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Webster 1913 Edition

Ember

Em′ber

,
Noun.
[OE.
emmeres
,
emeres
, AS.
[GREEK]myrie
; akin to Icel.
eimyrja
, Dan.
emmer
, MHG.
eimere
; cf. Icel.
eimr
vapor, smoke.]
A lighted coal, smoldering amid ashes; – used chiefly in the plural, to signify mingled coals and ashes; the smoldering remains of a fire.
“He rakes hot embers.”
Dryden.
He takes a lighted
ember
out of the covered vessel.
Colebrooke.

Em′ber

,
Adj.
[OE.
ymber
, AS.
ymbren
,
ymbryne
, prop., running around, circuit;
ymbe
around +
ryne
a running, fr.
rinnan
to run. See
Amb-
, and
Run
.]
Making a circuit of the year of the seasons; recurring in each quarter of the year;
as,
ember
fasts
.
Ember days
(R. C. & Eng. Ch.)
,
days set apart for fasting and prayer in each of the four seasons of the year. The Council of Placentia [
A. D.
1095] appointed for ember days the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the first Sunday in Lent, Whitsuntide, the 14th of September, and the 13th of December. The weeks in which these days fall are called ember weeks.

Webster 1828 Edition

Ember

EMBER

, in ember-days, ember-weeks, is the Saxon emb-ren, or ymb-ryne, a circle, circuit or revolution, from ymb, around, and ren, or ryne, course, from the root of run. Ember-days are the Wednesday, Friday and Saturday,after Quadragesima Sunday, after Whitsunday, after Holyrood day in September, and after St. Lucia's day in December. Ember-days are days returning at certain seasons; Ember-weeks, the weeks in which these days fall; and formerly, our ancestors used the words Ember-fast and Ember-tide or season.

Definition 2024

Ember

Ember

See also: ember

English

Proper noun

Ember

  1. (rare) A female given name.

Derived terms

ember

ember

See also: Ember

English

embers

Noun

ember ‎(plural embers)

  1. A glowing piece of coal or wood.
  2. Smoldering ash.
Translations

See also

Etymology 2

Middle English ymber ‎(“running around, circuit”)

Adjective

ember ‎(not comparable)

  1. 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

Anagrams

Hungarian

Alternative forms

  • embör, (southern dialects)
  • emberfia, (dialectal, archaic)
    • ember fia, (alternate spelling)
  • embörfia, (southern dialects, archaic)
  • ämber, (northern dialects)

Etymology

Unknown origin. Might be a compound derived from the same root as magyar, which derives from Old Hungarian mogyër. In that case, it is most likely from Proto-Uralic *irkä or *ürkä ‎(“man, son, boy”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɛmbɛr]
  • Hyphenation: em‧ber

Noun

ember ‎(plural emberek)

  1. human, man or woman
  2. one, anybody (any person)
    • 1922, Zsigmond Móricz, Tündérkert, book 1, chapter 9:
      Az ebédrehívás mindannyiuknak jólesett, mert az ember megéhezik a sok beszéd közt s a háború félelmében.

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
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
Possessive forms of ember
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

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch emmer.

Noun

ember

  1. bucket

Etymology

From Old English ǣmyrge, 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”).

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