ambre

Borrowed from Arabic عَنْبَر (ʕanbar, “ambergris”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈam.bɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈam.bɾe]

• Audio (Valencia):

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ambre m (plural ambres)

1. amber (semiprecious stone)
2. amber (yellow-orange color)

• ambrat
• ambre gris

ambre (invariable)

1. amber

   Synonym: ambrat

   L'ampolla ambre va reflectir la brillantor dels llums.

   The amber bottle reflected the brilliance of the lights.

• “ambre”, 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
• “ambre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “ambre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “ambre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Middle French ambre, from Old French ambre, from Arabic عَنْبَر (ʕanbar, “ambergris”), from Middle Persian ʾmbl (ambar, “ambergris”).

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃bʁ/

• Audio:

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ambre m (plural ambres)

1. amber (fossil resin)

• ambre gris
• ambre jaune

• “ambre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• brame, bramé

ambre f (plural ambris)

1. amber (fossil resin)

• ambrât

ambre f pl

1. plural of ambra

• Brema, brame

From Old Spanish fambre, famne (compare Spanish hambre), from Vulgar Latin *fam(i)ne(m), from Latin famēs, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰH- (“to disappear”).

ambre f

1. hunger

   Synonym: fambre

• anbre, almer

From Old English amber (“a bucket”), from Proto-West Germanic *ambrī, probably from Latin amphora. Cognate with Dutch emmer (“a bucket”), Low German Ammel (“a bucket”), Middle High German eim(b)er (“a bucket”), German Eimer (“a bucket”), Luxembourgish Eemer (“a bucket”), Norwegian ambar (“a bucket”), Swedish ämbar (“a bucket”), West Frisian amer (“a bucket”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈam(b)ər/

ambre (plural ambres)

1. A bucket; a measure.

• English: amber

• “ambre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

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

ambre m (plural ambres)

1. amber (fossil resin)
   • 1605, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Les commentaires, svr les six livres de Pedacius Dioscoride de la matière médecinale, page 68:

     les Indiens estiment plus l'ambre que l'encens.

     Indians value amber more highly than incense.

• French: ambre
• → Dutch: amber
  • → Indonesian: amber (“amber”)