mem

mem  (mm)

n.

The 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet. See Table at alphabet.

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[Hebrew, of Phoenician origin; see my² in Semitic roots.]

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mem [mɛm]

n

(Linguistics / Letters of the Alphabet (Foreign)) the l3th letter in the Hebrew alphabet (מ or, at the end of a word, ן), transliterated as m

[Hebrew, literally: water]

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mem - the 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet Hebraic alphabet, Hebrew alphabet, Hebrew script - a Semitic alphabet used since the 5th century BC for writing the Hebrew language (and later for writing Yiddish and Ladino) alphabetic character, letter of the alphabet, letter - the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech; "his grandmother taught him his letters"