ember
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɛm.bə/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɛm.bɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɛmbə(ɹ)
Etymology 1
From Middle English embre, eymbre, aymer, eymere, emeri, from Old English ǣmyrġe, from Proto-West Germanic *aimurjā, from Proto-Germanic *aimuzjǭ, a compound of *aimaz + *uzjǭ. The latter is from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ews- (“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)
Derived terms
Translations
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See also
Etymology 2
From Middle English embryne (“running around, circuit”), from Old English ymbryne (“course; circuit”), equivalent to umb- + run.
Adjective
ember (not comparable)
- (religion) 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
Derived terms
References
- “ember”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Hungarian
Alternative forms
- (southern dialects) embör, (northern dialects) ämber
- (dialectal, archaic) emberfia, (alternative spelling) ember fia, (southern dialects, archaic) embörfia
Etymology
Probably a compound word. The first element is related to the base word of emse (“sow”) (originally meant “female”), which in turn is from Proto-Uralic *emä (“mother, woman”).[1][2] The second element is either a variant of férj (“husband”) which originally meant “man” or is related to an unattested stem -ër, -ér, -ar, but in any case, the stem ultimately derives from Proto-Finno-Ugric *irkä (“man, son, boy”).[3][4]
Pronunciation
Noun
ember (plural emberek)
- person
- (biology) human (a human being, whether man, woman or child)
- construed with az: mankind, humanity, man (all humans collectively)
- Synonym: emberiség
- (archaic) man (adult male human; today mostly in compounds like fiatalember, öregember, vénember)
Usage notes
- For its use with the article az (“the”), see az ember (“one, you”, used like an indefinite, generic pronoun).
- 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 (“it 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 nő (“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
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | ember | emberek |
accusative | embert | embereket |
dative | embernek | embereknek |
instrumental | emberrel | emberekkel |
causal-final | emberért | emberekért |
translative | emberré | emberekké |
terminative | emberig | emberekig |
essive-formal | emberként | emberekként |
essive-modal | emberül | — |
inessive | emberben | emberekben |
superessive | emberen | embereken |
adessive | embernél | embereknél |
illative | emberbe | emberekbe |
sublative | emberre | emberekre |
allative | emberhez | emberekhez |
elative | emberből | emberekből |
delative | emberről | emberekről |
ablative | embertől | emberektől |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
emberé | embereké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
emberéi | emberekéi |
Possessive forms of ember | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | emberem | embereim |
2nd person sing. | embered | embereid |
3rd person sing. | embere | emberei |
1st person plural | emberünk | embereink |
2nd person plural | emberetek | embereitek |
3rd person plural | emberük | embereik |
Derived terms
Related terms
References
- ^ Entry #134 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
- ^ ember in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN
- ^ Entry #152 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
- ^ ember in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
Further reading
- ember in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- ember in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)
Indonesian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
ember (plural ember-ember, first-person possessive emberku, second-person possessive embermu, third-person possessive embernya)
Descendants
Compounds
Etymology 2
Modifed from emang.
Adverb
ember
Further reading
- “ember” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Javanese
Romanization
ember
- Romanization of ꦲꦺꦩ꧀ꦧꦺꦂ
Old Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse eimr (“reek”), from Proto-Germanic *aimaz (“steam”).
Noun
ember m
Declension
Ternate
Etymology
Borrowed from Indonesian ember, from Dutch emmer, from Middle Dutch ember, from Old Dutch ēmer, from Proto-West Germanic *ambrī.
Pronunciation
Noun
ember
References
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh, page 29
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