emu

See also: Appendix:Variations of "emu"

English

An emu

Etymology 1

Probably from Portuguese ema (“ostrich”), perhaps from Arabic [Term?].

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈiːmjuː/, /ˈiːmuː/

Noun

emu (plural emus)

  1. A large flightless bird native to Australia, Dromaius novaehollandiae.
    • 1829, “The Progress of Zoology”, in T[homas] Crofton Croker, editor, The Christmas Box. An Annual Present to Young Persons, London: John Ebers and Co. 27 Old Bond Street; Philadelphia, Pa.: Thomas Wardle, OCLC 22874885, page 176:
      From New Holland the emeu, / With his better moiety, / Has paid a visit to the Zo- / ological Society.
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Etymology 2

See electromagnetic unit.

Noun

emu (plural emu)

  1. (physics) Initialism of electromagnetic unit.
    • 1943, Henry Augustus Perkins, College Physics, p. 530:
      A bar magnet NS has poles of strength 144 emu, 5 cm apart.
    • 1959, American Geological Institute, Geoscience Abstracts, p. 38:
      The average intensity is 80 X 10"5 emu/cm3.
    • 1974, William Berkson, Fields of Force: The Development of a World View from Faraday to Einstein, p. 168:
      The amount of charge named by one emu is that which produces a unit magnetic effect when flowing in a current at one unit length per second.
    • 1976, John Aloysius O'Keefe, Tektites and Their Origin, p. 109:
      Booker and Harrison (1966) set an upper limit of 10~7 emu/g.
    • 2005, Peter Mohn, Magnetism in the Solid State: An Introduction, p. 39:
      Experimentally the magnetic moment is usually given in units of emu/g, emu/cm3 or emu/mole.

Etymology 3

See emulator.

Noun

emu (plural emus)

  1. (computing, video games, informal) Abbreviation of emulator.
    • 2005, "Dane L. Galden at at", Could this be used for classic emus on GBA? (on newsgroup rec.games.video.classic)
      Saw this article for playing downloadable games on GBA. It's an official Nintendo product in Japan, and thought it might be useful for Nintendo to release actual emus and some of their older game properties (beyond the $20 classic series).

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Czech

Noun

emu m

  1. emu (large flightless bird native to Australia)

Esperanto

Verb

emu

  1. imperative of emi

Finnish

Noun

emu

  1. emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae, the only extant species in its genus)

Declension

Inflection of emu (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative emu emut
genitive emun emujen
partitive emua emuja
illative emuun emuihin
singular plural
nominative emu emut
accusative nom. emu emut
gen. emun
genitive emun emujen
partitive emua emuja
inessive emussa emuissa
elative emusta emuista
illative emuun emuihin
adessive emulla emuilla
ablative emulta emuilta
allative emulle emuille
essive emuna emuina
translative emuksi emuiksi
instructive — emuin
abessive emutta emuitta
comitative — emuineen

Galician

Noun

emu m (plural emus)

  1. emu

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɛmu]
  • Hyphenation: e‧mu

Noun

emu (plural emuk)

  1. emu

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative emu emuk
accusative emut emukat
dative emunak emuknak
instrumental emuval emukkal
causal-final emuért emukért
translative emuvá emukká
terminative emuig emukig
essive-formal emuként emukként
essive-modal — —
inessive emuban emukban
superessive emun emukon
adessive emunál emuknál
illative emuba emukba
sublative emura emukra
allative emuhoz emukhoz
elative emuból emukból
delative emuról emukról
ablative emutól emuktól
Possessive forms of emu
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. emum emuim
2nd person sing. emud emuid
3rd person sing. emuje emui
1st person plural emunk emuink
2nd person plural emutök emuitek
3rd person plural emujük emuik

Japanese

Romanization

emu

  1. Rōmaji transcription of えむ
  2. Rōmaji transcription of エム

Portuguese

Etymology

From English emu, from Portuguese ema (“rhea”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /e.ˈmu/

Noun

emu m (plural emus)

  1. emu

Swedish

Noun

emu c

  1. an emu

Declension

Declension of emu 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative emu emun emuer emuerna
Genitive emus emuns emuers emuernas
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