emas

• IPA^(key): /ˈemas/

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emas

1. present of emi

emas

1. inessive singular of ema

• mas (colloquial)

Inherited from Malay emas. See there for further etymology.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /əˈmas/ [əˈmas]

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• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: e‧mas

êmas (countable and uncountable, plural emas-emas)

1. gold (element)
2. (dialectal) a unit of mass about 2.5 gram for gold

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

• “emas”, 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

emas

1. gold

emās

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of emō

• "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)

• mas (colloquial)

Several etymologies have been proposed:

• From Sanskrit माष (māṣa, “particular weight of gold”).
• 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”).

• IPA^(key): /ə.mas/
• Rhymes: -as

emas (Jawi spelling امس, plural emas-emas)

1. gold (element)

   Synonyms: aurum, kencana

   pingat emas ― gold medal

   • 2022 June 14, Reuters, “Harga emas terendah dalam empat minggu”, in Malaysiakini‎^[1]:

     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)

• Indonesian: emas

• 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

• “emas”, in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu [Malay Literary Reference Centre] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017
• “emas”, in Kamus Dewan [The Institute Dictionary] (in Malay), Fourth edition, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2005, →ISBN

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

emas (Sundanese script ᮈᮙᮞ᮪)

1. gold

   Synonym: kancana

Inherited from Chagatai ایماس (emäs), ایرماس (ermäs), from Proto-Common Turkic *ärmäz, negative aorist of copulative *är-. Cognate with Uyghur ئەمەس (emes), Kazakh емес (emes), Tuvan эвес (eves), etc.

• IPA^(key): [e̞.mæ̠s]
• Hyphenation: e‧mas

emas

1. is not, are not (third-person negative predicative)

emas

1. third-person singular indefinite future negative of *emoq