aspen

See also: Aspen

English

Aspen trees

Etymology

From Middle English aspen 'made of aspen wood', from asp 'aspen', from Old English æspe, from Proto-Germanic *aspǭ (compare Dutch esp, German Espe, Swedish and Norwegian Bokmål asp, Norwegian Nynorsk osp), from Proto-Indo-European *Hosp- (compare Welsh aethnen, Latin abiēs 'fir', Latvian apse, Polish osa, Armenian op'i 'poplar').

Noun

aspen (plural aspens)

1. A kind of poplar tree (genus Populus sect. Populus).

   Above a certain elevation, the aspens gave way to scrubby, gnarled pines.

   • 1912, Zane Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage, Chapter 8

     Instead there were the white of aspens, streaks of branch and slender trunk glistening from the green of leaves […] .

2. (uncountable) The wood of such a tree.

   She claimed that aspen was the only "proper" material from which make a wicker basket.

Hyponyms

• (poplar tree): Chinese aspen - Populus adenopoda, bigtooth aspen - Populus grandidentata, Japanese aspen - Populus sieboldii, Eurasian aspen - Populus tremula, quaking aspen - Populus tremuloides

Translations

tree of genus Populus sect. Populus

• Abkhaz: абӷьықыџьқыџь (ābγ̍əkəǯ̍kəǯ̍)
• Armenian: կաղամախի (hy) (kałamaxi)
• Bashkir: уҫаҡ (uθaq); (Eastern Bashkir) ауһаҡ (awhaq)
• Catalan: trèmol m
• Chechen: мах (maχ)
• Cheyenne: vé'škee'e
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 山楊 (shānyáng)

• Czech: (general) topol (cs) m, (specific species) osika (cs) f
• Danish: asp c, aspetræ n, esp c, espetræ n
• Dutch: esp (nl) m, ratelpopulier m
• Estonian: haab
• Faroese: øsp f, esp f
• Finnish: haapa (fi)
• French: tremble (fr) m
• Georgian: ვერხვი (verxvi)
• German: Espe (de) f, Zitterpappel (de) f
• Hungarian: nyár (hu), nyárfa (hu)
• Icelandic: ösp (is) f, espi n, espitré n
• Ingrian: haapa
• Irish: crann creathach m
• Italian: pioppo (it) m

• Korean: 사시나무 (ko) (sasinamu)
• Latvian: apse f
• Low German:

  German Low German: fledder

• Navajo: tʼiisbáí
• Nogai: актерек (akterek)
• Norman: trembl'ye m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: osp m, f, asp (no) m, f

  Nynorsk: osp f

• Old English: æspe
• Old Norse: ǫsp f
• Polish: osika (pl) f
• Portuguese: choupo-tremedor m, faia-preta f
• Russian: оси́на (ru) f (osína)
• Scottish Gaelic: critheann m
• Shor: апсақ (apsaq)
• Slovak: (general) topoľ m, (specific species) osika (sk) f, (botanical)topoľ osikový f
• Spanish: álamo temblón (es) m
• Swedish: asp (sv) c
• Turkish: titrek kavak (tr)
• Votic: aapa

wood of such a tree

• Estonian: haavapuit
• Faroese: øsp f
• Finnish: haapa (fi), haapapuu

• German: Espenholz (de) n
• Old Norse: ǫsp f
• Scottish Gaelic: critheann m

Anagrams

• NAPEs, Snape, napes, neaps, panes, peans, snape, sneap, spane, spean

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• aspa

Noun

aspen m, f

1. definite masculine singular of asp

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Swedish

Noun

aspen

1. definite singular of asp