gema

• 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)

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

1. echo.

• 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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1991) “yema”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes VI (Y–Z), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 775

gema

1. genitive singular of gem