ema

Clipping of English Emai.

ema

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Emai terms

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 (Valencia)

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

ema f (plural emes)

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

• “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, 2025
• “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/

• Audio:

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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

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

• emakeel
• emaplaat

• “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

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

   Synonym: nhandu

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

• → Catalan: emú
• → English: emu, emeu (obsolete)
  • → 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

From Proto-Bantu [Term?].

• Audio (Kenya):

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-ema (declinable)

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

• -zuri

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

ema

1. person
2. people

From Proto-Bantu *-jɪ́ma.

ema

1. to stand

• IPA^(key): [ema]

ema (transitive)

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

• 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”

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