aspiration

See also: Aspiration

English

Etymology 1

aspire +‎ -ation

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌæspəˈɹeɪʃən/

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• 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
• fine-needle aspiration
• joint aspiration
• needle aspiration biopsy
• 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)
• 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 (ko) (yeolmang), 염원 (ko) (yeomwon), 포부 (ko) (pobu)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ئاوات‎ (ckb) (awat)

• Malayalam: അഭിലാഷം (ml) (abhilāṣaṃ)
• Maori: 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)
• Spanish: aspiración (es) f
• Yiddish: שטרעבן‎ m (shtrebn)

Etymology 2

From aspirate +‎ -ion or borrowed from Latin aspiratio, aspirationem.

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.

Derived terms

• aspirational
• preaspiration

Translations

action of aspirating

• 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

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
• Icelandic: áblásning f
• Irish: análú m
• Japanese: 気音 (きおん, kion)
• Norwegian: aspirering
• 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)
• Welsh: llaes (cy)

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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.
• “aspiration”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Danish

Noun

aspiration c (singular definite aspirationen, plural indefinite aspirationer)

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Declension

Declension of aspiration

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	aspiration	aspirationen	aspirationer	aspirationerne
genitive	aspirations	aspirationens	aspirationers	aspirationernes

Further reading

• “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.