jasper

See also Jasper

English

Wikipedia

A jasper ball (2)

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: jăsʹpər
• (UK) IPA: /ˈdʒæspə/

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Etymology 1

From Old French jaspre, a variant of jaspe (modern French jaspe), from Latin iaspis, from Ancient Greek ἴασπις (iaspis), ultimately (via an oriental language) from Persian یشپ (yašp).

Noun

jasper (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Any bright-coloured kind of chalcedony apart from cornelian.
2. (mineralogy) An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface.
3. Jasperware pottery.

Derived terms

Derived terms

Jasper National Park jasper opal jasperated jasperite jasperize jasperoid

jasperous jasperware jaspery jaspidean lavender jasper xyloid jasper

Translations

precious stone

• Arabic: يشب (ar) (yashb) m, يشم (ar) (yashm) m
• Azeri: yəşəm (az), yaşma (az)
• Catalan: jaspi (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᏣᏍᏆ (chr) (tsasqua)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 碧玉 (cmn) (bìyù)

• Czech: jaspis (cs) m
• Dutch: jaspis (nl) m
• Esperanto: jaspo (eo)
• Finnish: jaspis (fi)
• French: jaspe (fr) m
• German: Jaspis (de) m
• Hebrew: ישפה (he)
• Hungarian: jáspis (hu)
• Ido: jaspo (io)
• Irish: seaspar (ga) m
• Italian: diaspro (it) m
• Japanese: 碧玉 (ja) (へきぎょく, hekigyoku), ジャスパー (ja) (jasupā)
• Korean: 벽옥 (ko) (byeok-ok) (碧玉 (ko))

• Ladino:

  Roman: djaspe m

• Latin: iaspis (la)
• Latvian: jašma (lv)
• Lithuanian: jaspis (lt)
• Nahuatl: tecpacuihcuilli (nah)
• Norwegian: jaspis (no) m
• Occitan: jaspi (oc)
• Persian: يشم (fa) (yašm), يشب (fa) (yašb)
• Polish: jaspis (pl) m
• Portuguese: jaspe (pt)
• Romanian: jasp (ro)
• Russian: яшма (ru) (jášma) f, яспис (ru) (jáspis) m
• Slovak: jaspis (sk) m
• Spanish: jaspe (es) m
• Swahili: yaspa (sw)
• Turkish: yeşim (tr)
• Ukrainian: яшма (uk) (jášma) f, яспис (uk) (jáspys) m

jasperware — see jasperware

See also

• jasperware

Etymology 2

From the male personal name Jasper.

Noun

jasper (plural jaspers)

1. (UK, colloquial) A wasp. (West Country dialects, Somerset County)
2. (US, slang) A person, a guy, especially seen as naïve or simple.
   • 1975, Tom Waits, ‘Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)’:

     Standing on the corner like a just-got-in-town jasper.

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 122:

     “That jasper,” sniggered Darby, “never pulled out his ‘dummy’ for nothing but pissing, I bet you!”

   • 1968, Charles Portis, True Grit, The Saturday Evening Post

     "I stood there through almost an hour of it before they called Rooster Cogburn to the stand. I had guessed wrong as to which one he was, picking out a younger and slighter man with a badge on his shirt. And I was surprised when an old one-eyed jasper that was built along the lines of Grover Cleveland went up and was sworn."

Anagrams

• japers

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French

Verb

jasper

1. apply different colors of paint flowing together in order to make it look like jasper stone

   Jasper la tranche d’un livre.

Conjugation

   Conjugation of jasper (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		jasper			avoir jaspé
gerund		en jaspant			en ayant jaspé
present participle		jaspant
past participle		jaspé
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	jaspe	jaspes	jaspe	jaspons	jaspez	jaspent
	imperfect	jaspais	jaspais	jaspait	jaspions	jaspiez	jaspaient
	past historic1	jaspai	jaspas	jaspa	jaspâmes	jaspâtes	jaspèrent
	future	jasperai	jasperas	jaspera	jasperons	jasperez	jasperont
	conditional	jasperais	jasperais	jasperait	jasperions	jasperiez	jasperaient
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior1	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	jaspe	jaspes	jaspe	jaspions	jaspiez	jaspent
	imperfect1	jaspasse	jaspasses	jaspât	jaspassions	jaspassiez	jaspassent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	jaspe	—	jaspons	jaspez	—
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