embers

English

Noun

embers

1. plural of ember

Noun

embers pl (plural only)

1. The smoldering or glowing remains of a fire, smoldering ash.
   • 1994, Polly Samson, David Gilmour, “High Hopes”, in The Division Bell, performed by Pink Floyd:

     Looking beyond the embers of bridges glowing behind us / To a glimpse of how green it was on the other side

2. (figurative) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
   • 2025 May 21, Simon Stone, “Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 Manchester United”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     Hojlund scooped a header over the bar. Amad was dangerous and in the dying embers of injury time, Vicario turned away a decent header from substitute Joshua Zirkzee.

Derived terms

• stir the embers

Translations

the smoldering or glowing remains of a fire, smoldering ash

• Albanian: prush (sq)
• Aromanian: tãciuni, sprunã f
• Belarusian: жар m (žar)
• Bulgarian: жарава f (žarava)
• Catalan: brasa (ca) f, brases (ca) f pl, caliu (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 餘燼 / 余烬 (zh) (yújìn), 燼 / 烬 (zh) (jìn)

• Danish: glød
• Dutch: sintels m
• Finnish: hiillos (fi)
• French: braise (fr) f
• Galician: rescaldo m
• German: Glut (de) f, schwelende Asche f, Schwelbrand (de) m
• Greek: χόβολη (el) f (chóvoli)
• Hebrew: גחלת (he), אפר (he)
• Hindi: शोले (śole)
• Hungarian: parázs (hu), zsarátnok (hu)
• Icelandic: ljóma (is)
• Indonesian: bara (id)
• Irish: gríos m, gríosach f

  Old Irish: grís f

• Italian: braci (it) f pl, splendore (it), favilla (it) f
• Japanese: 残り火 (のこりび, nokoribi), (figurative) 余韻 (ja) (よいん, yoin), (literal, figurative) 余燼 (ja) (よじん, yojin)
• Latin: favilla (la) f
• Luxembourgish: Glous f
• Mazanderani: فل (fel)
• Norwegian: glør f pl or m pl

  Bokmål: glør m pl or f pl

  Nynorsk: glør f pl

• Persian: خدره (fa) (xadre)
• Portuguese: brasas f, borralho (pt) m, borralha (pt) f
• Romanian: tăciune (ro)
• Russian: у́гли (ru) m pl (úgli), угольки́ (ru) m pl (ugolʹkí), зола́ (ru) f (zolá), Russian: горя́чая зола́ f (gorjáčaja zolá), тле́ющая зола́ f (tléjuščaja zolá)
• Slovak: pahreba f
• Spanish: brasas (es) f pl, ascuas (es) f pl
• Sundanese: ruhay
• Swedish: glöd (sv) c, askmörja c, falaska (sv) c
• Turkish: köz (tr)
• Welsh: marwor

Anagrams

• EBMers, bermes