different between ema vs lema

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

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