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Amber en · PROPN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • ăm'bər (US)
  • /ˈæm.bɚ/ (US)
  • /ˈæm.bə/ (UK)

Etymology

From amber, from Middle English ambre, from Old French ambre, from Latin ambar, from Arabic عَنْبَر (ʕanbar, “ambergris”).

Meanings

  1. A female given name from English, popular in the 1980s and the 1990s.
    • The youngest daughter of the Marchioness of Summerdown had one of these quaint, pretty names - Amber! - and what a pretty creature she was! 1854 Harper's Magazine, Volume IX, June to November 1854, page 667 ("Lady Amber Mayne")
    • And then she said softly, "Sarah - I think I'll name her Amber - for the colour of her father's eyes - " 1944, Kathleen Winsor, Forever Amber, Chicago Review Press, published 2000, →ISBN, page 14:
    • 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. 2005, Ali Smith, The Accidental, Penguin, published 2006, →ISBN, page 64:
  2. A surname of uncertain origin.
    • Amber, the half, generally waltzed round our forwards, and when he secured he passed the ball on to Aspinall. 1901, Frederick Swainson, Acton's Feud: A Public School Story, BiblioBazaar, LLC, published 2007, →ISBN, page 14:

Deriveds

Amberlynn

Translations (7)

de Amber (female given name) · it Ambra (female given name) · mr अँबर (female given name) · nl Amber (female given name) · fr Ambre (female given name) · ja アンバー (female given name) · lv Dzintra (female given name)

Amber en · PROPN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • ăm'bər (US)
  • /ˈæm.bɚ/ (US)
  • /ˈæm.bə/ (UK)

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi अंबर (ambar).

Meanings

  1. A male given name from Hindi.
  2. A city in Rajasthan, India, also known as Amer.

Forms

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Ambar alternative lexicographic

Amber en · PROPN · etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • ăm'bər (US)
  • /ˈæm.bɚ/ (US)
  • /ˈæm.bə/ (UK)

Etymology

From a pre-Celtic word.

Meanings

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

Deriveds

Ambergate · Amber Valley

Amber en · PROPN · etymology 4

Pronunciation

  • ăm'bər (US)
  • /ˈæm.bɚ/ (US)
  • /ˈæm.bə/ (UK)

Meanings

  1. Synonym of Ambel (“language”).

Synonyms

Ambel