English Explanatory Dictionary

jasper

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any bright-coloured kind of chalcedony apart from cornelian.
  2. An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface.
  3. Jasperware pottery.
verb
  1. To decorate with, or as if with, jasper.
noun
  1. A wasp.
  2. A person, a guy, especially seen as naïve or simple.
  3. A stranger.
name
  1. A male given name from Old Persian.
  2. A surname.
  3. One of the Magi, also known as Caspar.
  4. A placename:
  5. A place in Canada:
  6. A town in Alberta, Canada.
  7. Ellipsis of Jasper National Park: a national park in Alberta, Canada.
  8. A number of places in the United States:
  9. A city, the county seat of Walker County, Alabama.
  10. A small city, the county seat of Newton County, Arkansas.
  11. A city, the county seat of Hamilton County, Florida.
  12. A city, the county seat of Pickens County, Georgia.

Pronunciation

/ˈd͡ʒæs.pəː/ [ˈd͡ʒæs.pəː] /ˈd͡ʒæs.pɚ/ [ˈd͡ʒæs.pɚ] ~ [ˈd͡ʒæs.pɹ̩] en-us-jasper.ogg /ˈdʒaspə/ /ˈd͡ʒæspɚ/

Word forms

jasper jaspers jaspering jaspered Caspar Gaspar Casper Kaspar Kasper Kosper Cosper Gosper

Etymology

From Middle English jasper, jaspre, from Old French jaspre, a variant of jaspe (modern French jaspe), from Latin iaspis, from Ancient Greek ἴασπις (íaspis).

Synonyms

County of Jasper Township of Jasper

Derived words

jasperated jasperite jasperization jasperize jasperoid jasper opal jasperous jasperware jasper ware jaspery jaspidean lavender jasper pseudojasper riband jasper xyloid jasper Jasper County Jasper Place Jasper Township Wee Jasper

Translations

Arabic: يَشْب Arabic: يَشْم Armenian: հասպիս Azerbaijani: yəşəm Azerbaijani: yaşma Bulgarian: яспис Catalan: jaspi Cherokee: ᏣᏍᏆ Chinese Mandarin: 碧玉 Czech: jaspis Danish: jaspis Dutch: jaspis Esperanto: jaspo Estonian: jaspis Finnish: jaspis French: jaspe Galician: xaspe Georgian: იასპი German: Jaspis Greek: ίασπις Ancient Greek: ἴασπις Hebrew: ישפה Hindi: सूर्यकांत Hindi: यशब Hungarian: jáspis Icelandic: jaspis Ido: jaspo Irish: seaspar Italian: diaspro Japanese: 碧玉 Japanese: ジャスパー Kazakh: яшма Korean: 벽옥 Ladino: djaspe Latin: iaspis Latvian: jašma Lithuanian: jaspis Lombard: diasper Māori: hahapa Māori: hāpita Nahuatl: tecpacuihcuilli Norwegian: jaspis Occitan: jaspi Persian: یشم Persian: یشب Polish: jaspis
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