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, Deepika Phukan, transl., 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. a melee; a brawl

• (melee): tlačenice, zmatek, chaos
• (brawl): 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 *mela, 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”), Moksha миле (miľe, “oar, paddle”), [script needed] (mǝľä), Komi-Zyrian маль (maľ, “oar”).

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

mela

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

• melaa mekkoon
• meloa
• perämela

• molo

• Elma, elam

mēla

1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐌻𐌰

From Vulgar Latin *mēla, from *mēlum, from Latin mālum, 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

• 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).

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 Vulgar Latin *mela, from melum, from Latin mālum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmela/

mela f (plural melas)

1. apple (fruit)

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 *mela.

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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