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English

Etymology

Coined by British biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 in his book The Selfish Gene. Shortened (after gene) from mimeme (compare English phoneme), from Ancient Greek ????? (mîmos, “imitation, copy”). The concept was later applied to the Internet by Mike Godwin.

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?m, IPA^(key): /mi?m/
• Rhymes: -i?m

Noun

meme (plural memes)

1. Any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another in a comparable way to the transmission of genes.

   Synonym: culturgen

   • 1976, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene:

     Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches.

   • 2002, Rita Carter, Exploring Consciousness, p. 242:

     Related memes tend to form mutually supporting meme-complexes such as religions, political ideologies, scientific theories, and New Age dogmas.
2. (Internet) Media, usually humorous, which is copied and circulated online with slight adaptations, including quizzes, basic pictures, video templates etc. [from 1993]
   • 2012, Greg Jarboe, You Tube and Video Marketing, 2nd edition:

     The idea was to append Keyboard Cat to the end of a blooper video to "play" that person offstage after a mistake or gaffe, like getting the hook in the days of vaudeville. The meme became popular, Ashton Kutcher tweeted about it to more than 1 million followers, and more than 4,000 such videos have now been made.
3. (Internet, slang) A myth circulating as truth, such as ineffective practices presented as effective.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• email forward
• replicator

Verb

meme (third-person singular simple present memes, present participle meming or memeing, simple past and past participle memed)

1. (transitive, rare, Internet slang) To turn into a meme; to use a meme, especially to achieve a goal in real life.
2. (intransitive, Internet slang) To create and use humorous memes.
3. (intransitive, Internet slang) To joke around.

   I thought you guys were just meming.

Further reading

• meme on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Internet meme on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Anagrams

• meem

Cebuano

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Verb

meme

1. (childish) to sleep

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English meme.

Noun

meme

1. a meme

Danish

Noun

meme

1. meme
   • 2019, Stine Bødker, Klar til kærlighed, Gyldendal A/S (?ISBN)

     Hvis du lige har taget et fint billede og fundet på en sjov caption, så hav det klar til at dele, kort efter I bliver venner, så du er sikker på, at han ser det. Tag ham i et sjovt meme eller et billede af noget, som I har talt om. Det er en ret low-key måde  ...

   • 2019, Andreas von der Recke, Jacob Harlev, Mikkel Sandal Hansen, Patrick Walther Thomsen, #Youngster: 5 dogmer til at tiltrække og fastholde millennials, BoD – Books on Demand (?ISBN), page 19:

     Hvis det ikke var for ham, kunne vi nok skrive 2018 på denne bogs udgivelsesdato. Hvis du kan finde et godt meme (Google billeder: memes) at åbne samtalen med Mikkel på, har du vundet hans hjerte. Men han respekterer kun dem, der kan ...

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from English meme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mémé/

Noun

meme (plural meme-meme, first-person possessive memeku, second-person possessive mememu, third-person possessive memenya)

1. meme

References

• “meme” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Noun

meme m (plural memi)

1. (protoscience) meme

Kongo

Noun

meme (singular meme, singular dimeme, plural mameme)

1. sheep

Mandarin

Romanization

meme (Zhuyin ??? ???)

1. Pinyin transcription of ??

Northern Ohlone

Verb

meme

1. (Ramaytush dialect) kill

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English meme.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?me.mi/

Noun

meme m (plural memes)

1. meme (unit of cultural information)
2. (Internet) meme (humorous image, video or other media shared in the Internet)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowing from English meme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?meme/, [?me.me]

Noun

meme m (plural memes)

1. meme (unit of cultural information)
2. meme (Internet slang)

Tok Pisin

Etymology

Reduplication of English meh (onomatopoeia for the sound a goat makes)

Noun

meme

1. goat

Turkish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Compare Azerbaijani m?m?, Turkmen määme.

Noun

meme (definite accusative memeyi, plural memeler)

1. (anatomy) breast

Declension

English

Etymology

Alteration or clipping of mama. Compare Scots mam, Old Scots mame (“mother”), mamye (“wet nurse”), Saterland Frisian Määme (“mother”), West Frisian mem (“mother”).Alternatively, possibly either conserved from or influenced by earlier Brythonic language.

Noun

mam (plural mams)

1. (informal and colloquial) Mum, mom; diminutive of mother.

Usage notes

• Used in place of mum or ma in Scotland, Northumbrian dialects such as Geordie, as well as throughout Ireland and Liverpool, and the South Wales valleys; the Welsh word for mother is mam.

See also

• ma'am

References

• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ?ISBN
• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [1]

Anagrams

• MMA

Bahnar

Etymology

From Proto-Bahnaric *ma?m. Cognate with Sedang méam.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma?m/

Noun

mam 

1. metal, iron, steel

Derived terms

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from English ma'am, contraction of madam.

Noun

mam

1. An address to a female superior.
2. An address to a female teacher.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?m/
• Rhymes: -?m

Noun

mam f (plural mammen, diminutive mammetje n)

1. mother

Irish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Compare Old Irish muimme (“foster mother”), Proto-Celtic *mamm?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [m?am?]

Noun

mam f (genitive singular maime, nominative plural mamanna)

1. mam, mum, mom

Declension

Synonyms

• maime
• mamaí

Mutation

Further reading

• "mam" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mam]

Verb

mam

1. first-person singular present of m??

Derived terms

• mamk a hamk

Luxembourgish

Contraction

mam

1. contraction of mat + dem; with the

North Frisian

Etymology

Cognates include West Frisian mem.

Noun

mam f (plural mamen)

1. (Mooring, Föhr-Amrum) mother

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mam/

Verb

mam

1. first-person singular present of mie?

Verb

mam

1. second-person singular imperative of mami?

Noun

mam f

1. genitive plural of mama

Further reading

• mam in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Adverb

mam (Cyrillic spelling ???)

1. (Kajkavian) right now
2. (Kajkavian) immediately

Related terms

• odmah

Spanish

Etymology

From the name in Mam, of Mayan origin.

Adjective

mam (plural mames)

1. (relational) Mam (of or relating to the Mam people)

Noun

mam m (uncountable)

1. Mam (language)

Noun

mam m or f (plural mam or mames)

1. Mam

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *mamm, from Proto-Celtic *mamm?, a baby talk word replacing Proto-Celtic *m?t?r.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mam/

Noun

mam f (plural mamau)

1. mother
2. ancestress
3. dam
4. queen bee

Coordinate terms

• mab (“son”)
• merch (“daughter”)
• tad (“father”)

Mutation

Usage notes

Some, especially northern, dialects employ a non-standard aspirate mutation of mam to mham. In practice, this only occurs after the determiner ei (“her”). See also nain to nhain for a similar example.

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “mam”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Wemba-Wemba

Noun

mam

1. father