memba

• member, 'member

memba (third-person singular simple present membas, present participle membaing, simple past and past participle memba'd)

1. (slang) Clipping of remember.

   Memba me?

   • 2002, Kimberly Ann Sawyer, quotee, “Seniors”, in United We Stand , North Reading, Mass.: North Reading High School, page 45:

     Danielle~ Memba the crazy BS we’ve done

memba

1. remember

memba

1. member

• Crosbie, Paul, ed. (2007), Kriol-Inglish Dikshineri: English-Kriol Dictionary. Belize City: Belize Kriol Project, p. 228.

Derived from English remember. Compare Belizean Creole memba.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmemba/

memba

1. to remember
   • 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, Iibruu 13:3:

     Unu fi memba di piipl dem we iina prizn, laik se unu iin de wid dem. An memba di piipl dem we a sofa tu, laik se a unu a sofa an a fiil di pien we dem a fiil

     Continue to remember those in prison as if you were together with them in prison, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering

• memba at JamaicanPatwah.com

From English member.

memba

1. member

From Ottoman Turkish منبع (memba, menba), from Arabic مَنْبَع (manbaʕ, “spring, source”).

memba (definite accusative membaı, plural membalar)

1. spring (water source)
2. source

• kaynak

• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “memba”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN

memba

1. water

• diri

• Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics), page 122