# nem
## Amasi
### Alternative forms

* ɣanim

### Noun

nēm (singular ɣànēm, plural bánēm)
* man

### References

* Africana Marburgensia (1973)

## Atong (India)
### Etymology

From Proto-Bodo-Garo *nam¹ (“good”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-nam (“good”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nem/

### Verb

nem- (Bengali script নেম)
* to get better; to heal (oneself)

### Adjective

nem- (Bengali script নেম, type 1)
* good

### References

* van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

## Bikol Central

* This entry is part of the phrasebook project, which presents criteria for inclusion based on utility, simplicity and commonness.

### Alternative forms

* nom

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnem/ [ˈn̪em]

### Interjection

nem (Basahan spelling ᜈᜒᜋ᜔)
* (Tabaco–Legazpi–Sorsogon) Hello
    Synonyms: komusta, tara

### Phrase

nem (Basahan spelling ᜈᜒᜋ᜔)
* (Tabaco–Legazpi–Sorsogon) What's up?
    Synonym: tara

## Chinook Jargon
### Etymology

Borrowed from English name.

### Noun

nem
* name
    Nika nem Ling Fu. ― My name is Ling Fu.

## Danish
### Etymology

From Old Norse næmr (“talented”), from Proto-Germanic *nēmiz (“takeable”).

### Pronunciation

IPA: /nɛm/, [ˈnɛmˀ]
* Rhymes: -ɛmˀ

### Adjective

nem (neuter nemt, plural and definite singular attributive nemme, comparative nemmere, superlative (predicative) nemmest, superlative (attributive) nemmeste)
* easy

#### Synonyms

* let

## Eastern Cham
### Alternative forms

* nam / ꨘꩌ
* ꨘꨮꩌ

### Etymology

From Proto-Chamic [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ənəm, from Proto-Austronesian *ənəm.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nəm/

### Numeral

nem
* six

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Vietnamese nem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nɛm/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

nem m (plural nems)
* a type of Vietnamese spring roll
* more generally, any spring roll

### Anagrams

* m’en

## German
### Alternative forms

* 'nem

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nəm/

### Article

nem
* (colloquial) Contraction of einem (“a, an”).

## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈnɛm]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: nem
* Rhymes: -ɛm

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *ne (“no, not”). In the Ob-Ugric languages, it has been used only in pronominal forms such as Northern Mansi нэ̄матыр (nè̄matyr, “nothing”), нэ̄мхо̄т (nè̄mhōt, “nowhere”), нэ̄мхуньт (nè̄mhunʹt, “never”) (Sosva) and Northern Khanty нємхуйат (nêmhujat, “nobody”) (Kazym) or нємәԓхуйат (nêməłhujat)/нємәԯхуйат (nêməłhujat) etc.

#### Adverb

nem
* no, not

#### Interjection

nem!
* no, not

#### Noun

nem (plural nemek)
* no (a negative answer)
** 1994, Ottó Orbán, Cédula a romokon (A Note on the Ruins), Fenegyerekek közt hallgatnak a múzsák (essay)
    …másképp szólva, mi ketten együtt vagyunk a kozmosz kettes számrendszerének igenje és nemje, belénk írva a program, mely a világot mozgatja.…in other words, we both are together the yes and no of the binary system of the cosmos, with the program that moves the world written in us.
    nemet mond ― to say no

##### Derived terms

* nemleges
* nincs
* nemcsak
* nemde, nemdebár
* nemdohányzó
* nemegyszer
* nemhogy
* nemkívánatos
* nemkülönben
* nemlét
* nemrég
* nemritkán
* nemsokára
* nemszeretem
* nemtörődöm
* nemabeli
* nemadiabatikus
* nemasszociatív
* nemazonosság
* nemegyensúlyi
* nemelektrolit
* nemeuklideszi
* nemfeloldó
* nemfém, nemfémes, nemnemesfém
* nemideális
* nemionizáló
* nemkapitalista
* nemkonvex
* nemkötő (állapot) (and nem kötő)
* nemláthatóság
* nemlineáris, nemlinearitás
* nemlokális (kvantumtérelmélet)
* nemmágneses
* nemnedvesítő, nemnedvesítés
* nemnegatív
* nemnewtoni
* nemnumerikus
* nemparaméteres
* nempoláris
* nemsemleges
* nemstacionárius
* nemüres
* nemvagyonikár-térítés
* nemvasfém
* nemvezető
* nemzéró/nemzérus (determinánsú/összegű)
* alighanem
* csaknem
* dehogyisnem
* dehogynem
* hacsaknem
* hanem
* majdnem, majdhogynem
* mígnem
* a baj nem jár egyedül
* a pénz nem boldogít
* a vér nem válik vízzé
* akár tetszik, akár nem
* akinek nem inge, ne vegye magára
* amelyik kutya ugat, az nem harap
* az ördög nem alszik
* egy fecske nem csinál nyarat
* eszi, nem eszi, nem kap mást
* éhes ember nem válogat
* ha a hegy nem megy Mohamedhez, Mohamed megy a hegyhez
* jó bornak nem kell cégér
* kő kövön nem marad
* kutyából nem lesz szalonna
* nem a ruha teszi az embert
* nem az én asztalom
* nem beszélek angolul
* nem esik messze az alma a fájától
* nem fenékig tejfel
* nem látja a fától az erdőt
* nem mind arany, ami fénylik
* nem oszt, nem szoroz
* nem törhető szóköz
* rossz pénz nem vész el
* se nem oszt, se nem szoroz
* végül, de nem utolsósorban

### Etymology 2

Of unknown origin.

