ass

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ass"

English

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Pronunciation

enPR: ăs, IPA^(key): /æs/
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Rhymes: -æs

Etymology 1

From Middle English asse, from Old English assa, back-formed from assen (“she-ass”), from Celtic (compare Old Irish asan, Old Cornish asen), from Latin asinus. Replaced Old English esol, from Proto-West Germanic *asil, also a loanword from the same Latin word.

Noun

ass (plural asses)

Any of several species of horse-like animals, especially Equus asinus, the domesticated of which are used as beasts of burden.
Synonym: donkey
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- 1972, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “Part I, section 20(3)”, in Road Traffic Act 1972‎^[2], page 14:
  In this section "animal" means any horse, cattle, ass, mule, sheep, pig, goat or dog.
(slang) A stupid person.
- 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World‎^[3]:
  I had sprung to my feet. I was speaking, and yet I had prepared no words. Tarp Henry, my companion, was plucking at my skirts and I heard him whispering, "Sit down, Malone! Don't make a public ass of yourself."
That new kid left the cap off the syrup bottle again! What an ass.

Synonyms: fool, idiot
(printing, slang, obsolete) A compositor.
- 1841, William Savage, Dictionary of the Art of Printing‎^[4], page 24:
  Sometimes by way of joke, and sometimes by way of irritation, compositors are called Asses by the pressmen.

Hyponyms

(beast of burden): donkey, onager, wild ass

Derived terms

Related terms

asinine

Translations

animal — see also donkey

Afar: danán m
Albanian: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: حِمَار (ar) (ḥimār)
Hijazi Arabic: حُمار m (ḥumār)
Aramaic:
Classical Syriac: ܚܡܪܐ c (ḥəmārā), ܚܡܪܬܐ f (ḥəmārtā), ܐܬܢܐ f (ʾăṯānā)

Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: חֲמָרָא m (ḥămārā)
Armenian: էշ (hy) (ēš), ավանակ (hy) (avanak)
Azerbaijani: eşşək (az)
Baluchi: ہر (har)
Basque: asto (eu)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 驢／驴 (zh) (lǘ), 驴 (zh) (lǘ), 驢子／驴子 (zh) (lǘzi), 驴子 (zh) (lǘzi)
Chuvash: ашак (aš̬ak)
Czech: osel (cs) m
Danish: æsel (da) n
Dutch: ezel (nl) m
Egyptian:

(ꜥꜣ m)
Esperanto: azeno (eo)
Estonian: eesel
Faroese: asni m
Finnish: aasi (fi)
French: âne (fr) m
German: Esel (de) m, Eselin f
Greek: όνος (el) m (ónos), γάϊδαρος m (gáïdaros)
Ancient: ὄνος m or f (ónos)
Hungarian: szamár (hu)
Icelandic: asni (is) m
Ido: asno (io)
Indonesian: keledai (id)
Interlingua: asino
Irish: asal (ga) m
Italian: asino (it) m, ciuco (it) m, somaro (it) m, buricco m
Karachay-Balkar: эшек (eşek)
Kashmiri: خَر m (khar)
Kazakh: есек (kk) (esek)
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Korean: 나귀 (ko) (nagwi), 당나귀 (ko) (dangnagwi)
Kyrgyz: эшек (ky) (eşek)
Latin: asinus m, asellus m, asella f
Latvian: ēzelis m
Laz: ეშეღი (eşeği)
Limburgish: aezel (li)
Macedonian: ма́гаре n (mágare)
Malay: keldai (ms)
Manx: assyl m
Norwegian: esel (no) n, asen (no) n
Occitan: ase (oc) m, asne (oc) m
Old French: asne m
Persian: خر (fa) (xar)
Plautdietsch: Äsel m
Polish: osioł (pl) m anim
Portuguese: asno (pt) m, burro (pt) m, jumento (pt) m, besta (pt) f, jerico (pt) m, jegue (pt) m
Romanian: măgar (ro) m, asin (ro) m
Russian: осёл (ru) m (osjól), иша́к (ru) m (išák)
Samoan: asini
Sanskrit: गर्दभ (sa) m (gardabha)
Scottish Gaelic: asal m, aiseal m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ма̀гарац m

