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gambier

See also: Gambiër

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From Malay gambir.

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gambier (uncountable)

  1. 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.
  2. An astringent substance prepared from the leaves of the plant, used in tanning and dyeing.

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gambier c (singular definite gambieren, plural indefinite gambiere)

  1. Gambian

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Declension of gambier
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative gambier gambieren gambiere gambierne
genitive gambiers gambierens gambieres gambiernes

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gambier m (plural gambiers)

  1. gambier

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gambier m (definite singular gambieren, indefinite plural gambiere, definite plural gambierne)

  1. Gambian (person from Gambia)

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Etymology edit

Gambia +‎ -ier

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gambier c

  1. Gambian

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Declension of gambier 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative gambier gambiern gambier gambierna
Genitive gambiers gambierns gambiers gambiernas

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