ember
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɛmbə(r)
Etymology 1
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From Middle English embre, eymbre, aymer, eymere, emeri, from Old English ǣmyrġe, 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 Swedish mörja (“embers”), Danish emmer, Old High German eimuria (“pyre”).
Noun
ember (plural embers)
- A glowing piece of coal or wood.
- Smoldering ash.
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Etymology 2
From Middle English embryne (“running around, circuit”), from Old English ymbryne (“course; circuit”), equivalent to umb- + run.
Adjective
ember (not comparable)
- 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
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ember”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
Hungarian
Alternative forms
- embör (southern dialects)
- emberfia (dialectal, archaic)
- ember fia (alternate spelling)
- embörfia (southern dialects, archaic)
- ämber (northern dialects)
Etymology
Probably a compound word. The first element is related to the base word of emse (“female”), the second element is the variant of férj (“husband”) which originally meant man.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
ember (plural emberek)
- person
- (biology) human (a human being, whether man, woman or child)
- mankind, humanity, man (all humans collectively)
- Synonym: emberiség
- (archaic) man (today mostly in compounds like fiatalember, öregember, vénember)
- (preceded by az) one, you (generic pronoun)
- 1922, Zsigmond Móricz, Tündérkert,[1] book 1, chapter 9:
- Az ebédrehívás mindannyiuknak jólesett, mert az ember megéhezik a sok beszéd közt s a háború félelmében.
- The invitation to lunch made all of them feel good, for anyone would get hungry from much talk and the fear of the war.
- Az embernek szórakoznia is kell néha. ― You have to have fun sometimes too.
- Sajnos az ember nem tud pénz nélkül élni. ― Unfortunately you can't live without money.
- 1922, Zsigmond Móricz, Tündérkert,[1] book 1, chapter 9:
Usage notes
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 (“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
References
- ^ 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.)
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch emmer, from Middle Dutch ember, from Old Dutch ēmer, from Proto-Germanic *ambrijaz.
Pronunciation
Noun
èmbèr (first-person possessive emberku, second-person possessive embermu, third-person possessive embernya)
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.
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