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発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ɹæsp/
• (英国発音) IPA: /ɹɑːsp/
• 韻: -æsp, -ɑːsp
• ハイフネーション: rasp

語源 1

From 中期英語 raspen, from Old French rasper, from Frankish *hraspōn, from Proto-Germanic *hraspōną, related to Proto-Germanic *hrespaną (“to tear”). Compare Old High German raspōn (“to gather, rake”), 古期英語 ġehrespan (“to tear”). The noun is from Middle French raspe.

名詞

rasp (plural rasps)

1. A coarse file or filelike tool, on which the cutting prominences are distinct points raised by the oblique stroke of a sharp punch, instead of lines raised by a chisel, as on the true file.

   Hypernyms: file (sometimes construed as coordinate) < tool

2. The sound made by this tool when used, or any similar sound.

   Coordinate term: grating

   the rasp of her perpetual cough

上位語

• file

派生語

動詞

rasp (third-person singular simple present rasps, present participle rasping, simple past and past participle rasped)

1. (intransitive) To use a rasp.
2. (intransitive) To make a noise similar to the one a rasp makes in use; to utter rasps.
3. To say in a raspy voice.
   • 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

     “No. I am going to feed you to the children,” rasped Burt, his laugh rattling around his throat, prising Dad’s fingers one by one off his apron.

4. (transitive) To work something with a rasp.

   to rasp wood to make it smooth

   to rasp bones to powder

5. (ambitransitive, figurative) To grate harshly upon; to offend by coarse or rough treatment or language.

   Some sounds rasp the ear.

   His insults rasped my temper.

語源 2

Probably from earlier raspis (“raspberry”), mistaken as a plural. Further origin unknown.

別の表記

• resp (obsolete)

名詞

rasp (plural rasps)

1. (now rare) The raspberry.
   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     Set sorrel amongst rasps, and the rasps will be smaller.

上位語

• berry

アナグラム

• APRs, Arps, PSRA, RAPs, arps, pars, raps, sapr-, spar