mem

mem

See also: mem., Mem, MEM, mém, mềm, me·m, מם‎, and מ‎

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛm/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛm

Etymology 1

From Phoenician 𐤌𐤌‎ (mm /mem/, “water”), from Proto-Semitic *maʾ- (“*maʾ-/*may-”). Doublet of mu.

Alternative forms

• meem, mim

Noun

mem (plural mems)

1. The thirteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

Translations

Semitic letter

Aramaic: Classical Syriac: ܡܝܡ‎ f (mīm), ܡܡ‎ f Catalan: mem (ca) f Finnish: mem (fi) Hebrew: מֵם‎ (he) Italian: mem (it) m or f Malay: mim Yiddish: מם‎ (mem)

Etymology 2

Shortening.

Noun

mem (plural mems)

1. (computing) A memory access as part of processing.

Further reading

• mem on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• EMM, Emm

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Catalan

Etymology

English meme

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˈməm/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛm/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈmem/

Noun

mem m (plural mems)

1. meme (unit of cultural information)
2. internet meme

Further reading

• mem on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ca
• mem d'Internet on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ca

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Czech

Noun

mem m

1. meme

Related terms

• memetika f

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Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from French même.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mem]
• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: mem

Particle

mem

1. -self, -selves
   • 1998, Henrik Ibsen, trans. Odd Tangerud Puphejmo : Dramo en tri aktoj,

     KROGSTAD. Vere ne? Ŝajnas al mi, ke vi mem ĵus diris —

     KROGSTAD. Truly not? It seems to me, that you yourself just said —

Derived terms

• memkontenta
• memportreto
• memmortigo

Pronoun

mem

1. itself

   La koloro de la flago mem estis blanka sen surpreso, ruĝa aŭ nigra, blanka ĝenerale signifis la persekutadon, ĉe kiu la viktimo povis kapitulaci.

   The color of the flag itself was white without foreground image, red or black; white generally denoted persecution, at which the victim could surrender.

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Finnish

Etymology

From Phoenician [Term?].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmem/, [ˈme̞m]
• Rhymes: -em
• Syllabification^(key): mem

Noun

mem

1. mem (thirteenth letter of the Hebrew and Phoenician scripts and the Northwest Semitic abjad)

Declension

Inflection of mem (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		mem	memit
genitive		memin	memien
partitive		memiä	memejä
illative		memiin	memeihin
		singular	plural
nominative		mem	memit
accusative	nom.	mem	memit
	gen.	memin
genitive		memin	memien
partitive		memiä	memejä
inessive		memissä	memeissä
elative		memistä	memeistä
illative		memiin	memeihin
adessive		memillä	memeillä
ablative		memiltä	memeiltä
allative		memille	memeille
essive		meminä	memeinä
translative		memiksi	memeiksi
instructive		—	memein
abessive		memittä	memeittä
comitative		—	memeineen

Possessive forms of mem (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	memini	memimme
2nd person	memisi	meminne
3rd person	meminsä

Anagrams

• -mme

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Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from French même, from Old French mesme, from Vulgar Latin *metipsimus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mem/

Adverb

mem

1. even, still (in comparison)

   Ica pano esas bona, ma ita esas mem plu bona

   That bread is good but that is even better.

2. (emphasis) really, indeed

   Yes, me konfesas, ke mea manui esas mem tre sordida.

   Yes, I admit that my hands are really very dirty.

See also

• ya (“indeed”)

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Italian

Etymology

From Hebrew מם‎ (mēm), from Phoenician 𐤌𐤌‎ (mm, “water”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmem/
• Rhymes: -em
• Hyphenation: mém

Noun

mem m or f (invariable)

1. mem, specifically:
   1. the name of the Phoenician-script letter 𐤌
   2. the name of the Hebrew-script letter מ/ם

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Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French même.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mem/

Adjective

mem

1. same

Adverb

mem

1. even

Derived terms

• mem si

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English meme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛm/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛm
• Syllabification: mem

Noun

mem m inan

1. meme (unit of cultural information)
2. meme (something copied and circulated online)

Declension

Declension of mem

	singular	plural
nominative	mem	memy
genitive	memu	memów
dative	memowi	memom
accusative	mem	memy
instrumental	memem	memami
locative	memie	memach
vocative	memie	memy

Further reading

• mem in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• mem in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Swedish

Etymology

From English meme coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976), similar to gene. The book was translated to Swedish by Roland Adlerbeth, Den själviska genen (1983). The Swedish word mem follows the grammar of gen (“gene”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meːm/

Noun

mem c

1. a meme (unit of cultural information)

Declension

Declension of mem
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	mem	memen	memer	memerna
Genitive	mems	memens	memers	memernas

Related terms

• memetik

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Tocharian A

Etymology

From Proto-Tocharian *meim, a nominal derivative of *mei- (“to measure”). Possibly linked to Proto-Indo-European *mod-ye/o- or *mēdye/o-, derivatives of *med- (“to measure, give advice, heal”) (whence Latin meditor), or alternatively to *meh₁-ye/o- from *meh₁- (“to measure”) (whence Latin mētior). Compare Tocharian B maim.

Noun

mem

1. thought, thinking

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Volapük

Noun

mem (nominative plural mems)

1. memory

Declension

declension of mem

	singular	plural
nominative	mem	mems
genitive	mema	memas
dative	meme	memes
accusative	memi	memis
vocative 1	o mem!	o mems!
predicative 2	memu	memus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only

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West Frisian

Etymology

Probably from Old Frisian *mōme, from Proto-West Germanic *mōmā. Compare English mum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛm/

Noun

mem c (plural memmen, diminutive memke)

1. mother, mom

   Coordinate term: heit

Further reading

• “mem”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011