gambier

See also: Gambiër

English

Etymology

From Malay gambir.

Noun

gambier (uncountable)

1. A flowering plant, Uncaria gambir, family Rubiaceae, native to Southeast Asia.
   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 270:

     When the entire coast-line becomes a sea of waving palms, with Chinese and Malay villages fringing the shores, which are at present mere barren wastes of mangroves, with plantations of pepper, of gambier, and of tapioca and rice, the Northern Territory, backed up by the unswerving energy of the Australian squatter, miner, and planter, will present a spectacle almost unknown in the scheme of British colonization.

2. An astringent substance prepared from the leaves of the plant, used in tanning and dyeing.

Translations

Uncaria gambir

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 兒茶鉤藤／儿茶钩藤

• Japanese: ガンビール
• Malay: gambir (ms)
• Polish: czepota gambir
• Romanian: gambir (ro) m

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• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 柑仔蜜 (zh-min-nan)

  Mandarin: 方兒茶／方儿茶 (fāng-érchá). 阿仙藥／阿仙药 (zh) (āxiānyào)

• Japanese: 阿仙薬
• Malay: gambir (ms)

Danish

Noun

gambier c (singular definite gambieren, plural indefinite gambiere)

1. Gambian

Declension

Declension of gambier

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	gambier	gambieren	gambiere	gambierne
genitive	gambiers	gambierens	gambieres	gambiernes

Related terms

• Gambia
• gambisk

References

• “gambier” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

gambier m (plural gambiers)

1. gambier

Further reading

• “gambier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

gambier m (definite singular gambieren, indefinite plural gambiere, definite plural gambierne)

1. Gambian (person from Gambia)

Related terms

• Gambia
• gambisk

Swedish

Etymology

Gambia +‎ -ier

Noun

gambier c

1. Gambian

Declension

Declension of gambier
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	gambier	gambiern	gambier	gambierna
Genitive	gambiers	gambierns	gambiers	gambiernas

Related terms

• Gambia
• gambisk
• gambiska

Further reading

• gambier in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• gambier in Svensk ordbok (SO)