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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

English

Etymology

From Emma

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??m?/
• Hyphenation: em?ma

Noun

emma (plural emmas)

1. (Britain, dated, WWI, signalese) M in RAF phonetic alphabet

Derived terms

• ack emma
• pip emma

Estonian

Noun

emma

1. illative singular of ema

Plautdietsch

Adverb

emma

1. always

Synonyms

• stäts
• bestendich

Antonyms

• nienich (never)

Derived terms

• emmahan (anyhow, however)

See also

• eewich (eternal)
• foaken (often)
• selden (seldom)

Further reading

• Plautdietsch Lexicon of 17,000 words
• Herman Rempel's Plautdietsch Dictionary