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Definition: ASHES |
ASHESNoun plural1. The color of ashes; deathlike paleness. 2. Specifically: The remains of the human body when burnt, or when "returned to dust" by natural decay. 3. The earthy or mineral particles of combustible substances remaining after combustion, as of wood or coal. |
Date "ASHES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Ashes \Ash"es\, noun. plural [Old English asche, aske, Anglo-Saxon asce, [ae]sce, axe; akin to Old High German asca, German asche, Dutch asch, Icelandic & Swedish aska, Danish aske, Gothic azgo.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Bible | Ashes The ashes of a red heifer burned entire (Num. 19:5) when sprinkled on the unclean made them ceremonially clean (Heb. 9:13). To cover the head with ashes was a token of self-abhorrence and humiliation (2 Sam. 13:19; Esther 4:3; Jer. 6:26, etc.). To feed on ashes (Isa. 44:20), means to seek that which will prove to be vain and unsatisfactory, and hence it denotes the unsatisfactory nature of idol-worship. (Comp. Hos. 12:1). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | Dreaming of ashes omens woe, and many bitter changes are sure to come to the dreamer. Blasted crops to the farmer. Unsuccessful deals for the trader. Parents will reap the sorrows of wayward children. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Ash is the name of three very distinct group of trees. In America and Europe, "ash" generally refers to trees of the Genus Fraxinus. In Great Britain, "ash" also refers to the mountain ash or Rowan, Genus Sorbus. In Australia, "mountain ash" refers to a type of eucalyptus, Eucalyptus regnans, one of the tallest trees in the world (perhaps second only to the coast redwood).
Ash Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Scrophulariales * Family: Oleaceae Genus: Fraxinus Species Fraxinus americana -- white ash
Fraxinus angustifolia -- narrowleaf ash
Fraxinus anomala -- single-leaf ash
Fraxinus apertisquamifera
Fraxinus caroliniana -- water ash
Fraxinus cuspidata -- fragrant ash
Fraxinus dipetala -- two-petal ash
Fraxinus dubia
Fraxinus excelsior -- common ash
Fraxinus baroniana
Fraxinus bungeana -- Bunge ash
Fraxinus chinensis -- Chinese ash
Fraxinus chiisanensis
Fraxinus floribunda
Fraxinus gooddingii -- Goodding's ash
Fraxinus greggii -- Gregg's ash
Fraxinus griffithii
Fraxinus holotricha
Fraxinus hubeiensis
Fraxinus lanuginosa
Fraxinus latifolia -- Oregon ash
Fraxinus longicuspis -- Japanese ash
Fraxinus malacophylla
Fraxinus mandshurica -- Manchurian ash
Fraxinus micrantha
Fraxinus nigra -- black ash
Fraxinus ornus -- flowering ash
Fraxinus papillosa -- Chihuahua ash
Fraxinus paxiana
Fraxinus pennsylvanica -- green ash
Fraxinus platypoda
Fraxinus profunda -- pumpkin ash
Fraxinus purpusii
Fraxinus quadrangulata -- blue ash
Fraxinus raibocarpa
Fraxinus rufescens
Fraxinus uhdei -- Shamel ash
Fraxinus sieboldiana -- Chinese
flowering ash
Fraxinus spaethiana
Fraxinus trifoliata
Fraxinus velutina -- velvet ash
Fraxinus xanthoxyloides -- Afghan ash*Some botanists include the Oleaceae
in the order Lamiales.The Genus Fraxinus is in the olive family (Family Oleaceae). Ashes are usually medium to large trees. Most have pinnately-compound, opposite leaves. Seeds are borne in keys, a type of fruit known as a samara.
The white ash is a particularly important timber tree in eastern North America, and is the source of wood for quality wooden baseball bats. The green ash is widely planted as a street tree in the United States. The inner bark of the blue ash has been used as a source for a blue dye.