Roman: màgarac (sh) m
Sicilian: sceccu (scn) m
Slovak: somár m, osol (sk) m
Slovene: osel (sl) m
Spanish: asno (es) m, pollino (es) (esp. a young ass), burro (es) m, jumento (es) m
Sudovian: asilas m
Swedish: åsna (sv) c
Tagalog: asno (tl)
Tocharian B: kercapo
Turkish: eşek (tr)
Vietnamese: lừa (vi)
Volapük: cuk (vo)
Welsh: asyn m
Zazaki: her (diq) c

stupid person

Armenian: հիմար (hy) (himar), ապուշ (hy) (apuš), էշ (hy) (ēš)
Basque: astakilo, lerdo, artaburu, kaiku (eu), babu
Chinese:
Mandarin: 笨蛋 (zh) (bèndàn), 白痴 (zh) (báichī)
Czech: debil (cs) m, idiot (cs) m
Esperanto: stultulo (eo)
Estonian: eesel
Finnish: aasi (fi)
French: âne (fr) m, idiot (fr) m, imbécile (fr) m, tête de nœud (fr) f, moule à merde (fr) m
German: Esel (de) m, Idiot (de) m, Trottel (de) m
Greek: γάϊδαρος m (gáïdaros), βλάκας (el) m or f (vlákas)
Hungarian: seggfej (hu), segg (hu)
Icelandic: asni (is) m, hálviti m, fífl (is) n
Interlingua: asino
Italian: asino (it), idiota (it) m, scemo (it) m
Latin: asinus m, stultus m
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Macedonian: ма́гаре n (mágare)
Norwegian: idiot (no) m, tulling (no) m, dumskalle m, tosk m
Persian: خر (fa) (xar)
Polish: tuman (pl) m pers, osioł (pl) m anim, idiota (pl) m pers
Portuguese: burro (pt) m, jumento (pt) m, besta (pt) f, imbecil (pt), asno (pt) m
Romanian: măgar (ro) m, idiot (ro) m
Russian: осёл (ru) m (osjól)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ма̀гарац m, ма̀гаре n

Roman: màgarac (sh) m, màgare (sh) n
Sicilian: sceccu (scn) m, scecca (scn) f
Slovak: somár m, osol (sk) m, debil m, magor m, chruňo m, chumaj m
Slovene: osel (sl) m
Spanish: burro (es) m, idiota (es) m or f, imbécil (es) m or f
Swedish: åsna (sv) c, idiot (sv) c
Tagalog: hunghang, hindot
Vietnamese: người ngu
Welsh: mwlsyn m, mwlsen f
Zazaki: hero m, hera (diq) f

Etymology 2

Variant of arse; used chiefly in North America. Ultimately from Middle English ars, ers, from Old English ærs, ears, from Proto-West Germanic *ars, from Proto-Germanic *arsaz (compare Old High German ars (German Arsch), Old Norse ars, Old Frisian ers), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃érsos (compare Ancient Greek ὄρρος (órrhos)).

Etymological notes

Contrary to the widespread belief of this being a euphemism, it arose as a pronunciation spelling (of the older form arse still used in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, etc.) that shows the assimilation of /ɹ/ before coronal consonants (especially /s/), a phenomenon that has been present in nonstandard speech from the Middle English period onwards; this is distinct from the later phenomenon of non-rhoticity as /ɹ/ was lost before it could modify the preceding vowel. Other instances of this phenomenon (some of which retained both spellings with different meanings) include cuss from curse, gash from garsh, bass (“fish”) from barse, bust from burst, passel from parcel; see Category:English terms with assimilation of historic /ɹ/ for a more extensive list.

Adjective

ass (not comparable)

(vulgar, slang) Of low quality; bad.
- 2019 February 5, Alex Miller, “Former Texas A&M QB Nick Starkel breaks down old Twitter beef with Tate Martell”, in Dallas Morning News‎^[5]:
  On a recent episode of "The Justin Dunning Podcast," Starkel shared his thoughts on Martell, a former Ohio State quarterback, saying "he's ass my dude" in reference to Starkel.
- 2021 February 21, Thomas Carannante, “Patriots: Cam Newton getting disrespected by a teenager is everything that’s wrong with society”, in Fansided‎^[6]:
  For some reason, the teenager thought it’d be a good idea to criticize Newton and say he's "ass" and that he’s "about to be poor" because he's a free agent.
- 2021 October 28, Josh Weinfuss, “What we learned about Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray by watching him on Twitch”, in ESPN‎^[7]:
  "You're so ass," Murray says to another player.

