# emas
## Esperanto
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈemas/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

emas
* present of emi

## Estonian
### Noun

emas
* inessive singular of ema

## Indonesian
### Alternative forms

* mas (colloquial)

### Etymology

Inherited from Malay emas. See there for further etymology.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /əˈmas/ [əˈmas]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -as
* Syllabification: e‧mas

### Noun

êmas (countable and uncountable, plural emas-emas)
* gold (element)
* (dialectal) a unit of mass about 2.5 gram for gold

#### Synonyms

* kencana (dialectal, uncommon)
* aurum (formal, uncommon)

#### Affixations

* beremas (“having gold”)
* keemas-emasan (“goldish”)
* keemasan (“goldness”)
* peremasan (“golden item, golden layer”)
* emasi (“to cover with gold”)
* emaskan (“to exchange with gold”)
* mengemas (“to gold, to appear gold”)

#### Compounds

* emas biru (“blue gold”)
* emas cokelat (“clove”)
* emas hijau (“green gold”)
* emas hitam (“black gold”)
* emas kertas (“paper gold”)
* emas kodok (“platinum”)
* emas lantak (“gold bar”)
* emas lantakan (“gold bar”)
* emas merah (“red gold”)
* emas putih (“white gold”)
* emas juita (“dear; baby”)
* emas perak (“gold and silver; wealth”)

### Further reading

* “emas” 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.

## Javanese
### Noun

emas
* gold

## Latin
### Verb

emās
* second-person singular present active subjunctive of emō

### References

* emas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

## Malay
### Alternative forms

* mas (colloquial)

### Etymology

Several etymologies have been proposed:
* From Sanskrit माष (māṣa, “particular weight of gold”). Compare to Bengali মাস্ (maś).
* From Pre-Angkorian Old Khmer mās ~ mas (“gold”), from Proto-Mon-Khmer *jmaas, an infixed form of *jaas (“to shine”). Compare Old Mon yimās (“shining (gold)”) and yās (“dawn; to shine”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ə.mas/
* Rhymes: -as

### Noun

emas (Jawi spelling امس, plural emas-emas, informal 1st possessive emasku, 2nd possessive emasmu, 3rd possessive emasnya)
* gold (element)
    Synonyms: aurum, kencana
    pingat emas ― gold medal
** 2022 June 14, Reuters, “Harga emas terendah dalam empat minggu”, in Malaysiakini‎:Harga emas berlegar menghampiri paras terendah dalam empat minggu apabila kekuatan dolar Amerika Syarikat membatasi permintaan terhadap aset selamat itu.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Derived terms

Regular affixed derivations:
* beremas [stative / habitual] (beR-)
* mengemas [agent focus] (meN-)
* mengemasi [agent focus + causative (locative) benefactive] (meN- + -i)
* keemasan [resemblance / passive] (ke-an)
* peremasan [causative passive + resultative / locative / collective / variety / verbal noun / fruit] (peR- + -an)

#### Descendants

* Indonesian: emas

### See also

* gangsa (“bronze”)
* perak (“silver”)
* tembaga (“copper”)

### References

* Pijnappel, Jan (1875) “امس ĕmas”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 21
* Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “امس ĕmas”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 37
* Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “ĕmas”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume I, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 298

### Further reading

* “emas” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
* "emas" in Kamus Dewan, Fourth Edition, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, →ISBN, 2005.

## Sundanese
### Etymology

Probbaly from Sanskrit माष (māṣa, “particular weight of gold”).

### Noun

emas (Sundanese script ᮈᮙᮞ᮪)
* gold
    Synonym: kancana

## Uzbek
### Adverb

emas
* not

### Verb

emas
* third-person singular indefinite future negative of *emoq