member

See also: Member and 'member

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English membre, from Old French membre, from Latin membrum (“limb, body part”), from Proto-Italic *memzrom, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗms, *mēms-rom (“flesh”). Akin to Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌼𐌶 (mimz, “meat, flesh”), Crimean Gothic menus.

Coexists with native Middle English lim, limb (“member, limb, joint”) (from Old English lim (“limb, joint, main branch”)), and displaced Middle English lith (“limb, joint, member”) (from Old English liþ (“limb, member, join, tip”)).

Alternative forms

• membre (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛmbə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛmbɚ/

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (General Australian):

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• Hyphenation: mem‧ber
• Rhymes: -ɛmbə(ɹ)

Noun

member (plural members)

1. One who belongs to a group.
   • 2014 January 14, Roberta Rogow, The Problem of the Surly Servant‎^[1], →ISBN, page 109:

     “Were it not for the fancy French and Latin in it, I'd have swore it was the sort of thing I do not print as a rule, but being as how the order was from one of the members upstairs...”

2. A part of a whole.

   The I-beams were to become structural members of a pedestrian bridge.

   • 1979, Kenneth J. Englund, "The Mississippian and Pennsylvanian (Carbonfierous) Systems in the United States - Virginia", Page C-14, in Geological Survey Professional Paper, Volume 1110

     The member intertongues and grades laterally with the lower sandstone member of the Pocahontas Formation of Early Pennslyvanian age

3. Part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb.

   Synonyms: limb, lith

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 12:4:

     For as we haue many members in one body, and all members haue not the same office:

4. (euphemistic) The penis.

   Synonyms: pintle, tarse

5. (logic) One of the propositions making up a syllogism.

   Synonyms: premise, premiss

7. (set theory) An element of a set.

   Synonym: element

8. (Australia, law) the judge or adjudicator in a consumer court.
9. A part of a discourse or of a period, sentence, or verse; a clause.
10. (mathematics) Either of the two parts of an algebraic equation, connected by the equality sign.
11. (computing) A file stored within an archive file.

    The zip file holding the source code of this application has 245 members.

12. (object-oriented programming) A function or piece of data associated with each separate instance of a class.
13. (Malaysia, slang) friend

Hyponyms

• crewmember
• family member
• male member
• party member

Derived terms

• board member
• charter member
• cross-member
• data member
• dismember
• e-member
• end member
• end-member
• endmember
• Euro-member
• founder member
• founding member
• gang member
• life member
• member class
• member country
• member field
• member for Barkshire
• member function
• member of lower house
• member of staff
• member of the public
• member of upper house
• member organisation
• membership
• member state
• member variable
• mixed-member proportional
• non-commissioned member
• non-member
• private member's bill
• privy member
• re-member
• service member
• sitting member
• touring member
• virile member

 

Descendants

• → Japanese: メンバー (menbā)
• → Malay: member
• → Punjabi: ਮੈਂਬਰ (maimbar)

Translations

one who officially belongs to a group

• Afrikaans: lid (af)
• Albanian: pjesëmarrës (sq) m, anëtar (sq) m
• Arabic: عُضْو (ar) m (ʕuḍw), عِضْو (ar) m (ʕiḍw)
• Armenian: անդամ (hy) (andam)
• Assamese: সদস্য (xodoisso)
• Asturian: miembru (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: üzv (az)
• Bashkir: ағза (ağza)
• Basque: kide
• Belarusian: член m (čljen), чале́ц m (čaljéc)
• Belizean Creole: memba
• Bengali: সদস্য (bn) (śodosśo)
• Bulgarian: член (bg) m (člen), чле́нка f (člénka)
• Burmese: အဖွဲ့ဝင် (my) (a.hpwai.wang)
• Catalan: membre (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 會員／会员 (wui² jyun⁴), 成員／成员 (sing⁴ jyun⁴)

  Hokkien: 會員／会员 (zh-min-nan) (hōe-oân / hōe-goân), 成員／成员 (zh-min-nan) (sêng-oân / sêng-goân)

