"umber" meaning in English

See umber in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈʌmbə/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈʌmbɚ/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-umber.wav
enPR: ŭmʹbər [General-American] Rhymes: -ʌmbə(ɹ) Etymology: From Middle French ombre (“umber”), from terre d'ombre (“dark ochre”), from Old French umbre (“shade, shadow”), from Latin umbra. Doublet of umbra. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|frm|ombre||umber}} Middle French ombre (“umber”), {{der|en|fro|umbre||shade, shadow}} Old French umbre (“shade, shadow”), {{der|en|la|umbra}} Latin umbra, {{doublet|en|umbra}} Doublet of umbra Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} umber (not comparable)
  1. Of a reddish brown colour, like that of the pigment. Tags: not-comparable Translations (colour): 棕土色的 (zōngtǔsè de) (Chinese Mandarin), アンバー色の (anbā-iro no) (Japanese)
    Sense id: en-umber-en-adj-WwI4Tcf8
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: umbre [obsolete]

Noun

IPA: /ˈʌmbə/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈʌmbɚ/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-umber.wav Forms: umbers [plural]
enPR: ŭmʹbər [General-American] Rhymes: -ʌmbə(ɹ) Etymology: From Middle French ombre (“umber”), from terre d'ombre (“dark ochre”), from Old French umbre (“shade, shadow”), from Latin umbra. Doublet of umbra. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|frm|ombre||umber}} Middle French ombre (“umber”), {{der|en|fro|umbre||shade, shadow}} Old French umbre (“shade, shadow”), {{der|en|la|umbra}} Latin umbra, {{doublet|en|umbra}} Doublet of umbra Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} umber (countable and uncountable, plural umbers)
  1. A brown clay, somewhat darker than ochre, which contains iron and manganese oxides. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Browns Translations (brown clay): ումբրա (umbra) (Armenian), թխահող (tʻxahoġ) (Armenian), 棕土 (zōngtǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), umbra [feminine] (Czech), umbra (Finnish), アンバー (anbā) (Japanese), умбра (umbra) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-umber-en-noun-IRxQyT-n Disambiguation of Browns: 19 53 3 1 14 9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with entries, Terms with Mandarin translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 18 30 1 27 20 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 2 17 24 1 28 18 5 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 7 31 19 1 27 14 Disambiguation of 'brown clay': 90 0 0 10
  2. Alternative form of umbrere Tags: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Alternative form of: umbrere
    Sense id: en-umber-en-noun-~fBbfPZD Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with entries, Terms with Mandarin translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 18 30 1 27 20 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 2 17 24 1 28 18 5 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 7 31 19 1 27 14
  3. A grayling. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-umber-en-noun-u3qQqv6~
  4. A dusky brown African wading bird (Scopus umbretta) allied to the shoebill and herons; a hamerkop. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (lifeform): Freshwater birds Translations (Scopus umbretta): чукоглава чапла (čukoglava čapla) [feminine] (Bulgarian), vasarapäähaikara (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-umber-en-noun-2AGWjAzK Disambiguation of Freshwater birds: 3 19 24 1 37 16 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Armenian translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Russian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 18 30 1 27 20 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 5 21 22 2 29 21 Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 3 17 20 1 27 17 7 8 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 2 17 24 1 28 18 5 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Armenian translations: 5 21 22 2 34 16 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 5 19 24 2 33 17 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 6 21 23 2 33 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 5 19 24 2 33 17 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 4 20 24 1 32 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 3 20 24 1 33 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 7 31 19 1 27 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 3 20 24 1 33 18 Disambiguation of 'Scopus umbretta': 5 7 0 89
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: umbre [obsolete] Derived forms: burnt umber, Cologne umber, Cumbrian umber, olivaceous-umber, raw umber, umber bird Translations (colour): тъмнокафяв (tǎmnokafjav) [masculine] (Bulgarian), 棕土色 (zōngtǔsè) (Chinese Mandarin), umbra [feminine] (Czech), umbra (Finnish), terre d’ombre (French), アンバー色 (anbā-iro) (Japanese)
Disambiguation of 'colour': 0 0 0 0

Verb

IPA: /ˈʌmbə/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈʌmbɚ/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-umber.wav Forms: umbers [present, singular, third-person], umbering [participle, present], umbered [participle, past], umbered [past]
enPR: ŭmʹbər [General-American] Rhymes: -ʌmbə(ɹ) Etymology: From Middle French ombre (“umber”), from terre d'ombre (“dark ochre”), from Old French umbre (“shade, shadow”), from Latin umbra. Doublet of umbra. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|frm|ombre||umber}} Middle French ombre (“umber”), {{der|en|fro|umbre||shade, shadow}} Old French umbre (“shade, shadow”), {{der|en|la|umbra}} Latin umbra, {{doublet|en|umbra}} Doublet of umbra Head templates: {{en-verb}} umber (third-person singular simple present umbers, present participle umbering, simple past and past participle umbered)
  1. (transitive) To give a reddish-brown colour to. Tags: transitive Derived forms: mottled umber, umber moth
    Sense id: en-umber-en-verb-NqhG6~ct Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with entries, Terms with Mandarin translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 18 30 1 27 20 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 2 17 24 1 28 18 5 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 7 31 19 1 27 14
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: umbre [obsolete] Derived forms: burnt umber

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (05fdf6b and 9dbd323). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.