amber in English: A yellow-orange colour, like the middle traffic light; also a hard yellow stone made from very old tree sap. (noun)

Translation

A yellow-orange colour, like the middle traffic light; also a hard yellow stone made from very old tree sap.

Word origin

From Arabic anbar through Old French ambre; the word first named ambergris, then the yellow stone.

lights , slowed .

In Britain the middle traffic light is called amber.

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Here amber is the hard yellow stone used in jewellery.

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Amber can describe a warm yellow-orange colour.

yellow

Having the colour of the sun or of a lemon.

orange

A colour between red and yellow. It is also a round fruit of this colour.

colour

What something looks like, such as red, blue, or green.

stone

A small, hard piece of rock that you can pick up in your hand.

light

Light is the brightness from the sun, a fire, or a lamp that lets us see things.

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