ema

From Japanese 絵馬 (ema).

ema (plural ema)

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

• AME, AmE, EAM, Mae, eam

ema f (plural emes)

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

From the suffix -ema.

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

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

1. tending to

• emo
• emi

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

ema

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

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

• Hyphenation: e‧ma

ema f (plural emas)

1. Rhea bird

-ema (declinable)

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

• -zuri

ema

1. person
2. people