embers

English

Noun

embers

1. plural of ember

Noun

embers pl (plural only)

1. The smoldering or glowing remains of a fire, smoldering ash.
   • 1994, Polly Samson, David Gilmour (lyrics and music), “High Hopes”, in The Division Bell, performed by Pink Floyd:

     Looking beyond the embers of bridges glowing behind us / To a glimpse of how green it was on the other side

Derived terms

• stir the embers

 

Translations

the smoldering or glowing remains of a fire, smoldering ash

Albanian: prush (sq) Aromanian: tãciuni, sprunã f Belarusian: жар m (žar) Bulgarian: жарава f (žarava) Catalan: brasa (ca) f, brases (ca) f pl, caliu (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 餘燼／余烬 (zh) (yújìn), 燼／烬 (zh) (jìn) Danish: glød Dutch: sintels m Finnish: hiillos (fi) French: braise (fr) f Galician: rescaldo m German: Glut (de) f, schwelende Asche f, Schwelbrand (de) m Greek: χόβολη (el) f (chóvoli) Hebrew: גחלת (he), אפר (he) Hindi: शोले (śole) Hungarian: parázs (hu), zsarátnok (hu) Icelandic: ljóma (is) Indonesian: bara (id) Irish: gríos m, gríosach f Old Irish: grís f Italian: braci f pl, splendore (it), favilla (it) f Japanese: 残り火 (のこりび, nokoribi), (figurative) 余韻 (ja) (よいん, yoin), (literal, figurative) 余燼 (ja) (よじん, yojin) Latin: favilla (la) f Luxembourgish: Glous f Mazanderani: فل (fel) Norwegian: glør f pl or m pl Bokmål: glør m pl or f pl Nynorsk: glør f pl Persian: خدره (fa) (xadre) Portuguese: brasas f, borralho (pt) m, borralha (pt) f Romanian: tăciune (ro) Russian: у́гли (ru) m pl (úgli), угольки́ (ru) m pl (ugolʹkí), зола́ (ru) f (zolá), Russian: горя́чая зола́ f (gorjáčaja zolá), тле́ющая зола́ f (tléjuščaja zolá) Slovak: pahreba f Spanish: brasas (es) f pl, ascuas (es) f pl Sundanese: ruhay Swedish: glöd (sv) c, askmörja c, falaska (sv) c Turkish: köz (tr) Welsh: marwor

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• EBMers, bermes