aspiration

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• Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˌæspəˈɹeɪʃən/
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• Australian: /ˌæspəˈɹæɪʃən/
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• New-Zealand: /ˌɛspəˈɹæɪʃən/
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• rhymes with -eɪʃən
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• CMU ARPABET: AE2 S P ER0 EY1 SH AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree English aspire Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English aspiration From aspire + -ation.

From aspirate + -ion or borrowed from Latin aspīrātiō.

87 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: أَمَل (ʔamal) — hope or ambition
• Armenian: ձգտում (jgtum) — hope or ambition
• Bengali: তামান্না (tamanna) — hope or ambition
• Bulgarian: стремеж (stremež) — hope or ambition
• Bulgarian: амбиция (ambicija) — hope or ambition
• Catalan: aspiració — hope or ambition
• Chinese Mandarin: 希望 (xīwàng) — hope or ambition
• Finnish: pyrkimys — hope or ambition
• French: aspiration — hope or ambition
• Georgian: სწრაფვა (sc̣rapva) — hope or ambition
• Georgian: მისწრაფება (misc̣rapeba) — hope or ambition
• German: Verlangen — hope or ambition
• German: Sehnsucht — hope or ambition
• German: Aspiration — hope or ambition
• Greek: φιλοδοξία (filodoxía) — hope or ambition
• Greek: ιδανικό (idanikó) — hope or ambition
• Irish: ardaidhm — hope or ambition
• Irish: ardmhian — hope or ambition
• Irish: barrmhian — hope or ambition
• Japanese: 希望 (kibō) — hope or ambition
• Korean: 열망 (yeolmang) — hope or ambition
• Korean: 염원 (yeomwon) — hope or ambition
• Korean: 포부 (pobu) — hope or ambition
• Central Kurdish: ئاوات (awat) — hope or ambition
• Malayalam: അഭിലാഷം (abhilāṣaṁ) — hope or ambition
• Māori: matanā — hope or ambition
• Māori: tāpara — hope or ambition
• Māori: tūmanakotanga — hope or ambition
• Māori: matawara — hope or ambition
• Māori: koronga — hope or ambition
• Māori: awata — hope or ambition
• Māori: maingo — hope or ambition
• Māori: pīrangi — hope or ambition
• Plautdietsch: Väanämungsjeist — hope or ambition
• Polish: ambicja — hope or ambition
• Polish: aspiracja — hope or ambition
• Portuguese: aspiração — hope or ambition
• Russian: стремле́ние (stremlénije) — hope or ambition
• Russian: наде́жда (nadéžda) — hope or ambition
• Russian: амби́ция (ambícija) — hope or ambition
• Scottish Gaelic: dèidh — hope or ambition
• Serbo-Croatian: težnja — hope or ambition
• Serbo-Croatian: aspiracija — hope or ambition
• Slovak: ašpirácia — hope or ambition
• Spanish: aspiración — hope or ambition
• Thai: ความปรารถนา (kwaam-bpràat-tà-nǎa) — hope or ambition
• Thai: ปณิธาน (bpà-ní-taan) — hope or ambition
• Yiddish: שטרעבן (shtrebn) — hope or ambition
• Arabic: رَشْف (rašf) — action of aspirating
• Assamese: উশাহ (uxah) — action of aspirating
• Catalan: aspiració — action of aspirating
• French: aspiration — action of aspirating
• Japanese: 吸引 (kyūin) — action of aspirating
• Portuguese: aspiração — action of aspirating
• Romanian: aspirație — action of aspirating
• Romanian: aspirare — action of aspirating
• Romanian: inspirație — action of aspirating
• Serbo-Croatian: aspiriranje — action of aspirating
• Slovak: vdýchnutie — action of aspirating
• Slovak: nasatie — action of aspirating
• Spanish: aspiración — action of aspirating
• Irish: asú — medicine: withdrawal of fluid
• Arabic: زَفْر (zafr) — burst of air that follows the release of some consonants
• Bulgarian: придиха́ние (pridihánie) — burst of air that follows the release of some consonants
• Catalan: aspiració — burst of air that follows the release of some consonants
• Chinese Mandarin: 送氣 /送气 (sòngqì) — burst of air that follows the release of some consonants
• Finnish: aspiraatio — burst of air that follows the release of some consonants
• French: aspiration — burst of air that follows the release of some consonants
• German: Behauchung — burst of air that follows the release of some consonants
• German: Aspiration — burst of air that follows the release of some consonants
• Greek: δάσυνση (dásynsi) — burst of air that follows the release of some consonants
• Icelandic: áblásning — burst of air that follows the release of some consonants
• Irish: análú — burst of air that follows the release of some consonants
• Japanese: 気音 (kion) — burst of air that follows the release of some consonants
• Norwegian: aspirering — burst of air that follows the release of some consonants
• Persian: دمش (dameš) — burst of air that follows the release of some consonants
• Polish: aspiracja — burst of air that follows the release of some consonants
• Polish: przydech — burst of air that follows the release of some consonants
• Portuguese: aspiração — burst of air that follows the release of some consonants
• Russian: придыха́ние (pridyxánije) — burst of air that follows the release of some consonants
• Russian: аспира́ция (aspirácija) — burst of air that follows the release of some consonants
• Serbo-Croatian: aspiracija — burst of air that follows the release of some consonants
• Slovak: aspirácia — burst of air that follows the release of some consonants
• Ukrainian: аспіра́ція (aspirácija) — burst of air that follows the release of some consonants
• Ukrainian: при́дих (prýdyx) — burst of air that follows the release of some consonants
• Urdu: ہکاریت (hakāriyat) — burst of air that follows the release of some consonants
• Welsh: llaes — burst of air that follows the release of some consonants