amber (colour of fossil resin) · amber (fossil resin)
çekim: çoğul ambers
eş: ambergris, barnsteen, amberkleurig
köken: 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…
Στέρεη, κηρώδης και εύφλεκτη ουσία, η οποία παράγεται στο έντερο της σπερματοφάλαινας, με χρώμα μαύρο ή γκρι. Χρησιμοποιείται κυρίως στη βιομηχανία αρωμάτων.
Internationalism; possibly borrowed from French ambre, Italian ambra, or Spanish ámbar, ultimately from Medieval Latin ambra, from Arabic عَنْبَر (ʕanbar). First attested in 1534.