name
Meaning 1
A male given name from Old Persian.
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Standard Lemma guide
jasper
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Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈdʒaspə/
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General-American: /ˈd͡ʒæspɚ/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒæs.pə/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɑː.pə/
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General-American: /ˈd͡ʒæs.pɚ/
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rhymes with -æspə(ɹ)
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CMU ARPABET: JH AE1 S P ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A surname.
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name
Meaning 3
One of the Magi, also known as Caspar.
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name
Meaning 4
A placename:
A place in Canada:
A town in Alberta, Canada.
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name
Meaning 5
A placename:
A place in Canada:
Ellipsis of Jasper National Park: a national park in Alberta, Canada.
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Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
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name
Meaning 6
A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Walker County, Alabama.
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name
Meaning 7
A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A small city, the county seat of Newton County, Arkansas.
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name
Meaning 8
A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Hamilton County, Florida.
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name
Meaning 9
A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Pickens County, Georgia.
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name
Meaning 10
A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Dubois County, Indiana.
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name
Meaning 11
A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A city in Pipestone County and Rock County, Minnesota.
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name
Meaning 12
A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A city in Jasper County, Missouri.
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name
Meaning 13
A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Steuben County, New York.
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name
Meaning 14
A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Pike County, Ohio.
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name
Meaning 15
A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon.
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name
Meaning 16
A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A town, the county seat of Marion County, Tennessee.
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Meaning 17
A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Jasper County, Texas.
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name
Meaning 18
A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Lee County, Virginia.
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name
Meaning 19
A placename:
A number of places in the United States:
A number of townships in the United States, listed under Jasper Township.
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Meaning 20
A placename:
Ellipsis of Jasper County.
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Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
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name
Meaning 21
A placename:
Ellipsis of Jasper Township.
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Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
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noun
Meaning 22
Any bright-coloured kind of chalcedony apart from cornelian.
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Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 23
An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 24
Jasperware pottery.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 25
A wasp.
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Usage: UK, West-Country, colloquial
Qualifier: Somerset
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noun
Meaning 26
A person, a guy, especially seen as naïve or simple.
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Usage: US, slang
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noun
Meaning 27
A stranger.
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Usage: Appalachia
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verb
Meaning 28
To decorate with, or as if with, jasper.
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Usage: transitive
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noun
Meaning 29
an opaque form of quartz; red or yellow or brown or dark green in color; used for ornamentation or as a gemstone
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Broader terms: opaque gem
History
Etymology
A name given to one of the Magi in a medieval European cult, from Biblical Hebrew גִּזְבָּר (gizbar), ultimately from Old Median *ganǰabarah; see it for more.
From Middle English jasper, jaspre, from Old French jaspre, a variant of jaspe (modern French jaspe), from Latin iaspis, from Ancient Greek ἴασπις (íaspis).
From the male personal name Jasper.
Across languages
Translations
65 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: يَشْب (yašb) — precious stone
- Arabic: يَشْم (yašm) — precious stone
- Armenian: հասպիս (haspis) — precious stone
- Azerbaijani: yəşəm — precious stone
- Azerbaijani: yaşma — precious stone
- Bulgarian: яспис (jaspis) — precious stone
- Catalan: jaspi — precious stone
- Cherokee: ᏣᏍᏆ (tsasqua) — precious stone
- Chinese Mandarin: 碧玉 (bìyù) — precious stone
- Czech: jaspis — precious stone
- Danish: jaspis — precious stone
- Dutch: jaspis — precious stone
- Esperanto: jaspo — precious stone
- Estonian: jaspis — precious stone
- Finnish: jaspis — precious stone
- French: jaspe — precious stone
- Galician: xaspe — precious stone
- Georgian: იასპი (iasṗi) — precious stone
- German: Jaspis — precious stone
- Greek: ίασπις (íaspis) — precious stone
- Ancient Greek: ἴασπις (íaspis) — precious stone
- Hebrew: ישפה — precious stone
- Hindi: सूर्यकांत (sūryakānt) — precious stone
- Hindi: यशब (yaśab) — precious stone
- Hungarian: jáspis — precious stone
- Icelandic: jaspis — precious stone
- Ido: jaspo — precious stone
- Irish: seaspar — precious stone
- Italian: diaspro — precious stone
- Japanese: 碧玉 (hekigyoku) — precious stone
- Japanese: ジャスパー (jasupā) — precious stone
- Kazakh: яшма (äşma) — precious stone
- Korean: 벽옥 (byeogok) — precious stone
- Ladino: djaspe — precious stone
- Latin: iaspis — precious stone
- Latvian: jašma — precious stone
- Lithuanian: jaspis — precious stone
- Lombard: diasper — precious stone
- Māori: hahapa — precious stone
- Māori: hāpita — precious stone
- Nahuatl: tecpacuihcuilli — precious stone
- Norwegian: jaspis — precious stone
- Occitan: jaspi — precious stone
- Persian: یشم (yašm) — precious stone
- Persian: یشب (yašb) — precious stone
- Polish: jaspis — precious stone
- Portuguese: jaspe — precious stone
- Romanian: jasp — precious stone
- Russian: я́шма (jášma) — precious stone
- Russian: я́спис (jáspis) — precious stone
- Slovak: jaspis — precious stone
- Spanish: jaspe — precious stone
- Swahili: yaspa — precious stone
- Swedish: jaspis — precious stone
- Tagalog: haspe — precious stone
- Thai: แจสเปอร์ (jɛɛs-pəə) — precious stone
- Turkish: yeşim — precious stone
- Turkish: jasper — precious stone
- Ukrainian: я́шма (jášma) — precious stone
- Ukrainian: я́спис (jáspys) — precious stone
- Uyghur: يەشمە (yeshme) — precious stone
- Uzbek: yashma — precious stone
- Welsh: maen iasbis — precious stone
- Welsh: iasbis — precious stone
- Welsh: glain cawod — precious stone
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