mem

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛm/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛm

Etymology 1

English Wikipedia has an article on:

mem

Wikipedia

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

English Wikipedia has an article on:

mem (computing)

Wikipedia

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.

See also

• gori mem
• mim-mem

Anagrams

• EMM, Emm

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Borrowed from English meme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): ,

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)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencian)

Noun

mem m (plural mems)

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

Further reading

• mem on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ca
• mem d'Internet on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ca

Czech

Noun

mem m inan

1. meme

Declension

Related terms

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from French même.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: mem

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

• memkontenta
• memportreto
• memmortigo

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.

   The color of the flag itself was white without foreground image, red or black; white generally denoted persecution, at which the victim could surrender.

Finnish

Etymology

From Phoenician .

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmem/,
• Rhymes: -em
• Syllabification^(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)

   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

• IPA^(key): /mem/

Adjective

mem

1. same

Adverb

mem

1. even

Derived terms

• mem si

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

mem

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Borrowed from English meme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛm/

• Audio

  (file)

• 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

Further reading

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