Ashes of eastern North America include:
- Fraxinus americana -- white ash
- Fraxinus caroliniana -- water ash]
- Fraxinus nigra -- black ash
- Fraxinus pennsylvanica -- green ash (including red ash)
- Fraxinus profunda -- pumpkin ash (aka Fraxinus tomentosa)
- Fraxinus quadrangulata -- blue ash
Ashes of western and southwestern North America include:
- Fraxinus anomala -- single-leaf ash
- Fraxinus cuspidata -- fragrant ash
- Fraxinus dipetala -- two-petal ash
- Fraxinus dubia -- ash
- Fraxinus gooddingii -- Goodding's ash
- Fraxinus greggii -- Gregg's ash
- Fraxinus latifolia -- Oregon ash
- Fraxinus papillosa -- Chihuahua ash
- Fraxinus purpusii -- ash
- Fraxinus rufescens -- ash
- Fraxinus uhdei -- Shamel ash
- Fraxinus velutina -- velvet ash
Ashes of Europe include:
- Fraxinus angustifolia -- narrowleaf ash (also in Asia and North Africa)
- Fraxinus excelsior -- common ash
- Fraxinus holotricha -- ash
- Fraxinus ornus -- flowering ash (also in North Africa)
Ashes of Asia include:
- Fraxinus angustifolia -- narrowleaf ash (also in Europe and North Africa)
- Fraxinus apertisquamifera -- ash
- Fraxinus baroniana -- ash
- Fraxinus bungeana -- Bunge ash
- Fraxinus chinensis -- Chinese ash (or Korean ash)
- Fraxinus chiisanensis -- ash
- Fraxinus floribunda -- ash
- Fraxinus griffithii -- ash
- Fraxinus hubeiensis -- ash
- Fraxinus lanuginosa -- ash
- Fraxinus longicuspis -- Japanese ash
- Fraxinus malacophylla -- ash
- Fraxinus mandshurica -- Manchurian ash
- Fraxinus micrantha -- ash
- Fraxinus paxiana -- ash
- Fraxinus platypoda -- ash
- Fraxinus raibocarpa -- ash
- Fraxinus sieboldiana -- Chinese flowering ash
- Fraxinus spaethiana -- ash
- Fraxinus trifoliata -- ash
- Fraxinus xanthoxyloides -- Afghan ash (also in North Africa)
Ashes of Africa (North Africa only) include:
- Fraxinus angustifolia -- narrowleaf ash (also in Europe)
- Fraxinus ornus -- flowering ash (also in Europe)
- Fraxinus xanthoxyloides -- Afghan ash (also in Asia)
Cultural aspects
In Norse mythology, the World Tree, Yggdrasil, was an ash tree, and the man, Ask, was formed from an ash tree (the first woman was made from alder). Elsewhere in Europe, snakes were said to be repelled by ash leaves or a circle drawn by an ash branch. Irish folklore claims that shadows from an ash tree damage crops. In Cheshire, it is said that ash could be used to cure warts or rickets.See also; Trees of Britain, Trees of the world
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ash tree."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Ashes series is a regular international cricket contest between England and Australia, so named after the trophy, which is a small wooden urn, said to contain the burnt bails from an 1882 game between the countries at The Oval. The custom arose when, after this game, The Sporting Times printed the following "obituary" to English cricket:
Ironically, the Ashes themselves were never taken to Australia, but kept in the Long Room at Lords. In the 1990s, given Australia's long dominance of the series the idea was mooted of the victorious team being awarded the trophy, but nothing came of it.
- "In Affectionate Remembrance of ENGLISH CRICKET, which died at the Oval on 29th AUGUST, 1882, Deeply lamented by a large circle of sorrowing friends and acquaintances R.I.P.
- N.B. - The body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia."
