" ash "

[Noun]  | "ash" | \ ˈash \

1: any of a genus (Fraxinus) of trees of the olive family with pinnate leaves, thin furrowed bark, and gray branchlets

2: the tough elastic wood of an ash

3: the ligature æ used in Old English and some phonetic alphabets to represent a low front vowel \a\

Origin: before 12th century ;

 Middle English asshe, from Old English æsc; akin to Old High German ask ash, Latin ornus mountain ash;

[Noun]  | "ash" 

1: something that symbolizes grief, repentance, or humiliation

2: the solid residue left when combustible material is thoroughly burned or is oxidized by chemical means

3: fine particles of mineral matter from a volcanic vent

Origin: before 12th century ;

 Middle English, usually as plural asshen, askes, axen, ashes, going back to Old English axe, asce (feminine weak noun), going back to Germanic *askōn- (whence also Old Saxon asc-, in ascal "ash-colored," Old High German asca, ascha "ash," Old Norse aska) beside apparent *azgō in Gothic azgo "ash," both of uncertain origin;

  * Note : The older handbooks see: the Germanic etymon as a "root extension" of a verbal base *ā̌s- "burn," in current laryngealist terms *h1eh2s-,*h2h̥1s- "make dry through heat" ("[durch Hitze] vertrocknen" in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben)—see: etymology and note at {arid|arid}. The discrepancy between West and North Germanic ask- (from *azg-?) and Gothic azg- (from *azgh-?) is variously explained. E. Seebold (Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, 22. Auflage) regards the velar extension as a suffix of appurtenance, the ashes being in effect "what belongs to the hearth/fire." (Also of relevance would be Armenian azazim "become dry, wither," if from *h2h̥1s-gh- —see: H. Martirosyan, Etymologial Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon, Brill, 2010 s.v.) Seebold see:s the "ash" words with long vowels (Hittite ḫāšš- "ashes, dust," Sanskrit ā́saḥ) as parallel derivations, in this case by the employment of lengthened grade. The inconvenient Gothic word azgo is explained as the outcome of a suffixed verbal derivative *haz-d-ko- (on the verbal derivative see: {azalea|azalea}). Departing completely from the root-extension hypotheses, G. Kroonen (Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic, Brill, 2013) see:s the Germanic word as a possible compound of Indo-European *h2ed- "dry up" and *dhegwh- "burn.";

[Noun]  | "ash can" 

1: a metal receptacle for refuse

2: depth charge

Origin: 1872 ;

[Noun]  | "Ash Wednesday" 

1: the first day of Lent

Origin: 13th century ;

[Noun]  | "American mountain ash" 

1: a mountain ash (Sorbus americana) of the eastern U.S. and Canada that is typically 15 to 30 feet (4.6 to 9.1 meters) tall and has showy clusters of small white flowers and bright orange-red berrylike fruits that are technically pomes—called also mountain ash, rowan

Origin: 1822 ;

[Noun]  | "bone ash" 

1: the white porous residue chiefly of tribasic calcium phosphate from bones calcined in air used especially in making pottery and glass and in cleaning jewelry

Origin: 1622 ;

[Noun]  | "emerald ash borer" 

1: a metallic-green Asian beetle (Agrilus planipennis) accidentally introduced into the U.S. and having a destructive larva that bores into the wood of ash trees

Origin: 2002 ;

[Verb]  | "ash" 

1: to convert into ash

2: to remove ash residue from (something, such as a cigarette) usually by flicking or tapping

3: to apply ash to : to coat with ashes

Origin: 1655 ;

 Derivative of {see: |ash:2|ash:2};

[Adjective]  | "ash-blond" | \ ˈash-ˈbländ \

1: pale or grayish blond

Origin: 1878 ;

[Geographical name]  | "Ash Sha*ri*qah" | \ ˌäsh-ˈshä-rē-kə \

1: sheikhdom located on the Persian Gulf, a member of the United Arab Emirates

2: city on the Persian Gulf serving as capital of the shiekhdom of Ash Shariqah population 707,000

[Verb]  | "ash" 

[Adjective]  | "ash-blond"