köken: Inherited from Middle French ambre, from Old French ambre, from Arabic عَنْبَر (ʕanbar, “ambergris”), from Middle Persian ʾmbl (ambar, “ambergris”).
Στέρεη, κηρώδης και εύφλεκτη ουσία, η οποία παράγεται στο έντερο της σπερματοφάλαινας, με χρώμα μαύρο ή γκρι. Χρησιμοποιείται κυρίως στη βιομηχανία αρωμάτων.
ambergris (substance in perfumes) · ambergris perfume · sweet gum, liquidambar (tree of the genus Liquidambar)
çekim: çoğul ambry · tamlayan ambry
köken: Internationalism; possibly borrowed from French ambre, Italian ambra, or Spanish ámbar, ultimately from Medieval Latin ambra, from Arabic عَنْبَر (ʕanbar). First attested in 1534.
köken: Borrowed from Proto-Germanic *glasą, possibly related root *glōaną (“to shine”) (compare glow), and ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵʰel- (“to shine, shimmer, glow”). An ancient theory by Tacitus claims this word to be a Latinization of what the Aestii, likely a Baltic people, call amber; compare Latvian dziñtars, Lithuanian giñtaras (“amber”).
Etimoloji
In its current form first attested in the early 16th century and borrowed from Middle French ambre, from Old French ambre, from Arabic عَنْبَر (ʕanbar, “ambergris”), from Middle Persian ʾmbl (/ambar/). However, the word was already present in Middle Dutch as emmer, ammer with assimilation of the consonant cluster -mb-; this assimilated form has not survived into Modern Dutch and developed from…