Amber

See also: amber and ämber

English

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

Amber

A female given name., 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, 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 (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.
A surname of uncertain origin.
- 1901 Frederick Swainson, Acton's Feud: A Public School Story, BiblioBazaar, LLC, 2007, →ISBN, page 14
  Amber, the half, generally waltzed round our forwards, and when he secured he passed the ball on to Aspinall.

female given name

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

Amber

From a pre-Celtic word.

Amber

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

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