Ash

Ash may refer to:

Products of fire, incineration or combustion

The solid remains of fires, such as:

• Ash (analytical chemistry), the compounds that remain after a scientific sample is burned; commonly reported as a percentage on pet food labels
• Bottom ash, products of coal combustion
• Cigar ash, the ash produced when a cigar is smoked
• Fly ash, product of coal combustion
• Incinerator bottom ash, a form of ash produced in incineration facilities
• Vibhuti, the ash of cow dung and several other substances, used in Hindu rituals
• Wood ash, products of wood combustion
• Ashes or remains, dried bone fragments left from cremation

Trees and shrubs

• Ash (Fraxinus), genus of flowering plants in the olive and lilac family
• Australian Mountain Ash, common name for Eucalyptus regnans
• Prickly Ash (Zanthoxylum), genus of about 250 species of deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs in the citrus or rue family, Rutaceae
• Sorbus, genus of about 100–200 species of trees and shrubs in the subfamily Maloideae of the Rose family Rosaceae
• Sorbus aucuparia, also known as European mountain ash

Linguistics

• Æ, a letter used in Old English texts
  • Near-open front unrounded vowel, the vowel sound represented by the æ symbol
• Asch or aesc, a letter in some runic scripts

Media and entertainment

• Ash (artist), French graffiti artist
• Ash (ballet), by Peter Martins (1991)
• Ash (band), a rock band from Northern Ireland
• Ash (comics), Comic book about a superhero firefighter
• Ash, the professional name of independent filmmaker Ashley Baron Cohen (born 1967)
• Ash (novel), an LGBTQ young adult novel by Malinda Lo
• ASH: Archaic Sealed Heat, a video game
• Ash, the android antagonist in the film Alien (1979)
• Ash Crimson, a character in The King of Fighters series
• Ash Ketchum, the main protagonist from the Pokémon anime
• Ash Williams, the main protagonist from the Evil Dead series

Organizations and schools

• Action on Smoking and Health, an anti-smoking charity
• American School of The Hague, a school in the Netherlands
• American Society of Hematology, an American professional organization
• A.s.h, abbreviation for Alt.suicide.holiday, a Usenet newsgroup

People

• Ash (name)
• Asca, Ashe, Esche, Askir, Askr, Oesc, Aesc, the basis for a class of European names derived from the name of the ash tree used with a mystical or magical significance, as in Ascaric

Places

United Kingdom

• Ash, Derbyshire, England
• Ash, Devon, England
• Ash, Dover, Kent, England
• Ash (near Salway), Dorset, England
• Ash (near Stourpaine), Dorset, England
• Ash (near Taunton), Somerset, England
• Ash, Oxfordshire, England
• Ash, Sevenoaks, Kent, England
  • Parish Ash-cum-Ridley
• Ash, South Somerset, England
• Ash, Surrey, England

United States

• Ash, California in Madera County, California
• Ash, Oregon in Douglas County, Oregon
• Ash, Brunswick County, North Carolina

Transport

• ASH, National Rail code for Ash railway station, in Surrey, England
• ASH, station code for Ashburton railway station, Melbourne, Australia
• ASH, ICAO code for Mesa Airlines
• ASH, IATA code for Nashua Municipal Airport

Science and technology

• Ash shell, a command-line interface for computers
• Plasma ashing, a process in semiconductor manufacturing
• Potash, a common name for potassium carbonate
• Soda ash, a common name for sodium carbonate
• Volcanic ash, material ejected from the top of a volcano

Other meanings

• Ash (Persian food), similar to soup but thicker, which is usually served hot
• AA-5 Ash, NATO reporting name for the Bisnovat (later Molniya) R-4, an early Soviet long-range air-to-air missile
• Ash Wednesday, Christian religious holiday
• Ash Thursday, Icelandic volcanic events in 2010

See also

• Ash Mountain (disambiguation), several mountains by this name in Canada and the USA
• Ashe (disambiguation)
• Ashes (disambiguation)
• Ashley (disambiguation)
• Cinereous (consisting of ashes, ash-coloured or ash-like)