ema

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ema"

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Emai.

Symbol

ema

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Emai.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Emai terms

English

Etymology

Derived from Japanese 絵馬 (ema).

Noun

ema (plural ema)

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

See also

• ema datshi (etymologically unrelated)

Anagrams

• AME, AmE, EAM, Mae, eam

Catalan

Alternative forms

• eme (Valencia)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [ˈe̞.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Central) [ˈe.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈe.ma]

Noun

ema f (plural emes)

1. The name of the Latin script letter M/m.

Further reading

• “ema”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “ema”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “ema” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “ema”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Dena'ina

Etymology

Borrowed from an Eskimo language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əma/

Noun

ema (Lime Village)

1. water

   Synonym: miłni

References

• Kari, James (2013), Denaʼina Topical Dictionary, Revised Edition, Alaska Native Language Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks, page 121

Esperanto

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₃emh₃-der.

Proto-Italic *amāō

Latin amāre

Old French amer

Middle French aymer

French aimerbor.

Esperanto -emabf.

Esperanto ema

Back-formation from -ema.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈema/

• Audio 1:

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• Audio 2:

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• Rhymes: -ema
• Syllabification: e‧ma

Adjective

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

1. tending to

Derived terms

• emi
• emo

Further reading

• “ema”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “ema”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

Estonian

Etymology

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

Noun

ema (genitive ema, partitive ema)

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

Declension

Declension of ema (ÕS type 17/elu, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		ema	emad
accusative	nom.
	gen.	ema
genitive			emade
partitive		ema	emasid
illative		emma emasse	emadesse
inessive		emas	emades
elative		emast	emadest
allative		emale	emadele
adessive		emal	emadel
ablative		emalt	emadelt
translative		emaks	emadeks
terminative		emani	emadeni
essive		emana	emadena
abessive		emata	emadeta
comitative		emaga	emadega

Derived terms

• emakeel
• emaplaat

Further reading

• “ema”, in [PSV] Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014

Japanese

Romanization

ema

1. Rōmaji transcription of えま

Lingala

Etymology

See Lingala éma.

Noun

ema

1. tent

Northern Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-jɪ́ma.

Verb

ema

1. to stand

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَعَامَة (naʕāma).

Noun

ema f (plural emas)

1. ostrich (Struthio sp.)

Descendants

• Portuguese: ema (“rhea”)
  • →? English: emu, emeu (obsolete)
    • → Catalan: emú
    • → German: Emu
    • → French: émeu
    • → Greek: εμού (emoú)
    • → Japanese: エミュー (emyū)
    • → Russian: э́му (ému)
      • → Belarusian: эму (emu)
      • → Kazakh: эму (èmüw)
      • → Ukrainian: ему (emu)
    • → Polish: emu
    • → Portuguese: emu
    • → Spanish: emú

References

• VPM, “ema”

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀏𑀫 (Brahmi script)
• एम (Devanagari script)
• এম (Bengali script)
• එම (Sinhalese script)
• ဧမ or ဨမ or ဢေမ (Burmese script)
• เอม or เอมะ (Thai script)
• ᩑᨾ (Tai Tham script)
• ເອມ or ເອມະ (Lao script)
• ឯម (Khmer script)
• 𑄃𑄬𑄟 (Chakma script)

Verb

ema

1. first-person plural present/imperative active of eti (“to come”)

Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese ema (“ostrich”), borrowed from Arabic نَعَامَة (naʕāma).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈẽ.mɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈe.mɐ/

• Rhymes: -emɐ
• Hyphenation: e‧ma

Noun

ema f (plural emas)

1. greater rhea (Rhea americana)

   Synonym: nandu-grande

   Hypernyms: nandu, reídeo

2. (Portugal) emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae)

   Synonym: emu

3. (Early Modern, obsolete) ostrich (Struthio sp.)

   Synonym: avestruz

Derived terms

• ema-australiana

Descendants

• →? English: emu, emeu (obsolete)
  • → Catalan: emú
  • → German: Emu
  • → French: émeu
  • → Greek: εμού (emoú)
  • → Japanese: エミュー (emyū)
  • → Russian: э́му (ému)
    • → Belarusian: эму (emu)
    • → Kazakh: эму (èmüw)
    • → Ukrainian: ему (emu)
  • → Polish: emu
  • → Portuguese: emu
  • → Spanish: emú

Further reading

• “ema”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “ema”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Rongga

Noun

ema

1. father

References

• Arka, I Wayan et al. (2011), A Rongga-English Dictionary with English-Rongga Finderlist, Penerbit Universitas Atma Jaya, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 14

Sotho

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-jɪ́ma.

Verb

ema

1. to stand

Swahili

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Bantu [Term?].

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

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Adjective

-ema (declinable)

1. good; having intrinsic value (e.g. decent (of a person) or healthy (of food))

Declension

Inflected forms of -ema

Noun class	singular	plural
m-wa class(I/II)	mwema	wema
m-mi class(III/IV)	mwema	myema
ji-ma class(V/VI)	jema	mema
ki-vi class(VII/VIII)	chema	vyema
n class(IX/X)	njema	njema
u class(XI)	mwema	see n(X) or ma(VI) class
pa class(XVI)	pema
ku class(XVII)	kwema
mu class(XVIII)	mwema

See also

• -zuri

Tetum

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

ema

1. person
2. people

Tswana

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-jɪ́ma.

Verb

ema

1. to stand

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	ema
Brazilian standard	ema
New Tribes	ema

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ema]

Verb

ema (transitive)

1. to kill
2. to lose
3. to throw

Derived terms

• ema'jo
• ööma

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “ema”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 138, 217, 221, 315, 389: “e-ma:-dü / to kill […] [nema:ṭo] 'they kill him/it' […] [ke:mạ:to] ~ [qe:mạ:to] 'we kill him' […] -ema- 'kill' […] ema:dü - to kill”
• Hall, Katherine (2007), “aminɲaʔkadɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021: “ema-dɨ”