Volcanic ash dunes in Papua New Guinea
Etymology 1
From Middle English asshe , from Old English æsċe , from Proto-West Germanic * askā , from Proto-Germanic * askǭ (compare West Frisian jiske , Dutch as , Low German Asch , German Asche , Danish aske , Swedish aska , Norwegian aske ), from Proto-Indo-European * h₂eHs- ; see it for cognates.
The rare plural axen is from Middle English axen , axnen , from Old English axan , asċan ( “ ashes ” ) (plural of Old English axe , æsċe ( “ ash ” ) ).
Noun
ash (countable and uncountable , plural ashes )
The solid remains of a fire .
The audience was more captivated by the growing ash at the end of his cigarette than by his words.
Ash from a fireplace can restore minerals to your garden's soil.
Ashes from the fire floated over the street.
Ash from the fire floated over the street.
( chemistry ) The nonaqueous remains of a material subjected to any complete oxidation process.
Fine particles from a volcano, volcanic ash.
( in the plural ) Human (or animal) remains after cremation.
The urn containing his ashes was eventually removed to a closet.
( archaic , in the plural ) Mortal remains in general.
Napoleon’s ashes are not yet extinguished, and we’re breathing in their sparks.
( figuratively ) The matter that remains after a catastrophe .
2010 May 6, Jean-Claude Laguerre, “Haiti Will Rise From the Ashes ”, in The Epoch Times :Now, it's Haiti that needs help to rebuild and rise from the ashes [ of an earthquake] .
A gray color , similar to ash.
ash:
Translations
solid remains of a fire
Abaza: хъва ( qʷa )
Abkhaz: аццышә ( accəŝʷ )
Acehnese: abée
Adyghe: яжьэ ( jaźɛ )
Afar: gombod
Aiton: please add this translation if you can
Aklanon: abo
Albanian: hi (sq) m
Amharic: አመድ ( ʾämäd )
Arabic: رَمَاد m ( ramād ) , سَكَن m ( sakan )
Egyptian Arabic: رماد m ( ramād )
Hijazi Arabic: رَماد m ( ramād )
Aragonese: senra
Aramaic:
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܩܸܛܡܵܐ m ( qiṭma )
Classical Syriac: ܩܛܡܐ m ( qeṭmā )
Argobba: ሀመድ ( hämäd )
Armenian: մոխիր (hy) ( moxir )
Aromanian: cinushi f , cinushe f
Assamese: ছাই ( sai )
Asturian: ceniza (ast) f
Atong (India): thapyra
Avar: мухӏур ( muḥʳur ) , рахъу ( raqxu )
Azerbaijani: kül (az)
Bakung: abu
Bashkir: көл ( köl )
Basque: errauts (eu)
Baure: po'ip
Belarusian: по́пел (be) m ( pópjel )
Bengali: ছাই (bn) ( chai )
Bonkiman: kweʌk
Breton: ludu (br) m
Budukh: рехъ ( req )
Buginese: awu
Bulgarian: пе́пел (bg) f ( pépel )
Burmese: ပြာ (my) ( pra )
Casiguran Dumagat Agta: abu
Catalan: cendra (ca) f , cendre ( Algherese )
Cebuano: abo
Central Melanau: dabou
Chakma: please add this translation if you can
Chamicuro: kajchijpe
Chamorro: apu
Chechen: чим ( čim )