The Ashes is generally regarded as the greatest cricketing competition, at least by inhabitants of the countries involved. Notable ashes series took place in 1933 (the Bodyline tour), 1948 (Bradman's unbeatable Australian side) and 1981 (in which an England team spearheaded by Ian Botham won a thrilling series).
see also: Australia v England 2001
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ashes series."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Asceticism | Mortification, maceration, sackcloth and ashes, flagellation; penance; fasting; martyrdom. |
Atonement | Verb: atone, atone for; expiate; propitiate; make amends, make good; reclaim, redeem, repair, ransom, absolve, purge, shrive, do penance, stand in a white sheet, repent in sackcloth and ashes, wear a hairshirt. |
Penance, fasting, maceration, sackcloth and ashes, white sheet, shrift, flagellation, lustration; purgation, purgatory. | |
Calefaction | Burn, inflame, roast, toast, fry, grill, singe, parch, bake, torrefy, scorch; brand, cauterize, sear, burn in; corrode, char, calcine, incinerate; smelt, scorify; reduce to ashes; burn to a cinder; commit to the flames, consign to the flames. |
Corpse | Noun: corpse, corse, carcass, cadaver, bones, skeleton, dry bones; defunct, relics, reliquiae, remains, mortal remains, dust, ashes, earth, clay; mummy; carrion; food for worms, food for fishes; tenement of clay this mortal coil. |
Destruction | Smash, crash, quell, squash, squelch, crumple up, shiver; batter to pieces, tear to pieces, crush to pieces, cut to pieces, shake to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces; laniate; nip; tear to rags, tear to tatters; crush to atoms, knock to atoms; ruin; strike out; throw over, knock down over; fell, sink, swamp, scuttle, wreck, shipwreck, engulf, ingulf, submerge; lay in ashes, lay in ruins; sweep away, erase, wipe out, expunge, raze; level with the dust, level with the ground; waste; atomize, vaporize. |
Fear | Aghast; awe-stricken, horror-stricken, terror-stricken, panic-stricken, awestruck, awe-stricken, horror-struck; frightened to death, white as a sheet; pale, pale as a ghost, pale as death, pale as ashes; breathless, in hysterics. |
Lamentation | Verb: lament, mourn, deplore, grieve, weep over; bewail, bemoan; condole with; fret; (suffer); wear mourning, go into mourning, put on mourning; wear the willow, wear sackcloth and ashes; infandum renovare dolorem; (regret); give sorrow words. |
Mourning, weeds, willow, cypress, crape, deep mourning; sackcloth and ashes; lachrymatory; knell; deep death song, dirge, coronach, nenia, requiem, elegy, epicedium; threne; monody, threnody; jeremiad, jeremiade; ullalulla. | |
Adjective: lamenting; Verb: in mourning, in sackcloth and ashes; sorrowing, sorrowful; (unhappy); mournful, tearful; lachrymose; plaintive, plaintful; querulous, querimonious; in the melting mood; threnetic. | |
Penitence | Verb: repent, be sorry for; be penitent; Adjective: rue; regret; think better of; recant; knock under; (submit); plead guilty; sing miserere, sing de profundis; cry peccavi; own oneself in the wrong; acknowledge, confess; (disclose); humble oneself; beg pardon; (apologize); turn over a new leaf, put on the new man, turn from sin; reclaim; repent in sackcloth and ashes; (do penance); learn by experience. |
Prediction | Coscinomancy; by a suspended ring, Dactyliomancy; by dots made at random on paper, Geomancy; by precious stones, Lithomancy; by pebbles, Pessomancy; by pebbles drawn from a heap, Psephomancy; by mirrors, Catoptromancy; by writings in ashes, Tephramancy; by dreams, Oneiromancy; by the hand, Palmistry, Chiromancy; by nails reflecting the sun's rays, Onychomancy; by finger rings, Dactylomancy; by numbers, Arithmancy; by drawing lots, Sortilege; by passages in books, Stichomancy; by the letters forming the name of the person, Onomancy, Nomancy; by the features, Anthroposcopy; by the mode of laughing, Geloscopy; by ventriloquism, Gastromancy; by walking in a circle, Gyromancy; by dropping melted wax into water, Ceromancy; by currents, Bletonism; by the color and peculiarities of wine, Oenomancy. |
