ema
See also: Ema, EMA, êma, emä, ʻEma, -ema, and êm ả
English
Etymology
From Japanese 絵馬 (ema).
Noun
ema (plural ema)
- A wooden plaque bearing a prayer or wish, left hanging at a Shinto shrine.
See also
- ema datshi (etymologically unrelated)
Anagrams
- AME, AmE, EAM, Mae, eam
Catalan
Alternative forms
- eme (Valencian)
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /ˈe.mə/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈe.ma/
Noun
ema f (plural emes)
- The name of the Latin-script letter M.
Further reading
- “ema” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “ema”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “ema” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “ema” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Esperanto
Etymology
Back-formation from -ema.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈema]
- Audio:
(file) - Rhymes: -ema
- Hyphenation: e‧ma
Adjective
ema (accusative singular eman, plural emaj, accusative plural emajn)
- tending to
Derived terms
- emi
- emo
Estonian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *emä, from Proto-Uralic *emä. Cognate to Hungarian eme, Livonian jemā, Finnish emä.
Noun
ema (genitive ema, partitive ema)
- mother
- a reproductive female animal in a hive; a queen
Declension
Inflection of ema (ÕS type 17/elu, no gradation)
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | ema | emad |
| accusative | ema | emad |
| genitive | ema | emade |
| partitive | ema | emasid |
| illative | emma emasse | emadesse |
| inessive | emas | emades |
| elative | emast | emadest |
| allative | emale | emadele |
| adessive | emal | emadel |
| ablative | emalt | emadelt |
| translative | emaks | emadeks |
| terminative | emani | emadeni |
| essive | emana | emadena |
| abessive | emata | emadeta |
| comitative | emaga | emadega |
Derived terms
- emakeel
- emaplaat
Further reading
- ema in Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik
Japanese
Romanization
ema
- Rōmaji transcription of えま
Maquiritari
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ema]
Verb
ema
- (transitive) to lose
- (transitive) to throw
- (transitive) to kill
References
- Hall, Katherine (2007), “aminɲaʔkadɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “ema”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
Northern Sotho
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *-jɪ́ma.
Verb
ema
- to stand
Pali
Alternative forms
Alternative forms
- 𑀏𑀫 (Brahmi script)
- एम (Devanagari script)
- এম (Bengali script)
- එම (Sinhalese script)
- ဧမ or ဨမ or ဢေမ (Burmese script)
- เอม or เอมะ (Thai script)
- ᩑᨾ (Tai Tham script)
- ເອມ or ເອມະ (Lao script)
- ឯម (Khmer script)
- 𑄃𑄬𑄟 (Chakma script)
Verb
ema
- first-person plural present/imperative active of eti (“to come”)
Portuguese
Etymology
Possibly from Arabic, or a pronunciation of an indigenous name for the bird. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈẽ.mɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈe.ma/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈe.mɐ/
- Rhymes: -emɐ
- Hyphenation: e‧ma
Noun
ema f (plural emas)
- rhea bird
Descendants
The word for "emu" has spread into many languages as a wanderword.
- → Catalan: emú
- → English: emu
- → Japanese: エミュー
- → French: émeu
- → Greek: εμού (emoú)
- → Russian: э́му (ému)
- → Kazakh: эму (emu)
- → Spanish: emú
Sotho
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *-jɪ́ma.
Verb
ema
- to stand
Swahili
Pronunciation
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Adjective
-ema (declinable)
- good; having intrinsic value (e.g. decent (of a person) or healthy (of food))
Inflection
Inflected forms of -ema
| Noun class | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| M-wa class | mwema | wema |
| M-mi class | mwema | myema |
| Ma class | jema | mema |
| Ki-vi class | chema | vyema |
| N class | njema | njema |
| U class | mwema | njema |
| Pa class | pema | pema |
| Ku class | kwema | kwema |
| Mu class | mwema | mwema |
See also
- -zuri
Tetum
Noun
ema
- person
- people
Tswana
Etymology
From Proto-Bantu *-jɪ́ma.
Verb
ema
- to stand
Zou
Etymology
The first part (e-) from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ʔa. Cognates include Khumi Chin äni.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ə˧.ma˧˩/
Pronoun
emà
- he, she
References
- Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 65