gema

gema

1. indefinite nominative/accusative plural of gem

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

gema f (plural gemas, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of xema

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

Inherited from Malay ݢما (gema).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ɡəˈma/ [ɡəˈma]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: ge‧ma

gema (plural gema-gema)

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

• “gema” 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.

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

gema

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

• mega-

• gèmma (Classical Milanese Orthography)

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛma/ (Milanese)

gema f

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

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

gema (Jawi spelling ݢما, plural gema-gema)

1. echo

   Synonyms: gaung, guk

• “gema” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

• Rhymes: -emɐ
• Hyphenation: ge‧ma

Borrowed from Latin gemma (“bud on a plant”).

gema f (plural gemas)

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

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

gema

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

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).

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

gema f (plural gemas)

1. gem

   Synonym: piedra preciosa

2. (botany) bud, shoot

   Synonyms: botón, yema

• → Catalan: gema (dialectal, Castilianism)

• “gema”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1991) “yema”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume VI (Y–Z), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 775

gema

1. genitive singular of gem