rasp

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹæsp/, /ɹɑːsp/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -æsp, -ɑːsp

Etymology 1

From Middle English 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”), Old English ġehrespan (“to tear”). The noun is from Middle French raspe.

Wood rasp

Noun

rasp (plural rasps)

1. A coarse file, 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.
2. The sound made by this tool when used, or any similar sound.

   the rasp of her perpetual cough

Hypernyms

• file

Derived terms

• rasp-house
• rasp palm

 

Translations

coarse file

• Ancient Greek: please add this translation if you can
• Assamese: ৰেতি (reti), ও (ü)
• Azerbaijani: törpü
• Bashkir: эре игәү (ere igəw)
• Bulgarian: раш пила f (raš pila)
• Burmese: ကျားလျှာ (my) (kya:hlya)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 銼刀／锉刀 (zh) (cuòdāo)

• Czech: rašple (cs) f
• Danish: rasp (da)
• Dutch: rasp (nl) f
• Esperanto: raspilo
• Finnish: raspi (fi)
• French: râpe (fr) f
• Galician: grosa f, raspa f
• German: Raspel (de) f
• Hungarian: ráspoly (hu), reszelő (hu)
• Italian: scuffina f, raspa (it) f
• Japanese: 鑢 (ja) (やすり, yasuri)
• Korean: 줄 (ko) (jul)
• Latin: grosa f, līma f
• Macedonian: турпија f (turpija)
• Maori: waku kaitara, waku
• Navajo: bee achʼiishí, tsin bee yichʼiishí, tsin bee yigołí
• Norwegian: rasp
• Occitan: raspa (oc)
• Ottoman Turkish: اگه (eğe), تورپو (törpü), راسپه (raspa), مبرد (mibred), سوهان (suhan)
• Polish: tarnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: grosa (pt) f, raspa (pt) f, raspadeira (pt) f
• Russian: ра́шпиль (ru) m (rášpilʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: rašpa (sh) f, turpija (sh) f
• Spanish: escofina (es)
• Swahili: tupa (sw)
• Swedish: rasp (sv)
• Thai: บุ้ง (th) (bûng)
• Turkish: törpü (tr)
• Ukrainian: ра́шпіль m (rášpilʹ)

sound made by a rasp

• Bulgarian: стържене n (stǎržene)
• Finnish: rahina
• French: râpement (fr)
• Hungarian: csikorgás (hu)
• Maori: ngākeke
• Occitan: raspament
• Portuguese: raspa (pt) f
• Russian: скре́жет (ru) m (skréžet)
• Turkish: törpü sesi

Verb

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

   Some sounds rasp the ear.

   His insults rasped my temper.

Translations

to use a rasp

• Bashkir: ҡырыу (qırıw), игәү (igəw)
• Bulgarian: пиля (bg) (pilja)
• Czech: rašplovat
• Finnish: raspata
• French: râper (fr)
• Italian: scuffinare
• Occitan: raspar (oc)
• Ottoman Turkish: تورپولمك (törpülemek)
• Portuguese: grosar
• Russian: обдира́ть (ru) (obdirátʹ), тере́ть (ru) (terétʹ), опи́ливать (ru) (opílivatʹ)
• Spanish: raspar (es), escofinar (es)
• Turkish: törpülemek (tr)

to make a noise like that of a rasp

• Bulgarian: стържа (bg) (stǎrža)
• Finnish: rahista
• Maori: ngākeke
• Occitan: raspar (oc)
• Portuguese: raspar (pt)
• Russian: скрести́ (ru) (skrestí)
• Swedish: raspa (sv)

to work something with a rasp

• Bulgarian: изпилявам (izpiljavam)
• Finnish: raspata
• Occitan: raspar (oc)
• Portuguese: grosar

to grate or rub roughly

• Bulgarian: остъргвам (bg) (ostǎrgvam)
• Maori: kauhoro, hikahika, ngakeke

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} grincer (fr)
• German: ^{(please verify)} raspeln (de) (1)

Etymology 2

From raspberry.

Noun

rasp (plural rasps)

1. (obsolete) The raspberry.
   • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

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

Hypernyms

• berry

Anagrams

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

Dutch

Etymology

16th century, from Middle French raspe, from Old French raspe (“steel file”); see modern French râper (“to grate”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

rasp f (plural raspen, diminutive raspje n)

1. grater, for example for cheese
2. surform tool

Derived terms

• raspen

Descendants

• Berbice Creole Dutch: raspru
• → Papiamentu: raspu, rasp

Verb

rasp

1. inflection of raspen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

Icelandic

Etymology

From Danish raspe (“to grate”), from German.

Noun

rasp m

1. (cooking) breadcrumbs

See also

• brauðmylsna (“breadcrumbs”) (non-culinary)

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

rasp

1. imperative of raspe