ashen

• IPA^(key): /ˈæʃ.ən/

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• Rhymes: -æʃən

From Middle English asshen, aisshen, esscen, from Old English æsċen (“made of ashwood”), equivalent to ash +‎ -en (“made or consisting of”). Cognate with Scots aschin, eschin (“ashen”).

ashen (comparative more ashen, superlative most ashen)

1. Made from the wood of the ash-tree.

   An ashen bow and quiver of arrows beside.

From Middle English asshen, axen (“ash-colored; pale; lifeless”). By surface analysis, ash +‎ -en (“made or consisting of”).

ashen (comparative more ashen, superlative most ashen)

1. Of or resembling ashes.

   A fine, ashen dust hung in the air.

2. Ash-colored; pale; anemic

   His ashen face belied his claims of good health.

3. Appalled; upset.
4. Anaemic.

• ashy, cineraceous, cinereous
• (sickly pale): See also Thesaurus:pallid

• ashen knight
• ashen-faced

From ash +‎ -en (verbal suffix).

ashen (third-person singular simple present ashens, present participle ashening, simple past and past participle ashened)

1. (ambitransitive) To turn into ash; make or become ashy
2. (ambitransitive) To make or become pale

• Ehsan, Haens, Hanes, Hanse, Sanhe, Shane, Shean, hanse, heans

• oaskean

From Middle English asshe, from Old English æsċe, from Proto-West Germanic *askā, from Proto-Germanic *askǭ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaʃən/^[1]

ashen

1. ashes^[2]

   Synonym: ameal