different between condiment vs amba

English

Etymology

From Old French condiment, from Latin condimentum, from condire (“to preserve, pickle, season”). See condite and compare recondite.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?n.d?.m?nt/

Noun

condiment (plural condiments)

1. Something used to enhance the flavor of food; for example, salt or pepper.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:seasoning

Derived terms

• non-brewed condiment

Translations

Further reading

• condiment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

condiment (third-person singular simple present condiments, present participle condimenting, simple past and past participle condimented)

1. (transitive) To season with condiments.
2. (transitive) To pickle.

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin cond?mentum.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /kon.di?ment/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kun.di?men/

Noun

condiment m (plural condiments)

1. condiment

Derived terms

• condimentar

Further reading

• “condiment” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “condiment” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “condiment” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “condiment” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cond?mentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.di.m??/

Noun

condiment m (plural condiments)

1. condiment

See also

• exhausteur de goût

Further reading

• “condiment” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Romanian

Etymology

From French condiment

Noun

condiment n (plural condimente)

1. spice

Declension

English

Etymology 1

Amharic ??? (?ämba)

Noun

amba (plural ambas)

1. A characteristic landform in Ethiopia: a steep-sided, flat-topped mountain, often the site of a settlement.

Etymology 2

From Arabic ???????? (?amba) and Hebrew ?????; ultimately from Sanskrit ???? (?mra).

Noun

amba (uncountable)

1. A tangy mango pickle used as a condiment in the Middle East.

Anagrams

• AABM, AMAB, BAAM, BMAA, Bama, MAAB, bama

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /am.ba?/

Noun

amba

1. lowing or mooing sound of cattle

Verb

amba

1. to moo, low as of cattle

Synonyms

• inga

Hiligaynon

Verb

ámba

1. chant, sing

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ampa/

  Rhymes: -ampa

Noun

amba f (genitive singular ömbu, nominative plural ömbur)

1. Alternative form of amaba

Declension

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?am.ba/
• Rhymes: -amba
• Hyphenation: àm?ba

Etymology 1

From Amharic ??? (?ämba).

Noun

amba f (plural ambe)

1. (geology) A characteristic landform in Ethiopia, consisting of a steep-sided, flat-topped mountain.

Etymology 2

Noun

amba f (plural ambe)

1. (chiefly in the plural) circumlocution, periphrasis

   Synonyms: (formal) circonlocuzione, (colloquial) giro di parole, perifrasi

References

• amba in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• amba in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti

Kanufi

Noun

amba

1. plural of uwa

References

• Roger Blench, The Anib (=Kanufi) language of Central Nigeria and its affinities, page 3, 2011

Kikuyu

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-bàmba (“to stretch and peg a hide”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?ba/

Verb

amba (infinitive kwamba)

1. to peg (out), to pitch
2. to stretch out
3. to do first

Derived terms

• kwambata

• mwambato 3

• kwamb?r?ria

• k?amb?r?ria 7
• mwamb?r?rio 3

• rwambo 11

• rwambo r?mwe r?tiambaga ndarwa

References

• Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 360. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).
• “amba” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 7. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Pali

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

From Sanskrit ???? (?mra).

Noun

amba m

1. the mango tree, Magifera indica

Declension

Noun

amba n

1. the mango fruit

Declension

Related terms

• ambaphala (“mango fruit”)

References

• “amba”, in Pali Text Society, editor, Pali-English Dictionary?, London: Chipstead, 1921-1925.

Etymology 2

Noun

amba

1. vocative singular of amb? (“mummy”)

Swahili

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-gàmba (“to speak, to answer”).

Pronunciation

Pronoun

amba-

1. which; who (relative pronoun)

Inflection

Verb

-amba (infinitive kwamba)

1. to say, to explain

Conjugation

Derived terms

• chambo
• jambo

Venda

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-gàmba (“to speak, to answer”).

Verb

amba

1. to speak

Zulu

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-gàmba (“to speak, to answer”).

Verb

-amba

1. to be sarcastic

Inflection

References

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972) , “amba”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, ?ISBN: “amba (6.6-3)”