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See also: Appendix:Variations of "mem"

Translingual

Symbol

mem

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Mangala.

See also

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

Noun

mem (plural mems)

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

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Etymology 2

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Clipping of memory.

Noun

mem (plural mems)

  1. (slang) Clipping of memory.
    • 2020 August 19, @BRITs, Twitter‎:
      We can't BELIEVE it's been #9YearsofLittleMix?! Aside from the girls slaying every #BRITs look they've had, what's your fave mem? (we know it's a hard q!) 👀💖
    • 2023 October 23, Rachel Varina, “How to Get Over a Breakup So You Can *Actually* Move On and Heal”, in Cosmopolitan‎:
      6. Throw Away the Mems [chapter title] ¶ Now that you’ve got some theme music, it’s time to take that old teddy bear and V-Day card and toss ‘em in the dumpster.
  2. (computing theory) A memory access as part of processing.
Derived terms

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Etymology 3

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

Noun

mem (plural mems)

  1. (South Asia, now historical) A white European woman, especially the wife of an official; a memsahib.
    • 2009, Selina Hastings, The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham, John Murray, published 2010, page 277:
      With their husbands out all day, the mems had almost nothing to do, unless they were among the few prepared to interest themselves in local charities or community work.
  2. (chiefly India) Alternative form of ma'am.
Derived terms

Etymology 4

Noun

mem (plural mems)

  1. (slang) Clipping of member.
    • 1999 November 17, Jfaspen, “JOE HAMILTON FOR HEISMAN(nDMBc)”, in alt.music.dave-matthews‎ (Usenet), archived from the original on 14 December 2025:
      Make him footrace Dayne and then block Dayne. Wait, then we would get 1/2 the amt of quality recording and lose a mem of the community!
    • 2000 December 22, Matt, “OT: going to be away....”, in rec.models.rc.land‎ (Usenet), archived from the original on 14 December 2025:
      And that its[sic] not his cousin or grandma laying[sic] next to him (he said it was a family outing, I assume he meant other mems of his family and not just his imidiate[sic] family).
    • 2003 April 10, Greg D, “Press Kits”, in rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz‎ (Usenet), archived from the original on 14 December 2025:
      Great resource! It's going out to all mems of my band today.

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Azerbaijani

Etymology

Borrowed from English meme.

Pronunciation

Noun

mem (definite accusative memi, plural memlər)

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

Further reading

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from English meme.

Pronunciation

Noun

mem m (plural mems)

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

Derived terms

Further reading

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Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

mem m inan

  1. meme

Declension

Declension of mem (hard masculine inanimate)
More information singular, plural ...

Dutch

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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).
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Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from French même.

Pronunciation

Particle

mem

  1. -self, -selves
    • 1998, Henrik Ibsen, translated by 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

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.VP
    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
  • Hyphenation(key): mem

Noun

mem

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

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...
More information first-person singular possessor, singular ...

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Ido

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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”)

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

Adjective

mem

  1. same

Adverb

mem

  1. even

Derived terms

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

Borrowed from English meme.

Pronunciation

Noun

mem m inan

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

Declension

Declension of mem
More information singular, plural ...

Further reading

  • mem in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Alternative forms

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

Noun

mem c

  1. a meme (unit of cultural information)
  2. (Internet, chiefly in the alternative form "meme") a meme
    Synonym: (slang) mejmej

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...

References

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

More information singular, plural ...

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

West Frisian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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