ema
See also: Appendix:Variations of "ema"
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
ema (plural ema)
See also edit
- ema datshi (etymologically unrelated)
Anagrams edit
Catalan edit
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ema f (plural emes)
- The name of the Latin-script letter M.
Further reading edit
- “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 edit
Etymology edit
Back-formation from -ema.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
ema (accusative singular eman, plural emaj, accusative plural emajn)
- tending to
Derived terms edit
Estonian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Finnic *emä, from Proto-Uralic *emä. Cognate to Hungarian eme, Livonian jemā, Finnish emä.
Noun edit
ema (genitive ema, partitive ema)
Declension edit
Declension of ema (ÕS type 17/elu, no gradation) | |||
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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 edit
Further reading edit
- “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 edit
Romanization edit
ema
Northern Sotho edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Bantu *-jɪ́ma.
Verb edit
ema
- to stand
Pali edit
Alternative forms edit
Alternative forms
Verb edit
ema
- first-person plural present/imperative active of eti (“to come”)
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
- Rhymes: -emɐ
- Hyphenation: e‧ma
Noun edit
ema f (plural emas)
- rhea bird
Descendants edit
The word for "emu" has spread into many languages as a wanderword.
Sotho edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Bantu *-jɪ́ma.
Verb edit
ema
- to stand
Swahili edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Adjective edit
-ema (declinable)
Declension edit
Inflected forms of -ema
See also edit
Tetum edit
Noun edit
ema
Tswana edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Bantu *-jɪ́ma.
Verb edit
ema
- to stand
Ye'kwana edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
ema
- (transitive) to kill
- (transitive) to lose
- (transitive) to throw
Derived terms edit
References edit
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ema”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 138, 315
- 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
Zou edit
Etymology edit
The first part (e-) from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ʔa. Cognates include Khumi Chin äni.
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
emà
References edit
- Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 65