gambier
See also: Gambiër
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
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gambier (uncountable)
- A flowering plant, Uncaria gambir, family Rubiaceae, native to Southeast Asia.
- 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 270:
- When the entire coast-line becomes a sea of waving palms, with Chinese and Malay villages fringing the shores, which are at present mere barren wastes of mangroves, with plantations of pepper, of gambier, and of tapioca and rice, the Northern Territory, backed up by the unswerving energy of the Australian squatter, miner, and planter, will present a spectacle almost unknown in the scheme of British colonization.
- An astringent substance prepared from the leaves of the plant, used in tanning and dyeing.
Translations
[edit]Uncaria gambir
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Danish
[edit]Noun
[edit]gambier c (singular definite gambieren, plural indefinite gambiere)
Declension
[edit]| common gender |
singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | gambier | gambieren | gambiere | gambierne |
| genitive | gambiers | gambierens | gambieres | gambiernes |
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “gambier” in Den Danske Ordbog
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]gambier m (plural gambiers)
Further reading
[edit]- “gambier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Noun
[edit]gambier m (definite singular gambieren, indefinite plural gambiere, definite plural gambierne)
Related terms
[edit]Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]gambier c
Declension
[edit]| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | gambier | gambiers |
| definite | gambiern | gambierns | |
| plural | indefinite | gambier | gambiers |
| definite | gambierna | gambiernas |
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
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