ember
Syllables: em·ber/ˈɛm.bə/
More pronunciations (2)Fewer pronunciations
Australia/ˈem.bə/
ember noun: a piece of coal or wood glowing by heat; a hot coal.
Noun
ember (plural embers)
- A piece of coal or wood glowing by heat; a hot coal.
- Smoldering ash.
Adjective
ember (not comparable)
Proper noun capitalized: Ember
Ember
- A unisex given name.
- This conversation took place at an advertising agency between an American copywriter named Ember (E), and one of his Japanese co-workers named Nakada (N).1993, Journal of Asian Pacific Communication
- In this section, a straightforward and attractive character named Ember, an academic colleague of Krug, is trying to distract his friend from brooding upon the death of his wife.2014, Samuel Schuman, Nabokov's Shakespeare, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 48
ember meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
ember in Hindi
- glowing piece of coal or wood
- शोले śole, अंगारा aṅgārā
ember in Tamil
- glowing piece of coal or wood
- கங்கு kaṅku
ember in Urdu
- glowing piece of coal or wood
- شعلے śole
ember in Bengali
- অঙ্গার, নিভে যাওয়া আগুন
More languagesFewer languages
- ember in Telugu
- నిప్పు nippu
- ember in Malayalam
- കനൽ kanal, തീക്കനൽ tīkkanal, തീക്കട്ട tīkkaṭṭa
- ember in Kannada
- ಮರದ ಕೊಳ್ಳಿ, ಸೌದೆಯ ತುಂಡು, ಸಣ್ಣಕೆಂಡ, ಬೆಂಬೂದಿ
- ember in Pashto
- سکروټه skarwáṭa
- ember in Tagalog
- baga
- ember in Arabic
- جَمْرَة jamra
- ember in Malay
- bara
- ember in Indonesian
- bara
- ember in Persian
- خاکه زغال نیمسوز, شعله, اخگر axgar
- ember in Thai
- แสงไฟในเศษฟืน săeng fai nai sèt feun, ถ่านที่ยังคุอยู่ tàan têe yang kóo yòo, เถ้าที่ยังคุกกรุ่นอยู่ tâo têe yang kóok gròon yòo
- ember in Vietnamese
- than hồng
Examples of ember in a sentence
- The burning embers and the dry wind quickly set the whole neighbourhood alight.
- When the bottom of the grill firebox burned through, everybody ran over and stomped embers too keep the picnic shelter from catching fire.
- That first night we spit-roasted a goat over wood we burned to embers.
Forms of ember
| plural | embers |
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Origin of ember
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”).
From Middle English embryne (“running around, circuit”), from Old English ymbryne (“course; circuit”). Spelling changed through folk etymology. By surface analysis, umb- + run.
Words formed from ember
Phrases with ember
Words that rhyme with ember
Questions about ember
- What does ember mean?
- Ember means a piece of coal or wood glowing by heat; a hot coal.
- What is ember in Hindi?
- Ember in Hindi is शोले (śole), अंगारा (aṅgārā). See Ember meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is ember?
- Ember can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce ember?
- Ember is pronounced /ˈɛm.bə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of ember?
- The plural of ember is embers.
Words near ember in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: ember (page history and authors); Ember (page history and authors); ember (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); నిప్పు (Telugu) (page history and authors); ember (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); سکروټه (Pashto) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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