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Definitions and meaning of mem

mem

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛm/
• 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

See also

• Appendix:Hebrew alphabet

Etymology 2

Clipping of memory.

Noun

mem (plural mems)

1. (slang) Clipping of memory.
2. (computing theory) A memory access as part of processing.

See also

• mim-mem

Etymology 3

From Hindi मेम (mem, “wife of a colonial official; a white woman”), originally from English ma'am.

Noun

mem (plural mems)

1. (India, historical) A white European woman, especially the wife of an official; a memsahib.
2. (chiefly India) Alternative form of ma'am.

Derived terms

• gori mem

Anagrams

• EMM, Emm

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Borrowed from English meme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mem], [mɛm]

Noun

mem (definite accusative memi, plural memlər)

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

Further reading

• mem on the Azerbaijani Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^az
• İnternet memi on the Azerbaijani Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^az

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from English meme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈmɛm]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmem]

Noun

mem m (plural mems)

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

Derived terms

Further reading

• “mem” in termcat, Centre de Terminologia, 2025.
• mem on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ca
• mem d'Internet on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ca

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛm]

Noun

mem m inan

1. meme

Declension

Related terms

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Hebrew מֵ״ם (mem).

Noun

mem m (plural memmen, diminutive memmetje n)

1. mem (letter of the Hebrew alphabet)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from West Frisian mem.

Noun

mem m (plural memmen, diminutive memmetje n)

1. (informal) mom, mother

   Coordinate term: heit

2. (colloquial, chiefly in the plural) breast

   Synonyms: tiet, tet, borst, jetser

Usage notes

• In the sense of mom, mostly encountered as code-switching by West Frisian speakers speaking Dutch, or by Dutch speakers of Frisian descent (who do not otherwise speak West Frisian).

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from French même.

Pronunciation

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

Particle

mem

1. -self, -selves

Derived terms

• memkontenta
• memportreto
• memmortigo

Pronoun

mem

1. itself

Finnish

Etymology

From Phoenician [Term?].

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mem

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

Declension

Anagrams

• -mme

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)

2. (emphasis) really, indeed

See also

• ya (“indeed”)

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

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French même.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mem/

Adjective

mem

1. same

Adverb

mem

1. even

Derived terms

• mem si

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English meme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛm/
• Rhymes: -ɛm
• Syllabification: mem

Noun

mem m inan

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

Declension

Further reading

• mem in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Alternative forms

• meme

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)
2. (Internet, chiefly in the alternative form "meme") a meme

   Synonym: (slang) mejmej

Declension

Related terms

• memetik

References

• mem in Svensk ordbok (SO)

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

Volapük

Noun

mem (nominative plural mems)

1. memory

Declension

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

Descendants

• → Dutch: mem

Further reading

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

Source: wiktionary.org