Amber

See also: amber and ämber

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈæm.bə/
  • (US) enPR: ăm'bər, IPA(key): /ˈæm.bɚ/
  • Rhymes: -æmbə(r)
  • Homophone: amber
  • Hyphenation: Am‧ber

Etymology 1

From amber, from Middle English ambre, from Old French ambre, from Latin ambar, from Arabic عَنْبَر (ʿanbar, ambergris)

Proper noun

Amber

  1. A female given name, popular in the 1980s and the 1990s.
    • 1854 Harper's Magazine, Volume IX, June to November 1854, page 667 ("Lady Amber Mayne")
      The youngest daughter of the Marchioness of Summerdown had one of these quaint, pretty names - Amber! - and what a pretty creature she was!
    • 1944 Kathleen Winsor, Forever Amber, Chicago Review Press, 2000, →ISBN, page 14
      And then she said softly, "Sarah - I think I'll name her Amber - for the colour of her father's eyes - "
    • 2005 Ali Smith, The Accidental, Penguin (2006), →ISBN, page 64:
      A bit raddled, maybe thirty, maybe older, tanned like a hitchhiker, dressed like a road protester, one of those older women still determinedly being a girl; all those eighties feministy still-political women were terribly interested in what Eve did. Hippie name. Amber. Ridiculous name.
  2. A surname of uncertain origin.
    • 1901 Frederick Swainson, Acton's Feud: A Public School Story, BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2007, →ISBN, page 14
      Amber, the half, generally waltzed round our forwards, and when he secured he passed the ball on to Aspinall.
Translations

Etymology 2

From a form of the Hindi आसमान (āsmān, the heavens).

Alternative forms

Proper noun

Amber

  1. A female given name
  2. A ruined city in Rajasthan, India.

Etymology 3

From a pre-Celtic word.

Proper noun

Amber

  1. A river in Derbyshire, England, which joins the River Derwent at Ambergate.

Derived terms

Anagrams


Cebuano

Etymology

From English Amber, from amber, from Middle English ambre, from Old French ambre, from Latin ambar, from Arabic عَنْبَر (ʿanbar, amber).

Proper noun

Amber

  1. a female given name

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑmbər/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: Am‧ber

Proper noun

Amber f

  1. A female given name, Amber
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