  Mandarin: 會員／会员 (zh) (huìyuán), 成員／成员 (zh) (chéngyuán)

• Czech: člen (cs) m, členka (cs) f
• Danish: medlem (da) n
• Dutch: lid (nl) n
• Esperanto: membro (eo), ano (eo)
• Estonian: liige (et)
• Faroese: limur m
• Finnish: jäsen (fi)
• French: membre (fr) m
• Galician: membro (gl) m
• Georgian: წევრი (c̣evri)
• German: Mitglied (de) n
• Greek: μέλος (el) n (mélos)
• Hebrew: חָבֵר (he) m (khavér), חֲבֵרָה (he) f (khaverá)
• Hindi: सदस्य (hi) m (sadasya)
• Hungarian: tag (hu)
• Icelandic: félagi (is) m
• Indonesian: anggota (id)
• Irish: ball (ga) m, comhalta m
• Italian: membro (it) m, iscritto (it) m, membra (it) f, iscritta (it) f
• Japanese: 会員 (ja) (かいいん, kaiin), メンバー (ja) (menbā), 構成員 (こうせいいん, kōseiin)
• Javanese: lid, warga
• Kashmiri: رُکُن (rukun), رۄکُن (rọkun)
• Kazakh: мүше (müşe)
• Khmer: សមាជិក (km) (saʼmaacɨk)
• Korean: 회원(會員) (ko) (hoewon), 멤버 (ko) (membeo)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ئەندام (endam), ئەندام (endam)

  Northern Kurdish: endam (ku) m or f

• Kyrgyz: мүчө (ky) (mücö)
• Lao: ສະມາຊິກ (sa mā sik)
• Latin: sodālis m
• Latvian: biedrs (lv) m, biedre f, biedrene f, loceklis (lv) m
• Lithuanian: narys (lt) m, narė f
• Macedonian: член m (člen), членка f (členka)
• Malay: ahli (ms), anggota
• Maori: mema
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: гишүүн (mn) (gišüün)

• Norman: membre m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: medlem (no) n

  Nynorsk: medlem m

• Occitan: membre (oc) m
• Ossetian: уӕнг (wæng)
• Pashto: عضو (ps) (ozwə), ممبر m (membar)
• Persian:

  Dari: عُضْو (fa) (uzw)

  Iranian Persian: عُضْو (fa) (ozv)

• Polish: członek (pl) m, członkini (pl) f
• Portuguese: membro (pt) m, sócio (pt) m
• Romanian: membru (ro) m, membră (ro) f
• Russian: член (ru) m (člen) (male or female)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: чла̑н m, чла̀ница f

  Roman: člȃn (sh) m, člànica (sh) f

• Slovak: člen (sk) m, členka (sk) f
• Slovene: člȃn (sl) m, članica f
• Spanish: miembro (es) m
• Swahili: mshiriki (sw)
• Swedish: medlem (sv) c
• Tajik: узв (uzv), аъзо (tg) (aʾzo)
• Tatar: әгъза (tt) (äğza)
• Thai: สมาชิก (th) (sà-maa-chík)
• Tok Pisin: memba
• Turkish: üye (tr), aza (tr)
• Turkmen: agza (tk), çlen
• Ukrainian: член m (člen), чле́нка f (člénka)
• Urdu: رُکَن m (rukan), عُضْو m ('uzv)
• Uyghur: ئەزا (eza)
• Uzbek: aʼzo (uz)
• Vietnamese: hội viên (vi) (會員), thành viên (vi) (成員)
• Welsh: aelod (cy) m
• Yiddish: מיטגליד (mitglid)
• Zazaki: eza (diq), aza

part of a whole

• Bulgarian: част (bg) f (čast)
• Finnish: elementti (fi)
• Maori: huānga

organ, limb

• Arabic: عُضُو (ar) m (ʕuḍū)

  Egyptian Arabic: عضو m (ʕuḍū)

• Aromanian: mãdular n
• Asturian: miembru (ast) m
• Bashkir: ағза (ağza)
• Bulgarian: част от тя́лото f (čast ot tjáloto)
• Catalan: membre (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 肢 (zh) (zhī)

