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.
Alternative forms
Synonyms
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 (first-person possessive ematku, second-person possessive ematmu, third-person possessive ematnya)

  1. (colloquial) size (clothes, etc)

Further reading

Latin

Verb

emat

  1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of emō
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