Noun

ass (countable and uncountable, plural asses)

(vulgar, slang, countable and uncountable) Buttocks.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:buttocks
(vulgar, slang, countable and uncountable) Anus.
- 1959, William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, page 68
  Train compartment: two sick young junkies on their way to Lexington tear their pants down in convulsions of lust. One of them soaps his cock and works it up the other's ass with a corkscrew motion.
(vulgar, slang, objectifying, uncountable) Sex; a person to have sex with; with vulgar emphasis on their corporeality (their body) over their personhood.
Synonyms: poontang, poon, punani, pussy, tail, tang; see also Thesaurus:copulation

I’m going to go down to the bar and try to get me some ass.
- 1971, Joni Mitchell (lyrics and music), “Blue”, in Blue:
  Acid, booze, and ass / Needles, guns, and grass
(vulgar, slang, uncountable) Used in similes to express something bad or unpleasant.
I feel like ass today. ― I am feeling very bad today.

This room smells like ass. ― This room smells very bad.

What a bunch of ass. ― What a bunch of lies/nonsense/disappointment.
(vulgar, slang, metonymically, objectifying, countable) A person; the self; (reflexively) oneself or one's person, chiefly their body. By extension, one's personal safety, or figuratively one's job, prospects, etc.
Get your lazy ass out of bed!

We risk our asses out there every day.

I'ma get medieval on your ass! (idiomatic sense "on you" (compare go crazy on you), not literally and specifically "on your buttocks")

Coordinate terms: face; hide

Usage notes

When used metonymically to refer to a (whole) person, it adds a tone of anger or disapproval to the whole sentence:
- "he has trouble getting his ass up in the morning" is much stronger and more negative than "he has trouble getting up in the morning".
The disapproval may not be of the person so referred to:
- "And who do you think has to clean this mess up? My ass does!" (Does not indicate disapproval of the speaker themself, but rather of the people who made the mess.)
  - (A hint of jaded self-perception may be perceived: "I realize how they see me!")
Such usage is usually considered vulgar and is thus usually confined to casual/informal registers; its use in formal contexts is mildly offensive.
Its semantic essence is objectification of a person (even, occasionally, of oneself), whereby a chief body part metonymically represents the whole self, with a connotation emphasizing the person's corporeality over their personhood (from that viewpoint, compare also watch his hide, show his face, what's-his-face, meatbag, or crackhead).
Its declined forms function pronominally in syntax, which is to say (regarding part of speech), they are pronouns:
- my ass = I, me, myself
- your ass = you, you, yourself
- his ass = he, him, himself
- her ass = she, her, herself
- your asses = y'all, y'all, yourselves
- their asses = they, them, themselves

Derived terms

Terms derived from ass (buttocks, vulgar)

Translations

buttocks

Albanian: bythë (sq) f
Arabic: عَجِيزَة f (ʕajīza), مُؤَخَّرَة f (muʔaḵḵara), طِيز m (ṭīz)
Baharna Arabic: عِزْقَة f (ʿuzga, ʿezga)

Egyptian Arabic: طيز m (ṭīz)

Hijazi Arabic: قَعَر m (gaʿar), طيز m (ṭīz)

Najdi Arabic: مكوة f (makwa)

North Levantine Arabic: طِيز m (ṭīz), قفا m (ʾafa)
Aramaic:
Classical Syriac: ܐܫܬܐ f (ʾeštā), ܛܝܙܐ m (ṭīzā)
Armenian: հետույք (hy) (hetuykʻ), քամակ (hy) (kʻamak), տուտուզ (hy) (tutuz), ոռ (hy) (oṙ)
Aromanian: cur
Azerbaijani: göt
Belarusian: ду́па f (dúpa), за́дніца f (zádnica), жо́па f (žópa)
Bulgarian: гъз m (gǎz), ду́пе n (dúpe), за́дник (bg) m (zádnik)
Burmese: ဖင် (my) (hpang)
Catalan: cul (ca) m
Cebuano: sampot, dapi-dapi'
Chinese:
Cantonese: 屎窟 (si² fat¹), 囉柚／啰柚 (lo¹ jau^6-2), 啰柚 (lo¹ jau^6-2)

Mandarin: 屁股 (zh) (pìgu)

Min Nan: 尻川 (zh-min-nan) (kha-chhng)
Coptic: ⲫⲁϩⲟⲩ m (phahou), ϫⲫⲱⲧ m (čphōt), ϫⲫⲱϯ m (čphōti), ⲗⲱⲓⲗⲓ m (lōili)
Czech: prdel (cs) f
Dalmatian: čol m
Danish: røv (da) c
Dutch: kont (nl) m or f, reet (nl) m or f
Egyptian:

