# ember
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɛm.bə/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˈɛm.bɚ/
** Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛmbə(ɹ)

### Etymology 1

From Middle English embre, eymbre, aymer, eymere, emeri, from Old English ǣmyrġe, from Proto-West Germanic *aimurjā, 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 Old High German eimuria (“pyre”), Danish emmer, Swedish mörja (“embers”).

#### Noun

ember (plural embers)
* A piece of coal or wood glowing by heat; a hot coal.
* Smoldering ash.

##### Derived terms

* ember attack
* ember-goose
* emberless
* emberlike

##### Translations
#### See also

* embers

### Etymology 2

From Middle English embryne (“running around, circuit”), from Old English ymbryne (“course; circuit”). Spelling changed through folk etymology. By surface analysis, umb- +‎ run.

#### Adjective

ember (not comparable)
* (religion) 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

##### Derived terms

* ember months

### References

* “ember”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* EBMer, berme, breme

## Hungarian
### Alternative forms

* (southern dialects) embör, (northern dialects) embër
* (dialectal, archaic) emberfia, (alternative spelling) ember fia, (southern dialects, archaic) embörfia

### Etymology

Probably a compound word. The first element is related to the base word of emse (“sow”) (originally meant “female”), which in turn is from Proto-Uralic *emä (“mother, woman”). The second element is either a variant of férj (“husband”) which originally meant “man” or is related to an unattested stem -ër, -ér, -ar, but in any case, the stem ultimately derives from Proto-Finno-Ugric *irkä (“man, son, boy”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɛmbɛr]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: em‧ber
* Rhymes: -ɛr

### Noun

ember (plural emberek)
* person
    Synonyms: személy, fő
* (biology) human (a human being, whether man, woman or child)
    Synonym: emberi lény
* construed with az: mankind, humanity, man (all humans collectively)
    Synonym: emberiség
* (archaic) man (adult male human; today mostly in compounds like fiatalember, öregember, vénember)
    Synonym: férfi
    Coordinate term: asszony (originally: “any woman”; today: “married woman”)

#### Usage notes

* For its use with the article az (“the”), see az ember (“one, you”, used like an indefinite, generic pronoun).
* 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 (“it 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.

#### Derived terms

* emberes → emberesség
* emberi
* emberies
* emberiesség
* emberietlen → emberietlenség
* emberiség
* emberke
* emberség → emberséges
* embertelen → embertelenség
* emberalak
* emberbarát
* embercsempész
* embergyűlölet
* embergyűlölő
* emberkereskedelem
* emberlakatlan
* emberlakta
* emberölés
* emberöltő
* emberrablás
* átlagember
* csapatember
* farkasember
* fiatalember
* gazember
* hóember
* kisember
* legényember
* munkásember
* öregember
* özvegyember
* ősember
* szakember
* tejesember
* úriember
* üzletember
* vénember
* a hazug embert hamarabb utolérik, mint a sánta kutyát
* az ember
* ember a vízben
* ember embernek farkasa
* ember tervez, Isten végez
* emberére akad
* éhes ember nem válogat
* más idők, más emberek
* megembereli magát
* sok jó ember kis helyen is elfér
* változnak az idők, változnak az emberek

#### Related terms

* férj
* magyar

### References

* ↑ Entry #134 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
* ↑ ember in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN
* ↑ Entry #152 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
* ↑ 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.)

### Further reading

* ember in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* ember in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɛm.bɛr/, [ˈɛm.bɛr]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: èm‧bèr

### Etymology 1

From Dutch emmer.

#### Noun

ember (plural ember-ember)
* bucket
** A container made of rigid material, often with a handle, used to carry liquids or small items.
    Synonyms: baldi, timba
** Part of a piece of machinery that resembles a bucket (container).
* (slang) someone who spread other people's disgrace; gossiper

##### Descendants

* → Petjo: ember
* → Ternate: ember

#### Compounds

* mulut ember

### Etymology 2

Modifed from emang.

#### Adverb

ember
* (gay slang) indeed

### 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.

## Javanese
### Romanization

ember
* Romanization of ꦲꦺꦩ꧀ꦧꦺꦂ

## Old Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Norse eimr (“reek”), from Proto-Germanic *aimaz (“steam”).

### Noun

ember m
* reek, vapor

#### Declension
## Ternate
### Etymology

Borrowed from Indonesian ember, from Dutch emmer, from Middle Dutch ember, from Old Dutch ēmer, from Proto-West Germanic *ambrī.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈembeɾ]

### Noun

ember
* bucket

### References

* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh, page 29