م

م - Arabic

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA: /miːm/
(phoneme): IPA: /m/

Letter

م / مـ‍ / ـ‍م‍ـ / ـ‍م‎ • (mīm)

the twenty-fourth letter of the Arabic alphabet. It is preceded by ل‎ (l) and followed by ن‎ (n)
p.m., after noon (abbreviation from مساء‎)
- See also: ص‎ (ṣ)

Symbol

م / مـ‍ / ـ‍م‍ـ / ـ‍م‎ • (mīm)

the thirteenth letter in traditional abjad order, which is used in place of numerals for list numbering (abjad numerals). It is preceded by ل‎ (l) and followed by ن‎ (n).

Prefix

مَـ • (ma-)

a prefix used to create nouns of place
- خَبَزَ‎ (ḵabaza, “to bake”) → مَخْبِز‎ (maḵbiz, “bakery”, literally “place of making bread”)
- دَرَسَ‎ (darasa, “to study”) → مَدْرَسَة‎ (madrasa, “school”, literally “place of studying”)

Prefix

مِـ • (mi-)

a prefix used to create instrument nouns
- فَتَحَ‎ (fataḥa, “to open”) → مِفْتَاح‎ (miftāḥ, “key”, literally “instrument for opening”)
- وَزَنَ‎ (wazana, “to weigh”) → مِيزَان‎ (mīzān, “scales”, literally “instrument of weighing”)

Prefix

مُـ • (mu-)

a prefix that forms part of the pattern for participles from verb form II upwards, as well as all four-root verbs, i. e. all participles that are not from verb form I
- دَرَّسَ‎ (darrasa, “to teach”) → مُدَرِّسٌ‎ (mudarrisun, “teacher”)
- اِسْتَشْفَى‎ (istašfā, “to seek a cure”) → مُسْتَشْفًى‎ (mustašfan, “hospital”, literally “place where cure is sought”)

م - Balti

Pronunciation

IPA: /m/, [m]

Letter

م (m)

The thirty-eighth letter of the Balti alphabet, written in the Perso-Arabic script

م - Burushaski

Pronunciation

IPA: /m/, [m]

Letter

The thirty-ninth letter of the Burushaski alphabet, written in the Perso-Arabic script

م - Kashmiri

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA: /miːm/
(phoneme): IPA: /m/

Letter

م • (m)

The thirty-seventh letter of the traditional alphabet chart of Kashmiri.

Forms

Isolated form	Final form	Medial form	Initial form
م	ـم	ـمـ	مـ

م - Kazakh

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA: /miːm/
(phoneme): IPA: /m/

Letter

م • (m)

The twentieth letter of the Kazakh in Arabic Script. It represents the Cyrillic letter М.

Forms

Isolated form	Final form	Medial form	Initial form
م	ـم	ـمـ	مـ

م - Khowar

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA: /mim/
(phoneme): IPA: /m/

Letter

م (mīm)

The forty-first letter of the Khowar abjad.

Forms

Isolated form	Final form	Medial form	Initial form
م	ـم	ـمـ	مـ

م - Malay

Pronunciation

(Name of letter) IPA: [mem]
(Phoneme) IPA: [m]

Letter

م / مـ‍ / ـ‍مـ‍ / ‍ـم‎

The twenty-eighth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Arabic script.

م - Pashto

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA: /mim/
(phoneme): IPA: /m/

Letter

م • (mim)

The thirty-fifth letter of the Pashto alphabet.

Forms

Isolated form	Final form	Medial form	Initial form
م	ـم	ـمـ	مـ

م - Persian

Letter

م / مـ / ـمـ / ـم • (mim)

The twenty-eighth letter of the Perso-Arabic alphabet. It is preceded by ل‎ and followed by ن‎. Its name is میم‎ (mim).

Suffix

ـُم • (-om)

-th; creates ordinal numbers
- ‏پنجم‎ ― panj-om ― fifth
- ‏بیست و یکم‎ ― bist-o yek-om ― twenty-first
-th; creates fractions
- ‏یک ششم میوه‎ ― yek šeš-om-e mive ― a sixth of the fruit

Usage notes

An ordinal number formed by the suffix ـم‎ (-om) behaves syntactically as a regular adjective, unlike the cardinals, and takes the ezâfe.

‏بیست قرن‎ ― bist qarn ― twenty centuries
‏قرن بیستم‎ ― qarn-e bistom ― twentieth century

Persian has two ways to form the ordinals: ـم‎ (-om), and the related ـمین‎ (-omin). The -om forms have a stronger connotation of labeling, while the -omin forms have a stronger connotation of counting according to a certain criterion. The -omin forms also precede the attributed noun without the ezâfe.

‏خانه سوم خیابان‎ ― xâne-ye sevvom-e xiyâbân ― third house on the street [out of all houses]
‏سومین خانه سیاه خیابان‎ ― sevvomin xâne-ye siyâh-e xiyâbân ― the third black house on the street

For "first" in isolation (but not in compounds), یکم‎ (yekom) is much less common than the Arabic-borrowed اول‎ (avval).

Prefix

م • (me, mo)

(dialectal, Mashhad) A non-combining prefix used in the present and the imperfect tenses
- ‏او جرأت نِمِکِرد. کی جرأت مِکِرد؟‎‎
  - u jor'at nemekerd. ki jor'at mekerd?
  - (please add an English translation of this usage example)

م - Sindhi

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA: /miːm/
(phoneme): IPA: /m/

Letter

م (mīm)

The forty-seventh letter of the Sindhi abjad.

Forms

Isolated form	Final form	Medial form	Initial form
م	ـم	ـمـ	مـ

م - Urdu

Pronunciation

(letter name): (Standard Urdu) IPA: /miːm/
(phoneme): (Standard Urdu) IPA: /m/

Letter

م • (mīm)

The thirty-first letter of the Urdu abjad.

Forms

Isolated form	Final form	Medial form	Initial form
م	ـم	ـمـ	مـ

م - Uyghur

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA: /me/
(phoneme): IPA: /m/

Letter

م • (me)

The twenty-second letter of the Uyghur alphabet.

Forms

Isolated form	Final form	Medial form	Initial form
م	ـم	ـمـ	مـ

م - Yoruba

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA: /mí/
(phoneme): IPA: /m/

Letter

م (m)

The fourteenth letter of the Yoruba alphabet in the ajami script, equivalent to Latin script m..

Forms

Isolated form	Final form	Medial form	Initial form
م	ـم	ـمـ	مـ