mem

• IPA^(key): /mɛm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛm

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

• meem, mim

mem (plural mems)

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

• Appendix:Hebrew alphabet

Clipping of memory.

mem (plural mems)

1. (slang) Clipping of memory.
   • 2020 August 19, @BRITs, Twitter‎^[1]:

     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^[2]:

     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.

• mim-mem

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

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 2010, p. 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.

• gori mem

• EMM, Emm

Borrowed from English meme.

• IPA^(key): [mem], [mɛm]

mem (definite accusative memi, plural memlər)

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

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

Borrowed from English meme.

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

mem m (plural mems)

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

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛm]

mem m inan

1. meme

• Audio:

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Borrowed from Hebrew מֵ״ם (mem).

mem m (plural memmen, diminutive memmetje n)

1. mem (letter of the Hebrew alphabet)

Borrowed from West Frisian mem.

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

• 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).

Borrowed from French même.

• IPA^(key): /mem/

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• Rhymes: -em
• Hyphenation: mem

mem

1. -self, -selves
   • 1998, Henrik Ibsen, translated by Odd Tangerud, Puphejmo : Dramo en tri aktoj‎^[3]:

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

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

• memkontenta
• memportreto
• memmortigo

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.

From Phoenician [Term?].

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

mem

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

• -mme

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

• IPA^(key): /mem/

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.

• ya (“indeed”)

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

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

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

From French même.

• IPA^(key): /mem/

mem

1. same

mem

1. even

• mem si

Borrowed from English meme.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛm/

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• Rhymes: -ɛm
• Syllabification: mem

mem m inan

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

• mem in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• meme

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”).

• IPA^(key): /meːm/

mem c

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

   Synonym: (slang) mejmej

• memetik

• mem in Svensk ordbok (SO)

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.

mem

1. thought, thinking

mem (nominative plural mems)

1. memory

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

• IPA^(key): /mɛm/

mem c (plural memmen, diminutive memke)

1. mother, mom

   Coordinate term: heit

• → Dutch: mem

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