# gema
## Albanian
### Noun

gema
* indefinite nominative/accusative plural of gem

## Galician
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʃema/ [ˈʃe.mɐ]
* Rhymes: -ema
* Hyphenation: ge‧ma

### Noun

gema f (plural gemas, reintegrationist norm)
* reintegrationist spelling of xema

### Further reading

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

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Inherited from Malay ݢما (gema).

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

gema (plural gema-gema)
* echo:
** (physics) a reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer
** (physics) an utterance repeating what has just been said

#### Synonyms

* gaung
* kumandang
* sipongang

#### Derived terms

* bergema
* menggema
* menggemai
* menggemakan
* penggema
* gema duga

### Further reading

* “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.

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɛ.ma/
* Rhymes: -ɛma
* Hyphenation: gè‧ma

### Verb

gema
* inflection of gemere:
** first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

### Anagrams

* mega-

## Lombard
### Alternative forms

* gèmma (Classical Milanese Orthography)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɛma/ (Milanese)

### Noun

gema f
* (botany) bud, shoot
* gem (precious stone)

## Malay
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡema/ [ˈɡe.ma]
* Hyphenation: ge‧ma

### Noun

gema (Jawi spelling ݢما, plural gema-gema, informal 1st possessive gemaku, 2nd possessive gemamu, 3rd possessive gemanya)
* echo
    Synonyms: gaung, guk

### Further reading

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

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʒẽ.mɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈʒẽ.mɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈʒe.ma/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈʒe.mɐ/
* Rhymes: -emɐ
* Hyphenation: ge‧ma

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

gema f (plural gemas)
* yolk (yellow part of an egg)
* gem (precious stone)
* (botany) bud, shoot (newly formed leaf or flower)

##### Derived terms

* de gema
* sal-gema

#### Further reading

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

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

gema
* inflection of gemer:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Spanish
### Etymology

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

* IPA: /ˈxema/ [ˈxe.ma]
* Rhymes: -ema
* Syllabification: ge‧ma

### Noun

gema f (plural gemas)
* gem
    Synonym: piedra preciosa
* (botany) bud, shoot
    Synonyms: botón, yema

#### Derived terms

* gemología

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: gema (dialectal, Castilianism)

### Further reading

* “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], 2024 December 10
* 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

## Volapük
### Noun

gema
* genitive singular of gem