# mem
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɛm/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛm

### Etymology 1

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

#### Alternative forms

* meem, mim

#### Noun

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

##### Translations
#### See also

* Appendix:Hebrew alphabet

### Etymology 2

Clipping of memory.

#### Noun

mem (plural mems)
* (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.
* (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: [mem], [mɛm]

### Noun

mem (definite accusative memi, plural memlər)
* meme (unit of cultural information)
* 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: (Central) [ˈmɛm]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmem]

### Noun

mem m (plural mems)
* meme (unit of cultural information)
* internet meme

#### Derived terms

* memètic
* memètica
* memitzar

### Further reading

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

## Czech
### Noun

mem m inan
* meme

#### Related terms

* memetika f

## Esperanto
### Etymology

Borrowed from French même.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [mem]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: mem

### Particle

mem
* -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
* 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 [Term?].

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmem/, [ˈme̞m]
* Rhymes: -em
* Hyphenation: mem

### Noun

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

#### Declension

Possessive forms of mem (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
memini
memini
accusative
nom.
memini
memini
gen.
memini
genitive
memini
memieni
partitive
memiäni
memejäni
inessive
memissäni
memeissäni
elative
memistäni
memeistäni
illative
memiini
memeihini
adessive
memilläni
memeilläni
ablative
memiltäni
memeiltäni
allative
memilleni
memeilleni
essive
meminäni
memeinäni
translative
memikseni
memeikseni
abessive
memittäni
memeittäni
instructive
comitative
—memeineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
memisi
memisi
accusative
nom.
memisi
memisi
gen.
memisi
genitive
memisi
memiesi
partitive
memiäsi
memejäsi
inessive
memissäsi
memeissäsi
elative
memistäsi
memeistäsi
illative
memiisi
memeihisi
adessive
memilläsi
memeilläsi
ablative
memiltäsi
memeiltäsi
allative
memillesi
memeillesi
essive
meminäsi
memeinäsi
translative
memiksesi
memeiksesi
abessive
memittäsi
memeittäsi
instructive
comitative
—memeinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
memimme
memimme
accusative
nom.
memimme
memimme
gen.
memimme
genitive
memimme
memiemme
partitive
memiämme
memejämme
inessive
memissämme
memeissämme
elative
memistämme
memeistämme
illative
memiimme
memeihimme
adessive
memillämme
memeillämme
ablative
memiltämme
memeiltämme
allative
memillemme
memeillemme
essive
meminämme
memeinämme
translative
memiksemme
memeiksemme
abessive
memittämme
memeittämme
instructive
comitative
—memeinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
meminne
meminne
accusative
nom.
meminne
meminne
gen.
meminne
genitive
meminne
memienne
partitive
memiänne
memejänne
inessive
memissänne
memeissänne
elative
memistänne
memeistänne
illative
memiinne
memeihinne
adessive
memillänne
memeillänne
ablative
memiltänne
memeiltänne
allative
memillenne
memeillenne
essive
meminänne
memeinänne
translative
memiksenne
memeiksenne
abessive
memittänne
memeittänne
instructive
comitative
—memeinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
meminsä
meminsä
accusative
nom.
meminsä
meminsä
gen.
meminsä
genitive
meminsä
memiensä
partitive
memiään memiänsä
memejään memejänsä
inessive
memissään memissänsä
memeissään memeissänsä
elative
memistään memistänsä
memeistään memeistänsä
illative
memiinsä
memeihinsä
adessive
memillään memillänsä
memeillään memeillänsä
ablative
memiltään memiltänsä
memeiltään memeiltänsä
allative
memilleen memillensä
memeilleen memeillensä
essive
meminään meminänsä
memeinään memeinänsä
translative
memikseen memiksensä
memeikseen memeiksensä
abessive
memittään memittänsä
memeittään memeittänsä
instructive
comitative
—memeineen memeinensä :

### Anagrams

* -mme

## Ido
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mem/

### Adverb

mem
* even, still (in comparison)
    Ica pano esas bona, ma ita esas mem plu bonaThat bread is good but that is even better.
* (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: /ˈmem/
* Rhymes: -em
* Hyphenation: mém

### Noun

mem m or f (invariable)
* mem, specifically:
** the name of the Phoenician-script letter 𐤌
** the name of the Hebrew-script letter מ/ם

## Mauritian Creole
### Etymology

From French même.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mem/

### Adjective

mem
* same

### Adverb

mem
* even

#### Derived terms

* mem si

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English meme.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɛm/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛm
* Syllabification: mem

### Noun

mem m inan
* meme (unit of cultural information)
* 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: /meːm/

### Noun

mem c
* a meme (unit of cultural information)
* (Internet, chiefly in the alternative form "meme") a meme
    Synonym: (slang) mejmej

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | mem | mems |
| singular | definite | memen | memens |
| plural | indefinite | memer | memers |
| plural | definite | memerna | memernas |

#### 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
* thought, thinking

## Volapük
### Noun

mem (nominative plural mems)
* memory

#### Declension

* $^1$ 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

* IPA: /mɛm/

### Noun

mem c (plural memmen, diminutive memke)
* mother, mom
    Coordinate term: heit

#### Further reading

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