different between bema vs ema

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (bêma, “a step”), from the root of ????? (baín?, “I go, step”). Doublet of bima.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bi?m?/

Noun

bema (plural bemas or bemata)

1. A platform from which speakers addressed an assembly.
2. Raised area of worship in a synagogue upon which rests the Holy Ark containing Scrolls of Torah.

Quotations

• 1707, Royal Society, Miscellanea curiosa: Being a collection of some of the principal phaenomena in nature, accounted for by the greatest philosophers of this age. Together with several discourses read before the Royal society, for the advancement of physical and mathematical knowledge, Volume 3, page 46:

  I observed but one step from the Body of the Church to the Bema or place where the Altar formerly stood.

Anagrams

• BAME, Bame, Beam, Mabe, ambe, beam, mabe

Fanagalo

Etymology

From Zulu -bhema.

Verb

bema

1. to smoke

English

Etymology

From Japanese ?? (ema).

Noun

ema (plural ema)

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

Anagrams

• AME, AmE, EAM, Mae, eam

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?e.m?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?e.ma/

Noun

ema f (plural emes)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter 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.
• “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): /?ema/
• Hyphenation: e?ma
• Rhymes: -ema

Adjective

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

1. tending to

Derived terms

• emo
• emi

Estonian

Etymology

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

Noun

ema (genitive ema, partitive ema)

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

Declension

Derived terms

• emakeel
• emaplaat

Further reading

• ema in Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik

Japanese

Romanization

ema

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Northern Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-j??ma.

Verb

ema

1. to stand

Pali

Alternative forms

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.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: e?ma

Noun

ema f (plural emas)

1. Rhea bird

Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-j??ma.

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))

Inflection

See also

• -zuri

Tetum

Noun

ema

1. person
2. people

Tswana

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-j??ma.

Verb

ema

1. to stand

Zou

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.ma??/

Pronoun

emà

1. he, she

References

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