Amba

Amba or AMBA may refer to:

Title

Amba Hor, a Christian martyr

Amba Sada, also known as Psote, Christian bishop and martyr in Upper Egypt

Given name

Amba, the traditional first name given to the first daughter in the Cochin Royal Family, India

Amba (Mahabharata), the eldest daughter of King of Kashi in the Hindu epic

Amba Bongo, a writer and advocate for refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Amba Prasad (1860–1950), Indian businessman and philanthropist

Sufi Amba Prasad (1858–1919), Indian nationalist and pan-Islamist leader

Amba, one of the names of the Hindu goddess Durga

Amba Shepherd, Australian singer and songwriter

Languages

Amba language (Solomon Islands), one of the three Utupua languages

Amba language (Bantu), spoken by the Amba people of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Organizations

American Malting Barley Association, Inc., a malting barley association

American Medical Billing Association

Association of MBAs

Other uses

Amba (condiment), a tangy mango pickle condiment

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Amba (geology)

An amba (Ge'ez: አምባ āmbā, Tigrinya: እምባ^?imbā) is a characteristic geologic form in Ethiopia. It is a steep-sided, flat-topped mountain, often the site of villages, wells and their surrounding farmland. These settlements were located there because they were very defensible and often virtually inaccessible plateaus.

The original term in Amharic indicates a mountain fortress. Amba Geshen, for example, is a historically significant amba where members of royal families were kept under guard for their safety and to prevent their participation in plots against the sitting emperor. Other noted Ambas include Amba Aradam and Amba Alagi, sites of famous battles during the first and second Italo-Abyssinian Wars. In Tigrinya, the term is "Emba" (also spelled "Imba").

In 2008, a scientific mission identified on an amba near Harar, the Kondudo, one of just two feral horse populations in Africa.

Sources

Munro-Hay, Stuart, Ethiopia, the Unknown Land: A Cultural and Historical Guide, Contributor Pamala Taor, Published 2002 by I. B. Tauris, 384 pages, ISBN 1-86064-744-8

Amba (condiment)

Amba (Arabic: عمبة‎, Hebrew: עמבה‎) is a tangy mango pickle condiment popular in Middle Eastern cuisine (particularly Iraqi and Israeli cuisines) but also popular in India. Its name derives from the Sanskrit for mango.

It is typically made of mangoes, vinegar, salt, mustard, turmeric, chili and fenugreek, similarly to savoury mango chutneys.

The name "amba" seems to have been derived from the Sanskrit word "amra", and the mango is a native of India.

Amba is frequently used in Iraqi cuisine, especially as a spicy sauce to be added to fish dishes, falafel, kubbah, kebabs, and eggs.

Amba is popular in Israel, where it was introduced by Iraqi Jews in the 1950s and 1960s. It is often served as a dressing on sabikh and as an optional topping on falafel, meorav yerushalmi, kebab, salads and shawarma sandwiches.

Similarly, Assyrians typically use amba along with falafel, too.

Amba is similar to the South Asian pickle achar. The principal differences are that amba has large pieces of mango rather than small cubes, and that achar also contains oil.