aspiration

See also: Aspiration

English

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

English aspire

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin -ātiōlbor.

Old French -ationbor.

Middle English -acioun

English -ation

English aspiration

From aspire + -ation.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌæspəˈɹeɪʃən/

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• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ˌæspəˈɹæɪʃən/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˌɛspəˈɹæɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

aspiration (countable and uncountable, plural aspirations)

1. The act of aspiring or ardently desiring; an ardent wish or desire, chiefly after what is elevated or spiritual (with common adjunct adpositions being to and of).

   Riley has an aspiration to become a doctor.

   Morgan has an aspiration of winning the game.

   • 2019 October, “Funding for 20tph East London Line service”, in Modern Railways, page 18:

     TfL retains aspirations to further increase frequency on the ELL [East London Line] to 24tph, which would require a switch from conventional signalling to a digital railway solution involving automatic train operation on the core section.

Derived terms

• aspirational
• aspirationalism
• aspirationalist
• bronchoaspiration
• deaspiration
• fine-needle aspiration
• joint aspiration
• lipoaspiration
• microaspiration
• needle aspiration biopsy
• reaspiration
• salt water aspiration syndrome
• thrombaspiration
• thromboaspiration
• vacuum aspiration

Translations

hope or ambition

• Arabic: أَمَل m (ʔamal)
• Armenian: ձգտում (hy) (jgtum)
• Bengali: তামান্না (bn) (tamanna)
• Bulgarian: стремеж (bg) (stremež), амбиция (bg) (ambicija)
• Catalan: aspiració (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 希望 (zh) (xīwàng)

• Finnish: pyrkimys (fi)
• French: aspiration (fr) f
• Georgian: სწრაფვა (sc̣rapva), მისწრაფება (misc̣rapeba)
• German: Verlangen (de) n, Sehnsucht (de) f; Aspiration (de) f
• Greek: φιλοδοξία (el) f (filodoxía), ιδανικό (el) n (idanikó)
• Gujarati: ^{(please verify)} આકાન્ક્ષા (ākānkṣā)
• Irish: ardaidhm f, ardmhian f, barrmhian f
• Japanese: 希望 (ja) (きぼう, kibō)
• Korean: 열망(熱望) (ko) (yeolmang), 염원(念願) (ko) (yeomwon), 포부(抱負) (ko) (pobu)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ئاوات (awat)

• Malayalam: അഭിലാഷം (ml) (abhilāṣaṁ)
• Māori: matanā, tāpara, tūmanakotanga, matawara, koronga, awata, maingo, pīrangi
• Plautdietsch: Väanämungsjeist m
• Polish: ambicja (pl) f, aspiracja (pl) f
• Portuguese: aspiração (pt) f
• Russian: стремле́ние (ru) n (stremlénije), наде́жда (ru) f (nadéžda), амби́ция (ru) f (ambícija)
• Scottish Gaelic: dèidh f
• Serbo-Croatian: težnja (sh) f, aspiracija (sh) f
• Slovak: ašpirácia (sk) f
• Spanish: aspiración (es) f
• Thai: ความปรารถนา (th) (kwaam-bpràat-tà-nǎa), ปณิธาน (th) (bpà-ní-taan)
• Yiddish: שטרעבן m (shtrebn)

Etymology 2

From aspirate +‎ -ion or borrowed from Latin aspīrātiō.

Noun

aspiration (countable and uncountable, plural aspirations)

1. The action of aspirating.
2. (phonetics) A burst of air that follows the release of some consonants.

   In Cambodian, aspiration is phonemic, so /p/ and /pʰ/ are different phonemes.

3. (medicine) The withdrawal of fluid, tissue, or other substance, usually through a hollow needle from a body cavity, cyst, or tumor.
4. (Gallicism, linguistics) The silent breaking h beginning some French words, largely of Germanic origin.
5. (Gaelic, linguistics) The process of lenition involving writing a digraph with h, especially at the beginning of a word.

Derived terms

• aspirational
• preaspiration, pre-aspiration

Translations

action of aspirating

• Arabic: رَشْف (rašf)
• Assamese: উশাহ (uxah)
• Catalan: aspiració (ca) f
• French: aspiration (fr)
• Japanese: 吸引 (ja) (kyūin)
• Portuguese: aspiração (pt) f
• Romanian: aspirație (ro), aspirare (ro), inspirație (ro)
• Serbo-Croatian: aspiriranje n
• Slovak: vdýchnutie, nasatie
• Spanish: aspiración (es) f

medicine: withdrawal of fluid

• Irish: asú m

burst of air that follows the release of some consonants

• Arabic: زَفْر m (zafr)
• Bulgarian: придиха́ние n (pridihánie)
• Catalan: aspiració (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 送氣 / 送气 (zh) (sòngqì)

• Finnish: aspiraatio (fi)
• French: aspiration (fr)
• German: Behauchung (de) f; Aspiration (de) f
• Greek: δάσυνση (el) f (dásynsi)
• Icelandic: áblásning f
• Irish: análú m
• Japanese: 気音 (きおん, kion)
• Norwegian: aspirering
• Persian: دمش (fa) sg (dameš)
• Polish: aspiracja (pl) f, przydech m
• Portuguese: aspiração (pt) f
• Russian: придыха́ние (ru) n (pridyxánije), аспира́ция (ru) f (aspirácija)
• Serbo-Croatian: aspiracija (sh) f
• Slovak: aspirácia
• Ukrainian: аспіра́ція f (aspirácija), при́дих m (prýdyx)
• Urdu: ہکاریت (hakāriyat)
• Welsh: llaes (cy)

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

• Icelandic: útsog n
• Ido: ^{(please verify)} deziro (io), ^{(please verify)} aspiro (io)

Further reading

• “aspiration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “aspiration”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Danish

Etymology

From aspirere +‎ -tion.

Noun

aspiration c (singular definite aspirationen, plural indefinite aspirationer)

1. aspiration

Declension

Declension of aspiration

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	aspiration	aspirationen	aspirationer	aspirationerne
genitive	aspirations	aspirationens	aspirationers	aspirationernes

References

• “aspiration” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aspirātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /as.pi.ʁa.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

aspiration f (plural aspirations)

1. aspiration

Related terms

• aspirer

Further reading

• “aspiration”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012