מ
See also: ם, מ־, ־ם, מ׳, and Appendix:Variations of "m"
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Hebrew
Letter
מ • (m)
- Mem: the thirteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, after ל and before נ.
- The numeral 5 in Hebrew numbering.
Usage notes
- The letter מ denotes the phoneme /m/ (like the sound of <m> in the English word mess).
- The letter מ has a distinct special form used at the ends of words, namely ם. This form is called mem sofit or (in English) final mem.
- For information about מ as a preposition meaning roughly “from”, see מ־.
- For information about מ as a sort of prefix in the present tense and present participle of pi'él, pu'ál, hif'íl, huf'ál, and hitpa'él verbs, see Appendix:Hebrew verbs.
- For information about ם as a suffix meaning roughly “them”, which is one form of the third-person masculine plural personal pronoun, see ־ם.
Coordinate terms
- (Hebrew script letters) א, ב, ג, ד, ה, ו, ז, ח, ט, י, כך, ל, מם, נן, ס, ע, פף, צץ, ק, ר, ש, ת