asap

asap (not comparable)

1. Alternative letter-case form of ASAP.
   • 2023, Stephen Buoro, The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa, Bloomsbury Circus, page 17:

     I feel the impatience in her voice, the desire to sell all her stuff asap and return home.

• AAPS, AAPs, APAs, PAAs, PaaS, sapa

Probably from merging of Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *asəp (“incense, ritual smoke”), and *qasəb (“smoke”).

asap

1. smoke (visible particles and vapour given off by burning material)

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*asep”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*qaseb”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Probably from merging of Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *asəp (“incense, ritual smoke”), and *qasəb (“smoke”).

• IPA^(key): /asap/
• Hyphenation: a‧sap

asap

1. smoke (visible particles and vapour given off by burning material)

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*asep”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*qaseb”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Borrowed from Arabic عَصَب (ʕaṣab).

• Hyphenation: a‧sap

asap

1. nerve

   Synonym: nerva

• “asap”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

• ASAP

Borrowed from English asap.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑsɑp/, [ˈɑ̝s̠ɑ̝p]
• Rhymes: -ɑsɑp
• Syllabification^(key): a‧sap
• Hyphenation^(key): asap

asap (not comparable) (colloquial)

1. (jargon) as soon as possible, ASAP

   Saanko tämän asap?

   Can I get this asap?

2. immediately, right away

   Synonyms: heti, välittömästi

• aspa, sapa

Probably from merging of Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *asəp (“incense, ritual smoke”), and *qasəb (“smoke”).

asap

1. smoke (visible particles and vapour given off by burning material)

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*asep”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*qaseb”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Inherited from Malay asap, probably from merging of Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *asəp (“incense, ritual smoke”), and *qasəb (“smoke”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈasap/ [ˈa.sap̚]

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• Rhymes: -asap
• Syllabification: a‧sap

asap

1. smoke

asap

1. smoked (preserved by treatment with smoke)

   daging asap ― smoked meat

asap (active mengasap, passive diasap)

1. (transitive) to smoke (to preserve or prepare by treating with smoke)

   Synonym: asapi

2. (intransitive, always with meng-, uncommon) to smoke (to give off smoke)

   Synonym: berasap

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*asep”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*qaseb”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Probably from merging of Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *asəp (“incense, ritual smoke”), and *qasəb (“smoke”).

asap

1. smoke (visible particles and vapour given off by burning material)

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*asep”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*qaseb”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Probably from merging of Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *asəp (“incense, ritual smoke”), and *qasəb (“smoke”).

• IPA^(key): /asap/
• Rhymes: -asap

asap (Jawi spelling اسڤ, plural asap-asap)

1. smoke (visible particles and vapour given off by burning material)

• Indonesian: asap
• → Tagalog: asap

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*asep”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*qaseb”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• “asap” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

• ASAP

Unadapted borrowing from English asap.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.sap/
• Rhymes: -asap
• Syllabification: a‧sap

asap (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) ASAP

   Synonym: jak najszybciej

• asap in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• asap in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Probably from merging of Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *asəp (“incense, ritual smoke”), and *qasəb (“smoke”).

asap

1. smoke (visible particles and vapour given off by burning material)

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*asep”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*qaseb”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• hasap

Borrowed from Malay asap (“smoke”), probably from merging of Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *asəp (“incense, ritual smoke”) and *qasəb (“smoke”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔaˈsap/ [ʔɐˈsap̚], /ˈʔasap/ [ˈʔaː.sɐp̚]
• Rhymes: -ap, -asap
• Syllabification: a‧sap

asáp or asap (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜐᜉ᜔)

1. irritation in the eye caused by smoke
2. smoke; fume

• asapan

• “asap”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*asep”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*qaseb”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• sapa, pasa

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish عصب, from Arabic عَصَب (ʕaṣab)

asap (definite accusative asabı)

1. nerve

• sinir

• “asap”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “asap”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “asap”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı