মেম

Bengali

Alternative forms

ম্যাম (mêm), ম্যাডাম (mêḍam)

Etymology

Borrowed from English ma'am, a contracted form of madam.

Pronunciation

(Rarh) IPA^(key): /mem/, [ˈmeːm], [ˈmem], /mæm/, [ˈmæːm], [ˈmæm]

(Dhaka) IPA^(key): /mem/, [ˈmeːm], [ˈmem], /mɛm/, [ˈmɛːm], [ˈmɛm]

Noun

মেম • (mem)

(honorific) ma'am, madam (historically used to refer to upper-class European women in colonial India)

Derived terms

মেম সাহেব (mem śaheb)

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