different between bema vs lema

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

First coined 1789, from Ancient Greek ???? (l?m?, “substance that gathers in the corner of the eye; rheum”).

Noun

lema (uncountable)

1. (physiology, rare) The secretion of the tarsal glands of the eye.

Synonyms

• sebum palpebrale

Anagrams

• -meal, Elam, Elma, Leam, Malé, alme, amel, lame, lamé, leam, male, meal, mela, mela-

Catalan

Pronunciation

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

Noun

lema m (plural lemes)

1. (heraldry) motto
2. (lingusitics) lemma
3. (mathematics) lemma

Javanese

Alternative forms

• Carakan: ??
• Roman: lêma

Adjective

lema (ngoko lemu, krama lema)

1. (polite) fat

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???? (l?m?).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?le?.ma/, [???e?mä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?le.ma/, [?l??m?]

Noun

l?ma f (genitive l?mae); first declension

1. rheum that collects in the corner of the eyes

Declension

First-declension noun.

Synonyms

• gr?mia

References

• lema in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lema in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Madurese

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lima, from Proto-Austronesian *lima.

Numeral

lema

1. five

Maltese

Alternative forms

• lema'

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (lama?a). The original inflection with a final g? is now less common (see above). Otherwise the root was reanalysed as ending in a semivowel. For this case, moreover, there exist two conjugations (one with -a- in all forms and one of the type of beda).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?.ma/

Verb

lema (imperfect jilma)

1. to glitter, glint, glimmer

Conjugation

• The perfect tense is often avoided. It can be replaced by kien + imperfect.

Derived terms

• limja

Northern Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-d??ma.

Verb

lema

1. to farm, to cultivate
2. to plough

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin lemma, from Ancient Greek ????? (lêmma). Compare Spanish lema.

Noun

lema m (plural lemas)

1. motto; slogan

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??ma/
• Hyphenation: le?ma

Noun

léma f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. lemma

Declension

Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-d??ma.

Verb

lema

1. to farm, to cultivate
2. to plough

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin lemma, form Ancient Greek ????? (lêmma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lema/, [?le.ma]
• Rhymes: -ema

Noun

lema m (plural lemas)

1. motto
2. slogan (especially a political one)

   Synonym: eslogan

3. theme, subject
4. headword, term, title
5. lemma
6. (heraldry) motto

Tswana

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-d??ma.

Verb

lema

1. to farm, to cultivate
2. to plough