• Czech: končetina (cs) f, úd (cs) m
• Dutch: lid (nl) n, ledemaat (nl) m
• Esperanto: korpoparto, korpparto sg
• Finnish: elin (fi) (organ); jäsen (fi), raaja (fi) (limb)
• French: membre (fr) m
• Galician: membro (gl) m
• German: Glied (de) n
• Gothic: 𐌻𐌹𐌸𐌿𐍃 m (liþus)
• Greek: μέλος (el) n (mélos)
• Hebrew: אֵיבָר (he) (evár)
• Hindi: अंग (hi) (aṅg)
• Hungarian: tag (hu)
• Irish: ball (ga) m
• Italian: membro (it)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: endam (ku) m

• Latvian: loceklis (lv) m
• Norman: membre m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lem (no) n

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: اَنْدام (fa) (andâm)

• Polish: członek (pl) m
• Portuguese: membro (pt) m
• Romanian: membru (ro) n, mădular (ro) n
• Russian: член (ru) m (člen), часть те́ла (ru) f (častʹ téla)
• Slovene: ud m
• Spanish: miembro (es) m
• Swahili: mshiriki (sw)
• Swedish: lem (sv) c
• Tocharian B: āmpär
• Turkish: uzuv (tr)
• Zazaki: endam

penis

• Asturian: miembru (ast) m
• Bulgarian: член (bg) m (člen)
• Catalan: membre (ca) m, membre viril m
• Czech: úd (cs) m, pohlavní úd (cs)
• Dutch: eikel (nl), penis (nl)
• Finnish: elin (fi)
• Galician: membro (gl) m
• German: Glied (de) n
• Hungarian: hímtag (hu)
• Icelandic: limur (is) m, getnaðarlimur (is) m
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: endam (ku) m

• Latin: membrum m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lem (no) n

• Ojibwe: niinag
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: اَنْدامِ تَناسُلی مَرْد (andâm-e tanâsoli mard)

• Polish: członek (pl) m
• Russian: член (ru) m (člen)
• Spanish: miembro (es) m, miembro viril m
• Swedish: manslem (sv) c, lem (sv) c
• Turkish: kamış (tr)

logic: one of the propositions making up a syllogism — see premise

in set theory — see element

object-oriented programming: function or piece of data

law: judge or adjudicator in a consumer court

• Finnish: jäsen (fi)

part of a discourse, period, sentence, or verse — see clause

math: either of the two parts of an algebraic equation

• Bulgarian: член (bg) m (člen)
• Finnish: puoli (fi)
• Galician: membro (gl) m

computing: file stored within an archive file

Etymology 2

Clipping of remember (by apheresis).

Alternative forms

• 'member

Verb

member (third-person singular simple present members, present participle membering, simple past and past participle membered)

1. (obsolete outside dialects) Pronunciation spelling of remember.

References

• “member”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• membre

Chinese

Etymology

From English member.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mem¹ baa²

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: mem¹ baa²
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mem¹ baa²
    • Guangdong Romanization: mém¹ ba²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɛːm⁵⁵ paː³⁵/

Noun

member

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) member
2. (Hong Kong Cantonese gay slang, euphemistic) gay male

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from English member, from Middle English membre, from Old French membre, from Latin membrum (“limb, body part”), from Proto-Italic *memzrom, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗms, *mēms-rom (“flesh”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mɛm.bə(r)]
• Rhymes: -bər, -ər
• Hyphenation: mèm‧ber

Noun

member (Jawi spelling ميمبر, plural member-member, informal 1st possessive memberku, 2nd possessive membermu, 3rd possessive membernya)

1. (informal) A close friend.

   Synonyms: kawan, rakan, sahabat

   Member ajak lepak jap.

   A friend invited me to hang out for a bit.

Further reading

• “member” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Scots

Etymology

Middle English, via Old French from Latin membrum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛmbər]

Noun

member (plural members)

1. member