emat
See also: emät
Indonesian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [əˈmat]
- Hyphenation: êmat
Etymology 1
From Dutch mat (“check”), from Middle Dutch mat (“checkmate”), borrowed from Old French mat, borrowed from Persian شاه مات (šâh mât, “the king is dead”). Doublet of sekakmat.
Interjection
êmat
- (chess) word called out when an opponent's king or queen is threatened with voidable capture; mate
- Synonym: sekak
Alternative forms
Derived terms
- mengemat
Etymology 2
From Dutch maat (“size, measure”), mate, from Middle Dutch mate, from Old Dutch *māta, from Proto-Germanic *mētō.
Noun
êmat (plural emat-emat)
- (colloquial) size (clothes, etc)
Further reading
- “emat” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Latin
Verb
emat
- third-person singular present active subjunctive of emō