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Certain: The standard etymology in the RAE dictionary and in Corriente; no serious doubt.Clothes & colour · Common

ámbar

amber — a yellow fossil resin used in jewelry; also ambergrisresina fósil amarilla usada en joyería; también, el ámbar gris

Comes from Arabic

عَنْبَر

ʿanbar

“ambergris (a fragrant substance from the sperm whale)”«el ámbar gris (sustancia perfumada del cachalote)»

Arabic today says

كَهْرَمَان

kahramān

The article

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The story

In Arabic عنبر is ambergris, the perfume; the yellow resin is called كهرمان. Europe extended the perfume's name to the stone, and from there to the color amber.En árabe عنبر es el ámbar gris, el perfume; la resina amarilla se llama كهرمان. Europa extendió el nombre del perfume a la piedra, y de ahí el color ámbar.

In a sentence

Lleva un collar de ámbar.

She's wearing an amber necklace.

تَلْبَسُ عِقْدًا مِنَ الكَهْرَمَان.

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