# amb
## English
### Etymology

From ambit, from Latin.

### Noun

amb (plural ambs)
* (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
### 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: /əm/
* (in careful speech, before a vowel sound or an L) IPA: /əmb/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophone: em
(Valencia)
* IPA: /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
* 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”).

### Pronunciation

* This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!

### Noun

amb (genitive ammu, partitive ambu)
* 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: /amb/, /am/ [ãm-]
* (before a consonant) IPA: /ˈam.e/ [ˈãm.e]
* Audio:(file)

### Preposition

amb
* 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)
* (palynology) amb (outline of a spore or pollen grain)