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sabrina

Latin

Adjective

sabr?na

  1. nominative feminine singular of sabr?nus
  2. nominative neuter plural of sabr?nus
  3. accusative neuter plural of sabr?nus
  4. vocative feminine singular of sabr?nus
  5. vocative neuter plural of sabr?nus

Adjective

sabr?n?

  1. ablative feminine singular of sabr?nus

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amber

English

Etymology

From Middle English ambre, aumbre, from Old French aumbre, ambre, from Arabic ???????? (?anbar, ambergris), from Middle Persian ????????????????? (?nbl /ambar/, ambergris). Compare English lamber, ambergris. Displaced Middle English smulting (from Old English smelting (amber)), Old English eolhsand (amber), Old English glær (amber), and Old English s?p (amber, resin, pomade).

  • The nucleotide sequence "UAG" is named "amber" for the first person to isolate the amber mutation, California Institute of Technology graduate student Harris Bernstein, whose last name ("Bernstein") is the German word for the resin "amber".

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?am.b?/
  • (US) IPA(key): /?æm.b?/
  • Rhymes: -æmb?(?)

Noun

amber (countable and uncountable, plural ambers)

  1. (obsolete) Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale. [14th-18th c.]
    • 1526, The Grete Herball:
      Ambre is hote and drye [] Some say that it is the sparme of a whale.
    • 1579, The Booke of Simples, fol. 56 (contained in Bulleins Bulwarke of Defence against all Sicknesse, Soarnesse, and Woundes):
      As for Amber Grice, or Amber Cane, which ist most sweet myngled with other sweete thynges: some say it commeth from the rocks of the Sea. [] Some say it is gotten by a fish called Azelum, which feedeth upon Amber Grece, and dyeth, which is taken by cunnyng fishers and the belly opened, and this precious Amber found in hym.
    • 1600, John Pory (translator), A Geographical Historie of Africa (original by Leo Africanus), page 344:
      The head of this fish is as hard as stone. The inhabitants of the Ocean sea coast affirme that this fish casteth foorth Amber; but whether the said Amber be the sperma or the excrement thereof, they cannot well determine.
    • 1717, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, letter, 18 Apr 1717:
      Slaves [] with silver Censors [] perfum'd the air with Amber, Aloes wood, and other Scents.
  2. A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent fossil resin, used for jewellery. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight. [from 15th c.]
    • 1594 William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act IV, Scene III:
      With scarfs and fans and double change of bravery,
      With amber bracelets, beads, and all this knavery.
    • 1594, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Act II, Scene II:
      Slanders, sir: for the satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging thick amber and plum-tree gum and that they have a plentiful lack of wit.
    • 1637, Monro, his expedition with the Worthy Scots Regiment (called Mac-Keys Regiment), republished in 1999 ?ISBN, page 102:
      To shew this by example, we reade of Sabina Poppcea, to whom nothing was wanting, but shame and honestie, being extremely beloved of Nero, had the colour of her haire yellow, like Amber, which Nero esteemed much of, [] .
  3. A yellow-orange colour.
  4. (Britain) The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, which when illuminated indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection if it is safe to do so.
    • 1974, Traffic Planning and Engineering, page 366:
      While earlier controllers provided concurrent ambers, present practice is to indicate a minimum intergreen period of 4 s.
    • 2000, in the Journal of Traffic Engineering & Control, volume 41, page 201:
      Also flashing ambers are not operational at this type of crossing.
    • 2004 January 14, "AZGuy" (username), "Turn Signal Research shows amber no more effective then red", in rec.autos.driving, Usenet:
      >Problem: Red-red signals are too time consuming when traffic density is higher.
      I don't find them time consuming at all. I find them identical to ambers.
  5. (biology, genetics, biochemistry) The stop codon (nucleotide triplet) "UAG", or a mutant which has this stop codon at a premature place in its DNA sequence.
    an amber codon, an amber mutation, an amber suppressor
    • 2007, Molecular Genetics of Bacteria, edition 3, page 333:
      For example, to cross a temperature-sensitive mutation with an amber mutation, amber suppressor cells are infected at the low (permissive) temperature.
    • 2007, Jonathan C. Kuhn, Detection of Salmonella by Bacteriophage Felix 01, in Salmonella: Methods and Protocols, pages 27–28:
      Double ambers revert at 10-8-10-9, and therefore, reversion is negligible. Double-amber mutants are made by crossing single-amber mutants with each other.

