Aramaic Letters: Meem

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The next letter of the Aramaic Alphabet is called Meem, pronounced a similar way to the English words seem or beam. Meem corresponds to the Hebrew letter Mem in the Hebrew Alphabet. The letters in the Aramaic Alphabet are almost identical to those in Hebrew, but have slightly different names and sometimes slightly different sounds.

  Aramaic audio: Listen to the sound of Meem.

 
Here is what the Aramaic letter Meem looks like:

Like Kap, Meem is one of the Aramaic letters with a special form when it occurs at the end of a word.

Here is what the final form looks like:

This final form is very square looking. It is not rounded.
 

Here is how to write Meem:



Meem is pronounced with a m sound, like the words Moses, Machpelah or mountain.

Practise writing Meem in the grid lines below:










Both forms of Meem have the Gematria (numerical value) of 40. That’s easy to remember - Meem is for Moses, and Moses was on mount Sinai for 40 days.

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