ACD - Austronesian Comparative Dictionary Online

*asep incense, ritual smoke

PWMP asep incense, ritual smoke ⇫ ¶

WMP
Tsat	sauʔ²⁴	smoke of a fire
Ilokano	asép	incense, perfume
	asp-án	to incense, to perfume
Jarai	asap	smoke
Rhade	asap	smoke
Iban	in-sap	smoked (of meat or fish)
	asap	smoke, steam
Malay	asap	visible vapor; steam; smoke
	asap-kan	fumigate
	per-asap-an	incense-burner
Banjarese	asap	smoke
Ngaju Dayak	h-asep	to smoke
	asep	smoke
Rejang	asep	smoke
Old Javanese	p-asep-an	incense-burner
Madurese	asep	smoke
Old Javanese	asep	incense
Balinese	asep meñan	the smoke of incense
	asep	smoke, give off smoke; the smoke of sacrifice, incense; thick smoke

Reconstructions

PWMP

asep

incense, ritual smoke

Note

Also Tagalog asáp, hasáp/ ‘suffocation or eye irritation by smoke or vapors’; asap-ín ‘to fumigate (insects, animals, etc.)’; Kenyah sap ‘evaporation; smoke’, Narum sap ‘smoke’, Miri sap ‘smoke’, Toba Batak maŋ-asap ‘to smoke’, paŋ-asap ‘formula uttered during ritual purification with smoke’, par-asap-an ‘incense-burner’. Both the Tagalog and Toba Batak forms probably are loans from Malay, although the initial consonant in the second Tagalog variant presents difficulties to this interpretation. Pateda (1977) gives Gorontalo watopo ‘asap’ (= ‘smoke’), but all of his supporting examples suggest that this is a typographical error for 'atap’ (= ‘thatch, roof’). Finally, whereas PMP *qasu apparently designated smoke or steam without cultural implication, *asep and its variants evidently referred to smoke in the context of ritual purification.