ema

See also: Ema, EMA, êma, emä, ʻEma, -ema, and êm ả

English

Etymology

From Japanese 絵馬 (ema).

Noun

ema (plural ema)

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

Anagrams

Catalan

Noun

ema f (plural emes)

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

Esperanto

Etymology

From the suffix -ema.

Adjective

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

  1. tending to

Derived terms

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

Derived terms

Further reading

  • ema in Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik

Japanese

Romanization

ema

  1. Rōmaji transcription of えま

Portuguese

Etymology

Possibly from Arabic, or a pronunciation of an indigenous name for the bird.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: e‧ma

Noun

ema f (plural emas)

  1. Rhea bird

Swahili

Adjective

-ema (declinable)

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

Inflection

See also

Tetum

Noun

ema

  1. person
  2. people
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