ema

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ema"

English

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.

See also

• ema datshi (etymologically unrelated)

Anagrams

• AME, AmE, EAM, Mae, eam

Catalan

Alternative forms

• eme (Valencia)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈe.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈe.ma]

Noun

ema f (plural emes)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter M/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, 2024
• “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:

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• Rhymes: -ema
• Hyphenation: e‧ma

Adjective

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

1. 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)

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

• emakeel
• emaplaat

Further reading

• “ema”, in [PSV] Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik (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

• 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

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

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈẽ.mɐ/

• (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)

1. rhea bird

Descendants

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

• → Catalan: emú
• → English: emu, emeu (obsolete)
  • → Japanese: エミュー
  • → Polish: emu
• → French: émeu
• → Greek: εμού (emoú)
• → Russian: э́му (ému)
  • → Kazakh: эму (ému)
• → Spanish: emú

Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-jɪ́ma.

Verb

ema

1. to stand

Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

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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	wema
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

• -zuri

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

• IPA^(key): [ema]

Verb

ema (transitive)

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

Derived terms

• ema'jo
• ööma

 

References

• 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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ə˧.ma˧˩/

Pronoun

emà

1. he, she

References

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