Restoration | Verb: return to the original state; recover, rally, revive; come come to, come round, come to oneself; pull through, weather the storm, be oneself again; get well,get round, get the better of, get over, get about; rise from one's ashes, rise from the grave; survive; (outlive); resume, reappear; come to, come to life again; live again, rise again. |
Rite | Seven sacraments, impanation, subpanation, extreme unction, viaticum, invocation of saints, canonization, transfiguration, auricular confession; maceration, flagellation, sackcloth and ashes; penance; (atonement); telling of beads, processional; thurification, incense, holy water, aspersion. |
Uncleanness | Sordes, dregs, grounds, lees; argol; sediment, settlement heeltap; dross, drossiness; mother, precipitate, scoriae, ashes, cinders. recrement, slag; scum, froth. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Construction arises out of the ashes of destruction (The Prisoner; writing credit: Dennis Marks) We always arise from our own ashes. Everything returns later in its changed form (Children of Dune; writing credit: Frank Herbert; John Harrison) Burn him, see if his ashes turn green (Gangs of New York; writing credit: Jay Cocks) I put your mom's ashes in it. See, it keeps your cool mom cool and your hot mom hot (Titus; writing credit: Karl-Heinz Käfer) I think the trick is laying off the ale before you start quoting Angela's Ashes and weeping like a baby-man (Angel; writing credit: Letícia Dornelles) | |
Lyrics | As much as you've burned me baby, I should be ashes by now (Ashes By Now; performing artist: Lee Ann Womack) Ooh, ooh, ooh, Ashes by now (Ashes By Now; performing artist: Lee Ann Womack) There's nothin but pills and ashes under my skin (American Girls; performing artist: Counting Crows) And from the ashes we can build another day (The Story In Your Eyes; performing artist: The Moody Blues) No more ashes, no more sackcloth (We Will All Go Together When We Go; performing artist: Tom Lehrer) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Out of the Ashes (2001) Ashes of Doom (1970) Wheel of Ashes (1968) Return from the Ashes (1965) | |
Song Titles | Ashes By Now (performing artist: Lee Ann Womack) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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 | At the Foreign Minister's official residence, in Tokyo, during Astoria's visit to Japan in April 1939. She had brought home the ashes of the Late Japanese Ambassador to the United States, Hiroshi Saito, who died in Washington, D.C., on 26 February 1939. Halftone reproduction, published in the "Japan Times Weekly", Tokyo, 20 April 1939, page 569. Credit: NAVY. |  | Russian church, Kodiak, Alaska. After a 16 in. fall of ashes from Katmai volcano. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | A scene of desolation : Ottajano [i.e., Ottaviano], swept by volcanic ashes from Vesuvius, Italy. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Clearing up volcanic ashes. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Sweeping coals and ashes from oven before baking bread, Taos County, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Pouring water on hot ashes from the blast furnace. Bethlehem steel mill, Sparrows Point, Maryland. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Dick Tracy. The sifting of ashes comes to a standstill with the discovery of one small article. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Bar-b-que ashes 4" by Adam Brown Commentary: "Ashes in the BBQ." | "Ashes" by Ariel C. Commentary: "Ashes." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Friedrich Nietzsche | Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes. |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes. |
Marcus Valerius Martial | Glory paid to our ashes comes too late. |
| Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes. | |
Miguel De Cervantes | The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise. |
Thomas B. Macaulay | And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods? |
