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Definitions and meaning of amber

amber

Etymology

From Middle English ambre, aumbre, from Old French aumbre, ambre, from Arabic عَنْبَر (ʕanbar, “ambergris”), from Middle Persian 𐭠𐭭𐭡𐭫 (ʾnbl /⁠ambar⁠/, “ambergris”). Compare English lamber, ambergris. Displaced Middle English smulting (from Old English smelting (“amber”)), Old English eolhsand (“amber”), Old English glær (“amber”), and Old English sāp (“amber, resin, pomade”).

• The nucleotide sequence "UAG" is named "amber" for the first person to isolate the amber mutation, California Institute of Technology graduate student Harris Bernstein, whose last name ("Bernstein") is the German word for the resin "amber".

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈam.bə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæm.bɚ/
• Rhymes: -æmbə(ɹ)

Noun

amber (countable and uncountable, plural ambers)

1. (obsolete) Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale. [14th–18th c.]
   • 1579, The Booke of Simples, fol. 56 (contained in Bulleins Bulwarke of Defence against all Sicknesse, Soarnesse, and Woundes):

     As for Amber Grice, or Amber Cane, which ist most sweet myngled with other sweete thynges: some say it commeth from the rocks of the Sea. […] Some say it is gotten by a fish called Azelum, which feedeth upon Amber Grece, and dyeth, which is taken by cunnyng fishers and the belly opened, and this precious Amber found in hym.

   • 1600, John Pory (translator), A Geographical Historie of Africa (original by Leo Africanus), page 344:

     The head of this fish is as hard as stone. The inhabitants of the Ocean sea coast affirme that this fish casteth foorth Amber; but whether the said Amber be the sperma or the excrement thereof, they cannot well determine.

   • 1717, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, letter, 18 Apr 1717:

     Slaves […] with silver Censors […] perfum'd the air with Amber, Aloes wood, and other Scents.

   1. Formerly thought to be the product of a plant.
2. A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent or transparent fossil resin from extinct coniferous trees of the pine genus, used for jewellery, decoration and later dissolved as a binder in varnishes. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight. [from 15th c.]
   • 1637, Monro, his expedition with the Worthy Scots Regiment (called Mac-Keys Regiment), republished in 1999 →ISBN, page 102:

     To shew this by example, we reade of Sabina Poppcea, to whom nothing was wanting, but shame and honestie, being extremely beloved of Nero, had the colour of her haire yellow, like Amber, which Nero esteemed much of, […] .
3. A yellow-orange colour.
4. (British, Australia) The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, which when illuminated indicates that drivers should stop when safe to do so. See also yellow light.
5. (biology, genetics, biochemistry) The stop codon (nucleotide triplet) "UAG", or a mutant which has this stop codon at a premature place in its DNA sequence.

   an amber codon, an amber mutation, an amber suppressor
6. (uncountable) Hesitance to proceed, or limited approval to proceed; an amber light.

Synonyms

• (intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights): yellow (US)
• (obsolete: the waxy product of the sperm whale): ambergris

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of "intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights"): red, green

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See also

• copal

Adjective

amber (comparative more amber, superlative most amber)

1. Of a brownish yellow colour, like that of most amber.

Translations

Verb

amber (third-person singular simple present ambers, present participle ambering, simple past and past participle ambered)

1. (transitive, rare) To perfume or flavour with ambergris.

   ambered wine, an ambered room

2. (transitive, rare) To preserve in amber.

   an ambered fly

3. (transitive, rare, chiefly poetic or literary) To cause to take on the yellow colour of amber.
4. (intransitive, rare, chiefly poetic or literary) To take on the yellow colour of amber.

See also

• electrum
• succinic
• succinic acid
• traffic light
• Appendix:Colors

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2024) “Amber”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “amber”, in Mindat.org‎^[3], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2024.

Anagrams

• Brame, Bream, bemar, brame, bream, embar

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French ambre, from Arabic عَنْبَر (ʕanbar, “ambergris”), from Middle Persian 𐭠𐭭𐭡𐭫 (ʾnbl /⁠ambar⁠/).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑm.bər/
• Hyphenation: am‧ber

Noun

amber n (plural ambers, diminutive ambertje n)

1. amber (colour of fossil resin)

   Synonyms: barnsteengeel, barnsteenkleur

2. (nonstandard) amber (fossil resin)

   Synonym: barnsteen

Related terms

• ambergrijs

Descendants

• → Indonesian: amber (“amber”)

Indonesian

Etymology 1

From Dutch amber, from Middle French ambre, from Arabic عَنْبَر (ʕanbar, “ambergris”), from Middle Persian 𐭠𐭭𐭡𐭫 (ʾnbl /⁠ambar⁠/). Doublet of ambar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈamber], [ˈambər]
• Hyphenation: am‧bér

Noun

amber (plural amber-amber, first-person possessive amberku, second-person possessive ambermu, third-person possessive ambernya)

1. amber: a hard, generally yellow to brown translucent fossil resin, used for jewellery. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight.

   Synonyms: ambar, kahrab

Etymology 2

From Dutch uitlander (“foreigner”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈamber]
• Hyphenation: am‧bér

Noun

amber (plural amber-amber, first-person possessive amberku, second-person possessive ambermu, third-person possessive ambernya)

1. (Papua) non-Papuan settlers in Papua.

Further reading

• “amber” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Old English

Alternative forms

• ambor, omber, ombor

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *ambrī.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑm.ber/, /ˈɑːm.ber/

Noun

amber m
āmber m

1. bucket
2. A measure

Declension

Short:

Long:

Descendants

• Middle English: ambre, anbre, almer

Old High German

Alternative forms

• ampri, eimbar, einber, eimmer

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *ambrī.

Noun

amber m

1. bucket

Descendants

• Middle High German: amper, amber, eimber, eimer
  • German: Eimer, Amper
  • Luxembourgish: Eemer

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

amber m (Cyrillic spelling амбер)

1. amber (fossil resin)

   Synonyms: ambra, ambar

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish عنبر (anber), from Arabic عَنْبَر (ʕanbar).

Noun

amber (definite accusative amberi, plural amberler)

1. Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.
2. A common noun for nice-smelling things.
3. (biochemistry, genetics) The stop codon "UAG".

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Derived terms

Anagrams

• barem

Source: wiktionary.org