English Words from Arabic
amber
العَنْبَر
ʿanbar
The word first named ambergris, the perfume, then passed to amber, the golden fossil resin.
- Meaning in Arabic
- ambergris
- Arabic today says
- العَنْبَر، والكَهْرَمان
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