Synonyms

  • (intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights): yellow (US)
  • (obsolete: the waxy product of the sperm whale): ambergris

Antonyms

  • (intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights): red, green

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

  • copal

Adjective

amber (comparative more amber, superlative most amber)

  1. Of a brownish yellow colour, like that of most amber.

Translations

Verb

amber (third-person singular simple present ambers, present participle ambering, simple past and past participle ambered)

  1. (transitive, rare) To perfume or flavour with ambergris.
    ambered wine, an ambered room
  2. (transitive, rare) To preserve in amber.
    an ambered fly
  3. (transitive, rare, chiefly poetic or literary) To cause to take on the yellow colour of amber.
    • 1885, America the Beautiful;
      For purple mountains majesty; for amber waves of grain.
    • 2007, Phil Rickman, Fabric of Sin: A Merrily Watkins Mystery;
      Home to the mosaic of coloured-lit windows in the black and white houses, the fake gas lamps ambering the cobbles, sometimes the scent of applewood smoke.
  4. (intransitive, rare, chiefly poetic or literary) To take on the yellow colour of amber.

See also

  • electrum
  • succinic
  • succinic acid
  • traffic light
  • Appendix:Colors

Further reading

  • David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Amber”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database
  • “amber”, in Mindat.org?[3], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2021.

Anagrams

  • Brame, Bream, bemar, brame, bream, embar

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French ambre, from Arabic ???????? (?anbar, ambergris), from Middle Persian ????????????????? (?nbl /ambar/).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??m.b?r/
  • Hyphenation: am?ber

Noun

amber n (plural ambers, diminutive ambertje n)

  1. amber (colour of fossil resin)
    Synonyms: barnsteengeel, barnsteenkleur
  2. (nonstandard) amber (fossil resin)
    Synonym: barnsteen

Related terms

  • ambergrijs

Descendants

  • ? Indonesian: amber (amber)

Indonesian

Etymology 1

From Dutch amber, from Middle French ambre, from Arabic ???????? (?anbar, ambergris), from Middle Persian ????????????????? (?nbl /ambar/). Doublet of ambar.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?amber], [?amb?r]
  • Hyphenation: am?bér

Noun

amber (plural amber-amber, first-person possessive amberku, second-person possessive ambermu, third-person possessive ambernya)

  1. amber: a hard, generally yellow to brown translucent fossil resin, used for jewellery. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight.
    Synonym: ambar

Etymology 2

From Dutch uitlander (foreigner).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [?amber]
  • Hyphenation: am?bér

Noun

amber (plural amber-amber, first-person possessive amberku, second-person possessive ambermu, third-person possessive ambernya)

  1. (Papua) non-Papuan settlers in Papua.

Further reading

  • “amber” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Old English

Alternative forms

  • ambor, ?mber, ?mber

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *ambr?.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??m.ber/

Noun

amber m

  1. bucket

Descendants

  • Middle English: ambre, anbre, almer

Old High German

Alternative forms

  • ampri, eimbar, einber, eimmer

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *ambr?.

Noun

amber m

  1. bucket

Descendants

  • Middle High German: amper, amber, eimber, eimer
    • German: Eimer, Amper
    • Luxembourgish: Eemer

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

amber m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

  1. amber (fossil resin)

Synonyms

  • ambra
  • ambar

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ???????? (?anbar).

Noun

amber (definite accusative amberi, plural amberler)

  1. Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.
  2. A common noun for nice-smelling things.
  3. (biochemistry, genetics) The stop codon "UAG".

Declension

Derived terms

Anagrams

  • barem

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