Tommaso Di Celano | Day of wrath and doom impending, David's word with Sibyl's blending, Heaven and earth in ashes ending! |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | But if any one should ask, Must the people then always lay themselves open to the cruelty and rage of tyranny? Must they see their cities pillaged, and laid in ashes, their wives and children exposed to the tyrant's lust and fury, and themselves and families reduced by their king to ruin, and all the miseries of want and oppression, and yet sit still? Must men alone be debarred the common privilege of opposing force with force, which nature allows so freely to all other creatures for their preservation from injury? I answer: Self-defence is a part of the law of nature; nor can it be denied the community, even against the king himself: but to revenge themselves upon him, must by no means be allowed them; it being not agreeable to that law. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Faces in the Fire | Carroll, Lewis | The pictures, with their ruddy light, Are changed to dust and ashes white, And I am left alone with night |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | In this one there was no fire, there were not even any ashes. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Little flakes of fire fell and powdery ashes fell softly, alighting on the houses of men. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | She swept the ashes into the fire hole and brushed the stones on its edge |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | It will soon be forgotten, in these days of stoves, that we used to roast potatoes in the ashes, after the Indian fashion |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | From the ashes of a centrally planned economy a vibrant free-market economy has emerged. (references) | |
Other waste materials produced in huge quantities are the ashes from thermal processes (quantity registered in 1998, about 10 mill tons). (references) | ||
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SYMBOL, n. Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere "survivals" -- things which having no longer any utility continue to exist because we have inherited the tendency to make them; as funereal urns carved on memorial monuments. They were once real urns holding the ashes of the dead. We cannot stop making them, but we can give them a name that conceals our helplessness. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "ASHES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 75.90% of the time. "ASHES" is used about 497 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 75.9% | 378 | 14,491 |
| Noun (proper) | 23.29% | 116 | 29,969 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 0.6% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.2% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 497 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "ASHES". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Dishon | N/A | Biblical | Ashes |
| Og | N/A | Biblical | Bread baked in ashes |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "ASHES": as pale as ashes ♦ be reduced to ashes ♦ burn smth. to ashes ♦ dust and ashes ♦ In dust and ashes ♦ in sack and ashes ♦ In sackcloth and ashes ♦ reduce to ashes ♦ repent in sackcloth and ashes ♦ rise from the ashes ♦ sackcloth and ashes ♦ ultramarine ashes ♦ volcanic ashes ♦ wear sackcloth and ashes. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "ASHES": ashes-winning. | |
Ending with "ASHES": sackcloth-ashes. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ASHES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | прах на мъртвец (ash), прах на изгорен човек, пепелище (ash-heap, site of a fire), пепел (ash, cinder, dejection). (various references) | |
Chinese | 燼 (embers), 灰 (ash). (various references) | |
Czech | popel (ash, cinders). (various references) | |
Danish | aske (ash, cinder). (various references) | |
Dutch | as (arbor, ash, axis, axle, cinder, shaft, spindle). (various references) | |
Finnish | tuhka (ash, cinder). (various references) | |
French | cendres (ash). (various references) | |
German | asche (ash, cinder, cinders, ember, ruins, slag). (various references) | |
Greek | τέφρα (cinders). (various references) | |
Hebrew | עפר ואפר (dust and ashes). (various references) | |
Hungarian | holtak hamva. (various references) | |
Italian | rovine (havocs, ruin, ruins), resti (leavings, remains), ceneri (Ash Wednesday), cenere (ash, cinder, cinders). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 灰殻 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | はいがら. (various references) | |
Korean | 재 (ash, RE, Re-). (various references) | |
