amb

See also: amb.

English

Etymology

From ambit, from Latin.

Noun

amb (plural ambs)

1. (palynology) The outline of a spore or pollen grain, as seen in a polar view.
   • 1970, Robert Max Kosanke, editor, Symposium on Palynology of the Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary:

     This genus is distinguished from Duplopollis Krutzsch, 1959a, and Cupanieidites Cookson and Pike, 1954, by being syncolpate rather than syncolporate and by the islands at the angles of the amb.

Translations

outline of a spore or pollen grain

• Portuguese: amb m

Anagrams

• BMA, mAb, Bam, MAb, MBA, Mab, bam, -mab, ABM, BAM, mab, B. M. A., Mba

Catalan

Alternative forms

• ab (archaic)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan ab (Compare Old Occitan ab), from Latin apud. The addition of an -m- is very old, but it was not reflected in spelling until Fabra's orthography in the twentieth century.

Pronunciation

(Central)

• IPA^(key): /əm/
• (in careful speech, before a vowel sound or an L) IPA^(key): /əmb/

• Audio:

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• Homophone: em

(Valencia)

• IPA^(key): /am/, /an/, /en/
• Homophone: en
  • Note: the standard pronunciations is /am/. The pronunciation /en/ is typically used in the Valencian Community and parts of Catalonia, the pronunciation /an/ is used in some southern parts of the Valencian Community.

Preposition

amb

1. with

   Antonym: sense

Derived terms

• amb tot

References

• Pei, Mario A. 1948. Ab and the survival of the Latin genitive in Old Italian. Italica 25. 104–106.

Further reading

• “amb” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “amb”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “amb” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “amb” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finno-Permic *ampɜ-. Cognate to Finnish ampua (“to shoot”).

Noun

amb (genitive ammu, partitive ambu)

1. crossbow

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• “amb”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “amb”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
• amb in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

Occitan

Alternative forms

• ab (Guardiol)
• dab (Gascon)
• damb (Gascon, Aranese)
• ambé (Provençal)
• embé (Provençal, Niçard)
• emb (limousin)
• ambo (vivaro-alpine)
• 'mbo (east vivaro-alpine)

Etymology

From Old Occitan ab, from Latin apud.

Pronunciation

• (before a vowel) IPA^(key): /amb/, /am/ [ãm-]
• (before a consonant) IPA^(key): /ˈam.e/ [ˈãm.e]

• Audio:

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Preposition

amb

1. with

References

• Pei, Mario A. 1948. Ab and the survival of the Latin genitive in Old Italian. Italica 25. 104–106.

Portuguese

Noun

amb m (plural ambs)

1. (palynology) amb (outline of a spore or pollen grain)