Jasper

Etymology 1
From Old French jaspre, a variant of jaspe (modern French jaspe), from Latin iaspis, from Greek ἴασπις, ultimately (via an oriental language) from Persian (yašp).

Noun

 * 1)  Any bright-coloured kind of chalcedony apart from cornelian.
 * 2)  An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface.
 * 3) Jasperware pottery.

Derived terms

 * Jasper National Park
 * jasper opal
 * jasperated
 * jasperite
 * jasperize
 * jasperoid


 * jasperous
 * jasperware
 * jaspery
 * jaspidean
 * lavender jasper
 * xyloid jasper

Translations

 * Arabic: يشب, يشم
 * Azeri: yəşəm
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 賈斯珀, 贾斯珀
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Jaspis
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: jáspis
 * Ido:
 * Irish: seaspar
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ジャスパー
 * Korean: 벽옥


 * Ladino:
 * Latin:
 * Latin: iaspis
 * Latvian: jašma
 * Lithuanian:
 * Nahuatl: tecpacuihcuilli
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan: jaspi
 * Persian: يشم, يشب
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: jasp
 * Russian:, яспис
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: yaspa
 * Ukrainian:, яспис

Etymology 2
From the male personal name Jasper.

Noun

 * 1)  A wasp. (West Country dialects, Somerset County)
 * 2) 🇺🇸 A person, a guy, especially seen as naïve or simple.
 * 3) * 1975, Tom Waits, ‘Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)’:
 * Standing on the corner like a just-got-in-town jasper.
 * 1) * 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 122:
 * “That jasper,” sniggered Darby, “never pulled out his ‘dummy’ for nothing but pissing, I bet you!”
 * 1) * 1968, Charles Portis, True Grit, The Saturday Evening Post
 * "I stood there through almost an hour of it before they called Rooster Cogburn to the stand. I had guessed wrong as to which one he was, picking out a younger and slighter man with a badge on his shirt. And I was surprised when an old one-eyed jasper that was built along the lines of Grover Cleveland went up and was sworn."

Anagrams

 * japers

Verb

 * 1) apply different colors of paint flowing together in order to make it look like jasper stone
 * Jasper la tranche d’un livre.

Conjugation
jasper jasper jasper jasper jasper jasper jasper jasper jasper jasper jasper