Cherokee: ᎪᏍᏚ ( gosdu )
Chichewa: chipala , phulusa
Chinese:
Mandarin: 灰 (zh) ( huī )
Chuvash: кӗл ( kĕl )
Crimean Tatar: kül
Czech: popel (cs) m
Dalmatian: canaisa f
Danish: aske (da) c
Dargwa: палда ( palda )
Dutch: as (nl) f , asse (nl) f
Egyptian: (jtnw )
Erzya: кулов ( kulov )
Esperanto: cindro
Estonian: tuhk (et)
Etruscan: 𐌚𐌀𐌑𐌄𐌍𐌀 class inanimate ( faśena )
Even: хултэн ( hultən )
Farefare: tãmpɛglʋm
Faroese: øska (fo)
Finnish: tuhka (fi)
Franco-Provençal: cindra
French: cendre (fr) f
Friulian: cinise f
Gagauz: kül
Galician: cinza (gl) f , cinsa (gl) f , borralla (gl) f , borrallo (gl) m
Gallurese: chixina , cinus
Georgian: ნაცარი (ka) ( nacari ) , ფერფლი ( perpli )
German: Asche (de) f
Gothic: 𐌰𐌶𐌲𐍉 f ( azgō )
Greek: στάχτη (el) f ( stáchti ) , τέφρα (el) f ( téfra )
Ancient: σποδός f ( spodós ) , τέφρα f ( téphra ) , κόνις f ( kónis )
Greenlandic: arsat
Haitian Creole: sann
Hawaiian: lehu
Hebrew: אֵפֶר (he) m ( éfer )
Higaonon: abu
Hiligaynon: abu
Hindi: राख (hi) f ( rākh )
Hungarian: hamu (hu)
Iban: abu , amau
Icelandic: aska (is) f
Ido: cindro (io)
Ilocano: dapo
Indonesian: abu (id)
Ingrian: tuhka
Ingush: чил ( čil )
Interlingua: cinere (ia)
Iranun: umbi
Irish: luaith f , luaithreach m , luaithreamhán m
Italian: cenere (it) f
Ivatan: avo
Japanese: 灰 (ja) ( はい, hai )
Javanese: awu (jv)
Kabardian: сахуэ (kbd) ( saxʷɛ )
Kaingang: mrẽj
Kanakanabu: abu
Kapampangan: abu
Karachay-Balkar: кюл ( kül )
Karo Batak: abu
Kashubian: pòpiół
Kazakh: күл ( kül )
Khamti: please add this translation if you can
Khmer: កំញម (km) ( kɑmñɑɑm )
Khvarshi: йулӏу ( yuƛu )
Kikuyu: mũhu class 3
Kiput: abew
Korean: 재 (ko) ( jae )
Kumyk: кюл ( kül )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: خۆڵەمێش ( xollemêş )
Northern Kurdish: xwelî (ku) f
Kyrgyz: күл (ky) ( kül )
Lak: лах ( lax )
Lao: ເທົ່າ ( thao )
Latgalian: palni m pl
Latin: cinis (la) m , afa f
Latvian: pelni (lv) m pl
Lezgi: руьхъ ( rüq )
Ligurian: çenee f
Lingala: putulu
Linngithigh: ibhi
Lithuanian: pelenai (lt) m pl
Lokono: balisi
Lombard: zener (lmo) f
Lü: ᦑᧁᧈ ( taw¹ )
Luhya: likokhe
Luxembourgish: Äsch f
Macedonian: пе́пел f ( pépel )
Magahi: please add this translation if you can
Maguindanao: umbi
Malagasy: lavènona (mg)
Malay: ابو (ms) abu (ms) , دبو debu (ms) , دولي duli (ms) ( poetic ) , لبو lebu (ms)
Malayalam: ചാരം (ml) ( cāraṁ )
Maltese: irmied m
Manchu: ᡶᡠᠯᡝᠩᡤᡳ ( fulenggi )
Maori: pokorehu , pungarehu , rehu
Maranao: ombi
Megleno-Romanian: tșănușă f
Moksha: кулу ( kulu )
Mongolian: үнс (mn) ( üns ) , нурам (mn) ( nuram )
Moore: tompeglem
Mwani: rivu
Nanai: пунэктэн ( punekten )
Navajo: łeeshchʼih
Neapolitan: cènnera f
Nepali: खरानी (ne) ( kharānī )
Norman: chendre f ( Jersey, Guernsey )