(pḥwj m du), (ḫpdwj m du)
Esperanto: pugo (eo)
Estonian: perse (et)
Faroese: reyv f
Finnish: perse (fi)
French: cul (fr) m
Friulian: cûl m
Georgian: ტრაკი (ṭraḳi), დუნდულა (dundula), უკანალი (uḳanali)
German: Arsch (de) m, Po (de) m, Popo (de) m
Greek: οπίσθια (el) n pl (opísthia), κώλος (el) m (kólos), πισινός (el) m (pisinós)
Ancient: ὄρρος m (órrhos)
Greenlandic: iteq
Guaraní: evi
Hebrew: יַשְׁבָן (he) (yashván), תַּחַת (he) (tákhat) (vulgar)
Hindi: चूतर (hi) m (cūtar)
Hungarian: segg (hu)
Icelandic: rass (is)
Ido: kulo (io)
Ilocano: ubet
Indonesian: pantat (id)
Interlingua: culo
Irish: tóin (ga) f
Italian: culo (it) m
Japanese: 尻 (ja) (しり, shiri), お尻 (おしり, o-shiri), 穴 (ja) (けつ, ketsu), けつ (ja) (ketsu)
Kazakh: көт (köt)
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Khmer: ថ្ពាល់គូថ (thpŏəl kuut), គូត (kuut)
Korean: 궁둥이 (ko) (gungdung'i)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: qûn (ku)
Lao: ຕູດ (tūt)
Latin: cūlus (la) m
Latvian: dirsa f
Lithuanian: šikna (lt) f
Lombard: cul (lmo) m
Macedonian: газ m (gaz), за́дник m (zádnik)
Malay: buntut
Manx: toyn f
Northern Sami: bahta
Norwegian: ræv (no) f, rumpe (no) m
Old English: ears m
Pashto: کونه (ps) f (kwëna)
Persian: کون (fa) (kūn)
Polish: dupa (pl) f, tyłek (pl) m inan, dupsko (pl) n, cztery litery (pl) f pl, kuper (pl) m inan, zad (pl) m inan
Portuguese: cu (pt) m, (Brazilian) bunda (pt) f, bumbum (pt) m, nádegas (pt) f pl, popô (pt) m
Romanian: fund (ro) n, popou (ro) n, cur (ro) n
Romansch: tgil m, tgigl m, chül m
Russian: жо́па (ru) f (žópa), по́па (ru) f (pópa), за́дница (ru) f (zádnica), зад (ru) m (zad), сра́ка (ru) f (sráka), по́пка (ru) f (pópka), пука́н (ru) m (pukán)
Sardinian: colum, cu m, culu m
Scots: ers, doup, airse
Scottish Gaelic: màs m, tòin f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ду̏пе n

Roman: dȕpe (sh) n
Sicilian: culu (scn) m
Slovak: riť (sk) f, prdel f
Slovene: rit (sl) m, zadnjica f
Spanish: culo (es) m
Surigaonon: kalibangan, labut
Swedish: arsle (sv) n, röv (sv) c, prutt (sv) c
Tagalog: puwit
Tajik: кун (kun)
Tausug: buli'
Thai: ตูด (th) (dtùut)
Turkish: göt (tr), kıç (tr), makat (tr), popo (tr)
Udmurt: сӥтян (siťan)
Ukrainian: сра́ка f (sráka), ду́па f (dúpa), жо́па (uk) f (žópa), за́дниця f (zádnycja)
Urdu: چوتر m (cūtar)
Uyghur: كۆت (köt)
Uzbek: koʻt
Venetian: cuło m, cul m
Vietnamese: đít (vi), mông đít (vi)
Waray-Waray: lubot
Welsh: tin (cy) f
Yiddish: תחת m (tokhes)
Zazaki: qen f

vulgar slang:sex

Estonian: perse (et)
Finnish: perse (fi)
French: cul (fr) m, fesse (fr) f
German: Fick (de) m
Greek: πρωκτός (el) m (proktós)
Hebrew: מִין (he) m (min)
Indonesian: ngentot
Italian: culo (it) f
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Persian: کس (fa) (kos)
Polish: dupa (pl) f, dupczenie (pl) n, pierdolenie (pl), jebanie (pl)
Portuguese: xiri (pt) m, xibiu m, xoxota (pt) f, bunda (pt) f, foda (pt) f
Romanian: futai n
Russian: е́бля (ru) f (jéblja), тра́ханье (ru) n (tráxanʹje), трах (ru) m (trax)
Spanish: polvo (es) m
Swedish: röv (sv) c
Zazaki: qews kerden, qen kerden (diq)

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Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} vagina (ia)
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Particle

ass

Synonym of -ass (“used to intensify an adjective”)
That was one big ass fish!

