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See also: Appendix:Variations of "ema"

English

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Etymology

From Japanese 絵馬 (ema).

Noun

ema (plural ema)

  1. A wooden plaque bearing a prayer or wish, left hanging at a Shinto shrine.

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Anagrams

Catalan

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

ema f (plural emes)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter M/m.

Further reading

Esperanto

Etymology

Back-formation from -ema.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ema
  • Hyphenation: e‧ma

Adjective

ema (accusative singular eman, plural emaj, accusative plural emajn)

  1. tending to

Derived terms

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *emä, from Proto-Uralic *emä. Cognate to Hungarian eme, Livonian jemā, Finnish emä.

Noun

ema (genitive ema, partitive ema)

  1. mother
  2. a reproductive female animal in a hive; a queen

Declension

Declension of ema (ÕS type 17/elu, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative ema emad
accusative nom.
gen. ema
genitive 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

Further reading

  • “ema”, in Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014

Japanese

Romanization

ema

  1. Rōmaji transcription of えま

Northern Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-jɪ́ma.

Verb

ema

  1. to stand

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

Verb

ema

  1. 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

 

  • Rhymes: -emɐ
  • Hyphenation: e‧ma

Noun

ema f (plural emas)

  1. rhea bird

Descendants

The word for "emu" has spread into many languages as a wanderword.

Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-jɪ́ma.

Verb

ema

  1. to stand

Swahili

Pronunciation

Adjective

-ema (declinable)

  1. good; having intrinsic value (e.g. decent (of a person) or healthy (of food))

Declension

Inflected forms of -ema
Noun class singular plural
m-wa class(I/II) mwema
m-mi class(III/IV) mwema myema
ji-ma class(V/VI) jema mema
ki-vi class(VII/VIII) chema vyema
n class(IX/X) njema njema
u class(XI) mwema see n(X) or ma(VI) class
pa class(XVI) pema
ku class(XVII) kwema
mu class(XVIII) mwema

See also

Tetum

Noun

ema

  1. person
  2. people

Tswana

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-jɪ́ma.

Verb

ema

  1. to stand

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV ema
Brazilian standard ema
New Tribes ema

Pronunciation

Verb

ema (transitive)

  1. to kill
  2. to lose
  3. to throw

Derived terms

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ema”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 138, 217, 221, 315, 389: “e-ma:-dü / to kill […] [nema:ṭo] 'they kill him/it' […] [ke:mạ:to] ~ [qe:mạ:to] 'we kill him' […] -ema- 'kill' […] ema:dü - to kill”
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “aminɲaʔkadɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021: “ema-dɨ”

Zou

Etymology

The first part (e-) from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ʔa. Cognates include Khumi Chin äni.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

emà

  1. he, she

References

  • Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 65
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