Northern Mansi: (please verify ) хӯльм ( hūlʹm )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: aske (no) m or f
Nynorsk: oske f
Occitan: cendre (oc)
Odia: please add this translation if you can
Ohlone:
Northern Ohlone: júki'
Ojibwe: bingwi
Old East Slavic: попелъ m ( popelŭ ) , пепелъ m ( pepelŭ )
Old English: æsce f
Oromo: daaraa
Ossetian: ӕртхутӕг ( ærtxutæg )
Ottoman Turkish: كول ( kül )
Papiamentu: shinishi
Pashto: please add this translation if you can
Persian: خاکستر (fa) ( xâkestar )
Phake: please add this translation if you can
Piedmontese: sëner f
Pitjantjatjara: unu
Plautdietsch: Ausch f
Polish: popiół (pl) m
Portuguese: cinzas (pt) f pl
Punjabi: ਸੁਆਹ (pa) f ( suāha )
Quechua: uchpa
Rapa Nui: ikuvera
Rohingya: sai
Romagnol: zéndra
Romanian: cenușă (ro) f , scrum (ro) m
Romansch: tschendra f
Russian: пе́пел (ru) m ( pépel ) , зола́ (ru) f ( zolá )
Saanich: K̵OYEĆ
Sango: pupuru
Sanskrit: भस्म (sa) m ( bhasma ) , आस (sa) m ( āsa )
Sardinian:
Campidanese: cinixu
Logudorese: chixina
Sassarese: chixina , chisgina
Scottish Gaelic: luath f , luaithre f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пепео m
Roman: pepeo (sh) m
Shor: кӱл ( kül )
Sicilian: cìnniri (scn)
Sikkimese: please add this translation if you can
Sinhalese: අළු (si) ( aḷu )
Slovak: popol (sk) m
Slovene: pepel (sl) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: popjeł m
Southern Altai: кӱл ( kül )
Spanish: ceniza (es) f , hollín (es) m
Sundanese: lebu (su)
Svan: ქა̈მ ( käm )
Swahili: majivu (sw)
Swedish: aska (sv) c
Sylheti: ꠍꠣꠟꠤ ( sáli )
Tabasaran: рюкъ ( rjuq̄ )
Tagalog: abo (tl)
Tahitian: rehu
Tai Dam: please add this translation if you can
Tai Nüa: please add this translation if you can
Tajik: хокистар (tg) ( xokistar )
Tamil: சாம்பல் (ta) ( cāmpal )
Tarifit: iɣed m
Tat: хокистэр
Tatar: көл (tt) ( köl )
Telugu: బూడిద (te) ( būḍida )
Tetum: kadesan
Thai: เถ้า (th) ( tâo )
Tibetan: གོ་ཐལ ( go thal )
Tok Pisin: sit bilong faia
Tumbuka: phulusa
Turkish: kül (tr)
Turkmen: kül
Tuvan: хүл ( xül )
Udi: йекъ ( jeq̇ )
Udmurt: пень ( peń )
Ukrainian: по́піл m ( pópil ) , зола́ f ( zolá )
Urdu: راکھ f ( rākh )
Uyghur: كۈل ( kül )
Uzbek: kul (uz)
Venetan: sènare , sènere
Vietnamese: tro (vi)
Vilamovian: oś f , oš f
Volapük: zen (vo)
Walloon: cinde (wa) f
Warlpiri: puna
Welsh: lludw (cy) m
West Frisian: jiske
White Hmong: tshauv
Wutunhua: ta
Yakan: abu
Yakut: күл ( kül )
Yámana: afwa
Yiddish: אַש n ( ash )
Zande: kuke
Zealandic: asse f
Zhuang: daeuh
Zulu: umlotha class 3
Verb
ash (third-person singular simple present ashes , present participle ashing , simple past and past participle ashed )
( chemistry ) To reduce to a residue of ash. See ashing .
