asno

Cebuano

Etymology

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Latin asinus

Old Spanish asno

Spanish asnobor.

Cebuano asno

Borrowed from Spanish asno, from Old Spanish asno, from Latin asinus.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: as‧no

Noun

asno

1. donkey; ass (any of the subspecies of the horse-like animal Equus asinus, often domesticated and used a beast of burden)

Galician

Etymology

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Latin asinus

Old Galician-Portuguese asno

Galician asno

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese asno, from Latin asinus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈasno/ [ˈaz̺.nʊ]
• Rhymes: -asno
• Hyphenation: as‧no

Noun

asno m (plural asnos)

1. donkey, ass (Equus asinus)

   Synonym: burro

   • 1458, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 156:

     Ano Domini M.o CCCCLVIII anos, des dias do mes de mayo, en Ourense, enas praças da dita çidade foy dado pregón altas [voses] por Aluaro Fernandes, pregoeiro, et por mandado dos rejedores et procurador, en que mandauan et defendían que persona algua non fose ousado de deytar bestas nen asnos nen porcos nen booys nen bacas nen carneyros nen rosellos nen cabras, de dia nen de de noyte, et qual quer persona que achar qual quer besta de noyte en sua viña que a mate sen pena, et se a achar de dia que a traga aa corte et page a coutaría et mal que feser ena viña á seu dono, et se achar os ditos gaandos, quaes quer que sejan, ou porcos, boys ou vacas ou carneyros ou roxellos de dia ou de noyte, que os mate sen pena algua, o qual todo se asy deu por pregón.

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Related terms

• asinino
• asnal

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “asno”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “asno”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “asno”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “asno”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto azeno, modified after Spanish asno, also from Italian asino, French âne and English asinine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈasno/

Noun

asno (plural asni)

1. (male or female) ass, donkey

Hypernyms

• animalo
• bestio
• mamifero
• quadripedo
• solipedo

Hyponyms

• asnino
• asnoyuno
• asnulo

Derived terms

• asnacho
• asnaro
• sovaja asno

See also

• kavalo
• zebro
• mulo

Old Spanish

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Latin asinus

Old Spanish asno

Inherited from Latin asinus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈazno/

Noun

asno m (plural asnos, feminine singular asna, feminine plural asna)

1. ass, donkey
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 18v:

     Nõ cobdicies coſa de to uezino. Ni cobdicies mugier de to proximo. Nẏ ſu mãceba. ny ſo bueẏ. ni ſo aſno. Ni su mula. Ni nulla coſa de to vezino.

     [Non cobdicies cosa de to vezino. Ni cobdicies mugier de to proximo, ni su manceba, ni so buey, ni so asno, ni su mula, ni nulla cosa de to vezino.]

     Do not covet your neighbor's goods. Nor covet your neighbor's wife, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor his mule, nor any other thing that belongs to your neighbor.

   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 36r.:

     Job fue much rich õe e ouo .v. fijos. ⁊ .iij. fijas. ⁊ ouo .mil. ouejas. ⁊ .iij. mil. camellos. ⁊ .d. iugos de bueẏes. ⁊ .v. mil aſnas.

     [Job fue much rich omne, e ovo cinco fijos, e tres fijas. E ovo mil ovejas, e tres mil camellos, e quinientos jugos de bueyes, e cinco mil aſnas.]

     Job was a very rich man. And he had five sons and three daughters. And he owned a thousand sheep and three thousand camels and five hundred yoke of oxen and five thousand donkeys.

Descendants

• Ladino: azno
• Spanish: asno
  • → Cebuano: asno
  • → Classical Nahuatl: axnoh
  • → Tagalog: asno

Portuguese

Etymology

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Latin asinus

Old Galician-Portuguese asno

Portuguese asno

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese asno, from Latin asinus.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈaz.nu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈaz.nu/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈaʒ.nu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈaz.no/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈaʒ.nu/

• Hyphenation: as‧no

Noun

asno m (plural asnos)

1. donkey, ass

   Synonyms: burro, jumento, jegue

2. (derogatory, figuratively) idiot, fool

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:idiota

Related terms

• asinino
• asnal

Further reading

• “asno”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “asno”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

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Latin asinus

Old Spanish asno

Spanish asno

Inherited from Old Spanish asno, from Latin asinus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈasno/ [ˈaz.no]

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -asno
• Syllabification: as‧no

Noun

asno m (plural asnos, feminine asna, feminine plural asnas)

1. donkey, ass

   Synonyms: burro, jumento, pollino

Derived terms

• asnico
• asnillo

Related terms

• acemilar
• asinino
• asnal
• asnino
• borrical
• borriquero

Descendants

• → Cebuano: asno
• → Classical Nahuatl: axnoh
• → Tagalog: asno

Noun

asno m (plural asnos)

1. (slang, derogatory) dumbass; ass

Further reading

• “asno”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Tagalog

Etymology

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Latin asinus

Old Spanish asno

Spanish asnobor.

Tagalog asno

Borrowed from Spanish asno, from Old Spanish asno, from Latin asinus.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔasno/ [ˈʔas.n̪o]
• Rhymes: -asno
• Syllabification: as‧no

Noun

asno (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜐ᜔ᜈᜓ)

1. ass; donkey

   Synonyms: buro, buriko

   • 1905, Ang Dating Biblia, Manila: Philippines Bible Society, Mateo 21:5:

     Sabihin ninyo sa anak na babae ng Sion: Narito, ang Hari mo'y pumaparito sa iyo, Na maamo, at nakasakay sa isang asno, At sa isang batang asno na anak ng babaing asno.

     Tell ye the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, Meek, and riding upon an ass, And upon a colt the foal of an ass.

Anagrams

• sano, anos, onsa