spar

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Etymology 1

16th century, from Middle French raspe, from Old French raspe (“steel file”); see modern French râper (“to grate”).

#### Noun

rasp f (plural raspen, diminutive raspje n)
* grater, for example for cheese
* surform tool

##### Derived terms

* raspen

##### Descendants

* Berbice Creole Dutch: raspru
* → Papiamentu: raspu, rasp

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

rasp
* inflection of raspen:
** first-person singular present indicative
** (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
** imperative

## Icelandic
### Etymology

Borrowed from Danish raspe (“to grate”), from German.

### Noun

rasp n (genitive singular rasps, no plural)
* (cooking) breadcrumbs

#### See also

* brauðmylsna (“breadcrumbs”) (non-culinary)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Verb

rasp
* imperative of raspe