amb

From ambit, from Latin.

amb (plural ambs)

1. (palynology) The outline of a spore or pollen grain, as seen in a polar view.
   • 1970, Robert Max Kosanke, editor, Symposium on Palynology of the Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary:

     This genus is distinguished from Duplopollis Krutzsch, 1959a, and Cupanieidites Cookson and Pike, 1954, by being syncolpate rather than syncolporate and by the islands at the angles of the amb.

• BMA, mAb, Bam, MAb, MBA, Mab, bam, -mab, ABM, BAM, mab, B. M. A., Mba

• ab (archaic)

Inherited from Old Catalan ab (Compare Old Occitan ab), from Latin apud. The addition of an -m- is very old, but it was not reflected in spelling until Fabra's orthography in the twentieth century.

(Central)

• IPA^(key): /əm/
• (in careful speech, before a vowel sound or an L) IPA^(key): /əmb/

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• Homophone: em

(Valencia)

• IPA^(key): /am/, /an/, /en/
• Homophone: en
  • Note: the standard pronunciations is /am/. The pronunciation /en/ is typically used in the Valencian Community and parts of Catalonia, the pronunciation /an/ is used in some southern parts of the Valencian Community.

amb

1. with

   Antonym: sense

• Pei, Mario A. 1948. Ab and the survival of the Latin genitive in Old Italian. Italica 25. 104–106.

• “amb”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “amb”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “amb” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “amb” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Proto-Finno-Permic *ampɜ-. Cognate to Finnish ampua (“to shoot”).

amb (genitive ammu, partitive ambu)

1. crossbow

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• “amb”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “amb”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
• amb in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

• ab (Guardiol)
• dab (Gascon)
• damb (Gascon, Aranese)
• ambé (Provençal)
• embé (Provençal, Niçard)
• emb (limousin)
• ambo (vivaro-alpine)
• 'mbo (east vivaro-alpine)

From Old Occitan ab, from Latin apud.

• (before a vowel) IPA^(key): /amb/, /am/ [ãm-]
• (before a consonant) IPA^(key): /ˈam.e/ [ˈãm.e]

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amb

1. with

• Pei, Mario A. 1948. Ab and the survival of the Latin genitive in Old Italian. Italica 25. 104–106.

amb m (plural ambs)

1. (palynology) amb (outline of a spore or pollen grain)