mela

From Urdu میلہ (mela)/Hindi मेला (melā), from Sanskrit मेलक (melaka).

mela (plural melas)

1. A Hindu religious festival.
2. A South Asian fair. [from 19th c.]
   • 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 53:

     Kalua was a man of unusual height and powerful build: in any fair, festival or mela, he could always be spotted towering above the crowd—even the jugglers on stilts were usually not so tall as he.

   • 2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee:

     Every year there was a mela in the small village where Jutimala lived and Khitish would send three workers to set up a stall there.

• -meal, Elam, Elma, Leam, Lema, Malé, alme, amel, lame, lamé, leam, lema, male, meal

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛla]
• Hyphenation: me‧la

mela f

1. melee

   Synonyms: tlačenice, zmatek, chaos

2. brawl

   Synonym: rvačka

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mela

1. masculine singular present transgressive of mlít

• mela in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• mela in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

From Proto-Finnic *mëla, from Proto-Finno-Permic *melä.[1][2] Cognates include Karelian mela,[3] Ludian mela (“oar”), Veps mela (“oar”), Estonian mõla (“paddle, oar”), Votic mõla (“paddle, oar”), Livvi mela (“paddle, oar”), Northern Sami mealli (“oar”), Erzya миле (miľe, “oar, paddle”), Komi-Zyrian маль (maľ, “oar”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmelɑ/, [ˈme̞lɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -elɑ
• Syllabification^(key): me‧la

mela

1. paddle (oar-like implement)
2. (slang) dick (penis)

• melaa mekkoon
• meloa
• perämela

• molo

• “mela”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• Elma, elam

mēla

1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐌻𐌰

From Late Latin mēla, from mēlum, from Latin mālum, borrowed from Doric Greek μᾶλον (mâlon, “apple”); compare Attic μῆλον (mêlon).

• IPA^(key): /ˈme.la/

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• Rhymes: -ela
• Hyphenation: mé‧la

mela f (plural mele, diminutive melétta or melìna, augmentative melóna, pejorative melàccia, endearing-derogatory melùccia or melùzza)

1. apple (fruit)

   Synonym: pomo

2. (colloquial, slang) buttock, butt cheek

• mela cotogna (“quince”)
• mela della discordia (“apple of discord”)
• mela librale (“type of large apple”)
• mela selvatica (“crab apple”)

• melagrana
• melata
• meleto
• melo
• melone

• alme, lame, male

mela

1. paddle

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.la/

From Arabic بَلَى (balā, “why, certainly!, yes, of course!”), in dialects also with prefixed m-. Compare North Levantine Arabic مبلا (mbala) and Gulf Arabic امبلة (ambala).

mela

1. certainly
2. thus; so; accordingly

mela

1. so; okay; all right

   Mela, ħa nibdew!

   So, let's start!

• mmela

From Arabic مَلَأَ (malaʔa), أَمْلَأَ (ʔamlaʔa).

mela (imperfect jimla, past participle mimli, verbal noun mili)

1. (transitive) to fill, stuff
2. (intransitive, of the sea) to rise, flood

   Antonym: forogħ

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.la/

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• Rhymes: -ɛla
• Syllabification: me‧la

mela

1. third-person singular present of melać

mela

1. inflection of melar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Late Latin mēla, from mēlum, from Latin mālum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmela/

mela f (plural melas)

1. apple (fruit)

• (Castelsardo) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛla/[1]
• (Sedini) IPA^(key): /ˈmela/[1]

mela f (plural meli)

1. (dialectal) Alternative form of mera (“apple”)

From German Mehl.

mela f (Cyrillic spelling мела)

1. (Kajkavian) flour

• brašno

mela (Cyrillic spelling мела)

1. inflection of mesti:
   1. feminine singular active past participle
   2. neuter plural active past participle

• IPA^(key): /ˈmela/ [ˈme.la]
• Rhymes: -ela
• Syllabification: me‧la

mela f (plural melas)

1. smitt; smit

• “mela”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

From Proto-Finnic *mëla.

mela

1. paddle (rowing tool)

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “весло”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika

From mêl (“honey”) +‎ -a. Cognate with Cornish mela.

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛla/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈmeːla/, /ˈmɛla/
• Rhymes: -ɛla

mela (first-person singular present melaf)

1. to gather nectar to make honey
2. to sweeten with honey

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “mela”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

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-mela^?

1. (transitive) to stand for

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