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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?væmp?(?)/

Etymology 1

vamp +? -er

Noun

vamper (plural vampers)

1. One who vamps; one who creates or repairs by piecing old things together; a cobbler.
   • 1833, Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), The Gallery of Portraits: With Memoirs, Charles Knight, London, page 98:

     Cibber, a vamper of other men’s plays, has borrowed from it his favourite Nonjuror, and applied it to the purposes of a political party.

Etymology 2

Compare vaunt.

Verb

vamper (third-person singular simple present vampers, present participle vampering, simple past and past participle vampered)

1. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) To swagger; to make an ostentatious show.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Jamieson to this entry?)

Anagrams

• revamp

French

Verb

vamper

1. to vamp (seduce)

Conjugation

Further reading

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

English

Alternative forms

• ampor, nanberry, anbury, anberry, ambury

Etymology

From Middle English ampre, from Old English ampre (“a dilated vein, varix, tumour, swelling; dock, sorrel”), from Proto-Germanic *ampra-, *ampr?n- (“dock, sorrel”), which is related to *ampraz (“sharp”). Related to aber.

Noun

amper (plural ampers)

1. A tumour, often accompanied by inflammation; pustule; varicose vein; pus; atter.
2. A defect or flaw, especially in cloth.

Derived terms

• ampered
• ampery

References

• Kroonen, Guus (2013) , “ampra/?n-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN, page 25

Anagrams

• perma-, prame, remap

Afrikaans

Etymology

Inconclusive. Whilst its current definition was long thought to have come from Indonesian hampir due to its exclusive presence in Dutch (and no other Germanic language), this would not explain its high and almost universal usage in Flemish. More likely would be if it originated on Dutch soil. In that case, the meaning would have changed somewhat from the earlier Middle Dutch amper (“sour”) – compare the semantic development of German sehr (“very”), Alemannic German rüüdig (“very”). This word, in turn, is Germanic, and a cognate to the Swedish amper, German Ampfer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?am.p?r/

Adverb

amper

1. almost

Dutch

Etymology

Inconclusive. Whilst its current definition was long thought to have come from Indonesian hampir due to its exclusive presence in Dutch (and no other Germanic language), this would not explain its high and almost universal usage in Flemish. More likely would be if it originated on Dutch soil. In that case, the meaning would have changed somewhat from the earlier Middle Dutch amper (“sour”) – compare the semantic development of German sehr (“very”), Alemannic German rüüdig (“very”). This word, in turn, is Germanic, and a cognate to the Swedish amper, German Ampfer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??mp?r/
• Hyphenation: am?per
• Rhymes: -?mp?r

Adverb

amper

1. scarcely, barely

   Synonym: nauwelijks

Adjective

amper

1. (archaic) sour

Further reading

• AMPER II, Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??mp?r]
• Hyphenation: am?per
• Rhymes: -?r

Noun

amper (plural amperek)

1. ampere (unit of electrical current)

Declension

Icelandic

Etymology

Named after Ampère, French physicist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?am?p?(?)r/

Noun

amper n (genitive singular ampers, nominative plural amper)

1. ampere (unit of electrical current)

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Apparently from Middle Low German. Perhaps cognate with Old Norse apr (“hard, painful”).

Adjective

amper (neuter singular ampert, definite singular and plural ampre, comparative amprere, indefinite superlative amprest)

1. (of people) petulant; easily aggravated

Synonyms

• hissig
• krakilsk
• irritabel
• opphisset
• stri
• vrang

References

• “amper” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “amper” in The Ordnett Dictionary

Polish

Etymology

From French ampère. Named after French physicist André-Marie Ampère (1775–1836).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?am.p?r/

Noun

amper m inan (abbreviation A)

1. ampere (unit of electrical current)

Declension

Derived terms

• (nouns) amperozwój, amperomierz, amperowoltomierz, amperometria, amperometr, amperosekunda, amperogodzina
• (adjective) amperowy

Related terms

• (noun) ampera?

Further reading

• amper in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• amper in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French ampère.

Noun

amper m (plural amperi)

1. ampere

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

àmp?r m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. ampere (unit of electrical current)

Declension

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /amp???r/

Noun

amp?r m inan

1. ampere (unit of electrical current)

Inflection

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish amper. Nationalencyklopedins ordbok traces the word to German Low German amper (“sharp; harsh”). According to Svenska Akademiens ordbok it is also related to Latin amarus (“bitter”) and Sanskrit ???? (amla, “sour”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?amp?r/

Adjective

amper (comparative amprare, superlative amprast)

1. harsh, stern, particularly about older women

   En amper bondmora.

   A stern peasantwoman.

2. (of taste) pungent, biting, strong

   Till desserten serverades vi en synnerligen amper blåmögelost.

   At the dessert, we were served a very strong blue cheese.

Declension

Anagrams

• ampre

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French ampère.

Noun

amper (definite accusative amperi, plural amperler)

1. ampere (unit of electrical current)

Declension

References

• amper in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu

West Frisian

Adverb

amper

1. barely, hardly, scarcely
2. virtually

Further reading

• “amper (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011