emat

See also: emät

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [əˈmat]
• Hyphenation: êmat

Etymology 1

From Dutch mat (“check”), from Middle Dutch mat (“checkmate”), borrowed from Old French mat, borrowed from Persian شاه مات (šâh mât, “the king is dead”). Doublet of sekakmat.

Interjection

êmat

1. (chess) word called out when an opponent's king or queen is threatened with voidable capture; mate

   Synonym: sekak

Alternative forms

• mat

Derived terms

• mengemat

Etymology 2

From Dutch maat (“size, measure”), mate, from Middle Dutch mate, from Old Dutch *māta, from Proto-Germanic *mētō.

Noun

êmat (plural emat-emat)

1. (colloquial) size (clothes, etc)

Further reading

• “emat”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɛ.mat]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛː.mat]

Verb

emat

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of emō