gema

See also: Gema

Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃema/ [ˈʃe.mɐ]
• Rhymes: -ema
• Hyphenation: ge‧ma

Noun

gema f (plural gemas, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of xema

Further reading

• “gema” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Indonesian

Etymology

Inherited from Malay ݢما (gema).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ɡəˈma/ [ɡəˈma]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: ge‧ma

Noun

gema (plural gema-gema, first-person possessive gemaku, second-person possessive gemamu, third-person possessive gemanya)

1. echo:
   1. (physics) a reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.
   2. (physics) an utterance repeating what has just been said.

Synonyms

• gaung
• kumandang
• sipongang

 

Derived terms

• bergema
• menggema
• menggemai
• menggemakan
• penggema

 

• gema duga

 

Further reading

• “gema” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛ.ma/
• Rhymes: -ɛma
• Hyphenation: gè‧ma

Verb

gema

1. inflection of gemere:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• mega-

Lombard

Alternative forms

• gèmma (Classical Milanese Orthography)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛma/ (Milanese)

Noun

gema f

1. (botany) bud, shoot
2. gem (precious stone)

Malay

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡema/ [ˈɡe.ma]
• Hyphenation: ge‧ma

Noun

gema (Jawi spelling ݢما, plural gema-gema, informal 1st possessive gemaku, 2nd possessive gemamu, 3rd possessive gemanya)

1. echo

   Synonyms: gaung, guk

Further reading

• “gema” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʒẽ.mɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʒẽ.mɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʒe.ma/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʒe.mɐ/

• Rhymes: -emɐ
• Hyphenation: ge‧ma

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin gemma (“bud on a plant”).

Noun

gema f (plural gemas)

1. yolk (yellow part of an egg)
2. gem (precious stone)
3. (botany) bud, shoot (newly formed leaf or flower)

Derived terms

• de gema
• sal-gema

 

Further reading

• “gema” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

gema

1. inflection of gemer:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gemma (“bud, precious stone, jewel”). Doublet of yema. According to Coromines and Pascual, a recent learned borrowing not registered even in the 18th-century first edition of the DRAE (Diccionario de Autoridades).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxema/ [ˈxe.ma]
• Rhymes: -ema
• Syllabification: ge‧ma

Noun

gema f (plural gemas)

1. gem

   Synonym: piedra preciosa

2. (botany) bud, shoot

   Synonyms: botón, yema

Derived terms

• gemología

 

Descendants

• → Catalan: gema (dialectal, Castilianism)

Further reading

• “gema”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1991) “yema”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes VI (Y–Z), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 775

Volapük

Noun

gema

1. genitive singular of gem