Manx | greesagh voaney (turf ashes). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ashesay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cinzas (breeze, embers, gad-fly), cinza (cinder, gray, grey, scobs). (various references) | |
Romanian | scrum (ash), cenuşã (ash, cinder, cinders). (various references) | |
Russian | прах (ash, clod, dust). (various references) | |
Scottish | ulbhach, luath (fast, fleet, meaning `speedy', quick, rapid, soon, speedy, speedy : cho luath 's a, swift). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pepeo (ash, cinders). (various references) | |
Spanish | despojos mortales, cenizas (cinders). (various references) | |
Swedish | aska (ash, cinder, cinders, dust), stoft (ash, clay, clod, dust). (various references) | |
Thai | เอ่ยถึงช่วงเวลาแห่งความสุขในอดีต (rake over old ashes). (various references) | |
Turkish | kriket (cricket), küller, kül (ash, cinder, cinders), ölünün külleri. (various references) | |
Turkmen | kьl. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | рештки (candle-end, leavings, odd-come-short, refuse, scraps), останки (bone, remains), прах (clay, clod). (various references) | |
Welsh | ulw (powder, utterly), llutrod (debris, mire), lludu (ash). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | de. (various references) |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | tephra. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cinere, cinerem, cineres, cineri, cineribus, cineris, cinerum, cinis, cinis cineris, cinis, cineris, favilla, favillae, favillam. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 18, Verse 27 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai apokriqeiV abraam eipen nun hrxamhn lalhsai proV ton kurion egw de eimi gh kai spodoV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Respondens Abraham ait quia semel coepi loquar ad Dominum meum cum sim pulvis et cinis |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Abraham answeride and seith, For oons I bigan, I shal speke to the Lord my God, whan Y am powder and aske; |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And Abraham answered and sayde: beholde I haue taken vppon me to speake vnto ye LORde ad yet am but dust ad asshes. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD, which am but dust and ashes: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I, who am dust and ashes, have taken upon me to speak to the Lord. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And Abraham answering said, Truly, I who am only dust, have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord: |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Genesis Chapter 18, Verse 27 |
| Cebuano | Ug si Abraham mitubag ug miingon: Ania karon, ako nangako sa pagsulti sa akong Ginoo, bisan ako nga abug ug abo lamang. |
| Chinese | 亞 伯 拉 罕 說 、 我 雖 然 是 灰 塵 、 還 敢 對 主 說 話 ． |
| Croatian | "Ja se, evo, usuðujem govoriti Gospodinu", opet progovori Abraham. - "Ja, prah i pepeo! |
| Danish | Men Abraham tog igen til Orde: "Se, jeg har dristet mig til at tale til min Herre, skønt jeg kun er Støv og Aske! |
| Dutch | En Abraham antwoordde en zeide: Zie toch; ik heb mij onderwonden te spreken tot den Heere, hoewel ik stof en as ben! |
| Finnish | Aabraham vastasi ja sanoi: "Katso, olen rohjennut puhua Herralleni, vaikka olen tomu ja tuhka. |
| French | Abraham reprit, et dit: Voici, j`ai osé parler au Seigneur, moi qui ne suis que poudre et cendre. |
| German | Abraham antwortete und sprach: Ach siehe, ich habe mich unterwunden zu reden mit dem HERRN, wie wohl ich Erde und Asche bin. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Abraham berkata lagi, "Ampunilah keberanian saya menyambung pembicaraan ini, Tuhan. Saya ini hanya manusia, dan tidak berhak untuk mengatakan sesuatu. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka sembah Ibrahim pula: sesungguhnya keadaan hamba lebu tanah dan abu, maka hamba telah memberanikan diri hamba hendak berkata-kata dengan Tuhan: |
| Italian | Abramo riprese e disse: «Vedi come ardisco parlare al mio Signore, io che sono polvere e cenere... |
| Maori | Na ka whakahoki a Aperahama, ka mea, Na, kua timata nei ahau te korero ki te Ariki; he puehu nei ahau, he pungarehu: |
| Norwegian | Men Abraham tok atter til orde og sa: Se, jeg har dristet mig til å tale til Herren, enda jeg er støv og aske; |
