gema

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Galician

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈʃema/ [ˈʃe.mɐ]
  • Rhymes: -ema
  • Hyphenation: ge‧ma

Noun

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gema f (plural gemas, reintegrationist norm)

  1. reintegrationist spelling of xema

Further reading

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  • gema” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Indonesian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Malay ݢما (gema).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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gema (plural gema-gema, first-person possessive gemaku, second-person possessive gemamu, third-person possessive gemanya)

  1. echo:
    1. (physics) a reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.
    2. (physics) an utterance repeating what has just been said.

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛ.ma/
  • Rhymes: -ɛma
  • Hyphenation: gè‧ma

Verb

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gema

  1. inflection of gemere:
    1. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Anagrams

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Lombard

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Alternative forms

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  • gèmma (Classical Milanese Orthography)

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛma/ (Milanese)

Noun

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gema f

  1. (botany) bud, shoot
  2. gem (precious stone)

Malay

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɡema/ [ˈɡe.ma]
  • Hyphenation: ge‧ma

Noun

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gema (Jawi spelling ݢما, plural gema-gema, informal 1st possessive gemaku, 2nd possessive gemamu, 3rd possessive gemanya)

  1. echo
    Synonyms: gaung, guk

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Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -emɐ
  • Hyphenation: ge‧ma

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Latin gemma (bud on a plant).

Noun

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gema f (plural gemas)

  1. yolk (yellow part of an egg)
  2. gem (precious stone)
  3. (botany) bud, shoot (newly formed leaf or flower)
Derived terms
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Further reading

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  • gema” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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gema

  1. inflection of gemer:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin gemma (bud, precious stone, jewel). Doublet of yema. According to Coromines and Pascual, a recent learned borrowing not registered even in the 18th-century first edition of the DRAE (Diccionario de Autoridades).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈxema/ [ˈxe.ma]
  • Rhymes: -ema
  • Syllabification: ge‧ma

Noun

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gema f (plural gemas)

  1. gem
    Synonym: piedra preciosa
  2. (botany) bud, shoot
    Synonyms: botón, yema

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Catalan: gema (dialectal, Castilianism)

Further reading

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Volapük

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Noun

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gema

  1. genitive singular of gem