Amber

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈæm.bə/
• (US) enPR: ăm'bər, IPA^(key): /ˈæm.bɚ/
• Rhymes: -æmbə(ɹ)
• Homophone: amber
• Hyphenation: Am‧ber

From amber, from Middle English ambre, from Old French ambre, from Latin ambar, from Arabic عَنْبَر (ʕanbar, “ambergris”).

Amber

1. A female given name from English, popular in the 1980s and the 1990s.
   • 1854 Harper's Magazine, Volume IX, June to November 1854, page 667 ("Lady Amber Mayne")

     The youngest daughter of the Marchioness of Summerdown had one of these quaint, pretty names - Amber! - and what a pretty creature she was!

   • 1944, Kathleen Winsor, Forever Amber, Chicago Review Press, published 2000, →ISBN, page 14:

     And then she said softly, "Sarah - I think I'll name her Amber - for the colour of her father's eyes - "

   • 2005, Ali Smith, The Accidental, Penguin, published 2006, →ISBN, page 64:

     A bit raddled, maybe thirty, maybe older, tanned like a hitchhiker, dressed like a road protester, one of those older women still determinedly being a girl; all those eighties feministy still-political women were terribly interested in what Eve did. Hippie name. Amber. Ridiculous name.

2. A surname of uncertain origin.
   • 1901, Frederick Swainson, Acton's Feud: A Public School Story, BiblioBazaar, LLC, published 2007, →ISBN, page 14:

     Amber, the half, generally waltzed round our forwards, and when he secured he passed the ball on to Aspinall.

 

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Amber, India

Wikipedia

From a form of the Hindi आसमान (āsmān, “the heavens”).

• Ambar

Amber

1. A female given name from Hindi
2. A city in Rajasthan, India, also known as Amer.

 

English Wikipedia has an article on:

River Amber

Wikipedia

From a pre-Celtic word.

Amber

1. A river in Derbyshire, England, which joins the River Derwent at Ambergate.

• Ambergate
• Amber Valley

• Brame, Bream, bemar, brame, bream, embar

From English Amber, from amber, from Middle English ambre, from Old French ambre, from Latin ambar, from Arabic عَنْبَر (ʕanbar, “amber”).

Amber

1. a female given name from English

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑmbər/

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• Hyphenation: Am‧ber

Amber f

1. a female given name, Amber

Borrowed from English Amber, from amber, from Middle English ambre, aumbre, from Old French aumbre, ambre, from Arabic عَنْبَر (ʕanbar, “ambergris”), from Middle Persian 𐭠𐭭𐭡𐭫 (ʾnbl /⁠ambar⁠/, “ambergris”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔambeɾ/ [ˈʔam.bɛɾ]
• Rhymes: -ambeɾ
• Syllabification: Am‧ber

Amber (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜋ᜔ᜊᜒᜇ᜔)

1. a female given name from English