Amber

1. of a medium to dark brownish yellow color

noun 1. a deep yellow color; 'an amber light illuminated the room'; 'he admired the gold of her hair'

noun 2. a hard yellowish to brownish translucent fossil resin; used for jewelry

Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.; Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.

Etymology: From Middle English ambre, aumbre, from Old French aumbre, ambre, from Arabic عَنْبَر (ʕanbar, “ambergris”), from Middle Persian 𐭠𐭭𐭡𐭫 (ʾnbl /⁠ambar⁠/, “ambergris”). Compare English lamber, ambergris. Displaced Middle English smulting (from Old English smelting (“amber”)), Old English eolhsand (“amber”), Old English glær (“amber”), and Old English sāp (“amber, resin, pomade”). * The nucleotide sequence "UAG" is named "amber" for the first person to isolate the amber mutation, California Institute of Technology graduate student Harris Bernstein, whose last name ("Bernstein") is the German word for the resin "amber".

Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.; A common noun for nice-smelling things.

Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish عنبر (anber), from Arabic عَنْبَر (ʕanbar).

amber (colour of fossil resin); amber (fossil resin)

Etymology: In its current form first attested in the early 16th century and borrowed from Middle French ambre, from Old French ambre, from Arabic عَنْبَر (ʕanbar, “ambergris”), from Middle Persian ʾmbl (/⁠ambar⁠/). However, the word was already present in Middle Dutch as emmer, ammer with assimilation of the consonant cluster -mb-; this assimilated form has not survived into Modern Dutch and developed from an earlier borrowing from Old French ambre.