emu

See also Emu, EMU, ému, and emù

English

Wikipedia

An emu

Alternative forms

• emeu (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• enPR: ē'myoo͞, IPA: /ˈiːmuː/, X-SAMPA: /"i:mu:/
• Rhymes: -uː

Etymology

Probably from Portuguese ema (“ostrich”), perhaps from Arabic.

Noun

emu (plural emus)

1. A large flightless bird native to Australia, Dromaius novaehollandiae.

Translations

A large flightless bird, Dromaius novaehollandiae

• Belarusian: эму (be) (ému) m 
• Bulgarian: ему (bg) (emu)
• Catalan: emú (ca)
• Cherokee: ᎡᎳᏗᏝ ᎬᎾ ᎤᏔᎾ (chr) (Eladitla gvna utana), ᎢᎽ ᎬᎾ ᎤᏔᎾ (chr) (imu gvna utana)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鴯鶓 (cmn), 鸸鹋 (cmn) (érmiáo), 鴯 (cmn), 鸸 (cmn) (ér)

• Czech: emu (cs) m
• Danish: emu (da)
• Darkinjung: gungurung
• Dutch: emoe (nl) m
• Eastern Arrernte: please add this translation if you can
• Esperanto: emuo (eo)
• Finnish: emu (fi)
• French: émeu (fr) m, émeus (fr) m pl
• Gamilaraay: thinawan
• German: Emu (de) m
• Gooniyandi: garnanganyja
• Greek: δρομαίος (dromeos) m, εμού (emu) n
• Guugu Yimidhirr: burriway, ngunhdhangunhdha (avoidance language)
• Hebrew: אמו (he)
• Ido: emuo (io)
• Indonesian: emu (id)

• Interlingua: emu (ia)
• Irish: éamú (ga) m
• Italian: emù (it) m
• Japanese: エミュー (ja) (emyū)
• Kala Lagaw Ya: samu
• Korean: 에뮤 (ko) (emyu)
• Lithuanian: emu (lt)
• Martuthunira: jankurna
• Navajo: tsídiitsoh ditsʼozígíí
• Norwegian: emu (no) m
• Pitjantjatjara: kaḻaya, tjakipiri
• Polish: emu (pl)
• Portuguese: emu (pt) m
• Romanian: emu (ro) m
• Russian: эму (ru) (ému) m  (indeclinable)
• Serbo-Croatian: emu (sh)
• Slovene: emu (sl) m
• Spanish: emú m
• Swedish: emu (sv)
• Ukrainian: ему (uk) (ému) m 
• Warlpiri: karlaya
• Wiradhuri: nguurruuyn, dhinawan (northern dialect)

Abbreviation

emu

1. electromagnetic unit.
   • 1943, Henry Augustus Perkins, College Physics, p. 530:

     A bar magnet NS has poles of strength 144 emu, 5 cm apart.

   • 1959, American Geological Institute, Geoscience Abstracts, p. 38:

     The average intensity is 80 X 10"5 emu/cm3.

   • 1974, William Berkson, Fields of Force: The Development of a World View from Faraday to Einstein, p. 168:

     The amount of charge named by one emu is that which produces a unit magnetic effect when flowing in a current at one unit length per second.

   • 1976, John Aloysius O'Keefe, Tektites and Their Origin, p. 109:

     Booker and Harrison (1966) set an upper limit of 10~7 emu/g.

   • 2005, Peter Mohn, Magnetism in the Solid State: An Introduction, p. 39:

     Experimentally the magnetic moment is usually given in units of emu/g, emu/cm3 or emu/mole.

2. (computing, video games, informal) emulator
   • 2005, "Dane L. Galden at at", Could this be used for classic emus on GBA? (on newsgroup rec.games.video.classic)

     Saw this article for playing downloadable games on GBA. It's an official Nintendo product in Japan, and thought it might be useful for Nintendo to release actual emus and some of their older game properties (beyond the $20 classic series).

Anagrams

• meu
• ume

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Czech

Noun

emu m

1. emu (large flightless bird native to Australia)

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Esperanto

Verb

emu

1. imperative of emi

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Finnish

Noun

emu

1. emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae, the only extant species in its genus)

Declension

Declension of emu (type valo) singular plural nominative emu emut genitive emun emujen partitive emua emuja accusative emu emun emut inessive emussa emuissa elative emusta emuista illative emuun emuihin adessive emulla emuilla ablative emulta emuilta allative emulle emuille essive emuna emuina translative emuksi emuiksi instructive – emuin abessive emutta emuitta comitative – emuineen

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Galician

Noun

emu m (plural emus)

1. emu

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Japanese

Romanization

emu

1. See えむ
2. See エム

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Portuguese

Etymology

From English emu, from Portuguese ema (“rhea”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /e.ˈmu/

Noun

emu m (plural emus)

1. emu

Related terms

• ema, avestruz