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mele

See also: Mele, melé, mêle, melē, mēle, mêlé, mēlē, and меле

English edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Hawaiian mele.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

mele (plural mele or meles)

  1. A chant in Polynesia, especially Hawaii, typically in praise of a leader or to commemorate some significant event. [from 19th c.]
    • 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 49:
      Lili‘u set to work assisting Fornander by translating mele and legends for him.

Etymology 2 edit

Variant forms.

Noun edit

mele (plural meles)

  1. Alternative form of mell

Verb edit

mele (third-person singular simple present meles, present participle meling, simple past and past participle meled)

  1. Alternative form of mell

Anagrams edit

Aiwoo edit

Verb edit

mele

  1. to fly

References edit

Corsican edit

Etymology edit

From Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.

Noun edit

mele

  1. honey

Czech edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

mele

  1. third-person singular present of mlít

Danish edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse mjǫl, from Proto-Germanic *melwą.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /meːlə/, [ˈme̝ːlə]

Verb edit

mele (imperative mel, infinitive at mele, present tense meler, past tense melede, perfect tense har melet)

  1. flour (to apply flour to something)

Gothic edit

Romanization edit

mēlē

  1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌴𐌻𐌴

Hausa edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /méː.léː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [méː.léː]

Noun edit

mēlē m (possessed form mēlen)

  1. loss of pigmentation

Hawaiian edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *umele.

Noun edit

mele

  1. chant, song, poem

Usage notes edit

  • May take either ke (for etymological reasons) or ka, however, ke is more common.

Verb edit

mele

  1. (transitive) to sing, chant
  2. (stative) to be yellow
  3. (stative) to be merry

References edit

  • Mary Kawena Pukui - Samuel H. Elbert, Hawaiian Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1986

Italian edit

Noun edit

mele f

  1. plural of mela

Latin edit

Noun edit

mēle

  1. ablative singular of mēlēs

References edit

Latvian edit

Etymology edit

From melis (“liar”) +‎ -e (“fem.”).

Pronunciation edit

(file)

Noun edit

mele f (5th declension, masculine form: melis)

  1. (female) liar, deceiver (someone who is tells lies, who deceives others)
    nekaunīga mele ― shameless (female) liar

Declension edit

Declension of mele (5th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) mele meles
accusative (akuzatīvs) meli meles
genitive (ģenitīvs) meles meļu
dative (datīvs) melei melēm
instrumental (instrumentālis) meli melēm
locative (lokatīvs) melē melēs
vocative (vokatīvs) mele meles

Derived terms edit

Middle English edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Old English melu, from Proto-West Germanic *melu, from Proto-Germanic *melwą.

Alternative forms edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛːl(ə)/, /ˈmæːl(ə)/

Noun edit

mele (uncountable)

  1. Flour, especially that of wheat.
  2. The meal of wheat or other grains.
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
  • English: meal
  • Scots: meil, mele
  • Yola: mele, mell
References edit

Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun edit

mele

  1. Alternative form of medle

Etymology 3 edit

Noun edit

mele

  1. Alternative form of mylne

Neapolitan edit

Etymology edit

From Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.

Pronunciation edit

  • (Naples) IPA(key): [ˈmɛːlə]
  • (Castelmezzano) IPA(key): [ˈmeːlə]

Noun edit

mele m (uncountable)

  1. honey

References edit

  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1159: “il miele” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
  • Giacco, Giuseppe (2003) “mèle”, in Schedario Napoletano

Norwegian Bokmål edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From mel (“flour”).

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

mele (imperative mel, present tense meler, passive meles, simple past mela or melet or melte, past participle mela or melet or melt, present participle melende)

  1. to flour (to apply flour to something)

Related terms edit

References edit

  • “mele” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
  • “mele” in The Ordnett Dictionary

Portuguese edit

Etymology edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation edit

 

Verb edit

mele

  1. inflection of melar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Romanian edit

Pronunciation edit

Pronoun edit

mele

  1. inflection of meu:
    1. feminine/neuter plural
    2. genitive/dative feminine singular

Sardinian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Vulgar Latin *melem m or f, from Latin mel n.

Noun edit

mele m (plural meles)

  1. honey

References edit

  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1159: “il miele” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

Serbo-Croatian edit

Participle edit

mele (Cyrillic spelling меле)

  1. feminine plural active past participle of mesti

Yola edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle English mele (“flour”), from Old English melu, from Proto-West Germanic *melu, from Proto-Germanic *melwą.

Alternative forms edit

Noun edit

mele

  1. meal (coarse flour)
Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

Noun edit

mele

  1. Alternative form of meale (“feast, dinner”)

References edit

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 56 & 61

Zazaki edit

Etymology edit

Ultimately from Proto-Iranian *madaxa. Cognate to Persian ملخ (malax), Ossetian мӕты́х (mætýx)

Noun edit

mele

  1. (zoology) grasshopper, locust
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