sema

sema

1. third-person singular present indicative of semar
2. second-person singular imperative of semar

From Arabic سَمَاء (samāʔ).

• Hyphenation: se‧ma

sema

1. sky

   Synonym: kök

• “sema”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

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sema

1. third-person singular past historic of semer

• âmes

Inherited from Arabic سَمَاء (samāʔ).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.ma/
• Homophone: sema’ (except archaically)
• Rhymes: -ɛma

sema m or f (plural smewwiet)

1. sky
2. (religion) heaven

   Synonym: ġenna

   • 2008, Trevor Żahra, Il-Ġenn li Jżommni f’Sikti, Merlin Publishers, →ISBN:

     Is-sema bagħatlu sabi u s-sultan żamm kelmtu!

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

From sem + -a.

sema (possessable)

1. exit; leaving (action of going out or going away)

• Nheengatu: sema

• Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “sema”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil ] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 441, column 1

sema

1. first-person plural present/imperative active of seti (“to sleep”)

sema

1. woman
2. wife

• Kazuo Hashimoto, Ata – English dictionary (2008), page 16

• IPA^(key): /sə.ˈma/, [s(ə).ˈma]

sema

1. (anatomy) tongue

sema m (plural semas)

1. seme

• “sema”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

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-sema (infinitive kusema)

1. to say, speak

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -semea
  • Causative: -semesha
  • Passive: -semwa (“be said”)
  • Reciprocal: -semana
  • Stative: -semeka

• Nominal derivations:
  • msema
  • msemaji
  • msemi
  • msemo
  • usemaji
  • usemi

• -ongea

sema

1. informal greeting; also used to continue a conversation

• IPA^(key): [ˈse.ma]

sema

1. (impersonal) to exist

   sema mancia toma ngara ― there is a person at the door

2. (intransitive) to exist

   nyao isema toma hito ― the fish is in the kitchen

3. (transitive) to have, own

   Ngori tosema pipi ― I have money

The word sema is never negated with ua, which would be ungrammatical. Instead, the verb malo or the construction kama ... ua is used for the negation of existence.

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

• IPA^(key): /seˈmaː/
• Hyphenation: se‧ma

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish سما (semā, “the sky, heaven, a cover, roof, clouds, rain”),^[1] from Arabic سَمَاء (samāʔ, “the sky/skies, heaven, space”).^[2]

sema (definite accusative semayı, plural semalar or (dated) semavat)

1. (poetic) The sky, heaven.

   Synonyms: gök, gökyüzü, gök kubbe, feza

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish سماع (semāʿ, “hearing, hearsay, music”),^[3] from Arabic سَمَاع (samāʕ, “attestation”) verbal noun of سَمِعَ (samiʕa, “to hear”).^[4]

sema (definite accusative semayı, plural semalar)

1. (obsolete) The act of hearing.
2. (Islam, Sufism) The Sama ceremony of the Mevlevi Order.

• “sema”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “sema”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4135

sema

1. feminine singular of semo