ema

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English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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From Japanese 絵馬 (ema).

Noun

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ema (plural ema)

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

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Anagrams

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Catalan

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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ema f (plural emes)

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

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Esperanto

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Etymology

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Back-formation from -ema.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈema]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ema
  • Hyphenation: e‧ma

Adjective

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

  1. tending to

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Estonian

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Etymology

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

Noun

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ema (genitive ema, partitive ema)

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

Declension

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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

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Further reading

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

Japanese

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Romanization

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ema

  1. Rōmaji transcription of えま

Northern Sotho

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Etymology

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From Proto-Bantu *-jɪ́ma.

Verb

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ema

  1. to stand

Pali

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Alternative forms

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Verb

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ema

  1. first-person plural present/imperative active of eti (to come)

Portuguese

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Etymology

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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

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  • Rhymes: -emɐ
  • Hyphenation: e‧ma

Noun

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ema f (plural emas)

  1. rhea bird

Descendants

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

  • Catalan: emú
  • English: emu, emeu (obsolete)
  • French: émeu
  • Greek: εμού (emoú)
  • Russian: э́му (ému)
  • Spanish: emú

Sotho

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Etymology

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From Proto-Bantu *-jɪ́ma.

Verb

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ema

  1. to stand

Swahili

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Adjective

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-ema (declinable)

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

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Tetum

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Noun

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ema

  1. person
  2. people

Tswana

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Etymology

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From Proto-Bantu *-jɪ́ma.

Verb

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ema

  1. to stand

Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV ema
Brazilian standard ema
New Tribes ema

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Verb

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ema (transitive)

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

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References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ema”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], 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[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021:ema-dɨ

Zou

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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emà

  1. he, she

References

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