מים

From Proto-Semitic *māy-. Compare Aramaic מַיָּא (mayyā), Arabic مَاء (māʔ). Doublet of מ״ם (“מ”).

• (Biblical Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈmajm/
• (Samaritan Hebrew) IPA^(key): /mem/ [ˈmem]
• (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈma.jim/ [ˈmaː.jim]
• (Yemenite Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈma.jim/ [ˈmæː.jim]
• (Sephardi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈma.jim/
• (Ashkenazi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈma.jim/
• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈma.jim/

מַיִם • (máyim) m pl (plural construct מֵי־, Biblical Hebrew pausal form מָיִם)

1. (plural only) (uncountable) water

• The construct form מֵימֵי־ also occurs.

• → Yiddish: מים (mayem)
  • → Dutch: majem

• H4325 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• “מים” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language

• מים on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he

Borrowed from English meme.

• IPA^(key): /mim/

מים • (mim) m, plural מימען (mimen)

1. (neologism, Internet) meme

• (meme (unit of cultural information)): מעמע f (meme)

• Schaechter-Viswanath, Gitl, Glasser, Paul (2016) “meme (internet)”, in Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, →ISBN

Borrowed from Hebrew מים (máyim).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmajɪm/, /ˈmaɪ̯əm/

מים • (mayim, mayem) n

1. water

   Synonym: וואַסער (vaser)

• Beinfeld, Solon, Bochner, Harry (2013) “מים”, in Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, →ISBN