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

• mat

Synonyms

• sekak

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

1. (colloquial) size (clothes, etc)

Further reading

• “emat” 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.

Latin

Verb

emat

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of emō