ember

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɛm.bəː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛm.bɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɛmbə(r)

From Middle English embre, eymbre, aymer, eymere, emeri, from Old English ǣmyrġe, 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”).

ember (plural embers)

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

• embers

From Middle English embryne (“running around, circuit”), from Old English ymbryne (“course; circuit”), equivalent to umb- +‎ run.

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

• EBMer, berme, breme

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

Probably a compound word. The first element is related to the base word of emse (“female”), the second element is the variant of férj (“husband”) which originally meant man.[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛmbɛr]

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• Hyphenation: em‧ber

ember (plural emberek)

1. person

   Synonyms: személy, fő

2. (biology) human (a human being, whether man, woman or child)
3. mankind, humanity, man (all humans collectively)
4. one, you (generic pronoun)
   • 1922, Zsigmond Móricz, Tündérkert, book 1, chapter 9:

     Az ebédrehívás mindannyiuknak jólesett, mert az ember megéhezik a sok beszéd közt s a háború félelmében.

     The invitation to lunch made all of them feel good, for anyone would get hungry from much talk and the fear of the war.

   Az embernek szórakoznia is kell néha. ― You have to have fun sometimes too.

   Sajnos az ember nem tud pénz nélkül élni. ― Unfortunately you can't live without money.

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 (“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.

From Dutch emmer.

ember (plural ember-ember, first-person possessive emberku, second-person possessive embermu, third-person possessive embernya)

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