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ombre

/ɔ̃bʁ/

noun, feminine/ɔ̃bʁ/plural: ombres

shade, shadow; darkness; ghost

Inherited from Old French onbre, ombre, from Latin umbra, probably from Old Latin *omra, possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *h₂mr-u-, *h₂mrup-.

noun, masculine/ɔ̃bʁ/plural: ombres

a fish of Osteichthyes of the freshwater family Salmonidae, of the genus Thymallus

Synonyms: corp, thymalle

From Latin umbra (“drumfish”), probably the same etymon as under etymology 1 above.