asen

asen (inanimate, plural asenal)

1. a rock, a stone

asen

1. third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of asar

From Old Danish asnæ, from Old Norse asni, from Old French asne, from Latin asinus. Largely replaced by Middle Low German esel, see æsel. Cognates include Swedish åsna, Icelandic asni and Faroese asni.

• IPA^(key): /ˈæˀsən/

asen (singular definite asnet, plural indefinite asner)

1. Used as a mild insult to or about a person whom one envies or harbors a certain dislike for.
2. (dated) donkey, ass, (only used as a comparison).

   stædig som et asen

   stubborn as a mule

• heldige asen.
• stædige asen.

asen c

1. definite singular of as

• “asen” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “asen” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

asen

1. inflection of asar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

From Old Norse asni, from Latin asinus.

asen n (definite singular asenet, indefinite plural asen, definite plural asena)

1. donkey, ass

   Synonym: esel

Perfect participle of asa.

asen (neuter ase, definite singular and plural asne, comparative asnare, indefinite superlative asnast, definite superlative asnaste)

1. angry
2. naggy, noisy

asen

1. past participle of asa

• “asen” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• asan (Surmiran, Vallader)
• esan (Puter)

From Latin asinus.

asen m (plural asens)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) (male) donkey, ass

• (sex): asna

• IPA^(key): /ˈasen/ [ˈa.sẽn]
• Rhymes: -asen
• Syllabification: a‧sen
• Homophone: (Latin America) hacen

asen

1. inflection of asar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative
2. third-person plural present indicative of asir

asen

1. definite singular of as c (“one of the Æsir (Old Norse gods)”)
2. definite plural of as n (“carrion, carcass; asshole”)

• anse, enas, nesa, sena, snea

From French arsenic.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔaː˧˧ sɛn˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔaː˧˧ sɛn˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔaː˧˧ sɛn˧˧]
• Phonetic spelling: a xeń

asen

1. arsenic

• IPA^(key): /ˈasɛn/

From Middle Welsh assen, from Proto-Brythonic *asen (compare Old Cornish asen, Middle Breton asen), from Latin asina.

asen f (plural asennod)

1. she-ass, jenny

• asyn

From Proto-Celtic *ast (via a derivative *astinā; compare Cornish asenn), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁ (“bone”) (compare Irish easna, Latin os, Albanian asht). Doublet of ais, related to asgwrn.

asen f (plural asennau)

1. rib (curved bone)

• eisen