mela

English

Etymology

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

Noun

mela (plural melas)

1. A Hindu religious festival.
2. A South Asian fair.
   • 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.

Anagrams

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

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: me‧la

Etymology 1

Noun

mela f

1. melee

   Synonyms: tlačenice, zmatek, chaos

2. brawl

   Synonym: rvačka

Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

mela

1. masculine singular present transgressive of mlít

Further reading

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

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mëla, from Proto-Finno-Permic *melä. Cognates include Karelian mela, 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”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mela

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

Declension

Derived terms

• melaa mekkoon
• meloa
• perämela

See also

• molo

References

Further reading

• “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

Anagrams

• Elma, elam

Gothic

Romanization

mēla

1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐌻𐌰

Italian

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈme.la/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ela
• Hyphenation: mé‧la

Noun

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

Derived terms

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

Related terms

• melagrana
• melata
• meleto
• melo
• melone

Anagrams

• alme, lame, male

Karelian

Noun

mela

1. paddle

Maltese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.la/

Etymology 1

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).

Adverb

mela

1. certainly
2. thus; so; accordingly

Interjection

mela

1. so; okay; all right

   Mela, ħa nibdew!

   So, let's start!

Alternative forms

• mmela

Etymology 2

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

Verb

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

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

   Antonym: forogħ

Conjugation

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.la/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛla
• Syllabification: me‧la

Verb

mela

1. third-person singular present of melać

Portuguese

Verb

mela

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

Sardinian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmela/

Noun

mela f (plural melas)

1. apple (fruit)

Sassarese

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mela f (plural meli)

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

References

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Mehl.

Noun

mela f (Cyrillic spelling мела)

1. (Kajkavian) flour

Related terms

• brašno

Participle

mela (Cyrillic spelling мела)

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mela f (plural melas)

1. smitt; smit

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mëla.

Noun

mela

1. paddle (rowing tool)

Inflection

References

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

Welsh

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Verb

mela (first-person singular present melaf)

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

Conjugation

Mutation

Further reading

• 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

Xhosa

Etymology

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Verb

-mela^?

1. (transitive) to stand for

Inflection

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