different between ulema vs lema

English

Alternative forms

• olema
• ulama

Etymology

From Arabic ????????? (?ulam??), plural of ??????? (??lim, “learned one”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??l?m?/, /?u?l?m?/, /u?l??m??/

Noun

ulema

1. plural of alim; the guardians of legal and religious tradition in Islam; clerics.
   • 1850, Archibald Alison, The Decline of Turkey, Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous, Volume 2, page 458,

     In process of time, the whole monopoly of the ulema centred in a certain number of families; and their constant residence at the capital, to which they return at the expiration of their term of office, has maintained their power to the present day.

   • 1999, Margaret L. Meriwether. The Kin Who Count: Family and Society in Ottoman Aleppo, 1770-1840, page 145,

     Perhaps surprisingly, ulema families were less likely to intermarry with other ulema families than merchant families were to intermarry with other merchant families.

   • 2000, Karen Armstrong, The Battle for God, 2004, Harper, page 131,

     For the time being, the faithful must follow their own consciences and learn to distinguish good from evil by themselves, instead of relying on the ulema.

   • 2006, Madeline C. Zilfi, 10: The Ottoman ulema, Suraiya Faroqhi (editor), The Cambridge History of Turkey, page 209,

     The problem of sources can be offset by limiting the scope of generalisation - not all ulema, for example, but those who are retrievable or in some way representative of the sources if not of society.

Anagrams

• Alemu, Maule, Muela, maule

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