mem (m m)n. The 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet. See Table at alphabet. [Hebrew, of Phoenician origin; see my2 in Semitic roots.] |
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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| Noun | 1. |  mem - the 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabetHebraic 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" |
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