1919 , Harry Gordon, Total Soluble and Insoluble Ash in Leather , published in the Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association , W. K. Alsop and W. A. Fox, eds, volume XIV, number 1, on page 253
I dried the extracted leather very slowly on the steam bath [ … ] until the substance was dry enough to ash . [ … ] I think that the discrepancy in the percentages of "total ash" by method No. 2 and No. 6 is due to this excessive heat required to ash the leather [ … ]
1981 , Hans Weill, Margaret Turner-Warwick, and Claude Lenfant, eds, Occupational Lung Diseases: Research Approaches and Methods , Lung Biology in Health and disease, volume 18 , page 203
The inorganic material left after ashing lung tissue specimens not only contains inhaled particles but also very large quantities of inorganic residue derived from the tissue itself.
1989? , Annals of Botany , volume 64, issues 4-6, page 397
Ash and silica contents of the plant material were determined by classical gravimetric techniques. Tissue samples were ashed in platinum crucibles at about 500 °C, and the ash was treated repeatedly with 6 N hydrochloric acid to remove other mineral impurities.
2010 , S. Suzanne Nielsen, ed, Food Analysis, fourth edition , →ISBN , Chapter 12, "Traditional Methods for Mineral Analysis", page 213
A 10-g food sample was dried, then ashed , and analyzed for salt (NaCl) content by the Mohr titration method (AgNO3 + Cl → AgCl). The weight of the dried sample was 2g, and the ashed sample weight was 0.5g.
( intransitive ) To hit the end off of a burning cigar or cigarette .
( transitive ) To hit the end off (a burning cigar or cigarette ).
1936 , F.J. Thwaites , The Redemption , Sydney: H. John Edwards Publishing, published 1940 , page 62 :"Nonsense," Mrs. Gardiner challenged, ashing her cigarette.
1961 , Kenneth Cook , Wake in Fright , published 1988 , page ii. 52 :He realized that he was standing staring at her and he sat down quickly, making a business of ashing his cigarette.
( obsolete , mostly used in the passive) To cover newly-sown fields of crops with ashes.
1847 , H., Ashes on Corn.---An Experiment , published in the Genesee Farmer , volume 8, page 281
Last spring, after I planted, I took what ashes I have saved during the last year, and put on my corn [ … ] . On harvesting I cut up the two rows which were not ashed (or twenty rods of them,) and set them apart from the others in stouts; and then I cut up two rows of the same length, on each side, which had been ashed , [ … ]
1849 , in a letter to James Higgins, published in 1850 in The American Farmer , volume V, number 7, pages 227-8
After the corn was planted, upon acre A, I spread broadcast one hundred bushels of lime, (cost $3) and fifty bushels of ashes, (cost $6.) [ … ] The extra crop of the combination over the limed acre or ashed , was paid by the increased crop, [ … ]
Translations
to reduce to a residue of ash
Finnish: hehkuttaa (fi)
German: veraschen
Malayalam: ചാരമാവുക ( cāramāvuka )
to hit the end off of a burning cigar or cigarette
to cover newly-sown fields of crops with ashes
Finnish: tuhkata (fi)
Sinhalese: නවදැලි හේන ( nawadæli hēna )
Etymology 2
An ash tree in Dorset, England
From Middle English asshe , from Old English æsċ , from Proto-Germanic * askaz , * askiz (compare West Frisian esk , Dutch es , German Esche , Danish/Norwegian/Swedish ask ), from Proto-Indo-European * Heh₃s- (compare Welsh onnen , Latin ornus ( “ wild mountain ash ” ) , Lithuanian úosis , Russian я́сень ( jásenʹ ) , Albanian ah ( “ beech ” ) , Ancient Greek ὀξύα ( oxúa , “ beech ” ) , Old Armenian հացի ( hacʻi ) ).
Anagrams
sha , SAH , AHS , has , šâh , Ahs , ha's , šāh , SHA , Hsa. , sah , ahs