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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɛm.bə/
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• General-American: /ˈɛm.bɚ/
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• US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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• /ˈɪm.bɚ/ Southern US, African-American Vernacular, pin–pen merger
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• rhymes with -ɛmbə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: EH1 M B ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English embryne (“running around, circuit”), from Old English ymbryne (“course; circuit”). Spelling changed through folk etymology. By surface analysis, umb- + run.

From Middle English embre, eymbre, aymer, eymere, emeri, from Old English ǣmyrġe, from Proto-West Germanic *aimuʀjā, 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 Old High German eimuria (“pyre”), Danish emmer, Swedish mörja (“embers”).

123 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: جَمْرَة (jamra) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Armenian: մարմրող ածուխ (marmroġ acux) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Armenian: պող (poġ) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Avar: тӏуччи (tʼučči) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Azerbaijani: köz — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Belarusian: вуго́льчык (vuhólʹčyk) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Belarusian: жарынка (žarynka) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Bulgarian: жар (žar) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Catalan: brasa — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Central Bikol: baga — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Chinese Mandarin: 餘燼 /余烬 (yújìn) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Ngazidja Comorian: kaya — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Czech: žhavý uhlík — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Danish: glød — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Dutch: sintel — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Dutch: hete kolen — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Esperanto: braĝo — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Esperanto: ardaĵo — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Faroese: glóð — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Finnish: kekäle — glowing piece of coal or wood
• French: brandon — glowing piece of coal or wood
• French: braise — glowing piece of coal or wood
• French: tison — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Galician: brasa — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Galician: rescaldo — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Galician: remol — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Galician: ascua — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Georgian: მღვივარი ნახშირი (mɣvivari naxširi) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Georgian: ცხელი ნაცარი (cxeli nacari) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Georgian: ნეკვერჩხალი (neḳverčxali) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• German: glühende Kohle — glowing piece of coal or wood
• German: Glut — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Greek: θράκα (thráka) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Ancient Greek: ζώπυρον (zṓpuron) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Hausa: garwashi — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Hebrew: רֶמֶץ (rémets) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Hebrew: גַּחֶלֶת (gakhélet) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Hindi: शोले (śole) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Hindi: अंगारा (aṅgārā) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Hungarian: zsarátnok — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Hungarian: izzó fa(darab)/széndarab — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Hungarian: parázs — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Icelandic: glóð — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Ido: brezo — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Indonesian: bara — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Ingrian: kekele — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Irish: aibhleog — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Irish: aibhleog dhearg — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Irish: splanc — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Irish: smeachóid — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Irish: sméaróid — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Irish: smól — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Italian: brace — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Italian: tizzone — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Japanese: 種火 (tanebi) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Japanese: 余燼 (yojin) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Japanese: 残り火 (nokoribi) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Javanese: mawa — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Old Javanese: wa — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Kazakh: қоламта (qolamta) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Khmer: រងើក (rɔŋəək) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Korean: 등걸불 (deunggeolbul) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Central Kurdish: پۆل (pol) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Central Kurdish: پِشکۆ (pişko) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Central Kurdish: سکِڵ (skill) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Northern Kurdish: pel — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Lao: ຖ່ານໄຟ (thān fai) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Latin: favilla — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Latin: prūna — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Lithuanian: žarija — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Macedonian: жар (žar) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Maguindanao: waga — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Malay: bara — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Malayalam: കനൽ (kanal) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Malayalam: തീക്കനൽ (tīkkanal) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Malayalam: തീക്കട്ട (tīkkaṭṭa) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Western Bukidnon Manobo: baɣa — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Mansaka: baga — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Māori: ngoungou — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Māori: konga — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Maranao: baga — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Maranao: waga — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Middle English: glede — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Mongolian: цог (cog) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Mongolian: халууни нурам (xaluuni nuram) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Norwegian Bokmål: glo — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Norwegian Nynorsk: glo — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Occitan: brasa — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Persian: خاکه زغال نیمسوز — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Persian: شعله — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Persian: اخگر (axgar) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Polish: żar — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Portuguese: brasa — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Romanian: tăciune — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Russian: уголёк (ugoljók) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Russian: тле́ющие у́гли (tléjuščije úgli) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Russian: тле́ющие угольки́ (tléjuščije ugolʹkí) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Russian: жар (žar) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Serbo-Croatian: ugarak — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Serbo-Croatian: žeravica — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Serbo-Croatian: žar — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Slovak: žeravý uhlík — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Spanish: brasa — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Spanish: ascua — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Spanish: rescoldo — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Spanish: rescaldo (disused) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Spanish: borrajo — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Swedish: glöd — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Tagalog: baga — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Tamil: கங்கு (kaṅku) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Tarifit: tirjett — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Thai: แสงไฟในเศษฟืน (săeng fai nai sèt feun) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Thai: ถ่านที่ยังคุอยู่ (tàan têe yang kóo yòo) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Thai: เถ้าที่ยังคุกกรุ่นอยู่ (tâo têe yang kóok gròon yòo) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Turkish: kor — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Turkish: köz — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Udi: цӏил (c̣il) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Ugaritic: 𐎂𐎎𐎗 (gmr) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Ukrainian: вугі́лля (vuhíllja) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Urdu: شعلے (śole) — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Venetan: brónza — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Vietnamese: than hồng — glowing piece of coal or wood
• Welsh: marworyn — glowing piece of coal or wood