| Rumanian | Avraam a luat din nou cuvkntul, wi a zis: ,,Iatq, am kndrqsnit sq vorbesc Domnului, eu care nu sknt deckt praf wi cenuwq. |
| Russian | бЧТББН УЛБЪБМ Ч ПФЧЕФ: ЧПФ, С ТЕЫЙМУС ЗПЧПТЙФШ чМБДЩЛЕ, С, РТБИ Й РЕРЕМ: |
| Spanish | Intervino Abraham y dijo: --He aquí, ya que he comenzado a hablar con mi Señor, a pesar de que soy polvo y ceniza, |
| Swedish | Men Abraham svarade och sade: "Se, jag har dristat mig att tala till Herren, fastän jag är stoft och aska." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "ASHES": abashes, backlashes, backslashes, backsplashes, backwashes, balderdashes, bashes, brainwashes, brashes, calabashes, calashes, calipashes, carwashes, cashes, clashes, crashes, dashes, deashes, downwashes, encashes, eyelashes, eyewashes, fashes, flashes, flatwashes, gamashes, gashes, gnashes, goulashes, hashes, hogwashes, kurbashes, lashes, leashes, mashes, mishmashes, mouthwashes, musquashes, outwashes, pashes, pearlashes, photoflashes, plashes, potashes, prewashes, quamashes, quashes, rainwashes, rashes, rehashes, rewashes. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ASHES": brashest, gashest, rashest. (additional references) | |
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"ASHES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aahe, Aahmes, aahs, adhese, Adshel, ahas, ahes, ahex, ahis, amhe, Amschel, anshe, Arhus, asbes, Aschas, asche, Asec, ases, asex, asha, Ashad, Ashaf, Ashai, ashe, ashed, ashel, ashets, ashew, ashey, ashi, ashish, Ashit, Ashness, Asho, ashoe, Ashot, Ashou, Asjes, askes, asphas, Aushev, Azha, eishes, ishes, Qses, sadhus, sahel, sahs, shes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ASHES" (pronounced a"shuz) |
| 4 | a" sh u z | bashes, caches, cashes, clashes, crashes, dashes, flashes, gashes, hashes, lashes, rashes, sashes, slashes, smashes, splashes, thrashes, trashes. |
| 3 | -sh u z | accomplishes, abolishes, admonishes, ambushes, blemishes, blushes, brandishes, brushes, bushes, cherishes, crushes, diminishes, dishes, distinguishes, establishes, eyelashes, finishes, fishes, flatfishes, flourishes, flushes, fuchsias, furnishes, galoshes, garnishes, gushes, impoverishes, jewfishes, languishes, lavishes, leashes, Macintoshes, marshes, meshes, militias, mustaches, paintbrushes, parishes, pipefishes, publishes, punishes, pushes, radishes, refreshes, relinquishes, relishes, rushes, skirmishes, swishes, thrushes, toothbrushes, tushes, unleashes, vanishes, varnishes, washes, whiplashes, wishes. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: sheas. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-s-s" | |
-1 letter: haes, sash, seas, shea, shes. | |
-2 letters: ash, ass, ess, hae, has, hes, sae, sea, sha, she. | |
-3 letters: ae, ah, as, eh, es, ha, he, sh. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-s-s" | |
+1 letter: bashes, cashes, chases, chasse, dashes, fashes, gashes, hanses, hashes, hassel, hassle, hastes, hawses, lashes, mashes, pashes, phases, rashes, sadhes, sashed, sashes, selahs, shades, shakes, shales, shames, shapes, shares, shaves, sheafs, sheals, shears, washes. | |
+2 letters: abashes, apheses, aphesis, ashiest, ashlers, ashless, bashers, brashes, cashews, chaises, chaoses, chasers, chassed, chasses, clashes, crashes, dashers, deashes, eschars, flashes, gashest, geishas, gnashes, hansels, hapless, harness, haslets, hassels, hassled, hassles, hastens, hatless, hausens, hawsers, hearses, hessian, kashers, lashers, leashes, marshes, mashers, mashies, messiah, phrases, plashes, quashes, rashers, rashest, sachems, sachets, samechs, samekhs, scathes, schemas, seraphs, shaders, shakers, shakoes, shammes, shapers, sharers, shavers, shavies, sheaths, sheaves, sheilas, sheltas, sherpas, shmears, slashed, slasher, slashes, smashed, smasher, smashes, snashes, snathes, spahees, spathes, stashed, stashes, swashed, swasher, swashes, swathes, trashes, washers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Historic 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Names: Derived from 15. Expressions 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Translations: Ancient 18. Bible Trace 19. Derivations 20. Rhymes | 21. Anagrams 22. Bibliography |
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