#### Noun

nem (plural nemek)
* sex
* gender; short for társadalmi nem, which distinguishes gender as opposed to sex
* (grammar) gender (division of nouns and pronouns)
* (zoology, taxonomy) genus (rank in the taxonomic classification of animals, between family and species)
    Coordinate term: nemzetség (the same rank for plants and fungi, which denotes “tribe” among animals)
* kind, sort
    egyedülálló a maga nemében ― unique of its kind

##### Hyponyms

(grammar):
* hímnem
* nőnem
* semlegesnem

##### Derived terms

* nemes
* nemi
* nemtelen
* nemű
* nemz
* hímnem
* igenem
* köznem
* nőnem
* pénznem
* semlegesnem
* úszásnem

##### Descendants

* → Romanian: neam

### References

* ↑ Magyar fizikai helyesírási szótár (’Hungarian Orthographical Dictionary of Physics’). Budapest: Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, Fizikai Tudományok Osztálya (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Section of Physical Sciences), 2018.
* ↑ nem in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)

### Further reading

* (gender, sex, type): nem in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* (no, not): nem in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* nem in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

## Javanese
### Etymology 1

Shortened form of enem, from Old Javanese enem, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ənəm, from Proto-Austronesian *ənəm.

#### Alternative forms

* enem

#### Numeral

nem
* six

### Etymology 2
#### Adjective

nem
* Dated spelling of nèm.

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈnem/, [ˈnɛ̃ˑ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈnem/, [ˈnɛm]

### Verb

nem
* first-person singular present active subjunctive of nō

## Maguindanao
### Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *ənəm, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ənəm, from Proto-Austronesian *ənəm.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Maguindanaon) IPA: /nəm/ [ɳɨm]
* Rhymes: -əm
* Syllabification: nem

### Numeral

nëm
* six

## Malecite-Passamaquoddy
### Etymology

Cognate with Abenaki nahama, Mohegan-Pequot náham, Unami chikënëm, Quiripi nahiam.

### Noun

nem anim (plural nemiyik, possessed nemimol, diminutive nemsis)
* turkey

## Maranao
### Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *ənəm, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ənəm, from Proto-Austronesian *ənəm.

### Numeral

nem
* six

### References

* A Maranao Dictionary, by Howard P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya

## Middle English
### Noun

nem
* Alternative form of em

## Nigerian Pidgin
### Noun

nem
* name

## North Frisian
### Alternative forms

* naame (Mooring)

### Etymology

From Old Frisian nema.

### Verb

nem
* (Föhr-Amrum, Sylt) to take

#### Conjugation
## Old Irish
### Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *nemos, from Proto-Indo-European *nébʰos.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [n͈ʲeβ̃]

### Noun

nem n (genitive nime, nominative plural nime)
* heaven
** c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 6$^c$9
    Ní hed not·beir i nem, cía ba loingthech.It is not this that brings you sg into heaven, that you may be gluttonous.
** c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 22$^b$23
    Ci as·bera nech ro·pïa nem cía du·gneid na rétu sa, nípa fír.Even if anyone says you pl will have heaven although you do these things, it will not be true.
* sky
* radiance

#### Declension

* $^H$ = triggers aspiration
* $^L$ = triggers lenition
* $^N$ = triggers nasalization

#### Derived terms

* nemdae

#### Descendants

* Irish: neamh
* Manx: niau
* Scottish Gaelic: nèamh

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 nem”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

## Old Norse
### Verb

nem
* inflection of nema:
** first-person singular present active indicative
** second-person singular present active imperative

## Old Tupi
### Alternative forms

* rem

### Etymology

From Proto-Tupi-Guarani *nem, from Proto-Tupian *nem.

### Adjective

nem (noun form nema)
* stinky
* This entry needs quotations to illustrate usage. If you come across any interesting, durably archived quotes then please add them!

#### Declension
### References

* Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “nema”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, pages 328–329

## Old Welsh
### Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *neβ̃, from Proto-Celtic *nemos, from Proto-Indo-European *nébʰos (“cloud”).

### Noun

nem
* heaven

#### Descendants

* Middle Welsh: new
** Welsh: nef

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* nẽ (obsolete, abbreviation)

### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese nen, from Latin nec (“nor; and not”). Compare Galician nin, Catalan, French, and Spanish ni, Italian né.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈnẽj̃/ [ˈnẽɪ̯̃]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈnɐ̃j̃/
* Rhymes: (Brazil) -ẽj̃, (Portugal) -ɐ̃j̃
* Hyphenation: nem

### Adverb

nem (not comparable)
* not even (introduces an emphatic negation)
    Nem eu sabia disso.Not even I knew this.
* do not even (introduces an emphatic negative command)
    Nem pense em fazer isso.Don’t even think about doing this.

#### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:nem.

### Adverb

nem (not comparable)
* neither … nor
    Nem gosto nem desgosto.I neither like it nor dislike it.
** 2005, J. K. Rowling, translated by Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] (Harry Potter; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 138:Nem Harry nem Hermione responderam; não carecia.Neither Harry nor Hermione did respond; they didn't need to.

#### Derived terms

* nem mais nem menos
* nem tchum

### Conjunction

nem
* nor; and not (introduces a further negative statement)
    Não sei, nem quero saber.I don’t know, and I don’t want to know. / I neither know nor want to.
* nor (introducing each except the first term of a series, indicating none of them is true)
    Devemos aguentar sem água nem comida.We must endure without water nor food.

### Interjection

nem!
* (Brazil, colloquial) nah, no
    Você gosta de abóbora? Nem! Eu prefiro cenoura.Do you like pumpkin? Nah! I prefer carrot.

#### Derived terms

* não estar nem aí
* nem que
* que nem
* sem mais nem menos

#### Related terms

* nenhum

## Serbo-Croatian
### Alternative forms

* nijȇm (Ijekavian)

### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *němъ. Doublet of Nemac

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nêːm/

### Adjective

nȇm (Cyrillic spelling не̑м, definite nȇmī)
* mute, dumb
* silent, soundless (movie)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “nem”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

## Slovene
### Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *němъ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /néːm/

### Adjective

nẹ̑m (not comparable)
* mute

#### Inflection
### Further reading

* “nem”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

## Tok Pisin
### Etymology

From English name.

### Noun

nem
* name
    Wanem nem bilong yu? ― What is your name?
** 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 2:11:Nem bilong namba wan wara em Pison na em i go raunim kantri Havila.→New International Version translation

## Turkish
### Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish tr (nem), from Classical Persian نم (nam), Middle Persian 𐭭𐭬 (nam), from Proto-Iranian *nábah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *nábʰas, from Proto-Indo-European *nébʰos

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nem/, [næm]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

nem (definite accusative nemi, plural nemler)
* moisture
* humidity

#### Declension

singular
plural
nominative
nem
nemler
definite accusative
nemi
nemleri
dative
neme
nemlere
locative
nemde
nemlerde
ablative
nemden
nemlerden
genitive
nemin
nemlerin
Possessive forms
nominative
singular
plural
1st singular
nemim
nemlerim
2nd singular
nemin
nemlerin
3rd singular
nemi
nemleri
1st plural
nemimiz
nemlerimiz
2nd plural
neminiz
nemleriniz
3rd plural
nemleri
nemleri
definite accusative
singular
plural
1st singular
nemimi
nemlerimi
2nd singular
nemini
nemlerini
3rd singular
nemini
nemlerini
1st plural
nemimizi
nemlerimizi
2nd plural
neminizi
nemlerinizi
3rd plural
nemlerini
nemlerini
dative
singular
plural
1st singular
nemime
nemlerime
2nd singular
nemine
nemlerine
3rd singular
nemine
nemlerine
1st plural
nemimize
nemlerimize
2nd plural
neminize
nemlerinize
3rd plural
nemlerine
nemlerine
locative
singular
plural
1st singular
nemimde
nemlerimde
2nd singular
neminde
nemlerinde
3rd singular
neminde
nemlerinde
1st plural
nemimizde
nemlerimizde
2nd plural
neminizde
nemlerinizde
3rd plural
nemlerinde
nemlerinde
ablative
singular
plural
1st singular
nemimden
nemlerimden
2nd singular
neminden
nemlerinden
3rd singular
neminden
nemlerinden
1st plural
nemimizden
nemlerimizden
2nd plural
neminizden
nemlerinizden
3rd plural
nemlerinden
nemlerinden
genitive
singular
plural
1st singular
nemimin
nemlerimin
2nd singular
neminin
nemlerinin
3rd singular
neminin
nemlerinin
1st plural
nemimizin
nemlerimizin
2nd plural
neminizin
nemlerinizin
3rd plural
nemlerinin
nemlerinin :

#### Synonyms

* rutubet

#### Derived terms

* havadan nem kapmak
* nemlendirici
* nemlendirmek
* nemlenmek

### Further reading

* “nem”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “nem”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “nem”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı

## Vietnamese
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “The "fermented pork" sense is probably the most original.”)

### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [nɛm˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [nɛm˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [nɛm˧˧]

### Noun

nem • (腩, 粘, 𬛈, 𦟶, 𲉯)
* fermented pork
* spring roll

#### Descendants

* → Khmer: ណែម (naem)
* → Lao: ແໜມ (nǣm)
* → Thai: แหนม (nɛ̌ɛm)

#### See also

* nem chạo
* nem chua
* nem rán

### Anagrams

* men

## Volapük
### Noun

nem (nominative plural nems)
* name

#### Declension

$^1$ status as a case is disputed $^2$ in later, non-classical Volapük only