ema

From Japanese 絵馬 (ema).

ema (plural ema)

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

• ema datshi (etymologically unrelated)

• AME, AmE, EAM, Mae, eam

• eme (Valencian)

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈe.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈe.ma]

ema f (plural emes)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter M.

• “ema” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “ema”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “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.

Back-formation from -ema.

• IPA^(key): [ˈema]
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• Rhymes: -ema
• Hyphenation: e‧ma

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

1. tending to

• emi
• emo

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

ema (genitive ema, partitive ema)

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

• emakeel
• emaplaat

• ema in Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik

ema

1. Rōmaji transcription of えま

From Proto-Bantu *-jɪ́ma.

ema

1. to stand

ema

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

Possibly from Arabic, or a pronunciation of an indigenous name for the bird. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• Rhymes: -emɐ
• Hyphenation: e‧ma

ema f (plural emas)

1. rhea bird

The word for "emu" has spread into many languages as a wanderword.

• → Catalan: emú
• → English: emu, emeu
  • → Japanese: エミュー
  • → Polish: emu
• → French: émeu
• → Greek: εμού (emoú)
• → Russian: э́му (ému)
  • → Kazakh: эму (ému)
• → Spanish: emú

From Proto-Bantu *-jɪ́ma.

ema

1. to stand

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-ema (declinable)

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

• -zuri

ema

1. person
2. people

From Proto-Bantu *-jɪ́ma.

ema

1. to stand

• IPA^(key): [ema]

ema

1. (transitive) to kill
2. (transitive) to lose
3. (transitive) to throw

• ööma

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “ema”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volume I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 138, 315
• Hall, Katherine (2007), “aminɲaʔkadɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021

The first part (e-) from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ʔa. Cognates include Khumi Chin äni.

• IPA^(key): /ə˧.ma˧˩/

emà

1. he, she

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 65