ambra

From Italian ambra.

• IPA^(key): /ambra/, [ˈɑmb̥ʁɑ]

ambra c (singular definite ambraen, plural indefinite ambraer)

1. ambergris
2. southernwood (Artemisia abrotanum)

• ambra on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da
• Ambra (plante) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

From Italian ambra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑmbrɑ/, [ˈɑ̝m.brɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑmbrɑ
• Syllabification^(key): amb‧ra
• Hyphenation^(key): amb‧ra

ambra

1. ambergris

   Synonym: harmaa ambra

2. (dated) amber (fossil resin) (usually as keltainen ambra)

   Synonym: meripihka

• “ambra”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.bʁa/
• Homophones: ambras, ambrât

ambra

1. third-person singular past historic of ambrer

• brama

From Arabic عَنْبَر (ʕanbar, “ambergris”), from Middle Persian ʾmbl (ambar, “ambergris”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈam.bra/
• Rhymes: -ambra
• Hyphenation: àm‧bra

ambra f (plural ambre)

1. amber (fossil resin)

   Synonyms: (literary) elettro, (literary) succino

   • 1316–c. 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXIX”, in Paradiso [Heaven], lines 25–26; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     E come in vetro, in ambra o in cristallo
     raggio resplende […]

     And like in glass, amber, or crystal, a ray shines […]

2. meanings related to colour/color:
   1. (uncountable) amber colour/color
   2. (metonymic, uncountable) yellow

      Synonym: giallo

   3. (metonymic) any amber-colored substance or object.
3. (uncountable) the smell of ambergris

• ambracane

• ambra in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• barma, brama

• ambre, ambar, ambrum

From Arabic عَنْبَر (ʕanbar, “ambergris”), from Middle Persian ʾmbl (ambar, “ambergris”).

ambra f sg (genitive ambrae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) amber (fossil resin)
2. (Medieval Latin) ambergris

First-declension noun, singular only.

• ambra grisea

• "ambra", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

From Italian ambra, from Arabic عَنْبَر (ʕanbar), from Middle Persian ʾmbl (ambar).

ambra m (definite singular ambraen, indefinite plural ambraer, definite plural ambraene)

1. ambergris

From Italian ambra, from Arabic عَنْبَر (ʕanbar), from Middle Persian ʾmbl (ambar).

ambra m (definite singular ambraen, indefinite plural ambraer or ambraar, definite plural ambraene or ambraane)

1. ambergris

Internationalism; possibly borrowed from French ambre, Italian ambra, or Spanish ámbar, ultimately from Medieval Latin ambra, from Arabic عَنْبَر (ʕanbar).^[1] First attested in 1534.^[2]

• IPA^(key): /ˈam.bra/

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• Rhymes: -ambra
• Syllabification: am‧bra

ambra f

1. ambergris (substance in perfumes)

   zapach ambry ― the smell of ambergris

2. ambergris perfume
3. sweet gum, liquidambar (tree of the genus Liquidambar)

   Synonym: ambrowiec

4. (Middle Polish) amber (resin)

   Synonym: bursztyn

• ambra in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• ambra in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Barbara Rykiel-Kempf (02.07.2012) “AMBRA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “ambra”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “ambra”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “ambra”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 30

ambra f (Cyrillic spelling амбра)

1. ambergris
2. amber (fossil resin)

   Synonyms: jantar, ambar, amber