That's an expensive ass car!

Anagrams

SAS, SSA, Sas

German

Verb

ass

Switzerland and Liechtenstein standard spelling of aß.

Latgalian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *aśís. Cognates include Latvian ass and Lithuanian ašis.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈasʲː/
Hyphenation: ass

Noun

ass f (diminutive aseite)

axle

Declension

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Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈasː/
Hyphenation: ass

Participle

ass (feminine asūte, masculine plural asūts, feminine plural asūts)

present oblique participle of byut

References

M. Bukšs, J. Placinskis (1973) Latgaļu volūdas gramatika un pareizraksteibas vōrdneica, Latgaļu izdevnīceiba, page 131

Latvian

Ass

Etymology 1

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *aśís, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs-. Originally an i/n-stem, it became an i-stem in Baltic.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [as]

Audio:

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Noun

ass f (6th declension)

axle (pin or spindle around which something, e.g. a wheel, rotates)
ratu ass ― axletree

vagona ass ― wagon axle

motocikla pakaļējā riteņa ass ― motorcycle rear wheel axle
(mathematics) axis (a line with certain important properties)
simetrijas, rotācijas ass ― axis of symmetry, of rotation

zemes griešanās ass ― the Earth's rotation axis

koordinātu asis ― coordinate axes

abscisu, ordinātu ass ― x-, y-axis

Declension

Declension of ass (6th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	ass	asis
accusative (akuzatīvs)	asi	asis
genitive (ģenitīvs)	ass	asu
dative (datīvs)	asij	asīm
instrumental (instrumentālis)	asi	asīm
locative (lokatīvs)	asī	asīs
vocative (vokatīvs)	ass	asis

Etymology 2

From the same source as ass (“axle”), originally a unit of measurement corresponding to the length of a person's outstretched arms (compare Russian са́жень (sáženʹ, “old unit of measurement; length of outstretched arms”).^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [as]

Audio:

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Noun

ass f (6th declension)

old unit of length in the Russian system, equivalent to approximately 2.13 meters
jūras ass ― fathom (unit of length in the English system, approximately 1.83 meters)
old unit of volume for measuring wood, equivalent to approximately 2-4 cubic meters
divas asis malkas ― two axes (=4-8m³) of wood

Declension

Declension of ass (6th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	ass	asis
accusative (akuzatīvs)	asi	asis
genitive (ģenitīvs)	ass	asu
dative (datīvs)	asij	asīm
instrumental (instrumentālis)	asi	asīm
locative (lokatīvs)	asī	asīs
vocative (vokatīvs)	ass	asis

Etymology 3

From earlier *asus, from Proto-Baltic *ašus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp, pointed, edgy”). With an extra suffix *-ro, the same stem also yielded Proto-Balto-Slavic *aśras (“sharp”), whence Latvian dialectal asrs, as well as the Lithuanian cognate aštrùs, dialectal ašrùs. From this stem, there are also Latvian reflexes with ak rather than as (e.g., akmens (“stone”), akots (“awn”)), possibly a result of Proto-Indo-European dialectal variation. In Latvian, former u-stem adjectives like *asus were assimilated into other classes; *asus gave rise to both an o-stem and a yo-stem variant which later on became independent words, ass and ašs, with different semantic nuances (compare also, e.g., plats and plašs, or dobs and dobjš). Other cognates include Old Church Slavonic остръ (ostrŭ), Russian о́стрый (óstryj), Belarusian во́стры (vóstry), Ukrainian о́стрий (óstryj), го́стрий (hóstryj), Bulgarian о́стър (óstǎr), Czech ostrý, Polish ostry, Proto-Germanic *agjō (Old High German ecka, egga (“corner, edge, point, peak, blade”), German Ecke, Sanskrit अश्रिः (áśriḥ, “corner, edge, blade”), Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter "sc" should be a valid script code; the value "polytonic" is not valid. See WT:LOS., Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter "sc" should be a valid script code; the value "polytonic" is not valid. See WT:LOS., Latin ācer (“sharp”), aciēs (“sharpness, blade”).^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [as]

Audio:

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Adjective

ass (definite asais, comparative asāks, superlative visasākais, adverb asi)

sharp (such that it (blade, tool) can easily cut or pierce)
ass nazis, zāģis, cirvis ― sharp knife, saw, ax

ass īlens, ilknis ― sharp awl, fang

asa adata ― sharp needle

asi ragi, ilkņi ― sharp horns, fangs
pointed (having a narrow tip)
asas kalnu galotnes ― sharp mountain tops

ass zīmulis ― sharp pencil
angular, not rounded (of body parts; also of writing, drawing)
asi elkoņi ― sharp elbows

asi vaigu kauli ― sharp cheekbones

asas burtu formas rokrakstā ― sharp letter forms in handwriting
(of plants) sharp (having little thorns or thorn-like growths, or having a sharp edge, capable of stinging)
ass dadzis, paeglis, grīslis ― sharp thistle, juniper, sedge

asa zāle, nātre ― sharp leaf, nettle
(of fabric, skin, etc.) coarse, rough
asa sejas āda ― coarse, rough facial skin

ass linu dvielis ― towel (made) of coarse linen
sharp, pungent, hot (which irritates the senses, creating a strong feeling or reaction)
asa mērce ― spicy, hot (lit. sharp) sauce

asa dūmu smaka ― pungent smell of smoke

ass ož pēc hlora ― sharp smell of chlorine

ass vējš ― sharp wind

asas sāpes ― sharp pain

ass klepus ― sharp (painful) cough
harsh (voice, sound); sharp, biting, unsparing, fierce
asā balss ― harsh voice

runāt asā tonī ― to speak in a harsh tone (of voice)

ass sarkasms ― sharp, biting sarcasm

ass pārmetumi ― sharp, harsh criticism

asa ķilda ― fierce quarrel

asa mēle ― sharp tongue (= caustic, sarcastic)
sharp, well-defined, clearly marked
asas kontūras ― sharp contour, profile

asi sejas vaibsti ― sharp facial features

zīmēt asām līnijām ― to draw with sharp, well-defined lines
(about problems, questions) clear, acute, of immediate importance
asa problēma ― a clear, acute problem
sharp (very well developed, very accurate)
asa redze ― sharp vision

ass prāts ― sharp mind

asa uztvere ― sharp perception, acumen

Declension

indefinite declension (nenoteiktā galotne) of ass

	masculine (vīriešu dzimte)		feminine (sieviešu dzimte)
	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	ass	asi	asa	asas
accusative (akuzatīvs)	asu	asus	asu	asas
genitive (ģenitīvs)	asa	asu	asas	asu
dative (datīvs)	asam	asiem	asai	asām
instrumental (instrumentālis)	asu	asiem	asu	asām
locative (lokatīvs)	asā	asos	asā	asās
vocative (vokatīvs)	—	—	—	—

Synonyms

(of "sharp"): skaudrs
(of "coarse", "harsh"): raupjš, rupjš, negluds, skarbs

Antonyms

(of "sharp"): truls, neass
(of "coarse", "harsh"): gluds, maigs, mīksts

Derived terms

asums

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “ass”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca‎^[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN.

Luxembourgish

Verb

ass

is (third-person singular present of sinn)

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish ass, masculine and neuter singular form of a (“out of, from”), from Proto-Celtic *exs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs (“from”). Compare Irish as.

Adverb

ass

out

Preposition

ass

out of

Inflection

	Singular				Plural
Person	1st	2nd	3rd m.	3rd f.	1st	2nd	3rd
Normal	assym	assyd	ass	assjee	assdooin	assdiu	assdaue
Emphatic	assyms	assyds	assyn	assjeeish	assdooinyn	assdiuish	assdauesyn

Derived terms

Pronoun

ass

first-person plural of ec
out of him/it

Derived terms

assyn (emphatic)

Middle English

Noun

ass

Alternative form of asshe (“burnt matter”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Ass (alternative capitalization)

Noun

ass m (definite singular assen, indefinite plural asser, definite plural assene)

(music) A-flat

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Ass (alternative capitalization)

Noun

ass m (definite singular assen, indefinite plural assar, definite plural assane)

(music) A-flat

Old Irish

Alternative forms

as
es

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /as/

Pronoun

ass

third-person singular masculine of a

Swedish

Noun

ass n

(music) A-flat
an insured letter; abbreviation of assurerad (försändelse).
Coordinate term: rek (“registered”)

Declension

Declension of ass

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	ass	ass
singular	definite	asset	assets
plural	indefinite	ass	ass
plural	definite	assen	assens

Anagrams

s.a.s., sas

[LEV-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “ass”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca‎^[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN.

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ass

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