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la`īm[v.n. fr. م ﻷ'to be mean,' etc.), adj. & s.m. Vile, abject, mean, base, worthless, reprehensible, inglorious, ignoble;—sordid, avaricious, miserly; a vile or worthless fellow; a sordid man, a miser.م mīm, the thirty-first letter of the Urdū or Hindūstānīalphabet (the twenty-eighth of the Persian alphabet, and twenty-fourth of the Arabic).. It is one of the labial letters, its sound being that of the English m.The corresponding letter of the Hindīis म ma, the twenty-fifth consonant of the Nāgarī alphabet, and the nasal letter of the fifth or labial class. As a numeral (see abjad) mīmdenotes 40; and, by way of abbreviation, it may signify the month Mǒḥarram.Under the Mogal government mīmwas the countersign by the Dīvān upon an imperial grant or assignment of revenue:—makār, s.m. The letter, or the sound ma.
Origin: Arabic