different between umber vs ember

English

Alternative forms

• umbre (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French ombre (“umber”), from terre d'ombre (“dark ochre”), from Old French umbre (“shade, shadow”), from Latin umbra. Doublet of umbra.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??mb?/
• (General American) enPR: ?m?b?r, IPA^(key): /??mb?/
• Rhymes: -?mb?(?)
• Hyphenation: um?ber

Noun

umber (plural umbers)

1. A brown clay, somewhat darker than ochre, which contains iron and manganese oxides.

2. Alternative form of umbrere
3. A grayling.
4. A dusky brown African wading bird (Scopus umbretta) allied to the shoebill and herons; a hamerkop.

Translations

Adjective

umber (not comparable)

1. Of a reddish brown colour, like that of the pigment.
   • 1819, Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay

     Their harps are of the umber shade / That hides the blush of waking day.

Translations

Verb

umber (third-person singular simple present umbers, present participle umbering, simple past and past participle umbered)

1. (transitive) To give a reddish-brown colour to.
   • 1807, Charles Hoyle, Exodus

     Armies o'er armies heap'd, the locusts came,
     Like clouds in autumn umbering all the sky […]

Derived terms

• burnt umber
• mottled umber
• umber moth

See also

• Appendix:Colors

Anagrams

• brume, umbre

Latin

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?um.ber/, [??mb?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?um.ber/, [?umb?r]

Noun

umber m (genitive umbr?); second declension

1. a kind of sheep

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

References

• umber in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Manx

Etymology

Borrowed from English umber.

Noun

umber m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. umber

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??m.b??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??m.b?/
• Rhymes: -?mb?(r)

Etymology 1

From Middle English embre, eymbre, aymer, eymere, emeri, from Old English ?myr?e, from Proto-West Germanic *aimu?j?, from Proto-Germanic *aimuzj?, a compound of *aimaz +? *uzj?. The latter is from Proto-Indo-European *h?ews- (“to burn”). The b is intrusive and was added in English for ease of pronunciation when the vowel of the second syllable (y) disappeared.

See also Old High German eimuria (“pyre”), Danish emmer, Swedish mörja (“embers”).

Noun

ember (plural embers)

1. A glowing piece of coal or wood.
2. Smoldering ash.

Translations

See also

• embers

Etymology 2

From Middle English embryne (“running around, circuit”), from Old English ymbryne (“course; circuit”), equivalent to umb- +? run.

Adjective

ember (not comparable)

1. Making a circuit of the year or the seasons; recurring in each quarter of the year, as certain religious days set apart for fasting and prayer.

   ember fasts

   ember days

   ember weeks

Anagrams

• EBMer, berme, breme

Hungarian

Alternative forms

• embör (southern dialects)
• emberfia (dialectal, archaic)
  • ember fia (alternate spelling)
• embörfia (southern dialects, archaic)
• ämber (northern dialects)

Etymology

Probably a compound word. The first element is related to the base word of emse (“female”), the second element is the variant of férj (“husband”) which originally meant man.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??mb?r]
• Hyphenation: em?ber
• Rhymes: -?r

Noun

ember (plural emberek)

1. person

   Synonyms: személy, f?

2. (biology) human (a human being, whether man, woman or child)

   Synonym: emberi lény

3. mankind, humanity, man (all humans collectively)

   Synonym: emberiség

4. (archaic) man (today mostly in compounds like fiatalember, öregember, vénember)

   Synonym: férfi

   Coordinate term: asszony

5. (preceded by az) one, you, a person (generic pronoun)
   • 1922, Zsigmond Móricz, Tündérkert,^[1] book 1, chapter 9:

Usage notes

The word ember is gender-neutral in the biological sense, or in the plural where it can refer to a mixed group of men and women or to people in general, and also in expressions like embere válogatja (“depends on the person”), where it is again used in a general sense. In contrast with this, when it is used in the singular to refer to one person in particular, there is a strong implication that one is probably talking about a man and not a woman, in which case egy n? (“a woman”) would sound more natural. As a generic pronoun, it has no such connotations, but even so, women sometimes colloquially use the expression az ember lánya (literally “the daughter of man”) instead, especially when talking about topics that only pertain to women in general.

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• ember in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch emmer, from Middle Dutch ember, from Old Dutch ?mer, from Proto-West Germanic *ambr?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??m.b?r]
• Hyphenation: èm?bèr

Noun

èmbèr (plural ember-ember, first-person possessive emberku, second-person possessive embermu, third-person possessive embernya)

1. bucket

Descendants

• ? Ternate: ember

Further reading

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

Ternate

Etymology

Borrowed from Indonesian ember, from Dutch emmer, from Middle Dutch ember, from Old Dutch ?mer, from Proto-West Germanic *ambr?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?embe?]

Noun

ember

1. bucket

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh, page 29